Book talk & Indie read.  Notebook writing:  recap of Verna Myers on Biases – extend your thinking.  What is Writing?  revisited & continued.

Deadline: Write a draft of an “essay” (NOT a five-paragraph monstrosity) that expands one of your quickwrites or notebook writes into bigger thinking. (needed in full on 9/25)

RLaW:  “Cruel As It Is” – Leonard Pitts, Jr. – read through only (we’ll work with it in class on Wednesday).

Cruel As It Is – Leonard Pitts, Jr.

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