Agreement & Usage Notes

If you need examples of any particular section, google it.

Quiz opens today and will be open until Sunday 12/11 11:59pm.

When class is in the lab this week, take this survey.  (I will announce it in class).

5 Essentials Survey

 

Thanks!

Book talk & Indie read.  Grammar review: modifier placement, verb usage (except hour 1).  Quickwrite #30:  Door photo OR video “Sandy Hook PSA.”  Read Like a Writer post-assessment:  “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien – find and annotate as much RLaW stuff as you can find (will collect tomorrow).

Deadlines:

• Blog post #3 – wordpower by end of Fri. 12/9
• Paper for WRITE CLUB on Friday (missing, new, or revise one to submit as SUB5)

Upcoming:  Lab tomorrow.

Book talk & Indie read.  Grammar review:  pronoun case and modifier usage.  Quickwrite #29:  “Explaining My Depression to My Mother” Sabrina Benhaim video.  Portfolio worksheet to determine what you should work on this week.  Reading: “5 Ways to Write a Damn Good Sentence” – article from copyblogger.com.

Deadline:  Blog post #3 by end of Fri. 12/9

Upcoming:  Something for this week’s WRITE CLUB (that something varies based on your individual needs/wants).

Book trailers & Indie read.  WRITE CLUB.

Make sure you have written 8 papers this semester (no, you haven’t submitted them all).

• Rhetorical Analysis
• College Application Essay
• Quickwrite expansion x 3
• Memory Book chapter x 3

Upcoming:  info and work on fall sememster portfolio -and – you can turn in textbooks anytime next week

Read something awesome!

 

 

Book talk.  Thursday = Lab Day.  Work on your paper for tomorrow’s WRITE CLUB.  (Be aware that you’ll need 3 MB and 3QW in the fall portfolio).

Deadlines:

• Paper for WRITE CLUB tomorrow.  Bring copies or email print requests.
• If you used a late submission pass on the RA, it’s due by end of 12/3.

Book talks & Indie read.  Review:  pronoun reference.  Quickwrite #28:  Before . . . Reading: “End” by Murray.  Example endings.  Video:  “How to Build a Fiction World” (Messner Tedx video).  *Zoom-in/Zoom-out sheet (1st hour did this yesterday).

Deadline:  RASUB4 in Dropbox by end of today 11/30

Upcoming:  Lab tomorrow for work on next paper (work to even out your QW:MB ratio), WRITE CLUB on Friday! (only 2 more WRITE CLUB sessions this semester)

Book talks & Indie read. Grammar review:  pronoun-antecedent agreement (and 7th hour – subject-verb agreement).

Deadline:  RASUB4 due in Dropbox by end of Wednesday 11/30.

Upcoming:  We will write a new piece this week, either MB or QW, so start thinking. Only 2 WRITE CLUB days left this semester!

Book talks.  Review what’s going on with rhetorical analysis (due later this week).  Book pass (new books for the class library!) & Indie read. Grammar review:  subject-verb agreement (except 7th hour)

Deadline:  RASUB4 due in Dropbox by end of Wednesday 11/30.

Upcoming:  We will write a new piece this week, either MB or QW, so start thinking. Only 2 WRITE CLUB days left this semester!

Just a few student book talks left!

Book talks & Indie read.  Details on upload for submission #4 – specifically, works cited, lyric attachment, using page breaks.  Revision:  Look at student example papers w/ a partner.

Assignment:  Read one of the two sets of handouts on revision. (You can read them both if you want).

Deadlines:

• SUB3RV by end of Sunday 11/27
• RASUB4 (this is your rhetorical analysis) by end of Wednesday 11/30