Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #10: Rethink Homelessness. Writing/work time for Dropbox set-up and work on writing assign #1. (Details of assignment on Monday’s post).
To Do/Deadline: Make sure your notebook is complete for Friday!
Upcoming: more work on writing connected to (and patterned after) Long Way Down – THIS will be complete by end of week!
Booik talk & Indie read. Study: “How Code Switching Explains the World” by Gene Demby at NPR Code Switch. Quickwrite #9: “Broken English” by Jamila Lyiscott.
To Do: Read your book club selection and head for the next target date.
Deadline: Notebook collection THIS Friday!
Book talk & Indie read. The Rules of Fight Club & WRITE CLUB. Quick pre-conference sheet. WRITE CLUB #1: bless, address, & press (quickwrite expansion or memory book chapter).
To Do: Check your notebook for completeness & do your Quickwrite Xtra!
Deadlines: Notebooks collected Friday!
Upcoming: email ettiquette and college app papers
Read Aloud What Do You Do with an Idea? & Indie read. Notebook checklist. Writing/work time for Dropbox set-up and work on writing assign #1. (Details of assignment on yesterday’s post).
To Do: Make sure your notebook is complete for Friday!
Upcoming: more work on writing connected to (and patterned after) Long Way Down – THIS will be complete by end of week!
Read Aloud What Do You Do with an Idea? & Indie read. FInd your book club groups (by book read). Quick share about your indie reads. Create a schedule for the reading of your book using the target dates when groups will meet. Notebook checklists.
Target dates:
To Do: Read your book club selection and head for the next target date.
Upcoming: Notebook collection THIS Friday!
Read Aloud What Do You Do With an Idea? & Indie read. Quickwrite #8: Indie read ? from table topics cards. Notebook checklists. WRITE CLUB demo with Mrs. C’s paper.
To Do:
Deadlines:
Upcoming: email ettiquette and college app papers
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #8: “Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?” by Prince EA. Intro to writing for Long Way Down with 4 options.
See handouts for poetry from Long Way Down.
Options:
To Do:
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #8: “10 Things You Sound Like When You Say All Lives Matter in Response to Black Lives Matter” – T. Miller. Dropbox set-up time if needed.
To Do:
WRITE CLUB groups!! Book talk & Indie read. Meet your WRITE CLUB: Share what you are reading with your new group members. Big Moves / Small Moves of “effective” writers: Read “Cruel As It Is” by Leonard Pitts, Jr. & watch for/ annotate the “moves.” Context video: NYTimes watch “Haiti Quake Day 2”
To Do:
Parameters for Paper #1:
Video: “The Book Was Better?” w/ John Green. Book/Movie trailers: If I Stay by Gayle Forman, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Love, Simon), Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Divergent by Veronica Roth. Indie read & work on Dropbox folders.
To Do:
Mrs. Connolly's Class 