Category: English 8
English 8 – Tuesday, April 30th
Book talk & Indie read. Time for mg work & teacher check-ins.
Upcoming: work on mg pieces and making it all work together (Wed. 5/1 & Thurs. 5/2)
Deadlines:
- WRITE CLUB for MG paper all 9-12 pages – Friday, May 3rd
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Monday, April 29th
Book talk & Indie read. Multi-genre FAQs – read them at the tab above. Time for mg work.
Upcoming: work on mg pieces and making it all work together (Mon 4/29 – Thurs. 5/2)
Deadlines:
- WRITE CLUB for MG paper all 9-12 pages – Friday, May 3rd
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Friday, April 26th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #34: PLAY – timeline or schedule or comic (connect it somehow to your mg topic). Time for mg work.
Upcoming: work on mg pieces and making it all work together (Mon 4/29 – Wed. 5/1)
Deadlines:
- WRITE CLUB for mg mark #2 – Thurs., May 2nd
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Thursday, April 25th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #33: PLAY – text conversation or top 10 list (connect it somehow to your mg topic). Time for mg work.
Upcoming: work on mg pieces and making it all work together (Thurs. 4/25 – Wed. 5/1)
Deadlines:
- WRITE CLUB for mg mark #2 – Thurs., May 2nd
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Wednesday, April 24th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #32: PLAY – dialogue or news article (connect it somehow to your mg topic). Read “Crafting Narrative” by Tom Romano. Overview of other required genres for your project (with notes & examples).
Upcoming: work on mg pieces and making it all work together (Thurs. 4/25 – Wed. 5/1)
Deadlines:
- WRITE CLUB for mg mark #2 – Thurs., May 2nd
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
Rhetoric & Comp / English 8 – Tuesday, April 23rd
Indie read & work day. (Sorry, I was out & there was a sub).
Rhet-Comp: WRITE CLUB tomorrow on mg mark #2
English 8: Your research portion of your paper should be done & tomorrow we move forward with the multi-genre components.
English 8 – Thursday, April 11th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #31: PLAY – how to or “dictionary” definitions list (connect it somehow to your mg topic). Time to work on “argument”/research paper. Don’t forget to build a works cited page.
Requirements: 3 – 4 pages, researched & cited, has an “angle” – proposal, position, or evaluation, works cited page
Upcoming: work on researched piece & reading day on Friday!
Deadlines:
- 3 – 4 page “argument” (research paper part) of your MG finished by Fri. 4/12 or extended (upload in Dropbox no later than Sun. 4/14)
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Wednesday, April 10th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #30: PLAY – twitter thread or sales ad or recipe (connect it somehow to your mg topic). Time to work on “argument”/research paper.
Requirements: 3 – 4 pages, researched & cited, has an “angle” – proposal, position, or evaluation, works cited page
Upcoming: work on researched piece & reading day on Friday!
Deadlines:
- 3 – 4 page “argument” (research paper part) of your MG finished by Fri. 4/12 or extended (upload in Dropbox no later than Sun. 4/14)
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Monday, April 8th
Book talk & Indie read. Time to work on “argument”/research paper.
Requirements: 3 – 4 pages, researched & cited, has an “angle” – proposal, position, or evaluation, works cited page
TOMORROW: No class – SAT testing. See you Wednesday! (Hint: use your day off to work on your research paper. . . or not).
Deadlines:
- Research design for your paper (work in the template in Dropbox – inside the MG folder inside your drafts folder) – was due YESTERDAY!!
- 3 – 4 page “argument” (research paper part) of your MG finished by Fri. 4/12
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th
English 8 – Friday, April 5th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #29: PLAY – acrostic poem or another type of poetry (connect to your mg topic). Time to work on research design – paper handout for notes & template in Dropbox (in your MGPaperStuff folder).
Deadlines:
- Research design for your paper due 4/7 (work in the template in Dropbox – inside the MG folder inside your drafts folder)
- 3 – 4 page “argument” (research paper part) of your MG finished by Fri. 4/12
- Student book talks (including Flipgrid) due by individual sign-up dates
- End game for MG paper – May 9th