Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, September 15th

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #11: Random Pic (add a quick revise on your own 2 minutes)

Feedback practice with a student sample college app essay. Learn to use Dropbox, open & comment in Word, and Bless, Address, Press. Tomorrow, it’s the real deal.

*IMPT – If you missed class see GClassroom for specific directions on today’s work!

Assignments & Deadlines:

  • IN-CLASS Letter Writing finish up if you didn’t in class yesterday (leave in your Dropbox drafts folder)
  • WRITING #2 – College App Essay (a complete draft) due no later than end of day TODAY 9/15 )in your Dropbox drafts folder.

English 9/10 – Wednesday, September 15th

Indie Read.

Notebook: RLaW practice w/ All American Boys excerpt*. (Use the Read Like a Writer sheet that we taped in our notebooks as a guide and see what you can find.)

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the page 123.

*I’ll post this later today as a PDF. I gave out physical copies to work with in the classroom.

Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, September 15th

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #11 – “picked poem” – you chose a poem from your novel, The Poet X or Solo, write the name and page # of that poem at the top of your page, and then write about WHY you picked it and WHAT’S going on there… just keep writing (4 minutes)

More reading time: target tomorrow. Solo p. 207 & The Poet X p. 183.

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, September 14th

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #10 – body parts. Complete a 2 minute quick-revise.

A look at College Letters: an in-class assignment to help you navigate the writing of formal letters. (See GClassroom for details & directions if you missed class).

Assignments & Deadlines:

  • IN-CLASS Letter Writing finish up if you didn’t in class (leave in your Dropbox drafts folder)
  • WRITING #2 – College App Essay (a complete draft) due no later than end of day Wednesday 9/15 )in your Dropbox drafts folder.

Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, September 14th

Book talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #10 – 1st Impressions – what do you think so far of The Poet X or Solo?

Reading time. Note the target for Thursday: Solo p. 207 or The Poet X p. 183. Do your best to hit them.

Mark a couple of individual poems you particularly like in what you read for tomorrow.

REMINDER: It’s NOT too late to complete the last writing assignment. If you didn’t write the commentary and response one-page paper, check it out on GClassroom and submit it soon.

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, September 13th

Read Aloud – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak & Indie Read.

“Reading as a Writer” by Donald Murray (1st hour will do this on Tuesday). Notebook: RLaW practice w/ Wild Things text – annotate your notices.

Reading as a Writer – MurrayDownload

Assignments & Deadlines: WRITING #2 – College App Essay (a complete draft) due no later than end of day Wednesday 9/15 )in your Dropbox drafts folder.

English 9/10 – Monday, September 13th

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 92.

REMINDER: Stay caught up on work in your notebooks. If you have missed class, be sure to check previous posts on the website (just the ones labeled “English 9/10” to figure out the entries you haven’t done yet). Or check out the English 9/10 Notebook Checklist tab above.

Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, September 13th

Book Talk & Indie Read.

It’s Book Choice day for Novel #1 – choose The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo or Solo by Kwame Alexander. If you need help choosing see the slides posted last week on GClassroom.

Set a schedule with an end date of Thursday 9/23 (that’s when you should be finished with the book), and a just prior to half-way target for this Thursday 9/16.

Time to get started!!

PAST DUE:

WRITING #2 – one-page commentary & response was due Sunday 9/12 (Be sure to add your thoughts, not just summary). Complete it if you haven’t yet. ALL LATE WORK IS FULLY ACCEPTED.

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, September 10th

Book Talk & Indie Read – w/ a padlet board check-in (see GClassroom if you need more detailed instructions).

“How and Why We Read” – Crash Course w/ John Green

Notice & trends from the college app essays we read in class yesterday. Add some to your college app essay tips notepage. More detailed overview of the college app essay assignment (you might find topic ideas in the last two quickwrites).

Assignments & Deadlines: WRITING #2 – College App Essay due no later than end of day Wednesday 9/15