Class Minutes, Thursday, December 17th

We went over tips for writing personal essays, including types of hooks. The acronym DRAPES was also introduced as a self-check strategy; each letter stands for a writing technique or rhetorical device. We listened to and read This I Believe essays from the CBC and NPR websites, including one by Muhammad Ali and Amy Tan. Then, we spent the rest of the class time pre-writing by list-making for our own This I Believe essay.