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ASSIGNMENT: Spring Portfolio Intro & Overview (Note this involves collecting your previous drafts, writing one new draft – a quickwrite expansion – and a letter about your learning. Read the details on the assignment sheet.)

Time to get started. . .

PAST-DUE: Seniors Write! papers were due 5/1 (yesterday)

DEADLINE: Spring Portfolio due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 5/6

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WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1

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Quickwrite #35: QUOTES – choose one

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson from Journals with Annotations 1841-1844

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” – Chuck Palahniuk from Invisible Monsters: A Novel

“I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.” – John Green from Looking for Alaska

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1

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WRITE CLUB – Share a Seniors Write! paper with your writing group. Bless, Address, & Press to provide feedback.

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1*

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Quickwrite #38: “What’s Your Biggest Regret?”

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1*

*Please use your in-class work time!!

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STUDY: Reader Engagement (How Narrative & Specificity Bring Readers Close) – check the PDF on GClassroom

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1*

*Please use your in-class work time!!

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Quickwrite #33: Worry, Regret, Guilt (list some, choose one & expand)

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1*

*Please use your in-class work time!!

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Quickwrite #32: Door to ?

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1

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Quickwrite #31: “Poem for an Inked Daughter” by Jean Wyrick

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1 (we will have in-class time to work on this starting tomorrow – so think about what you want to write.)

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READ/STUDY: “End” from Donald Murray’s A Writer Teaches Writing & “And In the End” from Tom Romano’s Crafting Authentic Voice (you can find pdfs on today’s GClassroom stream).

STUDY: And That’s a Wrap…. a look at “real” endings with your others. Note what kinds of ways published authors choose to end. How can you start to diversify the ways you choose to end?

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1 (we will have in-class time to work on this starting tomorrow – so think about what you want to write.)