English 8 – Friday, April 22nd

Indie Read

Quickwrite #33: Worry, Regret, Guilt (list some, choose one & expand)

WRITE TIME ⏰ work on Seniors Write! project

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1*

*Please use your in-class work time!!

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, April 21st

Indie Read

Quick tips!! genre specifics, digital links, citation machine, viewing for white-space, threads/unifying elements.

WRITE CLUB: share progress, ideas, etc. on your MG Project/Paper

DEADLINES:

  • Conference with Mrs. C on your MG progress & ideas 4/20 – 22 (10 minutes as scheduled)
  • MG Mark #2 (any 13 pages) due no later than end of day Wednesday 4/20
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, April 20th

Indie Read

Quick tips!! interviews (permissions & timings), images & citing them, page breaks, font colors & size, threads/unifying elements.

WRITE TIME ⏰ MG papers!

DEADLINES:

  • Conference with Mrs. C on your MG progress & ideas 4/20 – 22 (10 minutes as scheduled)
  • MG Mark #2 (any 13 pages) due no later than end of day Wednesday 4/20
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, April 19th

Indie Read

Quickwrites #36 & #37: Genre Experiments – Thinking about MG topics and try 2 of the 3 following genres – TOP 10 LIST (10 to1 or 1 to 10), RECIPE (literal or abstract – w/ ingredients, amounts & directions), TEXT CONVERSATION/TWITTER THREAD (real or fictional)

Time for work on MG – sign-up for conferences – reminders & FAQs.

DEADLINES:

  • Conference with Mrs. C on your MG progress & ideas 4/20 – 22 (10 minutes as scheduled)
  • MG Mark #2 (any 13 pages) due no later than end of day Wednesday 4/20
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

English 8 – Tuesday, April 19th

Indie Read

READ/STUDY: “End” from Donald Murray’s A Writer Teaches Writing & “And In the End” from Tom Romano’s Crafting Authentic Voice (you can find pdfs on today’s GClassroom stream).

STUDY: And That’s a Wrap…. a look at “real” endings with your others. Note what kinds of ways published authors choose to end. How can you start to diversify the ways you choose to end?

DEADLINE: Seniors Write! Project due in Dropbox no later than end of day Sunday 5/1 (we will have in-class time to work on this starting tomorrow – so think about what you want to write.)

English 8 – Tuesday, April 12th

Book Talk & Indie Read

Quickwrite #30: Desires – what do you want? List 5 things. Then choose one & expand – what is it? why? what would it be like to get what you want? or to not get what you want?

ASSIGNMENT INTRO: SENIORS WRITE! a high school memory project due no later than end of day Sunday 5/1 (Submit papers through Dropbox in a SENIORSWRITE folder inside your Submissions folder – step by step instructions on the GClassroom assignment.)

SENIORSWRITE! due Sun. 5/1Download

Have a great Easter Break! See you back at school on the 19th.