Friday, March 15, 2019

92 minutes

Reminder: Permission slips for the Career Expo need to be handed in by Friday, March 15

     1.   Review instructions and discuss the personal essay assignment: “The Role of the Writer/The Role of Storytelling in my Life.” 

     2.   Review the self/peer-edit exercise

     3.   Review MLA formatting and discuss how to create effective titles, introductions, and conclusions

     4.   Complete the peer-editing exercise.

     5.   Work on revising and editing your essay.

     6.   Career Expo info : FIELD TRIP IS TUESDAY, MARCH 19!!!

HOMEWORK: continue working on drafting your essay. The final draft is due by Friday, March 22 in Google Classroom.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

76 minutes

Reminder: Permission slips for the Career Expo need to be handed in by Friday, March 15

     1.   Review instructions and discuss the personal essay assignment: “The Role of the Writer/The Role of Storytelling in my Life.” 

     2.   Review the self/peer-edit exercise and get the list of commonly used transitions.

     3.   Complete the self-editing exercise.

     4.   Complete the peer-editing exercise.

HOMEWORK: continue working on drafting your essay. The final draft is due on Friday, March 15.

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

76 minutes

Reminder: Permission slips for the Career Expo need to be handed in by Friday, March 15

     1.   Review instructions and discuss the personal essay assignment: “The Role of the Writer/The Role of Storytelling in my Life.” 

     2.   Review the self/peer-edit exercise and get the list of commonly used transitions.

     3.   Complete the self-editing exercise.

     4.   Complete the peer-editing exercise.

HOMEWORK: continue working on drafting your essay. The final draft is due on Friday, March 22.

Monday, March 11, 2019

92 minutes

Reminder: Permission slips for the Career Expo need to be handed in by Friday, March 15

      1.   Review instructions and discuss the personal essay assignment: “The Role of the Writer/The Role of Storytelling in my Life.” 

2.   Begin drafting your essay--submit this into Google Classroom

       3.   Consider using the Free-write: “What Role Do Stories Play in My Life?” as a springboard for your essay.

HOMEWORK: continue working on drafting your essay. The first draft is due on Wednesday, March 13. We will peer edit this in class. The final draft is due Friday, March 15.

Thursday, March 7, 2019

76 minutes

Reminder: Permission slips for the Career Expo need to be handed in by Friday, March 15

1.   SSR      
2.   Hand in your questions and annotated story (“Plague of Doves”)    

3.Groups present Power Quote posters to the class.

     4.   Listen to NPR story about the role of storytelling in Inuit culture

     5.   Free-write: “What Role Do Stories Play in My Life?”

6.   Instructions and discussion of personal essay assignment: “The Role of the Writer/The Role of Storytelling in my Life.” 

7.   Begin drafting your essay

HOMEWORK: think about/work on drafting your essay. You will have class time on Monday to write. The first draft is due on Wednesday, March 13. The final draft is due Friday, March 15. The first draft is due on

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

92 minutes

1.   SSR 

       2.   Get permission slip for Career Expo—due by Friday, March 15

         3.   Hand in your questions and annotated story (“Plague of Doves”)

4.   In groups, re-read one of the following TedTalks, speech, or interview: Adichie , Solzhenitsyn, Shafak Politics of Fiction and Shafak Power of Diverse Thought, Akpan, and Erdrich. Highlight important quotes in which the writer speaks about the role of the writer or the role of literature / storytelling.  Write these quotes on your group poster.

Tonight and tomorrow, start thinking about the role of literature / storytelling in YOUR life and how this might connect to any of the "power quotes" that you wrote on your posters.  On Thursday, you will be writing an essay in which you explore the role of literature / storytelling in your life.

Friday, March 1, 2019

92 minutes

1.   SSR  

        2.   Small groups: finish discussing “The Plague of Doves” using these questions (each group member records the group’s responses on their own sheet) 

         3.   Whole class share out / discussion

         4.   Hand in your questions and annotated story