Indie Read w/ reading rate calculation & “other” goal setting (not quantity).

READ: More Bad Girls w/ Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 71.

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #22: -ings (choose one and see where it takes you)

READ: More Bad Girls w/ Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the end of page 54.

Indie Read (catch up in the new novel if you missed yesterday).

READ: More Bad Girls w/ Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the break on page 32.

Book Trailers & Indie Read

Quickwrite #21: Fears – List 8, then choose 1 and expand.

READ: Start Bad Girls w/ Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read through page 14.

Read Aloud & Indie Read.

STUDY: “Why Is Being Scared So Fun?” TEd

Quickwrite #20: What does Michael Jackson’s Thriller say about the thriller?

REMINDER: Catch up on anything missing in your writer’s notebook or overdue on GClassroom.

Read something awesome!

Read Aloud & Indie Read

Work on blackout poetry (still QW #19 – tape your created poems in your notebook).

REMINDER: Catch up on anything missing in your writer’s notebook or overdue on GClassroom.

Read something awesome!

Book Talk & Indie Read.

STUDY: “A brief history of my newspaper blackout poems” – Austin Kleon https://austinkleon.com/2014/04/29/a-brief-history-of-my-newspaper-blackout-poems/

Try it out!

Indie Read & update reading post-it in padlet.

READ: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon sections 8, 9, & 10 – pages 98-end. (If you missed class, you can find a PDF on GClassroom to stay caught up.)

VIDEO: “Why Music Makes Us Feel (According to AI)” – University of Southern California

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3113/why-music-us-makes-us-feel/

PAST DUE: Any writing you haven’t submitted in GClassroom. If you submit late work, please be sure to email Mrs. C when it is complete.

TO DO: Read something awesome!

Book Talk & Indie Read

READ: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon sections 6 & 7 – pages 73-97. (If you missed class, you can find a PDF on GClassroom to stay caught up.)

Quickwrite #18: Song Connections – Take a look at the lyrics from the last 3 days (the songs we read, listened to, and wrote about). What’s the message? Is there a point? Show you can see the places these songs connect – use examples.

PAST DUE: Any writing you haven’t submitted in GClassroom. If you submit late work, please be sure to email Mrs. C when it is complete.

Indie Read.

READ: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon sections 4 & 5 – pages 50-72. (If you missed class, you can find a PDF on GClassroom to stay caught up.)

Quickwrite #17: Choose 1 of 2 songs. “Eastside” by Benny Blanco & Halsey & Khalid OR “Time of Our Lives” by Pitbull & Ne-Yo – read, listen, & respond….what do you think?