Writing Conclusions. (I wanted to move this so that we wrote our three effects first! It just seemed more natural that way...) We looked at word choice in conclusions. We read the last seven paragraphs of the Blakeslee article again, and filled in the chart here. We then did the same for Phineas Gage, reading the last five paragraphs.When we were finished, we completed the bottom of the chart, which encouraged students to fill in their own ideas about their own conclusion.
Our prompt was narrative again (so it will only be graded for completion), and it was, "Think of a time when you did something that had a consequence, good or bad. Write about that time, including what you learned as a result of that action. Be sure to include a conclusion in which you show some details about what you learned in the course of writing your entry.
Homework:
* Read 20 min.
* Independent reading process.
