Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, February 13th

Indie read. Quickwrite #20: Love letter (to and from TV Teen Stereotypes)   Read/Watch: Hamlet ACT IV scenes 4 – 7.  Collect Notebooks.

Reminders:

  • Bring back Field Trip permission forms + $10 asap
  • Don’t forget to add bullet points of impt. stuff from each act of Hamlet on your plot diagram page
  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!
  • MB Short #2 window closes end of this week . . . What are you writing?

English 8 – Wednesday, February 12th

Important adjustments to the BOOK CLUB schedule.  Indie read.  Lab time for work on drafting.  Bring ideas for more writing on Firday (3rd hour).

Deadline:  BOOK CLUB target #1 this Thursday 2/13.  Read and complete a notebook entry before then! TOMORROW!!

Reminders:

  • Bring back Field Trip permission forms + $10 asap
  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, February 12th

Indie read. Quickwrite #19: Is Hamlet mad?   Read/Watch: Hamlet ACT III scenes 3 & 4 + ACT IV scenes 1 – 3.

Deadline:  Notebooks collected Thursday 2/13 – TOMORROW!

Reminders:

  • Bring back Field Trip permission forms + $10 asap
  • Don’t forget to add bullet points of impt. stuff from each act of Hamlet on your plot diagram page
  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!
  • MB Short #2 window closes end of this week . . . What are you writing?

English 8 – Tuesday, February 11th

Indie read.  Quickwrite #13:  Reverse Engineering/Backward Design vs. Drive Inspiration/Forward Think – pick a way and generate ideas for DRAFT #2.  Lab time for work on drafting.  Bring ideas for more writing tomorrow.

Deadline:  BOOK CLUB target #1 this Thursday 2/13.  Read and complete a notebook entry before then!

Reminders:

  • Bring back Field Trip permission forms + $10 asap
  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, February 11th

Indie read. Quickwrite #18:  THE Hamlet soliloquy.  Read/Watch: Hamlet ACT III finish scene 1 & 2.

Deadline:  Notebooks collected Thursday 2/13!

Reminders:

  • Bring back Field Trip permission forms + $10 asap
  • Don’t forget to add bullet points of impt. stuff from each act of Hamlet on your plot diagram page
  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!
  • MB Short #2 window closes end of this week . . . What are you writing?

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, February 10th

Indie read. Read/Watch: Hamlet ACT II finish scene 2 & start 3.  Set up Quickwrite #18:  THE Hamlet soliloquy.  (Closer examination tomorrow).  Preview: notebook checklist.

Deadline:  Notebooks collected Thursday 2/13!

Reminders:

  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!
  • MB Short #2 window closes end of this week . . . What are you writing?

English 8 – Monday, February 10th

Indie read.  Quickwrite #12:  photo reflection. Study:  RLaW “All Parents Are Cowards” by Michael Christie.  DRAFT #2 info – we’ll be writing the next couple of days, so start spinning some ideas.  What will you take a photo of?  What stories/reflections will that inspire?

Deadline:  BOOK CLUB target #1 this Thursday 2/13.  Read and complete a notebook entry before then!

Reminders:

  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, February 7th

Book/movie trailers.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #17:  Mufasa & Simba (how does this connect with Hamlet ACT I?) Mufasa’s Death & Mufasa’s Ghost Read/Watch: Hamlet ACT II scenes 1 & start 2.

Reminders:

  • Tweet about the books you are reading @ReadWarriors.  See the page tab above for details and due dates!
  • Did you turn in your CCR audio? TURN THIS IN!
  • We are half-way through the window for MB Short #2. . . What are you writing?