Agenda

I hope that you all had a wonderful break!

• Today – you will be reading and writing!
  • start with a Scales Free Write for 10 – 15 mins – many of you went on trips over the break – maybe there is something to source out of those memories… maybe a poem or a rant or travel blog style scale about the power of understanding different perspectives on the world through being in different places in the world. Traveling is like putting on a new pair of glasses, which not only broadens and shifts our view of the world, but we look at our identities differently as well.
  • but whatever you choose to write, make sure you are incorporating: Sentence Variation for Creative Writing as well as NEW devices and techniques – 10 Rhetorical Strategies
  • THEN… complete all of the Dialogue Activities, including READING the Hemingway story; I will be checking on Wednesday for formative assessment (homework) marks
    • These are on the Short Story Tab, but I have put them here as well:
      • Hills-Like-White-Elephants-Hemingway-Ernest
      • Dialogue Activities

Agenda

Wednesday:

• a quick discussion of the Dialogue assignment – in the Short Stories Tab (you will need ear-buds)
• begin the interviews outside in the hall

Tuesday:

• continuation of the Scales assessment activity
• Assessment interviews start tomorrow

Monday:

• Read something from this website – Teen Ink – a great online magazine of Teen Writing – settle into something quickly
• word on your Assessment and Reflection for your Scales – all materials are in the Experimental Writing Tab
  • a reminder that the interviews begin Wednesday – we will spin a random number wheel generator for who goes first and then it will proceed alphabetically from there
  • a reminder that when a student is with me, the rest of the class will be working a new assignment
  • I need to interview each class:
    • Wednesday is a short day (60 mins)  – so four or five people at roughly 8 mins each
    • Thursday and Friday = regular schedule (80 mins) means 7 people on each day at roughly 8 mins each
    • so, please be ready, organized, and practiced for the time given with your work printed off for you to present/discuss with me

 Agenda

• Scales – free write
• reminder that your First Page of the Novel is due tonight
• Grammar – have it out on your desktop for a homework check mark
• Scales – Self Reflection and Assessment instructions in the Experimental Writing Tab

Agenda

• work day to get your First Page completed
  • reminder that the final, edited copy is due to TEAMS tomorrow night
  • we will go over the Assessment Rubric briefly – in the SS tab of the blog – First Page of the Novel Assessment
• we will go over the Sentence Types Review tomorrow – you will have a bit of time to finish it up in tomorrow’s class