3 HOUR DELAY

Today's agenda:
1) Independent reading
2) Introduce Freytag's model for plot lines
3) Examine the model in short videos--first as a class then with a partner

Coming up: 
1) Your mood board is due tomorrow!
2) Start figuring out the short story you want to write for your final project. 

These days were cancelled due to inclement weather. 

Your mood board was due today. Due to the school cancellations, this mood board will now be due on Thursday. We MAY have time to work on it in class on Wednesday, but that time is not guaranteed. Make sure you are working on it at home. If you can't, please email me at msanders2@wcpss.net and we can figure out a plan to make sure you can get it done. 

Today's agenda:
1) independent reading
2) Open Mic!
3) Introduce final assignment for setting: mood board (see 5 Mood Board in the resources page). This assignment is due on Tuesday. 

Make sure you choose a setting that you are really interested in as you will be using it to write a longer short story, which will be your final exam project. 

Today's agenda:
1) Journal Prompt:
2) Discuss the building blocks of a society
3) Group brainstorm and come up with your list of 20. Use this Google Form to submit your list:  goo.gl/forms/U1yDWK4GcUx9eluo2
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4) Look for the overlapped building blocks and then create a "master list" --the ones that most people chose
5) Examine some other cultures and how they differ from each other, using the categories you just brainstormed. 
6) Pretend you are a (time) traveler and you went to one of the given places. Create a postcard that you would write home about your chosen place. Illustrate the front with a picture that would be representative of the time and place where you "traveled." 

​Homework: finish your post card for tomorrow. 

Today's agenda:
1) Independent reading + turn in your fan fiction project
2) Open Mic!
3) Friday Game day! Choose from three games that we can play as a class: Scattegories, Telestrations, Pictionary

No homework! We will start a new unit on Monday

Today's agenda:
1) Independent reading
2) Writer's workshop--work on your fanfiction project and any missing work

Coming up:
Your fanfiction project is due on Friday!

Today's Agenda: 
1) Read Independently for 10 minutes
2)  Go to Fanfiction.net and find a fanfiction story that you are interested in, that is rated K, K+ or T. Do NOT choose one that is rated M. Then, answer the following questions: 

1. What story did you read? What was it rated?
2. What fandom does it belong to?
3. How did the author alter or add on to the original story?
4. Do you think this was a positive addition or change to the original? Why or why not?
5. If you were going to offer advice for improvement to this author, what would you say? Be specific!

3) Writer's workshop--work on your Fanfiction/Fractured Fairy Tale Project! 


Your Fanfiction project is due on the Friday after break--November 30.

Today's Agenda: 
1) Read Independently for 10 minutes
2) Beginnings and Leads Article and activity--see handout in the Unit 5 folder. 
3) Writer's workshop--work on your Fanfiction/Fractured Fairy Tale Project! 


Your Fanfiction project is due on the Friday after break--November 30.

​Today's Agenda: 
1) Read Independently for 10 minutes
2) Writer's workshop--work on your Fanfiction/Fractured Fairy Tale Project! 


Your Fanfiction project is due on the Friday after break--November 30.