Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, October 8th

Read aloud & Indie read.  Quickwrite #11:  College app idea development w/ double-entry journal (see Mrs. C for the slide).  Study:  review the trends from yesterday’s sample college app essays.  In Class side-venture:  Letters – learn to write one & imitate a letter to a college (you don’t really have to send it).

For your letter:

  1. Use the example letter as a pattern
  2. Open your submissions folder in Dropbox and work there in MSWord
  3. Write a fictitious (or real) letter to a college (a real college)
  4. Use proper letter format
  5. Name the document “LETTER” and leave it in your submissions folder
  6. If you don’t finish in class, finish tonight on your own

Upcoming:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  I’ll be looking for each of you to have one for October, November, & December.  Details above!

English 9/10 – Monday, October 7th

Book talk & Indie read.  “Lab” time:  last in-class day for work on paper 1 – Long Way Down imitate & extend.  See Monday 9/30 for assignment directions.

If you need more time, get a pass for the media center or complete on your own (you just need internet to use MSWord through Dropbox).  To submit, just be sure the paper is in your Drafts folder in Dropbox – Mrs. C can see it there.

Deadline:  Long Way Down imitate & extend HAS to be in this week!

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, October 7th

Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #10:  College App List Activity (see Mrs. C for the slide).  Study:  Sample college app papers that got students into John Hopkins University – notice & note what works in these papers.

Upcoming:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  I’ll be looking for each of you to have one for October, November, & December.  Details above!

English 9/10 – Friday, October 4th

Book talk.  Collected notebooks! Work on papers associated with Long Way Down (instructions on the post for Mon. 9/30).

We won’t have class time for this next week.  If you need a media center pass or to come in and use Chromebooks with Mrs. C, see me Monday morning.  You can also finish from home – anywhere you have internet and can access Dropbox.  Just log in to your account and use MSWord by accessing your existing document in your drafts folder.

To Do:

  • FINISH your writing assignment!  (It should have a poem & a paper)
  • Read something awesome!

Multi-Cultural Lit – Friday, October 4th

Book talk & Indie read.  Collected notebooks!   Book Club Target 1:  choose a passage from your book that is impt. for what happens or what is said, write it in your notebook (no more than 3 to 4 sentences), explain below WHY you picked it or what’s important about it  (what’s worth talking about here?).  Use this info to drive some conversations within your book club.  (If you’ve read ahead, be sure to not give spoilers.)

To Do:   Read toward your target for next Wednesday!

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, October 4th

Book talk & Indie read.  Collected notebooks!  College app essays – overview, prompts, example papers.

Deadline:  Email Mrs. Connolly by Monday morning (aka Sunday 11:59pm).  You can ask a legit question or just make something up, but show you know how to write an appropriate email to a professor (not like a text message).

Upcoming:  College App Essays due for WRITE CLUB Friday, Oct. 11 (aka Thursday 11:59pm).  You WILL have lab time in class on Thursday.

Other Info:  Check out the @ReadWarriors tab above for Twitter book recommendation requirements.  I’ll be looking for each of you to have one for October, November, & December.  Details above!

Multi-Cultural Lit – Thursday, October 3rd

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #10: n-word – your thoughts.  Our study of n-word use: check out the following videos & articles.  Then, revisit your quickwrite and add any new insights you have.

Deadlines:

  • Notebooks collected TOMORROW!
  • Next book club target is also TOMORROW – Don’t let your book group down . . . 

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, October 3rd

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #9:  “5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your ___________”  Activity:  How to address an envelope.  Reading: “How to Email Your Professor (without being annoying AF)” by Laura Portwood-Stacer.

Supplemental reading about emails:

WRITE CLUB #1 recap:  Nice work yesterday.  Hopefully, it was valuable to read your paper aloud, hear the papers others wrote, get some preliminary feedback, and just get to know your group better.

  1. Make sure EVERY paper you write in here has a title (not the document name, but a real title – you don’t have to use the ones on the memory book sheet either – make them your own).
  2. Keep your Pre-conference sheets (label them with the title of your paper).  Having them at the end of the semester will make your portfolio work easier.
  3. Revise as you’d like.  I won’t be asking you to submit papers for a bit, so now’s your chance to use your group’s feedback and suggestions to improve your writing in glorious ways.

Assignment preview:  Email Mrs. Connolly by Monday morning.  You can ask a legit question or just make something up, but show you know how to write an appropriate email to a professor (not like a text message).

Deadline:  Notebooks collected TOMORROW! (10/4) —- Don’t forget your QW Xtra!