Category: DC English 8
Wednesday, January 17th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
STUDY: 4 Part Note-Taking Strategy (They Say, Quote, I Say, Question format) & Practice
📝 NOTEPAGE: Practice 4-Part Note Strategy & MLA In-text Citations – text varies by class (find digital copies in today’s GClassroom stream)
- DC8 “11:20” by Michael Paterniti from Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Rhet-Comp 8A “In Our Genes” by Hannah Moskowitz from Our Stories, Our Voices
- Eng8 “Googling Strangers” by John Green from The Anthropocene Reviewed
PAST DUE:
- Notes from E-learning day (see yesterday’s GClassroom)
- Letter 1 (DC8 & Eng8) was due in Dropbox in-class on Friday (check your email for notices about missing or too short work)
Tuesday, January 16th – All Classes
E-Learning Day!
STUDY: MLA Citation Basics – Visit GClassroom to find a short video (12 minutes or so) that explains the basics of MLA Citations.
📝Watch and make a note page in your writer’s notebook. Submit a photo of your notepage as evidence of your attention & learning.
* PAST DUE (DC English 8 & English 8): Letter 1 (letter to Mrs. C) was due in Dropbox in-class on Friday – please finish it up if you haven’t (and hours 1 & 3 should check the email sent on Friday regarding that work).
Friday, January 12th – DC English 8 / English 8
ASSIGNMENT: Write Mrs. C a letter (details on the assignment sheet below) & on the appropriate writing assignment tabs above.
Indie Read
TO-DO: Read something awesome this weekend, just because.
Thursday, January 11th – DC English 8 / Rhetoric & Comp
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
STUDY: What Makes Writing “Good”? Part 2: what makes writing effective – a closer look at the 4’s and 1’s
RLaW: Practice reading like a writer w/ Tim O’Brien’s piece “Ambush” from The Things We Carried (DC add RLaW slide to inside notebook cover)

PAST DUE:
- Grades Survey questions from Monday (in GClassroom stream)
- Sign Up for Dropbox & Share Folders w/ Mrs. C ASAP!
Wednesday, January 10th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #3: “Hands” by Sarah Kay (tape-in)+ Read Like a Writer (annotate)
PAST DUE:
- Grades Survey questions from Monday (in GClassroom stream)
- Sign Up for Dropbox & Share Folders w/ Mrs. C ASAP!
Tuesday, January 9th – DC English 8 / English 8
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
VIDEO: Alfie Kohn “Why Grades Shouldn’t Exist”
STUDY: What Makes Writing “Good”? Part 1: a look at sample papers & some quick evaluation/comparison.
PAST DUE:
- Grades Survey questions from yesterday (in GClassroom stream)
- Sign Up for Dropbox & Share Folders w/ Mrs. C ASAP
- Intro Survey (or WRITE CLUB survey for returning 6th hour students) – find it in last Thursday’s GClassroom stream
Monday, January 8th – All Classes
📖 BookTalk & Indie Read
🖋️Quickwrite #2: “Losing Ourselves” – a student documentary by Rachel Wolfe (parts 1 & 2). Your thoughts.
STUDY: Syllabus Overview
TO-DO: Take the grades survey on GClassroom (unless you took it last semester in Mrs. C’s 7A).
*6th HOUR Rhetoric & Comp Accelerated ONLY: Complete the GForm Query Generation after watching “Losing Ourselves” excerpts (parts 1 & 2) & we listened to a bit of the 1% Better podcast episode titled “Transform The World with the Power of Beautiful Questions” (from 9/12/2023) link here if you are interested: https://www.onepercentbetterproject.com/the-podcast
PAST DUE:
- Sign Up for Dropbox & Share Folders w/ Mrs. C ASAP
- Intro Survey (or WRITE CLUB survey for returning 6th hour students) – find it in last Thursday’s GClassroom stream
Friday, January 5th – All Classes
WATCH: Penny Kittle’s reading video (and a little story about this class library)
STUDY: Quick library “tour” & Book Pass (to start or refresh your TBR list) – YOU NEED A BOOK TO READ ON MONDAY!!
TO-DO/ASSIGNMENT: Sign-up for Dropbox (use your own email) & create and share folders with Mrs. C. Directions at the “Dropbox Set-Up” tab above (follow them exactly). Do this no later than end of day Sunday 1/7.
*6th hour returners: If you missed class, ask Mrs. C about folder maintenance.
PAST DUE: Intro Survey (or WRITE CLUB survey for returning 6th hour students) – find it in yesterday’s GClassroom stream
Thursday, January 4th – All Classes
Welcome to a new semester! Let’s get started.
TODAY: welcome, overview, notebooks, quickwrite #1, introductory survey
🖋️Quickwrite #1: “Hands” by Sarah Kay 1) watch the poem 2) trace your hand in the style of the photo 3) write about hands in some way 4) attempt to use all four minutes

TO-DO: Take the survey on GClassroom today. Come to class tomorrow, with your notebook, prepared for adventure.