Simone's Portfolio

Unit 3: writing workshop

• Essential Questions:

• What makes a great essay?

I think the things that make a great essay are having a strong claim to hook readers to read your essay. Also writing an essay structure to make it clear and easy to read. Put some text evidence to prove that your point or opinion is better and join with counterpoint to make it even stronger.In the introduction you should put some backgroung of the book and use transition to make your essay smooth and flow. lastly, explain fully thought about the evidence for example, why do you choose this and how it relate to your thought.

• How do we determine themes?

I think the easiest way to determine our themes are thinking back to the problem that the characters were facing also, think what do we get from the story or what the story teaches. After that just think what is the possible theme that you get from the story that relate to the problems. After that just write down ideas and think about the theme that u get and think about it deeper and more specific.

• In what ways can it take courage to revise our thinking?

When your draft your essay you will put full of ideas and thinking into the page so, sometime you brain might confuse with typing and make some mistake while thinking about thing that you are going to write. When you go back and reread your essay; you need to focus on does the thing that you write relate and make sense? if not then you need to change or delete it by useing corages. I think when I decide to delete something I need to make sure that it doesn't help or make sense to me or me readers at all.

• How do authors use craft moves to create effects?

The author use many  techinique to make the readers relate to the book or some situations in the story. For example, symbolisum, descroptive language tone of mood and more to make readers make perdiction and and make it effects readers thinking. 

• What do conversations about literature do for you?

The conversation about the literature would make think over and over again because  literatures are topics that needed to be think over so it could be more clear and understandable.

• Is flexibility an important skill to have in life?

Flexibility is an important skill because if you don't have this skill, you won't be with something to long, so the best is the be flexible with everythings. For example, you could change yourself whenever you need to, Still with your job no changing, Be nice to your love and not cheating and lastly is leaning your writing skills and never stop. 

• Does the world need essayists?

 This world need essayists; how does reader know what book should they read? They need this people to write down their opinions and rate books.

The essayists can write it down in goodreads then other readers will go and read their essay to make a decition for choosing book to read when they go to store. Also, the good thing is the essayists can wrote about everything but for me I pefer to find the rate of the movie in the cinema becasue I'm one of the readers who use interne resouses to find out these thing.  

• How does what you learned in this unit connect to the real world

I think what i leaned is connect to the real world because this special skills that an essayists should have in order to make people has more efficiency on writing skills. For example, you will use this skills with your work, school and university. 

• Evidence (Images, Essays, Reports, Posters, etc.)

  • Author's craft essay

  • Reflection on Evidence

  • This evidence was interesting because I never know what the author try to tell or teach us. Some techniques that they use. I don’t really like to write essay but right now this is really helpful to learn how to write a better essay so, in the future i know how to write a great essay. I had to think deeper and learn how to recognize themes. Moreover, I learned how to write introduction that include everythings that I need to have. For example, title, background story and claims.