Announcements:
- Wednesday is normal school schedule. Friday is modified day with classes in the morning and NEST in the PM.
- EXHIBITION is next Wednesday, December 7 at iAM Music from 5:30-7:30. Because of space, each of you will be required to exhibit for one hour of the two. The other hour you can spend as audience members, engaging your peers in substantive dialogue.
- Exhibition crew: Can we check in? Does anyone want to make an exhibition poster? PR?
Starter: Review rubric and my comments. Everyone has an opportunity for further revision! Sign up for conference with me?
IMPROVE YOUR SENTENCE CRAFT!
Conciseness (or "streamlining") and Active Verbs
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.— William Strunk Jr. in “The Elements of Style”
Review these resources and apply the wisdom to your essay:
Conciseness
2. Writing Clearly and Concisely (Source: Professional Communication Society)
Active Verbs
Work Time:
1. Essay Revisions (inlcuding sentence craft: active verbs and conciseness!)
3. Conference with Jessica?
4. Honors: Sign up for a conference with me this week when you are done with your draft.
5. Read 1984. The goal is to be through Section 1 by Friday.