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Look up the definition and the mythological story behind the word for Monday.

For Friday, write a response to one of the six prompts.

For Monday, read pages 1-52 in Writing with Style.

Due in class 4/24

Step 3: Separating Fact from Opinion: Use the articles you selected for the Draft Summary and find information that answers the following questions to clarify the competing viewpoints on the issue:
• Provide 2 examples of people or groups supporting the issue
• List the reasons they are proposing in favor of the issue
• Of the reasons provided, identify at least 2 facts and 2 opinions

1. Use your Draft Summary file to find sentences and paragraphs that provide information that answers the questions above. Use shades of light green to change the color of the text that provides the best examples of significant information
2. Repeat Step 3 to find and highlight information that answers the questions for the different perspectives. Use shades of light red to mark this text.

When you’re done with Step 3, download this template to help you write the final draft for Friday, 4/27.

Step 2:  Understanding differences of opinion: Read the viewpoint summaries and the hyperlinked articles to understand where the points of difference on the leading issue reside…
1.    Select at least 2 articles that support the issue
2.    Save these articles for use in the following steps
3.    Open the articles that you saved for deeper reading and analysis
4.    Open a blank word processing document. This will become your Draft Summary.
5.    Critically read each article and copy and paste the SIRS citation and any significant ideas, opinions, and facts from each article into the blank Draft Summary (try to keep this section to 1-2 pages)
6.    Select at least 2 articles that oppose the issue
7.    Copy and paste citations and significant ideas, opinions, and facts into the Draft Summary
8.    Save and print the Draft Summary (use a file name that includes the issue language)
9.    Show the Draft Summary to your teacher for a signature and approval of your research analysis of the 4 articles

Write the synthesis essay for Monday, 4/23.

For Thursday, write an entry for two authors on the wikispaces site. Make sure your entry is a quick overview of the writer’s genre, style, and subject matter. Include an image.

For Thursday, find three articles on SIRS, summarize them, and include the citation for each source.  Print it and bring it to class.

Here’s a link to the handouts from my presentation, “Using Dead Man Walking to teach persuasive writing.”

• The activity
• The passage

Depict a significant scene from your recommended reading in comic strip format.  Due Monday, 4/2.