Thursday, March 30

Today we got most of the informational essays about Elizabethan England written. We focused specifically on correctly integrating textual evidence. Below is an example of some of the ways students are incorrectly integrating textual evidence. Your task in class today was to identify and fix those errors. Your homework tonight is to spend 10 minutes on your essay so that we can finish it in class on Friday and begin work on the presentations. Read for 20 minutes and complete your This I Believe projects.

Find and correct the errors regarding textual evidence in this paragraph:

In the Elizabethan Age, England rose to great power. “The reign of Queen Elizabeth (1555-1603) saw England emerge as the leading naval and commercial power of the Western world.” (bardweb.net). During the time of Queen Elizabeth’s rule, England began to expand and explore the greater world. As said by bardweb.net, “Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world” and “Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh sent colonists eastward in search of profit” (bardweb.net). This allowed England in “trade, might, and art” to establish “an envious preeminence” that few nations could match (bardweb.net).