Finish WRITE CLUB (started yesterday).  Quickwrite #14:  Excerpt from The Crossover by Kwame Alexander.  Video:  The Art of Rap – Something from Nothing.

Upcoming:  study of the rhetoric of rap

Deadline:  Paper #1 will be submitted to Mrs. C for evaluation & feedback next Thursday 10/11.

Book talk & Indie read.  Quick pre-conference questions about YOUR paper #1.  WRITE CLUB group folders shared.  Bless, Address, & Press with one paper (we’ll do the other two tomorrow).

 

Book talk & Indie read.  WRITE CLUB practice round with Mrs. C’s example paper.

Deadline for your paper #1 was today – but if it isn’t done, have it in Dropbox by classtime Monday!

 

Book talk.  Lab day/Indie read.  + mystudentpath.com survey

Deadline:  Paper #1  (expand one of the 13 quickwrites from your notebook) should be typed and in your Dropbox WC Drafts folder by classtime on 9/28 – that’s tomorrow.

Read something awesome!

Video:  ALA Banned Books of 2017 video Indie read with rate calculation + update your “what I’m reading now” page + reading goals (quantity & other/stretch). Book club discussions – end game.

Upcoming:  Paper #1 – What is paper #1 about? For this paper, you will be expanding one of the 11 quickwrites we have written.  What is worth talking about?  What story do you have to tell? What do you feel needs to be said?

*(Yes, you have to write something.  Remember, there aren’t any tests in this course, so this is how you show you are growing as a reader, writer, and thinker.)

Deadline:  This paper should be typed and in your Dropbox WC Drafts folder by classtime on FRIDAY!

 

College info/readiness guidance department presentation and Q & A.

Tomorrow:  Book Club discussion!!  You should have finished your book 😎

Upcoming:  Paper #1 – What is paper #1 about? For this paper, you will be expanding one of the 11 quickwrites we have written.  What is worth talking about?  What story do you have to tell? What do you feel needs to be said?

*(Yes, you have to write something.  Remember, there aren’t any tests in this course, so this is how you show you are growing as a reader, writer, and thinker.)

Deadline:  This paper should be typed and in your Dropbox WC Drafts folder by classtime on FRIDAY!

Indie read.  (Xtra:  voter registration for anyone 18 by Nov. 6).  Thought log writing:  pick any of the starters in the front of your logbook, copy it onto the next new page and write about your book club read.  Xtra reading time (SOOO many of you are almost finished with book club books!  We will discuss TOMORROW… one more day to make it happen).

Upcoming:  Paper #1 – What is paper #1 about? For this paper, you will be expanding one of the 11 quickwrites we have written.  What is worth talking about?  What story do you have to tell? What do you feel needs to be said?

*(Yes, you have to write something.  Remember, there aren’t any tests in this course, so this is how you show you are growing as a reader, writer, and thinker.)

Deadline:  This paper should be typed and in your Dropbox WC Drafts folder by classtime on FRIDAY!

Book trailers & Indie read.  Quickwrite #13:  I’m Not Racist – Joyner Lucas “Lab” time for work on paper #1.*

What is paper #1 about? For this paper, you will be expanding one of the 11 quickwrites we have written.  What is worth talking about?  What story do you have to tell? What do you feel needs to be said?

*(Yes, you have to write something.  Remember, there aren’t any tests in this course, so this is how you show you are growing as a reader, writer, and thinker.)

Deadline: Book club end target is MONDAY!  Read, read, read (if you still need to).

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #12:  This Is America – Childish Gambino Recap/Finish setting up MLA Templates in Dropbox. “Lab” time for work on paper #1.*

What is paper #1 about? For this paper, you will be expanding one of the 11 quickwrites we have written.  What is worth talking about?  What story do you have to tell? What do you feel needs to be said?

*(Yes, you have to write something.  Remember, there aren’t any tests in this course, so this is how you show you are growing as a reader, writer, and thinker.)

Indie read.  RLaW practice – book club excerpts (look for “moves” & share with a bc member).  MLA Template set-up on Chromebooks.

Upcoming:  Paper #1 – you will be expanding one of the 11 quickwrites we have written.  What is worth talking about?  What story do you have to tell? What do you feel needs to be said?