Book Talk & Indie Read.

Notebook Work:

• Hotspot: In a previous QW, find a “hotspot” – a space with energy or that you really like for whatever reason – and mark it. Then, use it (on the same page) to start something NEW. See where it goes.
• Last Line: Underline (and reread) the last line in ALL your QWs. Then choose just one and on the same page, use it as a starting place. See where it takes you.
• Quick Revise: Choose any QW (except the two you used for hotspot & last line) and then take a couple of mintues to quick revise. Cut a few unneeded words, find a couple that could be better and improve them, draw arrows if you need to rearrange, add detail where you left it out, etc. Add on.

PAST-DUE/UPCOMING: DRAFT #3 (photo memoir/essay) was due in Dropbox yesterday…. we’ll read them in WRITE CLUB on Thursday 2/24.

E-Learning Day!!

ATTENDANCE: answer the attendance question on GClassroom.

DEADLINE: DRAFT#3 – photo memoir/essay due in Dropbox drafts folder no later than end of day Monday 2/21

Indie Read w/ padlet check-in/update.

Quickwrite #16: New Start (choose any previous QWs and write new/optional beginnings) *not actually on a new page

WRITE: “Lab” Time

DEADLINE: DRAFT#3 – photo memoir/essay due in Dropbox drafts folder no later than end of day Monday 2/21

Indie Read.

NOTES: Beginnings/Leads (if you missed class find the slides on today’s GClassroom stream)

SHARE: Best beginnings from yesterday’s group work

DEADLINE: DRAFT#3 – photo memoir/essay due in Dropbox drafts folder no later than end of day Monday 2/21

Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: “Leads” by Don Murray from A Writer Teaches Writing (find a pdf of this reading on today’s GClassroom stream)

GROUPS: Read some real beginnings and decide together which one is the best. Think about why that is.

DEADLINE: DRAFT#3 – photo memoir/essay due in Dropbox drafts folder no later than end of day Monday 2/21

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #15: Photo Inspired (use the photo you brought to class – Friday’s assignment – and see where it takes you)

READ/RLaW & Notice Rhetorical Appeals: “All Parents are Cowards” by Michael Christie

UPCOMING: DRAFT #3 – a photo inspired essay/memoir (more details tomorrow)

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in on padlet (add a new post-it update).

Quickwrite #14: “Camaro” by Phil Kaye

NOTES: Rhetorical Appeals – Emotion, Credibility, Logic (If you missed class, find these slides in the GClassroom stream and make a notepage).

REMINDER: Progress “grades” at the end of week – if you don’t have a paper written for draft #2 and in your Dropbox drafts folder, you NEED one!!

ASSIGNMENT: Bring a photo you like (physical or digital) to class on MONDAY 2/14. (It doesn’t have to be of you).

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #13: Phone Pic (choose any 1 of the 3 most recent pictures in your camera roll and see where it takes you)

STUDY/NOTES: What is Rhetoric? The rhetorical situation. (If you missed class, find these slides in the GClassroom stream and make a notepage).

REMINDER: Progress “grades” at the end of week – if you don’t have a paper written for draft #2 and in your Dropbox drafts folder, you NEED one!!

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #12: Two Character dialogue (make up any two characters – could even be real – and write a conversation between them)

NOTES: writing dialogue – tips & tricks

Quick revise/revisit: Take a 2nd look at QW #12 – give it 4 more minutes to change, add on, improve, fix punctuation, etc.

REMINDER: Progress “grades” at the end of week – if you don’t have a paper written for draft #2, you NEED one!!

Indie Read.

READ: Anne Lamott’s Sh***y First Drafts” from Bird by Bird

WRITE CLUB – work through draft #2 (indelible moment) by using WRITE CLUB strategies bless, address, and press

REMINDER: Progress “grades” at the end of week – if you don’t have a paper written for draft #2, you NEED one!!