Today, I checked first drafts AND SENT HOME INTERIMS. (CHECK THE RUBRIC'S KEY FOR NOTES EXPLANATION OF WINTER BREAK ASSIGNMENT)
To check them we went through the grading rubric. I re-enforced the grading policy: if you don't do the research/format stuff correct, you will not pass this paper!!! So, make sure you get all of the requirements met (that's the top box on the rubric I sent home Wednesday and Thursday).
The rest of the rubric is straight-forward: did you follow directions and do what you're supposed to do in each section?
Those of us who had their first draft I conferenced with, checking their citations, synthesis statements, and everything else. The rest of us got COWs (Friday) or went to the computer lab (Monday) to work.
The goal for the end of the day was to have our paper "looking" like an MLA academic paper: Typed, double spaced, name and page numbers on each page, title page, works cited page, etc.
I also asked you to run spell check, but when it first opens click "options" Under options there's a box to check called "Show readability statistics" Select that. Now, when you're done spell checking it will tell you the grade level you are writing at, or, more precisely, the reading level you're writing at. It's call "Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level." It's fun. Believe me.
I CAN'T WAIT TO READ YOUR PAPERS!!! THEY'RE GOING TO BE GREAT, I KNOW YOU CAN DO THIS!
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