Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #7:  Indelible – write about an indelible moment. .  Read Like a Write (RLaW) practice with “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien from The Things They Carried. 

Are you reading on your own time????

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #6:  Random Pic.  Read Like a Write (RLaW) Intro & practice with “Cruel As It Is” by Leonard Pitts, Jr. of Miami Herald.  

3 Day Weekend:  Read something awesome!

Book talks & Indie read. Quickwrite #5:  bodyparts.  “What is Writing?”  process notes.  Dropbox folder troubleshooting (working on the email verification thing).

Reminders:

• Xtra post-its & scotch tape for late homework bonus passes by Friday (tomorrow!)
• Read something awesome!

Book talk & Indie read.  “What is Writing?”  concept notes.  Dropbox folder shares.

Reminders:

• Xtra post-its & scotch tape for late homework bonus passes by Friday
• Read something awesome!

Book talk & Indie read. Dropbox set-up.

7th hour — Quickwrite #4:  excerpt from Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. Reading & writing and their inverse relationship.

Reminders:

• Xtra post-its & scotch tape for late homework bonus passes by Friday
• Read something awesome!

Indie read with rate calculation and goal setting.

3rd hour – reading & writing and their inverse relationship, Quickwrite #4:  excerpt from Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.

7th hour – video: How and Why We Read (and Write) – Crash Course w/ John Green, Quickwrite #2: excerpt from The Terrible Two.  Quickwrite #3:  “Poem for an Inked Daughter”

Reminders:

• Xtra post-its & scotch tape for late homework bonus passes by Friday
• Read something awesome!

 

Book trailers & Indie read.  Video: How and Why We Read (and Write) – Crash Course w/ John Green  Quickwrites #2 & 3 – write from excerpts.

Read something awesome!

Book talks & Indie read / book browse.  Notebooks:  reading and writing surveys.

Read something awesome – at least 10 minutes!

Book talks & library tour.  Review course syllabus.  Info on “office” hours pass and late homework pass bonus option.  Notebook overview and quickwrite #1 – reader/writer statement (history).

Read aloud:  The Dot by Peter Reynolds.  Course introduction.  Video: High School Reading video (Penny Kittle). Independent reading letter overview.  Post-it questions – how many books have you REALLY read in the last year? & what was the last thing you wrote that was “good” (not just grade-good but that you were proud of)?  Book pass.