Category: English 8
English 8 – Tuesday, February 5th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #9: Table topics card question about your indie read – write about what you are reading. WRITE CLUB practice with a sample student paper.
Deadline: Be sure your paper is uploaded into your WC Drafts folder in Dropbox by classtime tomorrow (Wednesday).
English 8 – Monday, February 4, 2019
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #8: Pick a letter & go. Meet your WRITE CLUB group: share today’s quickwrites & then read and do a quick structural analysis of an “indelible moment” essay. Note there aren’t really rules – just decisions to be made.
Rhetoric & Comp / English 8 – Friday, February 1st
World Read Aloud Day!
Jason Reynolds’ Long Way Down continued.
2nd & 6th hour SWIC registration.
Everyone: Finish your papers for Monday!! (If you haven’t already).
Rhetoric & Comp / English 8 – Thursday, January 31st
World Read Aloud focus – begin Long Way Down by Jason Renolds.
Everyone: Yearbook quotes due tomorrow!
Deadlines:
- Rhet-Comp – Draft of CCR w/ works cited page for Monday 2/4 WRITE CLUB
- English 8 – Draft#1 indelible moment for Monday 2/4 in class
Rhetoric & Comp / English 8 – Wednesday, January 30th
No School – TOO Cold….Brrr.
Stay warm, work on your papers, and read something awesome!
-Mrs. C = )
English 8 – Tuesday, January 29th
Book talk & Indie read. Smiley Face 🙂 Tricks + Figurative Language review/handouts. Example paper – indelible moment: teacher edition. Lab time for work on indelible moment.
Deadline Extension: Draft #1 – indelible moment due by Monday, Feb. 4th. (We won’t have more in-class lab time. See Mrs. C if you need media center passes. Or work through Dropbox anywhere you have an internet connection.)
Reminder: Senior quote for yearbook due Fri. Feb. 1st!
Rhetoric & Comp / English 8 – Monday, January 28th
Read aloud & Indie read. Take surveys!
Reminders to be working on your current paper topics (cited commentary & response / indelible moment – depending on the course you are in).
English 8 – Friday, January 25th
3rd hour ONLY: Book trailers & Indie read. Work or read time.
EVERYONE: Think & start writing about your indelible moment. What happened? How will you tell that story?
Deadline: Draft #1 in class in Dropbox Drafts folder by classtime on Wed., Jan. 30th.
Upcoming: In class lab time Tuesday 1/29.
English 8 – Thursday, January 24th
Book talk & Indie read. Notes: Clues to a Great Story – Andrew Stanton Draft #1 assignment details. Partner talk through a possible topic for your upcoming narrative paper.
To Do: Think about what indelible moment you might write about. What happened? How will you tell that story?
Deadline: Draft #1 in class in Dropbox Drafts folder by classtime on Wed., Jan. 30th.
Upcoming: In class lab time on Friday 1/25 & Tuesday 1/29.
English 8 – Wednesday, January 23rd
Book talk & Indie read. Notes: The Rhetorical Situation / Definition of Rhetoric. Read: “The Five Paragraph You-Know-What” by Tom Romano from Crafting Authentic Voice. Draft #1 assignment details.
To Do: Think about what indelible moment you might write about. What happened? How will you tell that story?
Deadline: Draft #1 in class in Dropbox Drafts folder by classtime on Wed., Jan. 30th.
Upcoming: In class lab time on Friday 1/25 & Tuesday 1/29.