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First, you’ll get time to work on your plans and storyboards. Don’t leave without knowing what you need for the next step. Props, costumes, sites, animation, images…whatever.
Check here for Creative Comments sites, sounds, and  Wikimedia.
Next, I want to talk parallelism. You’ll see me talk it through then get a little time to check [...]

Before I let you lose to work on your definition essays, I have three tasks I want to accomplish.

Read The Lost Art of the Rant . This essay from Slate Magazine defines “rant.” Does this essay of definition look at negation, categorization, history, analysis, comparison, examples, results, or causes? Quote from the article [...]

We’ll start with the essays.  You’ll get 3 editors to take a look at what you’ve done and make suggestions, corrections, and additions to your work.
Editor 1: Show don’t Tell.  Choose 2-4 paragraphs and—using the reviewing toolbar—comment on the success or not-yet success of the author’s attempt to show vs. tell.  Does the author tell [...]

First, I’ll give you time to storyboard and plan. Think about using Keynote or a storyboard page. See this too.
Next, I want to talk a bit and run through some of the lessons we learned from writing the preliminary synthetic essay. How do you evaluate sources? How do you get the [...]

What do we need to do to get ready for the Definition Essay?
First, let’s look at a model of a Definition Essay. What is an Educated Person? 
After you’re finished, in a 200-300 word blog post respond to the article?  Do you need all 10?  Do you know anyone who is educated?  Is you standard higher [...]