Agenda:

• Hand in your Narrative Essay – make sure your name and a title is on it
• Homework check and discussion for Jurassic Conservation
• Read or work on your Spoken word

Agenda:

• Reminder:
  • tomorrow (Friday) Party Time logs are due: Plot, Quote and Vocab – for a homework check and discussion
• Today – introduction to Spoken Word – are materials are in the Writing and Grammar Tab

Agenda:

• grammar package continued…
• the third theme of the novel: The Heroic Journey – open the Pre-reading activities document in the novel tab – complete
• introduction to process: open Whirligig Novel Study 2018
• Start reading: Plot/quote/vocab logs are due Thursday, November 15

Agenda:

• Reminders:
  • test on run-ons and sentences is tomorrow
  • the narrative essay is due Thursday, November 15
  • the Spoken Word is due November 26, 27
• Introduction to the novel:
  • What is satire – video – Steve Cutts ‘Man’
  • What does it mean to be human? Discuss at your table
  • watch videos – discuss
  • reading assignment: Jurassic Conservation – in the Novel tab

Agenda:

• Grammar review
• work on the intro-writing assignment – blog post. See yesterday’s notes

Agenda:

• Sorry: new assignment (while you are in creative composing head-space!) – See Google calander for due dates!
  • Spoken Word (in WG tab)
• Work on the Narrative, grammar, or start brain-storming for spoken word
• Create a series of lists (10 items per list work nicely) to inspire your writing: Example – What are….
  1. things that make you unique
  2. things that make you extremely angry
  3. things that make you extremely happy
  4. things that make you sad
  5. things you wish you could paint in vivid detail
  6. things you wish you had learned by now
  7. things that most people don’t know about you
  8. things you wish they taught in school
  9. lies that you’ve been about life
  10. truths that you’ve been told about life
  11. stories about your mother/father/sister/brother/friend/significant other that make you happy/sad
  12. things that make you afraid
  13. things that give you hope

Agenda:

• Do some grammar on sentences – upload here
• work on your essay, or do some Chomp, Chomp on run-ons
• start studying for the Grammar test on Run-ons – next week: Wednesday, November 14 – review sheet in WG tab

Agenda:

• homework check for:
  • Grammar #2
  • Prompts A, B and C on Self-esteem
  • as a group, post your notes here

Agenda:

• HW check and discussion of TOOL
• review the narrative writing assignment
• grammar review