Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #9: Take A Knee – Kwame Alexander “Lab” time for work on College App Essays.  Pre-conference sheet for tomorrow’s WRITE CLUB.

Deadline:  College App Essay draft due in your drafts folder for WRITE CLUB tomorrow! (Your paper should be in the folder even if you, for some reason, aren’t present in class).  Please type the prompt you are answering at the top of the page, too.

Reminder:  You should be building one Quickwrite Xtra each week.  You can find inspiration in the slide deck on the QW Xtra page above.

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #8:  Orion telescope ad.

College App Essay – work in WRITE CLUB groups to observe the “moves” of effective college apps.

Upcoming:   Lab time tomorrow & a draft of your college app essay for WRITE CLUB on Friday.

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite:  revision (choose one to reread and make some changes – consider the possibilities).

College App Essay – tips, examples, notice big “moves” that make examples effective.

Upcoming:  More look at college essays tomorrow, lab time on Thursday, & a draft of your college app essay for WRITE CLUB on Friday.

Guidance presentation about college options, testing dates, financial aid, etc.

Collect college letters (in envelopes).

Intro to college app essay prompts (think about what you will write this week).

Common App Prompts 2018-2019

Extra:

• Titles:  All pieces you write need an original title (NOT an assignment label).
• Document names:   should be standard – LastnameQWMB#  (Explained again in class on Wednesday).  Example:  LawsonMB#7.docx

Book talk & Indie read.  “Lab” time (5 & 7) (2nd was panoramic photo).

Assignment:  Email to Mrs. C & Letter to a college/university for Monday 9/17.  Read the directions CAREFULLY.  (You are smart and can figure this out.  Make it professional and impressive.)

Email and letter assignment

Extra:

• Titles:  All pieces you write need an original title (NOT an assignment label).
• Document names:   should be standard – LastnameQWMB#  (Explained again in class on Wednesday).  Example:  LawsonMB#7.docx

Friday, September 14th

• Half-day schedule (no 2nd hour)
• 5th & 7th hour “Lab” time for work on emails & letters (due Monday)

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #7:  “5 Things You Can Do To Improve Your ________” (inspired by Kelly Gallagher).  Addressing envelopes – do you know how?  Email ettiquette – read the three articles below and send Mrs. C an academic-setting email to prove you can do this.

How To Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF) – medium.com

18 Etiquette Tips for Emailing Your Professor – US News & World Report

Re: Your Recent Email to Your Professor – Inside Higher Ed

Assignment:  Email Mrs. C by class time Monday 9/17.

Extra:

• Titles:  All pieces you write need an original title (NOT an assignment label).
• Document names:   should be standard – LastnameQWMB#  (Explained again in class on Wednesday).  Example:  LawsonMB#7.docx

Book talk.  WRITE CLUB.  Bless, Address, & Press your way to group feedback on paper #1.  (Use what you learn to improve/change your paper as you wish).

Titles:  All pieces you write need an original title (NOT an assignment label).

Document names:   should be standard – LastnameQWMB#  (Explained again in class on Wednesday).  Example:  LawsonMB#7.docx

Read something awesome!

Read aloud & Indie read.  Collect notebooks (flag one for Mrs. C to read).  WRITE CLUB practice round – whole class write club group with Mrs. C’s draft.

Deadlines:

• Fill out the pre-conference sheet (about the piece YOU wrote) for tomorrow’s WRITE CLUB (should already be done)
• “working” draft of either a memory book chapter OR an expansion built on a quickwrite should be uploaded in YOUR WC Drafts folder!
• comment (meaningfully) on the blog posts of your WRITE CLUB group members

Read something awesome!

Book trailers.  Dropbox check in:  add shared folders, check that your paper is uploaded to YOUR WC Drafts folder.  Small “Moves” of Effective Writers (make your own post-it).  Search them out by RLaW using the piece “Cruel As It Is” by Leonard Pitts, Jr.  Intro to how WRITE CLUB runs (check the page at top of website if you missed it or need a recap).  Pre-conference sheet overview.

Deadlines:

• Fill out the pre-conference sheet (about the piece YOU wrote) for next week’s WRITE CLUB (due Monday)
• “working” draft of either a memory book chapter OR an expansion built on a quickwrite due today!  (but we didn’t read them yet, so get it done!)
• comment (meaningfully) on the blog posts of your WRITE CLUB group members

Deadline:  Notebooks will be collected on Monday.  Use the checklist to make sure yours is ready – think about which entry you will flag for full read-through.

Book talk x 2.  Indie read.  MLA formatting, Uploading to Dropbox, time with chromebooks.  Go ahead and add shared folders of your WRITE CLUB members to your Dropbox.

Deadlines:

• “working” draft of either a memory book chapter OR an expansion built on a quickwrite due tomorrow (Upload it to your WC Drafts folder in Dropbox)
• comment (meaningfully) on the blog posts of your WRITE CLUB group members *

*See the WRITE CLUBs post for your group.

Deadline:  Notebooks will be collected on Monday.  Use the checklist to make sure yours is ready – think about which entry you will flag for full read-through.