VIDEO: “The Book Was Better?” – John Green

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in

STUDY: Notices & Trends from yesterday’s WRITE CLUB work with college app essay examples

ASSIGNMENT: College App Essay due in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/14

REMINDERS: Sign up for Twitter and follow @ReadWarriors & Check out the info on GClassroom about your SWIC email & estorm access

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Quickwrite #10: College App “Story” & what it says about you

STUDY/READ/THINK: In your WRITE CLUB groups, take a look at more successful college app essays (this time Johns Hopkins Accepted students). See what you notice. What makes them “work”? You can find more JHU essays here https://apply.jhu.edu/application-process/essays-that-worked/

TIPS FOR COLLEGE APP ESSAYS: Quick slides – find them on GClassroom

TO DO (if you haven’t yet): Set up a personal Twitter account (do not use school email) for tweeting about your reads. We’ll use these to connect our separate hours by tweeting about the books we read, tagging authors when we loved or appreciated their work. You’ll FOLLOW @ReadWarriors, tag @ReadWarriors, & use #warriorsread in all your posts.

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Quickwrite #9: Listing – complete as many of these lists as you can in 4 minutes or so

STUDY/READ/THINK: “The Essayification of Everything” by Christy Wampole (link below for the full version)

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/the-essayification-of-everything/

ASSIGN: Read sample college app essays that got students accepted to Harvard & Stanford. Make notices on a post-it and bring them to class tomorrow (not critiques – notices…like what do they do?) You can find the essays on GClassroom under material to reread and study them more closely.

TO DO (if you haven’t yet): Set up a personal Twitter account (do not use school email) for tweeting about your reads. We’ll use these to connect our separate hours by tweeting about the books we read, tagging authors when we loved or appreciated their work. You’ll FOLLOW @ReadWarriors, tag @ReadWarriors, & use #warriorsread in all your posts.

Book Talk & Indie Read w/ rate calculation

Quickwrite #8: 5 Things You Can Do To Improve Your ______________”

NOTES: Some Truths About Writing (Quick lecture. You make a notepage.)

TO DO (if you haven’t yet): Set up a personal Twitter account (do not use school email) for tweeting about your reads. We’ll use these to connect our separate hours by tweeting about the books we read, tagging authors when we loved or appreciated their work. You’ll FOLLOW @ReadWarriors, tag @ReadWarriors, & use #warriorsread in all your posts.

“How and Why We Read” – Crash Course video w/ John Green

Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in

DISCUSSION: “Mechanics” of reading & writing: processes, concepts, & connections

TO DO: Set up a personal Twitter account (do not use school email) for tweeting about your reads. We’ll use these to connect our separate hours by tweeting about the books we read, tagging authors when we loved or appreciated their work. You’ll FOLLOW @ReadWarriors, tag @ReadWarriors, & use #warriorsread in all your posts.

THIS WEEKEND: Read something just because you want to 🙂

Book Talk & Indie Read

WRITE CLUB: meet your group – you are about to be bffs. . . or at least sort of.

DISCUSSION: “Good” writing exercise – share the feedback you provided for papers with an eval of 2 or 3

SHARE: Any quickwrite from your notebook. Read it aloud to the rest of your group.

TO-DO: Read something awesome!

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Quickwrite #7: Primeval Place

DISCUSSION: “Good” writing – a norming session & brainstorm what made papers both excellent & not-so-great.

TO-DO: Choose a paper (from the sample set- you can find them on GClassroom if you need extra time) that you gave an eval of 2 or 3 and write out some comments/feedback YOU would give the writer. Consider something you liked, a question you had as a reader, and a suggestion you’d give. Bring this to class tomorrow.

Read Aloud – The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds & Indie Read

2nd hour ONLY – SWIC Registration.

EXERCISE: What makes writing “good” or “effective”? Step 1 – read the 10 anonymous & random papers and give them a 4 – 1 eval based on the criteria from class (if you missed class [or need more time], you’ll find this as material in GClassroom by the end of today). Bring back your evaluations tomorrow & we’ll discuss.

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Quickwrite #6: Indelible (write about an indelible moment from your life)

SWIC Registration – Hours 3 & 7 (2nd hour – we’ll do this on our own tomorrow).

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in.

Quickwrite #5: Rethink Homelessness

ASSIGNMENT: Letter to Mrs. C due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 8/28