Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #17:  “Take a Knee” by Kwame Alexander.  Study:  “The Lead” by Don Murray from A Writer Teaches Writing.  Choose any QW in your notebook and write 2 new potential beginnings for it (below it).  Tag it with a post-it for easy finding.  Notice: with & without commas.

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)

Book trailers & Indie read.  Mrs. C’s QuickFix Top 5 Word Choice tips.  Book talk preview (assignment sheet – more details next week).  “Lab” day for formatting & revision.

Deadline:  “Teacher-Ready” Submission #1 in Dropbox Submissions folder (W/ PROPER DOC TITLE) & an AUDIO file (by email or Google Drive) no later than 11:59pm Sunday, Oct. 27th

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!

Read aloud & Indie Read.  Quickwrite #16:  visual argument (one-frame comic arguments) Study/Notes: Argument.  Read through:  MLA format example paper.

Deadline:  “Teacher-Ready” Submission #1 in Dropbox Submissions folder (W/ PROPER DOC TITLE) & an AUDIO file (by email or Google Drive) no later than 11:59pm Sunday, Oct. 27th

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!

Tomorrow:  “lab” day for revisions & preparing sub#1 (be ready to work or read)

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #15:  choose a poem “Belief” or “New Romantics/You Need to Calm Down” Study:  group discussion of Everything’s an Argument ch 1 (w/ post-its).

Deadline:  “Teacher-Ready” Submission #1 in Dropbox Submissions folder (W/ PROPER DOC TITLE) no later than 11:59pm Sunday, Oct. 27th

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!

Upcoming:  “lab” day for revisions & preparing sub#1 on Friday (be ready to work or read)

Book talk & Indie read.  Submission #1 info.  Study:  Using feedback to drive revision (college app through 3 drafts).

Assignment:  DUE WEDNESDAY – read chapter 1 of the text “Argument”

Complete 3 post-its:

• Orange:  biggest take-away (what did you learn? what matters here?)
• Blue:  best quote (verbatim w/ page #)
• Pink: question that remains (specific or overall)

Deadline:  “Teacher-Ready” Submission #1 in Dropbox Submissions folder (W/ PROPER DOC TITLE) no later than 11:59pm Sunday, Oct. 27th

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!

Indie read/Pre-conf sheets.  WRITE CLUB #3 – bless, address, press. Textbooks issued.

Assignment:  DUE WEDNESDAY – read chapter 1 of the text “Argument”

Complete 3 post-its:

• Orange:  biggest take-away (what did you learn? what matters here?)
• Blue:  best quote (verbatim w/ page #)
• Pink: question that remains (specific or overall)

Upcoming:  Submission #1 info tomorrow (due Sunday 10/27)

Reminders:

• Don’t forget QWXtra #2
• Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  Be sure to tweet before the end of October!

Indie read.  “Lab” time.  Pre-conference sheet for draft #3.  (There is a version of this attached on the “WC CONF SHEET” page at the top of the site).

Deadline:  New Draft – QW or MB due for Monday WRITE CLUB (this means 11:59pm Sunday 10/20)

Reminders:

• Don’t for get QWXtra #2
• Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  Be sure to tweet before the end of October!

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #14:  random pic #.  Upside Down:  Time Audit activity & observations.  Video: Crash Course “How and Why We Read” w/ John Green.

time audit notes screenshot

Upcoming:  “Lab” day tomorrow & new draft QW or MB for next Monday 10/21 WRITE CLUB.

Don’t forget:  Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  I’ll be looking for each of you to have one for October, November, & December.  Details above!

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #13:  Video – Marlon James “Are you racist? ‘no’ isn’t a good enough answer” RLaW:  “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros – notice and annotate what you find.

Upcoming:  New draft QW or MB for next Monday 10/21 WRITE CLUB.

Don’t forget:  Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  I’ll be looking for each of you to have one for October, November, & December.  Details above!

 

Book talk & Indie read & Read Aloud.  Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” from Bird by Bird.  Rhetoric by Definition – discussion, definition, notes.

Upcoming:  New draft QW or MB for next Monday 10/21 WRITE CLUB.

Don’t forget:  Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  I’ll be looking for each of you to have one for October, November, & December.  Details above!