SWIC Registration Day!!

WRITE/READ ⏰ (2nd hour class meeting)

DEADLINE: College App Essay due as an MLA formatted MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/13 – that’s TOMORROW.

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

Read Aloud – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

STUDY/NOTEBOOK: Read Like a Writer – Where the Wild Things Are (notebook tape-in)

READ: “Reading as a Writer” from A Writer Teaches Writing by Don Murray (find this text excerpt on GClassroom if you’d like to reread or reference)

UPCOMING: SWIC Registration tomorrow + write time for work on college app essays

DEADLINE: College App Essay due as an MLA formatted MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/13.

WATCH: “The Book Was Better?” – vlog bros. video w/ John Green

🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in

STUDY: What did we notice about successful college app essays? Your collected and condensed thoughts. Plus, tips for the college app essay.4

ASSIGNMENT: College App Essay due as an MLA formatted MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday, September 13th.

https://www.commonapp.org/blog/2023-2024-common-app-essay-prompts

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #10: “College Application ‘Story’ Exercise” (5 min.)

STUDY: A Deeper Look at Successful College App Essays – In writing groups, examine JHU Accepted Essays and make notices (tomorrow, we’ll see what was trending).

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #9: “College Application List Exercise” (5 min.)

STUDY/READ: “The Essayification of Everything” by Christy Wampole

https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/the-essayification-of-everything/

& sample successful college app essays (w/ brief discussion)

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read w/ rate calculation (notebook upside-down)

🖋️ Quickwrite #8: “5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your _______________” (fill-in the blank and give some advice)

STUDY/NOTES: Some Truths About Writing (slides available on GClassroom if needed)

WATCH: “How & Why We Read” – Crash Course w/ John Green

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in

STUDY: Reading/Writing Connection (“How to Bartle Puzzballs”)

TO-DO: Read something interesting or fantastic or engaging or adventurous or calming or . . . .

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #7: Missing Spoons

SHARE: Meet your WRITE CLUB! Share a quickwrite by reading one aloud to your groupmates (low pressure, any of the 7 writings, no feedback). Then, if you don’t already, get to know each other. 🙂

PAST DUE: Letter1 due in Dropbox (as a Word doc) was due Tuesday 8/29 – YESTERDAY! (assign sheet at the R&C WRITING ASSIGN tab above)

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #6: Primeval Place

STUDY: What is “good” writing? (contin’d: data from yesterday’s eval + what makes a “4” or a “1”? + commentary/suggestions for a “2 or 3”)

PAST DUE: Letter1 due in Dropbox (as a Word doc) was due Tuesday 8/29 – YESTERDAY! (assign sheet at the R&C WRITING ASSIGN tab above)

REMINDER: Send Mrs. C your SWIC ID# or Apply to SWIC (instructions on the GClassroom stream)

Read Aloud – The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds – & Indie Read

STUDY: What is “good” writing? (read & evaluate sample student papers on a 4 to 1 scale)

DEADLINE: Letter1 due in Dropbox (as a Word doc) no later than end of day Tuesday 8/29 – TODAY! (assign sheet at the R&C WRITING ASSIGN tab above)

REMINDER: Send Mrs. C your SWIC ID# or Apply to SWIC (instructions on the GClassroom stream)