Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite:  revision (choose one to reread and make some changes – consider the possibilities). What is Writing?  Part II notes on process and “real” writing.  Book club discussion:  What’s worth talking about? What surprised you?

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target — Monday 9/24 is the END! 🙂  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your book club log.

Book talk & Indie read.  Time Audit (in the upside down of your notebooks).

“Priorites are what you make them.”

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target — Tuesday.  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your book club log.

Book talk & Indie read.  Rhetoric & the Rhetorical Situation intro.  Book club discussions w/ starter – “What’s worth talking about?”

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target — Tuesday.  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your book club log.

Friday, September 14th

• Half-day schedule (No 1st hour
• 3rd hour – Extra reading time (hit that target date)

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #11:  Take a Knee by Kwame Alexander.  Thought log work:  1.  choose a line or two from your book club book (in a section you have already read) 2.  copy it into your log as the next entry 3. use it to jumpstart a piece of YOUR own writing (NOT about the book) just whatever writing you want to do that starts there 4.  share with students sitting in your group

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target — TOMORROW.  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your log (that’s the little notebook you received last week).

Book talk & Indie read.  Book Club Thought Log writing:  respond/react to poetry

• For Dear Martin,  watch The Black Bruins by Sy Stokes
• For The Hate U Give watch How the Hood Loves You Back – Steven Willis
• For Everything Everything watch Oreo by Tucker Bryant
• For All American Boys watch Cuz’ He’s Black by Javon Johnson

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target — Thursday.  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your log (that’s the little notebook you received Friday).

Read aloud & Indie read.  TEd Talk:  Verna Myers: How to Overcome Our Biases.  (take notes)

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target — Thursday.  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your log (that’s the little notebook you received Friday).

 

Book trailers.  Indie read. Book club – set up target dates (reading schedule).  Intro to book club thought logs.  Collected notebooks (flag the entry you want read in full).

Assignment:  Read your book club book and head for the next target.  Keep any notes you need or thoughts you are having in your log (that’s the little notebook you received today).

 

 

Book talk x 2.  Indie read.  Reading time for book club books.  Be ready to discuss tomorrow.

Book Club Target #1:  Friday, Sept. 7th

• Dear Martin:  Ch. 1 & 2
• The Hate U Give:  Ch. 1 & 2
• Everything Everything:  to p. 41
• All American Boys: to p. 40

Deadline:  Notebooks will be collected on Friday.  Use the checklist to make sure yours is ready – think about which entry you will flag for full read-through.

Book talk x 2.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #10:  Codeswitch (watch these videos first) 3 Ways to Speak English – Jamila Lyiscott  Ebonics 101 – Steven Willis  Key & Peele – Phone Call

Book Club Target #1:  Friday, Sept. 7th

• Dear Martin:  Ch. 1 & 2
• The Hate U Give:  Ch. 1 & 2
• Everything Everything:  to p. 41
• All American Boys: to p. 40

Deadline:  Notebooks will be collected on Friday.  Use the checklist to make sure yours is ready – think about which entry you will flag for full read-through.

Book talk x 2.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #9:  IR ? (Table Topics card).  Video:  When Every Word Doesn’t Belong to Everyone – Ta Nehisi Coates.  Commit to your book club choice.

REMINDER:  Bring your book club selection starting tomorrow (9/5).