Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite # 7: 5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your _______________

Notes: Some Truths About Writing (add these as a page in your writer’s notebook). If you missed class, you can find them on today’s GClassroom announcement).

Read: “The Essayification of Everything” by Christy Wampole – annotate (if you want) but at the least, make a notepage for what seems important here.

Video “The Book was Better” – John Green of vlogbrothers

Book/movie Trailers & Indie Read with a padlet board check-in. If you missed class, details, directions, and password (in case you forgot it) on GClassroom today.

Quick discussion: Reader/Writer Connections

TO DO: Read something awesome 🙂

Book Talk x 2 & Indie Read.

Quick review/recap of what makes writing “good” activity. You can link to the padlets and recheck them out through GClassroom.

Quickwrite #6 (7th hour only – see yesterday’s post).

Quickwrite revision exercise: Use RADaR (Replace, Add, Delete, Reorder) to make just 3 minutes worth of changes to any of the 6 quickwrites in your notebook.

WRITE CLUB: Share some writing from your notebook with group members.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #6 – Primeval Place (7th hour will do this on Thursday)

What makes writing “good”? Norm & Notice (Link to the padlet board on GClassroom).

TO DO: Read something awesome & catch up on anything else.

*@ReadWarriors information (see the tab above for details). Basically, when you finish a book, create and turn in a “tweet sheet” to Mrs. C = )

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

Quickwrite #5: indelible – write about an indelible moment (one that can’t be forgotten – like ink that can’t be removed)

What is “good” writing? Take a look at several student example papers and evaluate on a 4 to 1 scale. Directions on the top sheet of the PDF.

To do: Complete evaluating of examples (if you didn’t finish them in class) & read something awesome.

Deadlines:

• PAST DUE (but you can still turn it in – no deductions) WRITING #1 – LETTER – submit via Dropbox in an MSWord document (Assignment sheet on GClassroom or at the Rhet-Comp Writing Assignments tab above)

SWIC Registration. Book talk & Indie Read.

Deadline TODAY:

• WRITING #1 – LETTER – due no later than end of day Monday 8/30 – submit via Dropbox in an MSWord document (Assignment sheet on GClassroom or at the Rhet-Comp Writing Assignments tab above)

Book Trailers. Intro to Padlet boards – sign up at Padlet.com for free using your Google sign in and school email. Add a post-it that shows which book you are reading and what page you are on. (No consequences and you’ll be setting your own expectations – just a place to keep track of reading progress.)

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #4: “Rethink Homelessness”

Deadlines:

• WRITING #1 – LETTER – due no later than end of day Monday 8/30 – submit via Dropbox in an MSWord document (Assignment sheet on GClassroom or at the Rhet-Comp Writing Assignments tab above)
• PAST DUE: Send Mrs. C your SWIC ID#. Email it to jennifer.connolly@gcsd9.net

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Meet your WRITE CLUB groups!! Read Like a Writer (RLaW) intro & practice with How I Became a Pirate. (See GClassroom for a look at an annotated copy of what you might have found in class).

Deadlines:

• WRITING #1 – LETTER – due no later than end of day Monday 8/30 – submit via Dropbox in an MSWord document (Assignment sheet on GClassroom or at the Rhet-Comp Writing Assignments tab above)

Book Talk x 2 & Indie Read. Padlet board discussion – “points s. learning” – Do grades really reflect whether you’ve learned? Are grades fair? Can we disrupt this system?

Assignment:

Writing #1 – a letter due no later than end of day Monday 8/30 submit via Dropbox in an MSWord document

Read Aloud – How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long & David Shannon. Indie Read.

Quickwrite #3 – “Why Grades Shouldn’t Exist” Alfie Kohn (watch video and respond in your notebook)

Reminders: Finish up any surveys you haven’t done, sign up for Dropbox & share folders if you haven’t, get & share your SWIC ID# with Mrs. C.