Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, December 4th
Read aloud & Indie read. Study: Big moves/ Small moves with “What Did My Mother the Chemist See in Betty Crocker?” by Celeste Ng. (clip-in your notebook)
Deadline: Next book club target #3 – TOMORROW!
Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, December 4th
Indie read. Quick-Edit: make quick changes or add small moves to a previous QW (tag w/ post-it) “Lab” time for work on rhetoric of rap paper.
Deadline: Draft of rap rhetorical analysis due for WRITE CLUB tomorrow! (this means by 11:59pm on Wednesday)
Reminder: If you haven’t tweeted @ReadWarriors book recommendations, you’ll need 2 for the semester – so get to it!
English 9/10 – Tuesday, December 3rd
Read aloud & Indie read. Quickwrite #25: video “6 Photographers – 1 Man” Study: Book reviews – read reviews for Long Way Down & The Poet X. Think about what goes into a book review. Handout: “Anatomy of a Book Review”
Upcoming: We’ll be writing book reviews over the next two days, so think about what you will review. It CANNOT be these two books that we read as a whole class and read reviews for today.
Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, December 3rd
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #25: video “6 Photographers – 1 Man” Study: read “The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie. Build a notebook page based on ?s “what surprised you? what did you notice? what did you wonder? (and/or what confused you?)”
Upcoming: next book club target – Thursday 12/5
Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, December 3rd
Indie read. Quickwrite #25: video “6 Photographers – 1 Man” Study: Everything’s an Argument chapter 6 quick recap. Example draft – rhetoric of rap paper on “Mathematics” by Mos Def. Work time for annotations & drafting of rap analysis.
Deadline: Draft of rap rhetorical analysis due for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 12/5 (this means by 11:59pm on Wednesday)
Reminder: If you haven’t tweeted @ReadWarriors book recommendations, you’ll need 2 for the semester – so get to it!
English 9/10 – Monday, December 2nd
Book talk & Indie read. Book club target #5 – endgame: answer notebook questions 1) what surprised you? 2) favorite part? 3) why does this book matter?
*If you missed class last Monday 11/25 – be sure to get the questions for the target #4 book club page.
Upcoming: writing book reviews
Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, December 2nd
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #24: “Conversations on Race w/ Native Americans” NYTimes. Book Club target #2: table topics cards to spark discussion and create a notebook entry.
Upcoming: next book club target – Thursday 12/5
Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, December 2nd
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #24: magazine ad rhetorical analysis. Video: “Rapping, Deconstructed” from vox.com. Example: annotated rap lyrics “Mathematics” by Mos Def.
Tomorrow: quick review of Everything’s an Argument Chapter 6, work w/ rap lyrics, and example of how a rhetorical analysis paper comes together
Deadline: Draft of rap rhetorical analysis due for WRITE CLUB on Thursday 12/5 (this means by 11:59pm on Wednesday)
Reminder: If you haven’t tweeted @ReadWarriors book recommendations, you’ll need 2 for the semester – so get to it!
English 9/10 – Thursday, November 21st to Tuesday, November 26th
Indie read. Movie bonus: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Mon. 11/25: Notebook entry for book club target #4.
Deadline: Book club target #5 Monday 12/2 (catch up over break if needed)
P.S. Just wait until you see how many new books are headed to our class library! (Also – I learned a ton of new stuff to make my teaching and our classes better 🙂 )
Multi-Cultural Lit – Thursday, November 21st to Tuesday, November 26th
Indie read & Book talk. Lots of book talks!
Deadline: Book club target #3 – Monday, December 2nd (catch up over break if needed)
P.S. Just wait until you see how many new books are headed to our class library! (Also – I learned a ton of new stuff to make my teaching and our classes better 🙂 )
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