Indie read.  Notebooks:  Target 1 – your book so far (what do you think?  what surprised you? what’s it about? etc.)  Groups formed and schedules created.

Targets are as follows:

1. TODAY 11/13
2. FRIDAY 11/15
3. TUESDAY 11/19
4. MONDAY 11/25
5. MONDAY 12/2 (endgame – you should be finished by Dec. 2nd)

 

Book talk & Indie read / Book club reads.  Select books (if you weren’t here yesterday).  1st target is 1st 30 pages for Tuesday. (Work time for Poet X papers if needed.)

Deadline:

• Be sure your Poet X writing is in Dropbox by end of today!
• Read 1st 30 pages of your book club read for Tuesday

If you haven’t already, turn in your notebooks!

Indie read.  Book talks for book club selections:  Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Looking for Alaska by John Green, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling.

Choose a book.  Bring it tomorrow.

If you haven’t already, turn in your notebooks!

Book talk & Indie read.  Work on writing assignment “Like Xiomara” from The Poet X.  Collected notebooks!

Deadline:

• All papers written and in shared Dropbox folders by end of Friday 11/8.

Upcoming:  Book clubs 🙂

Book talk & Indie read.  Work on writing assignment “Like Xiomara” from The Poet X.

Tomorrow:  one more work day for writing & one more day for notebooks

Deadline:

• Notebooks collected TOMORROW (extended – this was originally today)
• All papers written and in shared Dropbox folders by end of Friday 11/8.

Quickwrite #23: “Consent: It’s Simple as Tea”  Finish novel:  The Poet X.

Tomorrow:  work on Poet X writing “Like Xiomara” draft due Friday 11/8

Deadline:  Notebooks will be collected Tuesday 11/5 (that’s TOMORROW!)

Book talk & Indie read.  Writing Assignment preview:  “Like Xiomara” – think about what you might write. Notebook checklist & review.  More Poet X (to p. 309)

Deadline:  Notebooks will be collected Tuesday 11/5.

Read aloud & Indie read.

RHETORIC OF HORROR

• Video:  “Why is Being Scared so Fun?”
• Quickwrite #22: Thriller by Michael Jackson (What does “Thriller” have to say about the thriller?)
• Read:  “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King

Upcoming: Back to The Poet X tomorrow

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite # 21:  MTV Decoded “The Problem with White Beauty Standards”  More Poet X (to p. 279)

Book talk & Indie read.   Continue novel:  The Poet X * (through page 242).  Quickwrite #20:  How’s the book so far?  What are you thinking?