6th hour only – SWIC Dual Credit registration

Book talk & Indie read.  RLaW:  Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – Prince EA (video:  Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – Prince EA )

Hours 1 & 2 – SEARCH IT! notebook research assignment.  Read poems:  “When the Fat Girl Gets Skinny” by Blythe Baird & “Friend Zone” by Dylan Garity.  Quickwrite #3:  a 5 – 10 minute reaction/response on either poem we read (about a page – be specific and willing to refer to the text).

Upcoming:  Next week you will be writing a response based on one of the 6 pieces we read this week (two essay, two articles, two poems).

Deadlines:

• Clean up our shared Dropbox folder by Friday 1/12.
• Late homework bonus pass in exchange for Post-It Notes.  Bring them by next Tuesday 1/16.
• SEARCH IT!  due Monday, February 5
• SIUE contest entries to Mrs. C by Monday 2/5.

Book talk & Indie read.  Read:  “How School Start Times Affect High-School Athletics” by Alex Putterman from Atlantic.com.  Quickwrite #2:  a 5 – 10 minute reaction/response to the article we read (about a page – be specific and willing to refer to the text).  RLaW:  Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – Prince EA (video:  Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – Prince EA )

Extra:  Article “It’s Been an Open Secret All Along” by James Fallows from Atlantic.com.  (read it & keep it)

To Do:

• Make sure you’ve got “good” notebook entries
• Clean up our shared Dropbox folder by Friday 1/12.
• Late homework bonus pass in exchange for Post-It Notes.  Bring them by next Tuesday 1/16.
• SIUE contest entries to Mrs. C by Monday 2/5.

Hrs 1 & 2 – SWIC Dual Credit registration (6th hour will be on Thursday)

Book talk & Indie read (w/ rate calculation during notebook set-up).  Set up and/or refresh notebooks for Spring semester.  Read:  “Feminism (n.) plural” from Bad Feminist  by Roxane Gay.  Quickwrite #1:  a 5 – 10 minute reaction/response to the essay we read (about a page – be specific and willing to refer to the text).

Extra:  Essay “11:20” from Love and Other Ways of Dying by Michael Paterniti.  (read it & keep it)

To Do:

• Clean up our shared Dropbox folder by Friday 1/12.
• Late homework bonus pass in exchange for Post-It Notes.  Bring them by next Tuesday 1/16.
• SIUE contest entries to Mrs. C by Monday 2/5.

Book talk & Indie read.  Book pass!

Assignment:  Clean up our shared Dropbox folders.  Empty by deleting and/or moving files so the folder you share with Mrs. C is ready to take on the new semester.

To Do:

• Writer’s Notebook set-up tomorrow –  Tuesday 1/9.
• Late homework bonus pass in exchange for Post-It Notes.  Bring them by next Tuesday 1/16.
• SIUE contest entries to Mrs. C by Monday 2/5.

Book talk & Indie read.  Syllabus overview w/ “office” hours pass.  SIUE writing contest info. (see page link at top for details and entry form).  Q & A survey sheet.

To Do:

• Writer’s Notebook needed by Monday 1/8.
• Late homework bonus pass in exchange for Post-It Notes.  Bring them by Tuesday 1/16.
• SIUE contest entries to Mrs. C by Monday 2/5.

 

A look at 4 types of mistakes.  Presentation of portfolio binders.  Post-it board questions about last semester’s WRITE CLUB.  Intro to spring semester:  “Where we WERE, Wher we ARE, Where we’re GOING.” Read aloud: The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds.  Indie read clipboard update / book checkout.

Need summer reading recommendations? I’ll tweet the books I read this summer. Follow @MrsC_English to check them out.

Book return.  SWIC transfer info.  Revisit reading goals. Take book pics! 😊 

Hit up one of the finals periods to collect your memory book,  notebook, and other stuff.  *note: memory books will ONLY be returned to YOU (friends can’t pick them up for  you) 

Memory Book day!  indie read – last clipboard day.  Take with you – a wrap up of the year you spent in English 101/102.  Course surveys.

Tomorrow we’ll revisit our individual reading goals.

You should have hit all the deadlines.  The rest is up to me.  Just make sure to be here for a finals period to collect your memory books, notebooks, and any miscellaneous stuff.  (We’ll do something entertaining).

 

Lab Day!  Indie read.  Reminders about book turn in & library returns. Work on STUFF.

Deadlines:

• Spring Portfolio in Dropbox by end of day 5/12 (today!)
• Final version of your Memory book will be due IN CLASS on Monday 5/15 – NO EXCEPTIONS!

Upcoming:  Remember you’ll need to attend one final period either 1st, 3rd, or 7th.  Be there!