Read aloud:  Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.  Indie read.   MG Quickwrite #2 :  personal inventory questions (& added to MG notebooks). Multi-genre Research Paper: example papers, lots of example papers.

Record yourself reading your Hamlet paper and send to Mrs. C via either email or by uploading into Google Drive (invite me).

Deadlines:

• Multi-genre ideas for Friday WRITE CLUB 3/16
• Hamlet recording due by end of day Sunday 3/18
• Connexions revisions (optional) by end of day Sunday 3/25

Read aloud:  Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.  Indie read.  Recap – personal vs. vague: engaging your reader.  MG Quickwrite #1 :  personal inventory questions.  Multi-genre Research Paper: assignment overview, target dates, & example paper.

Record yourself reading your Hamlet paper and send to Mrs. C via either email or by uploading into Google Drive (invite me).

Deadlines:

• Multi-genre ideas for Friday WRITE CLUB 3/16
• Hamlet recording due by end of day Sunday 3/18
• Connexions revisions (optional) by end of day Sunday 3/25

Read aloud:  Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #21:  “Mr. Armstrong” from Ken Burns’ Jazz – notes on sequencing, content, “how.”  Establish general feel for multi-genre.

Record yourself reading your Hamlet paper and send to Mrs. C via either email or by uploading into Google Drive (invite me).

Upcoming:  Multi-genre assignment, examples, and looking for topics.

Deadlines:

• Hamlet paper sources collected tomorrow
• Hamlet recording due by end of day Sunday 3/18
• Connexions revisions (optional) by end of day Sunday 3/25

Book talk x 2.  Quickwrite (upside-down):  absence of indie read time this week? what happened? why? what does that mean? self-reflection on your reading.  Indie read.  Topic:  Engaging Your Reader – the personal vs. the vague.  Intro remarks on research papers/projects.

video: Multigenre Man – Tom Romano

To Do:  Think about how using the personal or specific or story “angle” brings the reader IN.  Consider how generalizations (in your connexions paper or your Hamlet research) distance your reader and see what you can do about that (either in revisions or before you submit “teacher-ready” work, respectively).

Deadlines:

• Hamlet paper “teacher-ready” w/ works cited page due no later than 11:59pm on Sun. 3/11.
• Sources due on Monday in class – highlight what you cited.

WRITE CLUB – Hamlet rhetorical analysis w/ pre-conference sheet.

Deadlines:

• Hamlet paper “teacher-ready” w/ works cited page due no later than 11:59pm on Sun. 3/11.
• Sources due on Monday in class – highlight what you cited.

 

Quotable Mentions spring semester assignment (see the page tab at top of site).  Hamlet 2000 viewing with lab time for work on Hamlet rhetorical analysis and/or reading time to work with sources or independent reading.

Deadline:  Hamlet rhetorical analysis COMPLETE draft for WRITE CLUB tomorrow! (this means in Dropbox – both for Mrs. C & your group – this evening)

Quotable Mentions spring semester assignment (see the page tab at top of site).  Hamlet 2000 viewing with lab time for work on Hamlet rhetorical analysis and/or reading time to work with sources or independent reading.

Deadline:  Hamlet rhetorical analysis COMPLETE draft for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 3/8 (this means in Dropbox the night prior 3/7)

Field Trip! 🙂

Note that the Hamlet RA draft date was extended from Tuesday to Thursday, but be working on and thinking about this paper over the weekend.

Deadline:  Hamlet rhetorical analysis COMPLETE draft for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 3/8 (this means in Dropbox the night prior 3/7)

Book talk & Indie read.  Field Trip Info.  (meet at Exit #1 by media center tomorrow morning 8am – bring $$ for lunch and/or movie concessions).  Vote for the best Hamlet soliloquy.  Collected notebooks.  Work with sources on Hamlet research.

Note that the Hamlet RA draft date was extended from Tuesday to Thursday, but be working on and thinking about this paper over the weekend.

Deadline:

• Finalization of Hamlet research design (LastnameHamletdesign.docx) due in Dropbox by end of day 3/1. (That’s TODAY!)
• Hamlet rhetorical analysis COMPLETE draft for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 3/8 (this means in Dropbox the night prior 3/7)

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #20:  watch & comment Hamlet – “to be or not to be” soliliquy x 4 . Some time for work with sources for Hamlet papers – get a print source!!

Bring a(nother) print source for your Hamlet research to class TOMORROW.  Email Mrs. C if you need one printed out.

Deadline:

• Finalization of Hamlet research design (LastnameHamletdesign.docx) due in Dropbox by end of day 3/1.
• Hamlet rhetorical analysis COMPLETE draft for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 3/8 (this means in Dropbox the night prior 3/7)