📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
🖋️ Quickwrite #11: “This Is America” – Childish Gambino
STUDY/NOTES: Some Truths About Writing (slides available on GClassroom if needed)
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #1 – Thinking beyond Dear Martin due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox no later than end of day Monday 9/18
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY/PRACTICE: Intro to WRITE CLUB and feedback practice with sample college app paper. Bless, Address, & Press format with comments that include potential :), readerly questions, & suggestions (with open framing).
🖋️ Quickwrite #11: The door
DEADLINE: College App Essay due as an MLA formatted MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/13 – that’s TODAY!
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY/NOTES: Some Truths About Writing (slides available on GClassroom if needed)
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #2 – Thinking beyond Stamped due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox no later than end of day Monday 9/18
UPCOMING: We’ll be working on our writing in class on Thursday & Friday – bring charged Chromebooks!!
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY/READ: Dear Martin by Nic Stone Chapter 22 & 23 & “Four Months Later” (find the text on GClassroom – read in class with audio)
UPCOMING: Writing about/in relation to Dear Martin
SWIC Registration Day!!
WRITE/READ ⏰ (2nd hour class meeting)
DEADLINE: College App Essay due as an MLA formatted MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/13 – that’s TOMORROW.
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY: Read CH. 28 & Afterword of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)
🖋️ Quickwrite #10: Stamped – Overall thoughts?
DEADLINE PAST: Reminders to those who have not turned in the Letter – DO THIS, THIS WEEK (ask questions if you need assistance)! Progress has to go in Skyward by week’s end. (originally assigned 9/1 & due 9/6)
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY/READ: Dear Martin by Nic Stone Chapter 20 & 21 (find the text on GClassroom – read in class with audio)
🖋️ Quickwrite #10: A Time When . . .
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
Read Aloud – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
STUDY/NOTEBOOK: Read Like a Writer – Where the Wild Things Are (notebook tape-in)
READ: “Reading as a Writer” from A Writer Teaches Writing by Don Murray (find this text excerpt on GClassroom if you’d like to reread or reference)
UPCOMING: SWIC Registration tomorrow + write time for work on college app essays
DEADLINE: College App Essay due as an MLA formatted MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/13.
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY: Read CHS. 25 – 27 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)
🖋️ Quickwrite #9: “Color Blind” by Joseph Capehart
UPCOMING: Finishing Stamped, thinking & writing, & choosing books for book club read #1
WATCH: “The Book Was Better?” – vlog bros. video w/ John Green
🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in
🖋️ Quickwrite #9: “White Boy Privilege” by Royce Mann
STUDY/READ: Dear Martin by Nic Stone Chapter 19 (find the text on GClassroom – read in class with audio)
Mrs. Connolly's Class 