Transcript Beginning Composition

Beginning Composition
Starters Week 7
Informative Writing
Starter: First Essay Reflection
3 March 2014
● Reflect back your first essay that you wrote
in Beginning Composition.
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Looking back over your work, your teacher’s
feedback, and the rubric, describe where you
succeeded and where you fell short of your
expectations. What should you continue to do
throughout the term, and what will you need to keep
working on?
Starter: Credibility of Sources
4 March 2014
● U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of
information in 2008, according to "How Much
Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,"
released by the University of California, San Diego. One
zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes
consumed last year were the equivalent of the information
in thick paperback novels stacked 7 feet high over the
entire United States, including Alaska.
● With this staggering amount of information
available to us, how do we decide who/what
to trust? What factors do you look at when
considering information, whether it’s on the
Internet, in a book you read, in an interview
you see on TV, or when you hear peers or
adults talking?
Starter:
Practice making a “Quotation Sandwich”
5 March 2014
Directions: Pick one of the quotes below. Create
quotation sandwiches for it. Include all four parts.
1. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk
back.”~Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the
United States of America
2. “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not,
you are right.” ~Henry Ford, industrialist and
founder of Ford Motor Co.
Starter:
Practice making a “Quotation Sandwich”
6 March 2014
Directions: Pick one of the quotes below. Create
quotation sandwiches for it. Include all four parts.
1. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
~Dalai Lama, Buddhist spiritual leader
2. “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the
valient never taste death but once.”
~William Shakespeare, 17th Century poet and
playwright
Starter: 7 March 2014
Reviewing the “Quotation Sandwich”
Copy the following in your starters.