Book talk & Indie read.  WRITE CLUB:  College App Essay.

Assign:  Definitions of Rhetoric.  Read it for Tuesday.  Mark your three favorite definitions with stars.  Write in the margin WHY you picked them.  Go deep, not just because I liked them.  We will be discussing on Tuesday.  Rhetoric is part of the course title. Let’s figure out what it is.

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.  Pre-conference sheet for College App Paper (due in WRITE CLUB tomorrow) – spend no more than 10 minutes.  “Lab” time for work on college app paper – OR – read if you are done with your college paper.

Deadline:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 – that’s TOMORROW!  Name your document “LastnameCollegeApp.docx” and just follow standard MLA formatting.

Other Info:  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.  New reading rate calculations & some thought about how it differs (or not) and why that might be?  Quickwrite #12:  Body parts (see Mrs. C for the slide).

Study:  college app essay topic development – on a half-sheet make notes on the following

• which prompt are you answering?
• what topic do you plan to develop?
• a few notes & ideas of what you will write/explore
• IF you plan on bringing a pre-written app essay to class for Friday, then develop another potential topic here.

Deadline:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  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!

Read aloud & Indie read.  Quickwrite #11:  College app idea development w/ double-entry journal (see Mrs. C for the slide).  Study:  review the trends from yesterday’s sample college app essays.  In Class side-venture:  Letters – learn to write one & imitate a letter to a college (you don’t really have to send it).

For your letter:

1. Use the example letter as a pattern
2. Open your submissions folder in Dropbox and work there in MSWord
3. Write a fictitious (or real) letter to a college (a real college)
4. Use proper letter format
5. Name the document “LETTER” and leave it in your submissions folder
6. If you don’t finish in class, finish tonight on your own

Upcoming:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  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 #10:  College App List Activity (see Mrs. C for the slide).  Study:  Sample college app papers that got students into John Hopkins University – notice & note what works in these papers.

Upcoming:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  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.  Collected notebooks!  College app essays – overview, prompts, example papers.

Deadline:  Email Mrs. Connolly by Monday morning (aka Sunday 11:59pm).  You can ask a legit question or just make something up, but show you know how to write an appropriate email to a professor (not like a text message).

Upcoming:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  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 #9:  “5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your ___________”  Activity:  How to address an envelope.  Reading: “How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)” by Laura Portwood-Stacer.

Supplemental reading about emails:

• Re: Your recent email to your professor – from Inside Higher ed
• 18 Etiquette Tips for Emailing Your Professor – from US News & World Report

WRITE CLUB #1 recap:  Nice work yesterday.  Hopefully, it was valuable to read your paper aloud, hear the papers others wrote, get some preliminary feedback, and just get to know your group better.

1. Make sure EVERY paper you write in here has a title (not the document name, but a real title – you don’t have to use the ones on the memory book sheet either – make them your own).
2. Keep your Pre-conference sheets (label them with the title of your paper).  Having them at the end of the semester will make your portfolio work easier.
3. Revise as you’d like.  I won’t be asking you to submit papers for a bit, so now’s your chance to use your group’s feedback and suggestions to improve your writing in glorious ways.

Assignment preview:  Email Mrs. Connolly by Monday morning.  You can ask a legit question or just make something up, but show you know how to write an appropriate email to a professor (not like a text message).

Deadline:  Notebooks collected TOMORROW! (10/4) —- Don’t forget your QW Xtra!

Book talk & Indie read.  The Rules of Fight Club & WRITE CLUB.  Quick pre-conference sheet.  WRITE CLUB #1:  bless, address, & press (quickwrite expansion or memory book chapter).

To Do:  Check your notebook for completeness & do your Quickwrite Xtra!

Deadlines:  Notebooks collected Friday!

Upcoming: email ettiquette and college app papers

Read Aloud What Do You Do With an Idea? & Indie read.  Quickwrite #8:  Indie read ? from table topics cards.  Notebook checklists.  WRITE CLUB demo with Mrs. C’s paper.

To Do:

• Be certain YOUR paper is in your Drafts folder for tomorrow’s class BEFORE you arrive in class.
• Check your notebook for completeness & do your Quickwrite Xtra!

Deadlines:

• Draft #1 due Wednesday 10/2 in class
• Notebooks collected Friday!

Upcoming: email ettiquette and college app papers

WRITE CLUB groups!!  Book talk & Indie read.  Meet your WRITE CLUB:  Share what you are reading with your new group members.  Big Moves / Small Moves of “effective” writers:  Read “Cruel As It Is” by Leonard Pitts, Jr. & watch for/ annotate the “moves.”  Context video:  NYTimes watch “Haiti Quake Day 2”

To Do:

• Read something!
• Write your paper – it should be in Dropbox in your Drafts folder by classtime tomorrow.

Parameters for Paper #1:

1. Write EITHER a memory book chapter (any from 1 – 17) OR expand a QW from your writer’s notebook
2. Type it in MSWord – about 2 pages, double-spaced, TNR12 or Calibri11 are good fonts (directions on format in the MLA tab at top of website)
3. Follow the document naming instructions on the MLA Format Tab
4. Upload it later to your Drafts folder in Dropbox