** Literary essays express an idea and use the text to support the writer's stance.
** A writer needs 3-4 chunks of information from the text to support his/her idea.
** Literary essays should express a new understanding of that idea.
** A writer needs to be able to say why the idea matters.
We have helped each other narrow down and identify the ideas that we feel most strongly about and have the most supporting evidence for.
Students have also been using an app called ReadNaturally/ReadLive to support accurate and fluent reading.
