Rhetoric & Comp – Friday, April 8th

Indie Read w/ padlet check-in

STUDY: “Crafting Narrative” from Fearless Writing by Tom Romano (if you missed class, find the PDF and a video read-through on today’s GClassroom stream)

WRITING TIME: time in class today for multi-genre development

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • MG Mark #1 (any 5 pages) due no later than end of day Monday 4/11
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

English 8 – Friday, April 8th

Indie Read w/ padlet check-in

WRITE CLUB – Bless, Address, & Press with DRAFT#5

COMING UP NEXT: Seniors Write Project – intro to this on Tuesday 4/12. BE HERE!

PAST-DUE: Anything you should have already written but haven’t yet. . .

Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, April 7th

Indie Read

2nd HOUR – WRITING TIME: time in class today for multi-genre development

NOTE: You can find more details on the required genres (and some you might try) on both GClassroom (as material under classwork) and on the Flipgrid under MG Genre Tutorials. (The ones on FG have audio talk-through.)

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • MG Mark #1 (any 5 pages) due no later than end of day Monday 4/11
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, April 6th

Indie Read

Quickwrites #34 & #35: Genre Experiments – pick one of your potential MG topics and try 2 of the 3 following genres – COMIC/STORYBOARD (w/drawing), HAIKU (3 line poems w/ 5-7-5 syllable pattern – more than1), HOW-TO (practical or abstract)

SHARE/WORK/QUESTION TIME: Share your taregeted idea and research design progress with your WRITE CLUB! Continue to develop this rough plan.

NEW: You can find more details on the required genres (and some you might try) on both GClassroom (as material under classwork) and on the Flipgrid under MG Genre Tutorials. (The ones on FG have audio talk-through.)

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • MG Mark #1 (any 5 pages) due no later than end of day Monday 4/11
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

English 8 – Wednesday, April 6th

Indie Read

STUDY/CREATE: Build the works cited page for DRAFT#5 (we did this as a class – find it in Dropbox in the “Hour # Practice” folder – and then copy and paste the entries to be the last page of DRAFT#5)

WRITING TIME: Work on DRAFT #5 – cited commentary

ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: DRAFT #5 – cited commentary (using 4 sources given in class) due in Dropbox no later than end of day Thursday 4/7

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, April 5th

Indie Read

Quickwrites #32 & #33: Genre Experiments – pick one of your potential MG topics and try 2 of the 3 following genres – BIO or CHAR SKETCH (with words or even drawing), INTERVIEW ?s (a fictional interview or real potential questions), SALES ADVERSTISEMENT (visual and/or words)

WORK/QUESTION TIME: Time for work on your research design. Choose your topic and start making a rough plan (you’ll be glad you did).

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Research Design – due as a work in progress in class on Wednesday 4/6 (TOMORROW!)
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1

Rhetoric & Comp – Monday, April 4th

Read Aloud & Indie Read

Quickwrites #30 & #31: Genre Experiments – pick one of your potential MG topics and try 2 of the 3 following genres – TO-DO/ITEM LIST, DIALOGUE (real or fictional), DICTIONARY-STYLE DEFINITIONS (make them up)

OVERVIEW: Research Design (step 2 of MG Project) w/ example

Research Design 2022Download

ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:

  • Research Design – due as a work in progress in class on Wednesday 4/6
  • Multi-Genre Project/Paper due 4/27 w/ presentation due 5/1