Peer Response Day

If you missed the Hamlet test on Tuesday (and did not make it up today), you have only Thursday after school to do this.  Do not forget!!

TODAY IN CLASS
Most people were prepared with completed, typed  Hamlet drafts today. Good job.  There is no hand-out for the peer work because that was handled completely in class.  However, there is a hand-out for "self-editing" that is important for everyone, but ESSENTIAL for those who either were not in class or who did not have their essay completed and printed out for class.  Here is the link for that hand-out:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ARigzimXmDnvZGZ0dzhmcGhfNTdmcDU1a3dkdg&hl=en

Even if you were in class for the peer response, you need to go through this hand-out carefully and make the necessary revisions on your own paper.  What we did in class was only on major content, and some people didn't even quite get through that part.

I have already opened http://www.turnitin.com/  Papers can be turned in either tomorrow or Friday.  Turn in both today's stamped copy and the revised final draft to me in class, and submit the final draft to turnitin.com before it closes at 3:00 p.m. on Friday. 

Then you will be ready to have a relaxing spring break!!

FOR TOMORROW
Be working on your revision.  Although some of you may need only minor tweaks, I think there were some fairly significant suggestions people made about content.  It would be nice to have a couple of work sessions on that.

If you had some quotes longer than 3 lines, don't take them out.  Shorten them by using a paraphrase for part of it; find something (preferably the first part or the last part of your current quote) for which re-wording makes it more clear anyway and does not take away from the heart of the quotation.  It's OK to use elipsis (. . . ), but it's often best just to put part of the quotation into your own words.