10/4/16

Today started with Mr. Rivers talking about the questions that was asked yesterday which was, “How is your draft going? What’s standing in your way right now? How can I help you with that?”. It transitioned into a somewhat life lesson about us being responsible with our choices and how important it is to be independent with what we do. Today is another work day for starting our essays, this included analyzing and citing our books. We were also given a graphic organizer for our essays, it is optional, but I love graphic organizers so i’m going to use it.  Mr. Rivers asked us what the three important parts of evidence integration (ICA). The first one is introduced, that provides context that is clear is specific. The second one is cite, that is giving credit to the person who created the work that we are using in our essay. (Introduce and cite should be in the same sentence.) The final one is analyze which connects the evidence to the claim. The only two sources we can use for our essay is the novel and the film nothing else. He also wants us to incorporate Mise-en-scene into our essay. (Surprise surprise). After all of that we were given a sample text  about The Great Gatsby which can be found on google classroom. We read it out loud and analyzed it together, when we finished and explained it to Mr. Rivers he let us start the ICA process for our own novels and films.

ICA can best be described as this sushi kid. All of the pieces need to be properly put together.