Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #30: Desires – what do you want? List 5 things. Then choose one & expand – what is it? why? what would it be like to get what you want? or to not get what you want?

ASSIGNMENT INTRO: SENIORS WRITE! a high school memory project due no later than end of day Sunday 5/1 (Submit papers through Dropbox in a SENIORSWRITE folder inside your Submissions folder – step by step instructions on the GClassroom assignment.)

Have a great Easter Break! See you back at school on the 19th.

Indie Read & Catch-Up Day: work on anything overdue or escape into your reading.

TOMORROW: Intro to the SENIORS WRITE Project 🙂

Indie Read w/ padlet check-in

WRITE CLUB – Bless, Address, & Press with DRAFT#5

COMING UP NEXT: Seniors Write Project – intro to this on Tuesday 4/12. BE HERE!

PAST-DUE: Anything you should have already written but haven’t yet. . .

Indie Read

WRITING TIME: Work on DRAFT #5 – cited commentary

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: DRAFT #5 – cited commentary (using 4 sources given in class) due in Dropbox no later than end of day Thursday 4/7 (TODAY!!)

Indie Read

STUDY/CREATE: Build the works cited page for DRAFT#5 (we did this as a class – find it in Dropbox in the “Hour # Practice” folder – and then copy and paste the entries to be the last page of DRAFT#5)

WRITING TIME: Work on DRAFT #5 – cited commentary

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: DRAFT #5 – cited commentary (using 4 sources given in class) due in Dropbox no later than end of day Thursday 4/7

Indie Read

WRITING TIME: Work on DRAFT #5 – cited commentary

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: DRAFT #5 – cited commentary (using 4 sources given in class) due in Dropbox no later than end of day Thursday 4/7

Indie Read

Quickwrite #29: “Chambers of a Gun” by Zanne Langlois (Button Poetry)

STUDY: Set-up 4 part notes – They Say, Quote, I Say, Questions (see a picture on the GClassroom stream) and use this format to make notes about “Chambers of a Gun.” Practice citing MLA style for they say and the quote. Review info on using timestamps when you cite videos & NEW info on quoting poetry with / to indicate line breaks and line #s in in-text citations.

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: DRAFT #5 – cited commentary (using 4 sources given in class) due in Dropbox no later than end of day Thursday 4/7

Indie Read with Padlet update

Quickwrite #28: “A Solution to Gun Violence Found in US History” by David Farrell (find a PDF on today’s GClassroom stream)

STUDY: Set-up 4 part notes – They Say, Quote, I Say, Questions (see a picture on the GClassroom stream) and use this format to make notes about “A Solution to Gun Violence Found in US History.” Practice citing MLA style for they say and the quote. Note new info on using timestamps when you cite videos.

Illinois Youth Survey

Indie Read

PAST-DUE: Submission of Teacher-Ready draft (draft #2, #3, or #4 revised & polished) was due in Dropbox YESTERDAY!

Indie Read

Quickwrite #27: “The Boys Are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black from The New York Times (find a PDF on today’s GClassroom stream)

STUDY: Set-up 4 part notes – They Say, Quote, I Say, Questions (see a picture on the GClassroom stream) and use this format to make notes about “The Boys Are Not All Right.” Practice citing MLA style for they say and the quote.

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Submission #1 – a Teacher-Ready Draft due no later than end of TODAY!