Essay Writing

1. Essay Writing Wednesday 3/6/2019

2. Bell work 3/5/2019 • Sample Essay Response 2 • Annotate for errors & add suggestions!

3. Bell work 3-6-2019 • After you get your computer, pull up your essay from Google Drive. • Access my website: wms6thela.com • Go to Grammarly.com • Go to login and click on sign in through google • Put in your username & password • Use Ctrl+A to highlight the entire essay and paste it to Grammarly after selecting New. • It will ask you to Set up your preferences: Click on Persuasive; Knowledge Level Expert; & all the other appropriate categories. • Reformat it according to the grammar standards. • Use ctrl+x to cut your entire essay on Google Docs. • Use ctrl+a to copy the entire essay from Grammarly. • Go back to google docs and press ctrl+v to paste it back.

4. Bellringer3/7/2019 • After you get a grading rubric, log on to your Google Drive and retrieve your essay. • Share your essay with your partner. • In order to share, click share, and type in their address into the list of people; also make sure it says anyone with the link can edit. • You are going to make a comment on their essays, just as we did while practicing editing the essays on Tuesday, for bellwork. • In order to make a comment, click on what you want to edit and a comment box while appear on the right. Type in your recommendation.

5. Writing 9-10.W.TTP.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to analyze and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection and organization of content. A. Provide an introduction that is relevant to the rest of the text and effectively engages the audience. B. Organize ideas to create cohesion and clarify relationships among ideas and concepts, including but not limited to use of appropriate and varied transitions. C. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic. D. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented. E. Use appropriate formatting, graphics, and multimedia to aid comprehension. F. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic. G. Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone. 9-10.W.PDW.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 9-10.W.PDW.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grades 9-10.)

6. Intro Researches argue that animals have a way of thinking by using different techniques that are similar to humans. Eugene Linden discussed various examples of animal intelligence in his essay “Can Animals Think?”. Dr. Patterson and Koko the Gorilla in her video, “Watch Koko the Gorilla”, shows a sign of emotional connection and them using language. Animals clearly express higher levels of intelligence instead of just basic instincts. • Intro: Hook: What is interesting about the animals or what do you think about animal’s thoughts? Or, what is the debate about in these videos and essay? For example, have the scientists been arguing about the animal’s intellect, did people know chimps could use tools before Jane Goodall’s movie, & did people know all of these high-order skills until reading the essay? • Give a background on the videos we watched. • Give a background to the essay we read. • What is your claim that you will be defending?

7. Claim: Eugene Linden thinks that animals demonstrate more intelligence than humans give them credit for. Cite: “Each of these narratives reveals another facet of what I have become convinced is a new window on animal intelligence: the kind of mental feats they perform when dealing with captivity and the dominant species on the planet--humanity.” Another quote or/Clarify: Fu Manchu was able, for example, to manipulate a lock and escape a zoo. Clarify: His ability to construct a complex thought pattern shows their intellect surpasses their instinct which we share between the animals. Body Paragraph 1 • State a claim that the author is making about these animals. • Evidence: What evidence does the author give to defend that animals do have at least some intelligence, however you might define it. • Clarify: How is this evidence of intelligence and not just instinct? Or is it more aligned with instinct? • Cite: Offer other evidence to make your point stronger. • Clarify: Once again.

8. Animals show signs of intelligent behavior, but they do not have an intelligent thought process similar to humans; they merely exhibit behavior derived from their instinctual nature. Jane Goodall captured footage of several chimpanzees using tools, mothering their baby chimps, and competitions between alpha males and other challengers in a quest for dominance. She stated, “…to some extent, I wanted to model my behavior on the chimpanzees.” Astonishing as it may seem, Goodall learned parenting skills, but this does not constitute as intellect, rather it is instinct. The intimidation of the chimpanzees to usurp the alpha male is also another example of instincts, although it showed a high level of intelligence in his thought process. I would say that they have the ability to formulate and use tools, but their thought process is different, because they do not have the ability to question things as we do. Let’s write together an example Paragraph 2 • Paragraph 2: Video #2 • Claim-Cite-Clarify • Can the animals show signs of intelligent thought as evidenced by the video? • Claim: Do you think they have similar traits or not? • Cite: How do you know? • Clarify: How are you sure this evidence is signs of similarities to humans? • Cite & Clarify: State any other evidence you would like to use and make your point clear.

9. Paragraph 3 • Paragraph 3 • Video#1: KOKO • Video#1: Watch Koko the Gorilla Use Sign Language in This 1981 Film | National Geographic • Author: Dr. Patterson • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJf1mB5PjQ • Claim-Cite-Clarify • 1.What is the Author’s Claim in this video? • 2. What is her evidence? • 3. What is her clarification? • 4. Defend or argue against the critics of Dr. Patterson or Dr. Patterson. • 5. Claim: Remember, you are writing from a 3rd person perspective, not from your own • voice. So your claim should resemble something like this: Dr. Patterson makes a good point, but the evidence seems to be on the side of her critics. In other words, do animals show signs of human intelligence?