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Friday, September 30

9/30/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Open mic!
3) Work on your essay!

Thursday, September 29

9/29/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Madman free write (write for 5 minutes, describing the room around you, as if you were a crazy person)
3) Unreliable narrator activity: Read a short scene, then describe a short monologue from each character in the scene's perspective
4) Work on your project

Tonight:
1) Prepare for open mic!

September 28th, 2016

9/28/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Discuss My Last Duchess (see attached)
2) Discuss Unreliable Narrators (see powerpoint)
3) Introduce Unit Assignment: Create either an anti-hero or an unreliable narrator. Then, write a scene. See attached for more explanation and rubric.

Tonight:
1) Work on your project
my_last_duchess.docx
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unreliable_narrator.pptx
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Tuesday, September 27

9/27/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt
2) Review webquest
3) Anti-hero powerpoint
4) Group work: turn a villain into anti-hero
5) In class writing: write a scene that shows your anti-hero as sympathetic

Tonight: 
1) Complete your scene if you didn't in class. 

September 26th, 2016

9/26/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Silent Reading
2) Finish Open Mic from Friday
3) Go to the media center and complete a webquest on the Anti-hero and the unreliable narrator

Tonight:
1) Make sure that your webquest is completed!
2) Continue reading your independent reading book
anti_hero_and_unreliable_narrator_webquest.docx
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Friday, September 23rd, 2016

9/23/2016

 
Today's Agenda:
1) Silent reading
2: Open Mic: Please use the following link if you would like to sign up to bring refreshments to some of the open mics in teh future. https://docs.google.com/document/d/19dgF67LrS4q78EZ8cf3kZuBJNE94uum7B0ZpQ62BqA4/edit?usp=sharing
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3) Go to the media center to continue revising and giving feedback to others on their stories. 

September 22nd, 2016

9/22/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Guest speaker!

Tonight:
1) Work on your revised draft for the character assignment. We will have some time in class tomorrow to work on it.
2) Prepare for Open Mic tomorrow!

Wednesday, September 21

9/21/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Opening poem
2) Finish game from yesterday
3) Go to the media center to set up no red ink:
               a)  Go to noredink.com
               b) Click "sign up" and choose "student"
               c) enter this code when prompted: k8evf4w4
               d) click on "Home" in the top left of the page
               e) Click on the diagnostic  and complete it. 
4) Also, while in the media center. type your chosen scene into the google doc and reshare it with me. Let me know if you have questions on how to do this. 
5) When finished typing the document, share it with 2 other students, and have them share theirs with you. Then, read and give feedback on their stories, and they will do the same thing for you. 

Tonight:
1) Prepare for the guest speaker tomorrow (he will be here this time!)
2) Type and revise your character scene for a major grade. It is due on Friday. 

Tuesday, September 20

9/20/2016

 
Today's agenda
1) Silent reading
2) Creative Writing games

Tonight:
1) Work on revising one of your character scenes for Friday as a major grade

September 17th, 2016

9/17/2016

 
Today's agenda:
1) Silent reading
2) Open Mic!
3) Show, Don't tell in writing (see attached powerpoint). Finish the handout we started in class for homework. We will discuss it on Monday

This weekend:
1) Complete the Show, Don't tell hand out. (see attached)
showing_not_telling.pptx
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show_dont_tell_practice.docx
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