Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, September 13th

Read Aloud – A Place Inside of Me by Zetta Elliott & Noa Dennon

NEW: Set book/reading targets for The Poet X & Solo (see Mrs. C if you need them – books finished by Wed. 9/28)

Quickwrite #9: 1st Impressions – read novel #2 until around page 20 – stop and record your first impressions as a notebook entry – write for about 4 minutes

WORK TIME: Read/Notebook work today

PAST DUE: Writing #1 Core Reads Commentary was due in Dropbox no later than end of day Monday 9/12 (YESTERDAY) – find the assignment on the MC Lit assignment tab (or last Friday’s post)

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, September 12th

Read Aloud – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak – & Indie Read

STUDY: Read Like a Writer practice (notebook) & “Reading as a Writer” from A Writer Teaches Writing by Donald Murray

DEADLINE: College App Essay due in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/14

REMINDERS: Sign up for Twitter and follow @ReadWarriors & Check out the info on GClassroom about your SWIC email & estorm access

Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, September 12th

Book Talk & Indie Read

CHOOSE: Novel #2 – The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo or Solo by Kwame Alexander

WORK/READ: Time for work on Writing #1 or get started reading your new novel

DEADLINE: Writing #1 Core Reads Commentary due in Dropbox no later than end of day Monday 9/12 (TODAY) – find the assignment on the MC Lit assignment tab (or last Friday’s post)

Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, September 9th

VIDEO: “The Book Was Better?” – John Green

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in

STUDY: Notices & Trends from yesterday’s WRITE CLUB work with college app essay examples

ASSIGNMENT: College App Essay due in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/14

College App EssayDownload
Common App Essay PromptsDownload

REMINDERS: Sign up for Twitter and follow @ReadWarriors & Check out the info on GClassroom about your SWIC email & estorm access

English 9/10 – Thursday, September 8th

Book Talk & Indie Read

CONTINUE/READ: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely (with audio) p. 24 – 40

Quickwrite #7 (Continued): 1st Impressions – skip a line and write your thoughts about Quinn

PAST DUE:  Letter was due in GClassroom no later than end of day Monday 9/5 (but you can STILL turn it in)

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, September 8th

Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #10: College App “Story” & what it says about you

STUDY/READ/THINK: In your WRITE CLUB groups, take a look at more successful college app essays (this time Johns Hopkins Accepted students). See what you notice. What makes them “work”? You can find more JHU essays here https://apply.jhu.edu/application-process/essays-that-worked/

TIPS FOR COLLEGE APP ESSAYS: Quick slides – find them on GClassroom

TO DO (if you haven’t yet): Set up a personal Twitter account (do not use school email) for tweeting about your reads. We’ll use these to connect our separate hours by tweeting about the books we read, tagging authors when we loved or appreciated their work. You’ll FOLLOW @ReadWarriors, tag @ReadWarriors, & use #warriorsread in all your posts.

English 9/10 – Wednesday, September 7th

Book Talk & Indie Read

START/READ: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely (with audio) to p. 23

Quickwrite #7: 1st Impressions – STOP after p. 15 & write your first impressions of Rashad

PAST DUE:  Letter due in GClassroom no later than end of day Monday 9/5 (but you can STILL turn it in)