Book trailers & Indie read.  Book pass – check out what’s in the media center!

Check out the WRITE CLUB info at the top of website – especially the part about “emotional readiness.”

Deadline:  First paper/piece – either a memory book chapter or a quickwrite expanded.  You’ll need a draft in class (this means in “YOUR WC Drafts folder”) on Monday, either essayistic or fiction (about 2 pages typed, double-spaced, MLA formatted).

NEW INFO: You can sign up to use MSOffice applications online for FREE.  Click here. Use your student email address (the SWIC one).

Book talk & Indie read.  Writing Theory presentation/thinking.  “Lab” day with two highlights – 1) Dropbox sharing with your WRITE CLUB group (see instructions at bottom of Dropbox Set-Up page) 2) MLA Formatting (follow the directions on the MLA Format page to set-up your MSWord documents before submitting them to Mrs. C )

Deadline:  First paper/piece – either a memory book chapter or a quickwrite expanded.  You’ll need a draft in class (this means in “YOUR WC Drafts folder”) on Monday, either essayistic or fiction (about 2 pages typed, double-spaced, MLA formatted).

Book talk & Indie read.  Read: “Essayification of Everything” – Christy Wampole CONDENSED  Quickwrite #8:  5 things you can do to improve your ________________.  Intro to writing theory.

The Essayification of Everything – link to full text

Assignment:  Consider what you will write about for your first paper/piece.  Choose either a memory book chapter or a quickwrite to expand.  You’ll need a draft in class on Monday, either essayistic or fiction (about 2 pages typed, double-spaced).

Reminder:  “Lab” day tomorrow  – bring laptops or be prepared to login to Chromebooks.

Book talk & Indie read.  Sit with your WRITE CLUB group.  RLaW: “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros.  Share observations with group & then as a class.

Only Daughter – Cisneros

Note:  This week you will work on your first paper/piece.  Consider what you will write about (either choose a memory book chapter or expand a quickwrite from your notebook).  Thursday will be a “lab” day w/ Chromebooks in the classroom (personal laptops are welcome at your own risk).

Book talks & Indie read.  Quickwrite #7:  What’s in the Box?  Rhetoric definitions – what is rhetoric discussion.  Memory book preview (next week’s writing will be either a memory book chapter or a quickwrite expansion).

Assignment:  Look up the reader/writer statements of your WRITE CLUB group members.  Read them and leave a comment on each (thoughtfully & respectfully).

Fall Semester WRITE CLUB Groups

1st Hour

• Grant C., David H., Kat S., Hannah W.
• Jace F., Megan K., Haley Y., Gabby L.
• Drew H., Matt W., Emma V., Grace V.
• Sam R., Olivia P., Carlee D., Katelynn W.
• Hector L., Lauren B., Lexi B., Caitlyn P.

2nd Hour

• Grant B., Fiona G., Brooke M., Isaiah M.
• Dylan B., Aaron W., Leeah P., Gerri M.
• Juan M., Tyler T., Kayla B., Sabrina E.
• Michael Z., Drew W., Rebecca G., Megan B.
• Oliver M., Alec K., Baylee R., Kobey R.
• Jack B., Jack E., Mackenzie B.

7th Hour

• Kyle C., Joseph M., Payton T., Viktoria J.
• John K., Madaleine T., Kim M., Adam M.
• Bailey W., Cody T., Mariah V., Emily S.
• Evan W., Maya W., Alex M., Gabby B.
• Scott S., Brooke H., Courtney L., Meredith G.

 

Accuplacer testing to qualify for SWIC dual credit.

Assign:  Read through the definitions sheet & rank your top 3 faves (1,2,3). Be ready to defend it.

Deadline: Blogpost #1 due by end of TODAY!  (that means by 11:59pm)

Book talk.  SWIC course registration.  Quickwrite #6:  Missing Spoons photo.  Blogpost #1 – blogging by email demo.  The rhetorical situation notes.  Definitions of rhetoric.

Scholarly Definitions of Rhetoric

Assign:  Read through the definitions sheet & rank your top 3 faves (1,2,3). Be ready to defend it.

Deadline: Blogpost #1 due Thurs. 8/31 (that means by 11:59pm)

 

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #5:  Most definitely next Tuesday … stories.  RLaW:  “Cruel as It Is” review.  Preview of this week’s short writing – Blogpost #1  –  see GCHSClassof18Blog for details (email posting address tomorrow).

If you HAVE NOT applied to SWIC do it TODAY! Apply to SWIC

 

Read Aloud “How I Became a Pirate” by Melinda Long & David Shannon.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #4:  Rethink Homelessness Read like a writer (RLaW) concepts w/ “Cruel As It Is” example piece.

Read Like a Writer notes slide

Cruel as It Is by Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Assignment:  Annotate the piece with what you notice about HOW it is written (not just what it says).  Use the RLaW slide to help guide you.

If you HAVE NOT yet shared a Dropbox folder, do so & if you HAVE NOT applied to SWIC do it TODAY!

Book trailers & Indie read.  Thoughts on Writing (continued from yesterday). SWIC application info (If you didn’t get time to sign up in class, sign up over the weekend – directions below).

Procedures-for-filling-out-SWIC-New-Student-Information-Form

Also – be sure you have created and shared a folder in Dropbox with Mrs. C = )