Multi-Cultural Lit – Friday, September 27th

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, September 27th

Video:  “The Book Was Better?” w/ John Green.  Book/Movie trailers: If I Stay by Gayle FormanThe Maze Runner by James DashnerBefore I Fall by Lauren OliverThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenReady 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 RiggsDivergent by Veronica Roth.  Indie read. Verified Dropbox folders.  Quick demo of dropbox upload, backdoor MSWord use, naming your dcuments, and MLA formatting info (find details at the “MLA Format” page tab above).  Preview/intro to Quickwrite Xtras (find details at the “Quickwrite Xtra” page tab above).

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Think about paper #1 (deadline Tues., Oct. 1)
  • Have a great Homecoming Weekend & read something cool.

Parameters for Paper #1:

  1. Write EITHER a memory book chapter (any from 1 – 17) OR expand a QW from your writer’s notebook
  2. Type it in MSWord – about 2 pages, double-spaced, TNR12 or Calibri11 are good fonts (directions on format in the MLA tab at top of website)
  3. Upload it later to your Drafts folder in Dropbox

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, September 26th

Banned books video – 7 recommendations from littlebookowl.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #7:  primeval place.   Study:  What makes writing “good”?  take a look at a paper w/ potential and practice helpful feedback techniques.

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Think about paper #1 (deadline Tues., Oct. 1)
  • Keep reading!

Parameters for Paper #1:

  1. Write EITHER a memory book chapter (any from 1 – 17) OR expand a QW from your writer’s notebook
  2. Type it in MSWord – about 2 pages, double-spaced, TNR12 or Calibri11 are good fonts (directions on format in the MLA tab at top of website)
  3. Upload it later to your Drafts folder in Dropbox

Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, September 25th

Banned Books Week video – ClimbtheStacks recommendations.  Indie read.  Book club books book talks continued: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson, All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely, & American Street by Ibi Zoboi.  (Dear Martin With the Fire on High yesterday).

Upcoming:  Tomorrow you’ll have a bit of time to browse these book choices and then commit to your book club choice – please don’t pick a title you have already read.  And no lone-wolf reading, you’ll need at the least a partner in crime.

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Keep reading!

 

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, September 25th

Banned Books Week video – ClimbtheStacks recommendations.  Indie read.   Study:  What makes writing “good”?  finish read & eval, then norm & decide what makes a paper a “4”?

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Think about paper #1 (deadline Tues., Oct. 1)
  • Keep reading!

Parameters for Paper #1:

  1. Write EITHER a memory book chapter (any from 1 – 17) OR expand a QW from your writer’s notebook
  2. Type it in MSWord – about 2 pages, double-spaced, TNR12 or Calibri11 are good fonts (directions on format in the MLA tab at top of website)
  3. Upload it later to your Drafts folder in Dropbox

Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, September 24th

Video:  On the Banning of Looking for Alaska.  Indie read.  Synthesis Notes:  using columns make notes on DuBois, Baldwin, & Older pieces we read (check titles, keywords, associated historical movements/people, impt. quotes & then draw connections).  Book club books book talks: Dear Martin by Nic Stone & With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (more choices tomorrow).

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Read something — ANYTHING