Top Ten List

Essential Question: What does it mean to be American?

Goal: to get better at writing introductions


Agenda: 
1. Read silently and Reading check-in
2. English Journal
3. Read Writing on the Wall

English Journal #4

First, we will work on improving our writing with a topic that we all know about. Our first English Journal for today will be about your favorite toys from childhood. You will make a top ten list of your favorite toys, video games, etc. from when you were in elementary school. Once we have made the list then we will choose two items from our list to write about. Here is what we are practicing:

1. Generating ideas
2. Evaluating ideas to see which is the best
3. Write about our ideas using a hook, relevance, thesis pattern.

Next, we will continue to look at the ways America does and does not live up to its ideals. We will read Writing on the Wall as a class. This text is difficult because it alternates between descriptions of Angel Island, information about immigrants, and examples poetry.

Writing on the Wall TEXT AUDIO

Highlight a paragraph number every time the text switches between Angel Island and poetry.

Highlight sentences that help you understand what it was like to be a Chinese immigrant.

English Journal #5

For our next English Journal, you will create a top ten list about the Chinese immigrant experience. What are the top ten things people should know about Chinese immigrants in the early 1900s? Choose two or three things to write about in a paragraph. Make sure your paragraph starts off with the hook, relevance, and thesis pattern. You can use the following sentence to help you with your thesis:

1. Chinese immigrants who came to Ellis Island felt...