1) Journal Prompt
2) Discuss basic elements of a story
3) Identify elements of a story in the Pixar short
4) Independent reading or work on your memoir
"Why I Write" memoir rough draft is due on Friday.
Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt 2) Discuss basic elements of a story 3) Identify elements of a story in the Pixar short 4) Independent reading or work on your memoir "Why I Write" memoir rough draft is due on Friday. Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt 2) Discuss Orwell's Why I Write essay and questions 3) Write a family memory 4) Read example vignette memory 5) Revise your memory 6) Introduce the "Why I Write" Assignment 7) Game Upcoming due dates 1) Your rough draft for the "Why I Write" piece is due on Friday and your final draft is due next Friday. Today's agenda: 1) Journal Picture prompt 2) Watch Ann Hood's Ted Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdsu2KMhno 3) Brainstorm your own "why I write" 4) Read and answer questions for Orwell's "Why I Write" We will discuss these on Monday 5) Scenes from a Hat game This weekend: Make sure you have finished the "Why I Write" essay and the questions that go with it.
Today's agenda: 1) Journal Prompt 2) Finish your group stories from yesterday and share out 3) Greetings game 4) Introduction to Why I Write: Watch a video and discuss 5) Independent reading Tonight: 1) Read George Orwell's essay "Why I Write". We will begin our discussion tomorrow with this.
Today's agenda:
1) Complete the student survey below 2) Review the syllabus 3) Name toss and Roulette 4) Speed Meet activity--get to know each other 5) Build a story together Tonight: 1) Get the parent letter signed 2) Find an independent reading book Today's agenda:
1) Go to 2726 to work on the final project. Your final project will be due on the day of your exam, Thursday. On that day, you will turn in your exam and we will have our final open mic, where you will have the opportunity to share for one more time and to get your final open mic grades. After that, we will play Creative Writing games and celebrate the end of the year. Please let me know if you have any questions. For the next four days, we will be working on the final project, and looking at examples of other projects to help give you an idea.
Make sure that you are working at home to finish these projects as well. Let me know if you have any questions. Today's agenda
1) Journal Prompt 2) Create a class character 3) Introduce final project 4) Work time Tonight: 1) Continue working on your final project. It will be due on the day of the final exam for 4th block 2) We will have 2 more open mics this semester--once on this Friday and one next Thursday. Make sure you are prepared to participate if you still need open mic grades. |
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