Read Aloud What Do You Do with an Idea? by Kobi Yamada & Mae Besom

Indie Read

Quickwrites #30 & #31: Genre Experiment (2 of 3) – to-do/item list – OR – dialogue (real or imagined) – OR – dictionary-style definitions (your own)

STUDY: MG Research Design – Set-Up Notebook 2-page spread to guide your project & start searching for sources

DEADLINES:

• Research Design due as notebook pages in class Wednesday 3/29
• Annotated Bibliography (formal-ish) due in Dropbox by end of day 3/30
• Memory Book Short (4th/final) due anytime between 3/19 & 4/1
• Spring Book Talk – 3/28 – 5/11 (sign up in room 251)

PAST DUE:

• Idea Exploration due in Dropbox & Flipgrid was due Sunday 3/26
• Hamlet Group Work Survey in GClassroom – was due Friday 3/24

Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #29: Reading Reset? (Write about your current independent reading? How’s it going? Do you need a reset?)

STUDY: Tips for Terrific Topics 🙂 TIP #1 – DON’T recycle an old topic!! (see slide in GClassroom material)

ASSIGN: MG Idea Exploration – Spin 3 ideas for your project. Write them up with a little explanation as to why you are interested or what you might do. Make this a Word doc and leave it in your Dropbox Drafts folder. THEN make Mrs. C a quick Flip video explaining them (code for Flip was given in class). DO both of these items no later than end of day Sunday 3/26.

DEADLINES:

• Hamlet Group Work Survey in GClassroom – complete by Friday 3/24 TODAY!!
• Idea Exploration due in Dropbox & Flipgrid no later than end of day Sunday 3/26
• Memory Book Short (4th/final) due anytime between 3/19 & 4/1
• Spring Book Talk – 3/28 – 5/11 (sign up in room 251)

Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #28: Interest Inventory Questions #3

OVERVIEW: Multi-Genre Research Project/Paper Overview – Contracts A & B options + physical examples

DEADLINES:

• Hamlet Group Work Survey in GClassroom – complete by Friday 3/24 TOMORROW!!!
• Idea Exploration (more on this on Friday 3/24) due in Dropbox & Flipgrid no later than end of day Sunday 3/26
• Memory Book Short (4th/final) due anytime between 3/19 & 4/1
• Spring Book Talk – 3/28 – 5/11 (sign up in room 251)

Indie Read

Quickwrite #27: Interest Inventory Questions #2

STUDY: Research Thoughts – What does it mean to research? Why does it matter? Thoughts from Hank & John Green (from their podcast), Thomas Newkirk (about how narrative drives our thinking – find this piece as a pdf on GClassroom as material), & Tom Romano (about the kind of project we will be doing)

Click the link to listen ▶️ https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dear-hank-john/episodes/haunted-christmas-trees (07:23 – 11:35)

DEADLINES:

• Hamlet Group Work Survey in GClassroom – complete by Friday 3/24
• Memory Book Short (4th/final) due anytime between 3/19 & 4/1
• Spring Book Talk – 3/28 – 5/11 (sign up in room 251)

PAST DUE: Group Rhetorical Analysis – Hamlet Film Scene Study was due Monday. . . .

Read Aloud – Ideas Are All Around by Philip C. Stead

Indie Read

Quickwrite #26: Interest Inventory Questions #1

STUDY: Intro to what’s next. Why multi-genre? Read excerpts from “Teaching the Research Paper” by Bruce Ballenger from Nuts & Bolts (you can find this text and a video read-through on today’s GClassroom stream), history of multi-genre in room 251 & example paper(s)

ASSIGNMENT: Hamlet Group Work Survey in GClassroom – complete by Friday 3/24

DEADLINES:

• Memory Book Short (4th/final) due anytime between 3/19 & 4/1
• Spring Book Talk – 3/28 – 5/11 (sign up in room 251)

PAST DUE: Group Rhetorical Analysis – Hamlet Film Scene Study was due yesterday