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 In class we worked on creating narrative outlines that conveyed a certain prompt. One of the prompts I chose dealt with inviting a new character into the story of The Life You Save. My character that I introduced was a Mary brat that found his journey in the Deep South. This prompt was cool to write since I made up my own idea of how the climax played out. For my 2nd prompt I will plan to do something else correlating with the story.

 Today in class we continued the assignment we worked on yesterday. I got to read more of the passage but didn’t get far. I answered to questions about the 6-7 paragraph during our short period class. I want to know where the story is going because it started off on a weird foot. My day is going good.

 Today we went over how much the eoc will affect our grades if we are not passing right now. Then we did an assignment on narrative writing and introducing the new topic. I started reading the story but didn’t finish. I worked on the narratives while reading the story as well. I finished two narratives.

In class today we took a pop quiz on illuminate. The pop quiz was what we have been learning about argumentative writing these past couple weeks. Things like claim of fact, claim of policy, claim of value, evidence, explanations, conclusions, etc. I have learned a lot of new things about writing argumentative paragraphs and making claims that I think will be useful for the eoc in April. I scored an 85 on my pop quiz.

 In class we continued our lesson on claims and made two paragraphs out of our claims from Monday. There was an example put in canvas on how we should set our paragraphs up so I used this format to write about my claims. I stated the claim, first evidence, explanation, second evidence, explanation, then conclusion. I did this for both of my two claims then had another person peer review it. I also did a peer review on another’s student paragraphs and gave them feedback. 

 Today we worked on illuminate using our claims we wrote yesterday about the different topics. This time we used articles to support our claims with evidence from the text. I used the article to back up my claims with direct evidence and explained how they supported my claim. I then summarized and listed my source. I didn’t get them all done in class so I will do the rest later.

 In class we discussed what claims are and how to write them. We then did an example on our assignment of writing our own claims. We had to do two claims that are for and against the statement. I like this topic because it can help with writing claims for essays and other papers. I started on my assignment and will finish it later for homework.