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2/9 2021 Instructions for the essay

Today Mr.Paterson explained to us about the essay we would be writing for this semester. I was surprised to hear that we would be writing a 6 paragraph essay. The majority of the essay would be about how we felt and which reading style we prefer. I realized that my blogs are going to help me remember how I felt last semester, reading academically. Last semester I wrote a few blogs explaining the book “five feet apart”. However, I suddenly stopped writing them and wrote about the websites I used, to write my essay. Luckily, this semester I included all my honest opinions towards the book “paper towns” in my blogs.

(google doc)

2 pages

reflection on the two different types of reading 

last semester formal, looking for reasons for different things why they wrote things in different ways

no research and just reflecting

first, give info on what I did (last time learned about real literature)

no thesis 

first paragraph - what you did last semester (academic reading)

paragraph 2 - what you think about it ( enjoyed it or not)

paragraph 3 - what u did this semester (purely for fun) (what book I chose why etc)

paragraph 4 - reactions and reflections (what did I enjoy what I learned)

conclusion- 1.summary (key point from both reading styles)

2. conclusion( which one was better what did I think)

6 paragraphs 

each paragraph includes a topic sentence three areas of support 

no references 

could give the details of both books at the end but not that important





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