Indie Read

IN CLASS: Locating Sensory Detail – looking at writers’ use of sensory imagery in real books. Work in groups to examine books and report your findings in the GForm on today’s GClassroom assignment.

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome. (Grades update at the end of the week….)

TOMORROW: A look at the assignment for DRAFT #4 – the review.

Indie Read

Quickwrite #23: Smell?

STUDY: Writing w/ Sensory Detail – read excerpts from Tom Romano’s Write What Matters (find them attached to today’s GClassroom stream) & then work to find and label the sensory images in an excerpt from Violent Ends (ed. Shaun David Hutchinson)

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome. (Grades update at the end of the week….)

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ Padlet update

NOTES: Features of a Review – notes based on our look at reviews this week

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.

UPCOMING: Work on improving sensory details – DRAFT #4 assignment & planning.

Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #22: Your style/brand/fashion – describe it (or the lack of it)

READ/STUDY: Review of Windex by Ted Wilson (read it like a writer for notices & features)

BONUS REVIEW: Read & annotate Billboard’s review of Sam Hunt’s Montevallo album. Bring all 4 reviews we’ve looked at this week to class tomorrow.

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.

Indie Read

Quickwrite #21: Your favorite food – what’s yummy?

READ/STUDY: Review of M. Wells Steakhouse by Pete Wells (read it like a writer for notices & features)

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.

Indie Read

Quickwrite #20: Best movie EVER (or at least your favorite movie right now. . . )

READ/STUDY: Review of The Fault in Our Stars by A.O. Scott (read it like a writer for notices & features)

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed & read something awesome.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

INTRO to new study of review as a genre.

Read: “Authority Figures: Movie Talk and the Rise of Review Culture” by Boone Ashworth

TO-DO: Work on anything past due that you haven’t completed.

Indie Read with Padlet update/check-in.

WRITE CLUB – Bless, Address, & Press protocol with Draft #3 (photo paper).

Read something awesome!

E-Learning Day!!

ATTENDANCE: answer the attendance question on GClassroom.

UPCOMING: WRITE CLUB (group work) for DRAFT#3 tomorrow – Be sure your photo essay is complete!

Read something awesome. 🙂

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #17: Hand Map (trace an outline of your hand on the page and write about hands, yours or in general, inside it)

Quickwrite #18: “Hands” by Sarah Kay (inspirations, thoughts, & reactions)

Quickwrite #19: “Hands” by Sarah Kay – Read Like a Writer (Tape in the poem & see what you notice. What do you like & why?)

PAST-DUE/UPCOMING: DRAFT #3 (photo memoir/essay) was due in Dropbox yesterday…. we’ll read them in WRITE CLUB tomorrow!