WRITE CLUB will STILL be happening on Wednesday!

Make sure your “10 Things” paper is uploaded in your Drafts folder.

Enjoy the day and read something awesome!

Book talk & Indie read.  Finish annotations for rhetorical appeals (add to notebook).  Flipgrid intro & weekend practice assignment.  Harry Potter comma puzzles challenge.  Collected notebooks!

Deadlines:

• This weekend: Flipgrid practice assignment.  Go to flipgrid.com (link on the right).  Use code on booktalk sheet & your school email.  Follow directions on flipgrid to upload your video (no longer than 1:30).
• Next draft:  your own version of “10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to ___________” for WRITE CLUB on Wednesday 11/13

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Indie read & Read aloud “10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to You” by Jason Reynolds. Notes:  commas review – visual patterns for comma use. Study:  rhetorical appeals “it” factor – kairos.  Assign:  choose any one of the six mentor texts from the last two weeks and annotate it using the “questions for rhetorical analysis” block (bring this for continued work tomorrow). Q & A on going “almost” gradeless.

Notes/Slides:   PATHOS, ETHOS, LOGOS

Deadlines:

• Notebooks due Friday 11/8!
• Next draft:  your own version of “10 Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to ___________” for WRITE CLUB on Wednesday 11/13

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #21: “Consent: It’s Simple as Tea” Notes:  commas review – commas w/ conventions. Study:  rhetorical appeals logos w/ ex. reading.  Some thoughts about how this class is structured – feedback requested. (Check the handout below again for details).

Notes/Slides:   PATHOS, ETHOS, LOGOS

Proposal:  Almost Gradeless

Deadlines:  Notebooks due Friday 11/8!

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Book talk & Indie read.

Book talk & Indie read.  Notes:  commas review – commas w/ interrupters & cloers. Study:  rhetorical appeals ethos w/ ex. reading.  Quickwrite #20:  “We Need Diverse Books” video.

Tomorrow:  Logos (chapter 4 of textbook) – give it a look before class.

Deadlines:  Notebooks due Friday 11/8!

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Book talk & Indie read.  WRITE CLUB #4 – beginnings focus.  Figurative language review handout.  Notebook checklist.

Tomorrow:  Ethos (chapter 3 of textbook) – give it a look before class.

Deadlines:  Notebooks due Friday 11/8!

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Book talk & Indie read. Notes:  commas review – commas with intro/openers.  “Lab” time for work on next draft.  Pre-conference sheet for Monday’s WRITE CLUB.

Deadline: new draft – either QW or MB (flip it if you haven’t written both types yet) – for WRITE CLUB on Monday 11/4 (that means Sunday 11:59 pm)

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Read aloud & Indie read.  Quick comma review:  joining independent clauses (cont’d from yesterday)

RHETORIC OF HORROR

• Video:  “Why is Being Scared so Fun?”
• Quickwrite #19: Thriller by Michael Jackson (What does “Thriller” have to say about the thriller?)
• Read:  “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King

Upcoming:  new draft – either QW or MB (flip it if you haven’t written both types yet) – for WRITE CLUB on Monday 11/4

Reminders:

• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #18:  “Camaro” by Phil Kaye.  Study:  rhetorical appeals pathos w/ 3 readings.  Notes:  commas review – commas joining independent clauses/compound sentence structure.

Upcoming:  new draft – either QW or MB (flip it if you haven’t written both types yet) – for WRITE CLUB on Monday 11/4

Reminders:

• Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  Be sure to tweet before the end of October (THIS IS TOMORROW)
• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)

Book talk & Indie read.  Notes:  commas review – serial commas + coord. adj.  Study:  “In the Beginning” by Tom Romano from Crafting Authentic Voice.

Deadline:  Please read Everything’s an Argument chapter 2- Pathos for Wed. 10/30

Upcoming:  new draft – either QW or MB (flip it if you haven’t written both types yet) – for WRITE CLUB on Monday 11/4

Reminders:

• Don’t forget QWXtra #2 (& #3)
• Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  Be sure to tweet before the end of October!
• Think about what you will book talk right before Thanksgiving break (Nov. 21, 21, 25, & 26)