November 6 class

Today is the day that we will read each other's essays. If you don't see your essay here, mail it to me at my Bunkyo address (bb...ell...u-bunkyo.....etc). Also, if there is a formatting error or other error in your online essay, please correct your copy and send it to me with a request and I can replace the old one with the new one.

If you are a super-good student, you may have noticed that the essays went online last Friday (Saturday morning). That means you have had 6 days to read them. If you read them already, hurray for you! If not, we will dedicate 90 minutes to reading essays today. Please start reading at the essay after your essay. That way we will "stagger" the essay being read. I don't want everybody to read the essay at the top of the list and nobody to read the essay at the bottom of the list. If everybody only reads 6 essays, then at least 6 people would read each essay.

I will give you some paper to write your impressions of the essays. You can use this paper or you can type on the computer if you prefer. Please Write your name and today's date, then write the title of each essay that you read, and a minimum of two sentences about the essay. These notes are for you but also to hand in to me. You may write about the good and bad points of the essay, or about the content and your reaction to it. If you have already read all of the essays, write as much as you can about each essay or the best essays.

By the end of today's class please choose which essay is the best from the essays you have read. Write your choice (or vote) on your paper before you hand it in. You can choose a #2 and #3 too if you like.

I will give the results to the Essay Contest Coordinator next week, Friday the 13th! That means I can still take a little time to decide. You can also continue to read the essays online if you have time. There will be an online poll for Class A and for Class B, where you can vote until Friday the 13th mid-day. The poll is open to anybody in the world who is on the internet. In contrast, today's in-class writing poll is only open to people who are here in this classroom today.

Click Class A to read only Class A essays. Click Class B to read only Class B essays.

You can print it out or cut-and-paste the essays into a word-processing program if you would like to make a "hard copy".

Please read essays and vote online as the homework. We will start a Comparison-Contrast essay, so review pages 55-62 and read Unit 5 if you can. We will choose a topic for this essay next week.