PREP-WORK: Let’s talk notetaking. It’s a skill you’ll need.
BONUS VIDEO:
STUDY: Read Chapter 1 of Everything’s an Argument 8 & create a notepage in your notebook. (Find a pdf attached to GClassroom today.)
PAST DUE REMINDER: DIGITAL SUBMISSION #1 2020 was due Sunday 10/11. If you haven’t revised, renamed if needed, moved, and recorded audio, do it ASAP!!!
WRITE: Quickwrite #12 – Check your column on the Indie Read board. Scroll down it and see how you are doing. What do you notice? What do you wonder? What might be your next moves as a reader? Expand your thinking about your own reading journey.
STUDY: Watch Crash Course Lit #1 “How and Why We Read” w/ John Green
READ: Independent Reading time w/ Breakout Room check-ins
DEADLINE: It’s time for teacher feedback. You’ll choose a paper, revise & move, and submit an audio/video. Check the assignment sheet below. Due no later than end of day Sunday 10/11.
NOTEBOOK CATCH-UP: Notebook writings so far (checklist below – check GClassroom & mrsconnollysclass.com to scroll back and complete any you are missing)
STUDY: Watch video & take notes Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “The Danger of a Single Story” (TEd Talk)
BOOK CLUB #1: Choose your book! (If you haven’t yet, do this TODAY). Then, don’t forget to get/pick-up your book!
CATCH UP: We won’t meet in Zoom again until next Wednesday 10/14. Use the extra time and lack of other assignments to catch up where needed. So far you should have completed:
READ/STUDY/SHARE: WRITE CLUB today with this week’s draft (either a QW expansion or a MB chapter)
Share a little about your independent reading
Bless, Address, Press
Give feedback including specific “good stuff,” readerly questions, and “what-if” suggestions
TO DO: check the quick video about the moves in Sandra Cisneros’ Only Daughter (gauge your understanding of how these moves work in a piece of writing)
UPCOMING: Building our reading stamina & selecting a piece to submit for teacher feedback.
UPCOMING: Next week we’ll think about confronting biases & the dangers of stereotypes and we’ll check out the options for our first round of BOOK CLUBS!
RLaW: Use the “moves” of effective writers slides to read Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros (uploaded to Dropbox Practice Docs) and annotate for big moves/small moves.
NEW ASSIGNMENT: Your Choice – expand any quickwrite from your notebook (QW) or write any digital memory book chapter (MB) – submit starting 10/2 and no later than end of day Sunday 10/4
BEFORE class – sign into the padlet board and post a new reading post-it (the new usual).
STAGGERED ZOOMS TODAY! Check your time on GClassroom – based on the novel you are reading for the Big Group Read.
WATCH & WRITE: In class, we’ll watch the video for your read & then create a notebook page with an entry responding to it. After watching, what are you thinking? Does it give you insight into the book you just read? Can you make connections between the video and the book? What are your impressions of this author?
STUDY: A lesson in revision/college apps – 3 drafts of 1 app essay – we’ll use this Padlet board: Revision in Motion & talk about what revision IS and ISN’T.
ASSIGNMENT: Read the Scholarly Definitions of Rhetoric (print them out if you’d like/can). Make a notebook page of your 3 FAVORITE definitions listed – with brief explanations on why you chose these three – due by classtime on Thursday 10/1.
HAVE YOU?:
Sent Mrs. C your “professional” email? (we did this last week)
Sent Mrs. C your self-addressed “envelope”? (we did this last week)
Taken a closer look at your college app essay and made initial revisons? (use your WRITE CLUB experience and/or feedback to drive it)
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