Follow Each Step

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Follow Each Step

• Step 1
• Get your composition books and write your MLA
  heading (you have 45 seconds)

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Follow Each Step

• Step 2
• Make a list of at least three books and short
  stories you have read (over the past few years)
  that have anything to do with relationships with
  family members. You have one minute.

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Follow Each Step

• Step 3
• Make a list of at least three things over which
  you and a family member have ever had a
  disagreement. You have one minute.

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Follow Each Step

• Step 4
• Write down at least three typical situations you
  have personally witnessed in which family members
  disagree. You have one minute.

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Follow Each Step

• Step 5
• Write down at least three things you have studied
  in which people did not get along (history,
  English, church, etc.) You have one minute.

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• What youve read
• Use the literature you have read, either for
  enjoyment or for school.

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• What youve observed
• You know things because youve seen things. You
  know human nature. Use what you know.

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• What you know about society
• You know things from that are common in our world
  today.

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• What youve experienced
• You know things because some have happened to
  you!

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• What youve read
• What youve observed
• What you know about society
• What youve experienced

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• What youve read
• What youve observed
• What you know about society
• What youve experienced

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Its called the ROSE strategy

• Let me prove to you that it can work and in
  just 11 minutes you can write an essay.

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Get ready

• Turn to a new sheet in your composition book

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The 11-minute Essay, Step 1

• Opinion Statement
• When you fall in love, you are willing to look
  more foolish than at any time in your life.

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The 11-minute Essay, Step 1
Instructions Look at the photo. In the next
MINUTE, copy the opinion statement. Opinion
Statement When you fall in love, you are
willing to look more foolish than at any time in
your life.
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The 11-minute Essay, Step 2
Instructions For the next THREE (3) MINUTES,
explain the statement and its validity. (What
does it mean? What is your interpretation of it?
How true is it?)
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The 11-minute Essay, Step 3
Instructions Take a breath and indent. For the
next THREE (3) MINUTES, tell how the opinion
statement connects to any literature you have
read.
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The 11-minute Essay, Step 4
Instructions Take another breath and indent
again. For the next THREE (3) MINUTES, tell how
the opinion statement connects to your own life,
your experiences, and/or our world.
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The 11-minute Essay, Step 5
Instructions Take a breath and indent one more
time. For the next MINUTE, complete your essay by
reflecting on something that this discussion
leaves you wondering.
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Now that youre done
Instructions In just a minute you will be
dividing into groups of 3-4. Here is what you
will do each member will read his/her 11-minute
essay twice. After the second time, the other
members of the group will write down (in their
composition books) metaphors for which the
writing reminds you.
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Say what??
In other words Does the writing remind you of a
particular song, sound, type of weather, motion
or locomotion, color, shape, food, animal,
instrument, car, or even clothing? Explain why it
does. Now divide yourselves into groups of 3-4