Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #11: 5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your _________________ (fill in the blank yourself & create a detailed list)

Intro to WRITE CLUB & quick practice with sample paper.

TOMORROW: You need chromebooks & your indelible moment draft should be complete in your drafts folder. We’ll WRITE CLUB for real.

E-Learning Day.

ATTENDANCE: Add a post-it to update your independent reading in the padlet (directions in GClassroom today if you need a refresher how-to).

Read something awesome – try for at least 20 minutes of reading.

PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts – make sure it’s complete.

E-Learning Day.

Answer the attendance survey on GClassroom. Then, read the piece “Reading as a Writer” by Don Murray (attached in the class stream) creating a note-page in your writer’s notebook. What’s important here? What’s worth writing down?

PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts – make sure it’s complete.

E-Learning Day.

Answer the attendance survey on GClassroom. Use today to make sure you have a draft of you indelible moment paper in Dropbox (it should be an MSWord doc in your drafts folder). Then, use the Mrs. C’s 5-Word Focus slide (also on classroom today) to do some quick revision that will improve your word choice.

Read something awesome!

Read Aloud & Indie Read

RECAP: Yesterday’s notetaking on “Clues to a Great Story”

STUDY: Read Like a Writer – add the slide to your notebook (hardcopy) and practice reading like a writer with the text from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (taped into the notebook – work there)

PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30 (You’ll need this draft later this week!!)

IMPORTANT E-LEARNING INFO: IF school is called for weather, there will be e-learning on those days. This is not quite the same as our full remote schedule, but also isn’t a “snow day” of nothing (it does count as a school day). For E-learning, check the GClassroom stream for instructions on how to check in, what to work on, and how to contact teachers for live/email assistance.

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #10: random picture (if you missed class, see Mrs. C for a picture)

WATCH/NOTES: “Clues to a Great Story” – TED Talk by Andrew Stanton

PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30 (yesterday)

Indie Read w/ padlet check-in (add a new post-it to the top of your column to show your reading progress – no judgment).

Take the quick Illinois CTE survey (find a link on today’s GClassroom stream).

“Lab” time for work on draft #2 – indelible moment (see assignment in GClassroom or on the English 8 writing assignments tab above). Be sure to use MLA format.

DEADLINE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30

Book Talk & Indie Read.

“Lab” time for work on draft #2 – indelible moment (see assignment in GClassroom or on the English 8 writing assignments tab above). Be sure to use MLA format.

DEADLINE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30

Indie Read.

OVERVIEW: Draft/Writing #2 assignment (find it both under ENGLISH 8 Writing Assignments & on GClassroom)

MLA FORMAT: Practice setting up this important format for writing papers. Save a template if you’d like so you can copy it and just rename when you write (instead of having to set up every time). See directions above at the tab that says MLA FORMAT SET-UP if you missed class or need a refresher.

DEADLINE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #9: Indelible Moment (take 2 – choose another one)

STUDY: “moment” papers in groups – what do you notice? wonder? what makes the writing “good”? (If you missed class or just wanted to read some of the other selections, you can find a pdf of them on todays GClassroom stream).

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30

NOTE: If you need to know what to catch up on from the “adaptive pause” aka the two weeks we went remote, check yesterday’s post for a list.