Quickwrite #28:  Choose one – Except from Perfect OR The Terrible Two.   Reading time 🙂

Deadline:  Notebooks collected Tuesday 12/17

Upcoming:  Reading fun! 🙂 & Final “Exam” period 2nd hour: Wed. 12/18 10:10am  5th hour: Thur. 12/19 10:10am 7th hour:  Fri. 12/20 8am  (BE HERE!)

*Don’t forget to tweet!

GOOD NEWS!! You can still check out books over Winter Break!  Whether you want to finish up whatever you’ve started or check out a couple of extras to read while you have a break from school.  Just return them next semester to room 251.  

Quick Tips for Awesome Portfolios

YOUR best writing

• Clean (no comments) & proofread (plus formatted)
• Abstracts – on 6 papers (check the format)
• Letter: should look like a letter 🙂
• Documents named & flagged appropriately

In all instances, recheck the pink sheets to make sure you get everything just the way it needs to be.

 

IMPT:  After portfolios are submitted today/this evening, they will be temporarily moved.  This means you might not be able to see them in your submissions folder.  Don’t panic.  (Also, you can’t change them anymore).

Indie read. Quick-Edit:  make quick changes or add small moves to a previous QW (tag w/ post-it).  Notebook checklists.  Lab time:  Portfolio work

Deadline:

• FALL PORTFOLIO due no later than end of day (11:59pm) Thursday 12/12 – That’s TODAY!
• Notebooks collected Tuesday 12/17

Upcoming:  Reading fun! 🙂

*Don’t forget to tweet!

GOOD NEWS!! You can still check out books over Winter Break!  Whether you want to finish up whatever you’ve started or check out a couple of extras to read while you have a break from school.  Just return them next semester to room 251.  

Indie read.  Notes:  Lesser Punctuation Marks (other than end marks or commas).  Work time for portfolio work and/or sharing of revisions and/or abstracts with WRITE CLUB.

Deadline:  FALL PORTFOLIO due no later than end of day (11:59pm) Thursday 12/12 – That’s TOMORROW!

 

Upcoming:

• Notebook checklists later this week (collected Tuesday 12/17)
• Reading fun! 🙂

*Don’t forget to tweet!

GOOD NEWS!! You can still check out books over Winter Break!  Whether you want to finish up whatever you’ve started or check out a couple of extras to read while you have a break from school.  Just return them next semester to room 251.  

Indie read.  Quickwrite #27:  “Poem for an Inked Daughter” by Jean Wyrick  Lab time:  portfolio work

Tomorrow: share EITHER a revised paper OR a couple of abstracts with your WRITE CLUB

Deadline:  FALL PORTFOLIO due no later than end of day (11:59pm) Thursday 12/12

Upcoming: Notebook checklists later this week (collected Tuesday 12/17)

*Don’t forget to tweet!

Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #26: Excerpt from The Running Dream.  Study:  Top 4 Issues in MLA formatting & grade breakdown by points for this course.  Portfolio work time.

CHECK YOUR FORMATTING    *you don’t need to double space your IntroLetter

Deadline:  FALL PORTFOLIO due no later than end of day (11:59pm) Thursday 12/12

Upcoming: Notebook checklists later this week (collected Tuesday 12/17)

*Don’t forget to tweet!

Book talk & Indie read. Quick-Edit:  make quick changes or add small moves to a previous QW (tag w/ post-it)  Study:  Endings – “And in the End” by Tom Romano from Crafting Authentic Voice.  Portfolio Information & Explanation.

Upcoming:  quickwrites, portfolio work, one last WRITE CLUB, and end of semester….

Deadline:  FALL PORTFOLIO due no later than end of day (11:59pm) Thursday 12/12

 

Indie read.  WRITE CLUB #6:  rhetorical analysis edition.  Quick reminders about quoting in text.

Tomorrow:  a look at endings & portfolio information (It’s getting real, fam)

Reminder:  If you haven’t tweeted @ReadWarriors book recommendations, you’ll need 2 for the semester – so get to it!

Indie read.  Quick-Edit:  make quick changes or add small moves to a previous QW (tag w/ post-it) “Lab” time for work on rhetoric of rap paper.

Deadline:  Draft of rap rhetorical analysis due for WRITE CLUB tomorrow! (this means by 11:59pm on Wednesday)

Reminder:  If you haven’t tweeted @ReadWarriors book recommendations, you’ll need 2 for the semester – so get to it!

 

Indie read.  Quickwrite #25:  video “6 Photographers – 1 Man”  Study:  Everything’s an Argument chapter 6 quick recap.  Example draft – rhetoric of rap paper on “Mathematics” by Mos Def.  Work time for annotations & drafting of rap analysis.

Deadline:  Draft of rap rhetorical analysis due for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 12/5 (this means by 11:59pm on Wednesday)

Reminder:  If you haven’t tweeted @ReadWarriors book recommendations, you’ll need 2 for the semester – so get to it!