• Peer Review:  You should be completing your Peer Review work by Friday, March 19th.  I will be reading your drafts, adding comments, and checking the peer review materials over the weekend.  Please let me know if you have NOT received any feedback from the members of your group by Saturday morning.
• Conferences: On Monday, March 22nd, we will be having conferences rather than meeting as a whole class.  These conferences are mandatory and will be an opportunity to discuss your essays.  Make sure that you have shared a current version of your draft with your group in advance of your conference.  The schedule for these conferences is as follows:

11:30 Group #1: Geselle, Kaylen, Abdu

12:00 Group #2: Samantha, Gianni, Nicole

12:30 Group #3: Melanie, Mokhitobon, Sydney

1:00 Group #4: Lorraine, Danna, Brian

1:30 Group #5: Destiny, Lelani, Mindy

• Essays Due: Friday, March 26th.  Follow the instructions provided in the assignment.  Place your completed essay in the same folder that contains your Personal Narrative.  Make sure that you have renamed the file so that it doesn’t say “Draft”!
• Dear Reader/Writer Letter: As you did with your first formal essay, please take some time to reflect on the process of writing your Textual Analysis Essay.  Place your completed letter in the folder that contains your essays no later than Sunday, March 28th.  In composing your letter, you may want to consider the following:

-What question were you asking in this essay?

-How did this essay writing process compare to your first essay?

-What are you especially proud of about this work?

-What do you wish had gone differently?

-What did you learn from writing this essay – both about your topic and about yourself?

-What’s a piece of useful advice you received while working on this essay?

-How would you evaluate your own work as a peer reviewer?

-What do you want your reader to keep in mind as he/she reads your essay?