April 3

Today we will do four things:

1. Discuss open campus issue.
2. Journal prompt: should South High students be allowed to leave campus during lunch?
Divide into teams of four.
Read each others' essays with your spelling and grammar checklist.
Make sure that none of the essays have a single spelling or grammatical error.
Exchange essays with another team.
Any errors you find that are on the sheet earn you 1 point (1 point maximum per essay)
3. Debate the question Should South High students be allowed to leave campus during lunch?
4. Fahrenheit 451 vocabulary for next Friday.

If we have time, Take notes for the District writing assessment.
YOU WILL RECEIVE 10 POINTS FOR YOU NOTES TODAY. YOU MUST FILL UP ALMOST ALL OF THE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR NOTES TO EARN THE 10 POINTS.

Journal prompt: 
Should South High students be allowed to leave campus during lunch?

Reasons against:
1. Kids can get hurt when they're off campus and the school has the responsibility to keep them safe.
2. Students smoke and cause a public disturbance.
3. Students leave trash.
4. Students won't come back on time and they won't learn as well.

You will write approximately 1 page, including at a minimum the following:

• An introductory sentence
• A sentence or two explaining the issue
• State that there are arguments for and against because it is a complex issue
• State your position (say that you think campus should be closed (OR open))

• Write a topic sentence giving one reason for closed or open campus
• Give a specific example
• Explain the point you're making with this example

• Tell the reader what one of the counter-arguments is (con if you're pro)
• Explain why that argument is not all that valid

• Write a topic sentence stating a second reason for closed or open campus
• Give a specific example
• Explain the point you're making with this example
• Write a concluding sentence

When you have finished, look over what you have written to make sure that you don't have any of the spelling errors on my handout.

IN PARTICULAR, make sure that you don't have comma problems. Remember, if you could have a period, you can't just have a comma. Introductory phrases also need commas. See my examples.