1.  Actual Essays are due today-  For your journal, please read aloud.  Secondly, have you considered your next topic sufficiently?  If so, what's your plan?  If not, think of something that is personal about/around you you'd like to see changed.  What is it?  Why does it bother you?  How could it be fixed. (15 min)

2.  Journal discussion (7 min)

3.  Groups and reading- 

Editing questions:

Do they have a works cited formatted correctly?

Do they have at least 5 sources?

Are the sources from academic databases/ other reliable sources?

What's the topic?

What's the author's position?

What are their reasons?

Do they use intext and insentence citation? 

Is the insentece citation done correctly? 

Check all the citations and see if there's a corresponding works cited entry?

What's the essay missing?

What does the essay have that it doesn't need?

Is it convincing?

Do they use logos or pathos more?

Circle any grammar mistakes.

Offer a compliment.

Exunt.

HW-  Essay plans and editing--- essays due Thursday.