Book Talk & Indie Read.
Quickwrite #28: “Poem for an Inked Daughter” by Jean Wyrick (click to open link)
Read Like a Writer: A look at the writer’s moves in the poem above.
NEW ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – another quickwrite expanded due no later than end of day Friday 12/3 (we will have in-class time for drafting this week)
Book Talk & Indie Read.
Quickwrite #33: “6 Photographers / 1 Man” video
Reading Time!
DEADLINE: Target #2 for the current group novels is Tuesday 11/30 (TOMORROW)
Sign-It Board: Add your name based on how many books you’ve read.
Indie Read.
Upside-Down: Reading Reflection – how’s independent reading going? expand.
Notebook: Comma “rules” notes. Commas that set-off non-essentials & closers, commas after introductory elements (sometimes making complex sentences) & openers, conventional reasons to use commas. COMMAS ARE FOR READERS!
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINES:
Sign-It Board: Add your name based on how many books you’ve read.
Indie Read.
Quickwrite #26: Bad Girls with Perfect Faces (Table Topics ?s)
Quickwrite #27: After. . .
TO DO: Make sure your notebook is up to date. Use the ENGLISH 9/10 NOTEBOOK CHECKLIST tab at the top to see what you might be missing (and how to fix that).
Sign-It Board: Add your name based on how many books you’ve read.
Indie Read.
Quickwrite #32: Novel #4 – target 1 – what surprised you? what’s worth talking about?
Group Discussion Day on Novel #4 – I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Love, Hate & Other Filters, or Patron Saints of Nothing.
Book Trailers & Indie Read.
Quickwrite #24: Fortunately, Unfortunately . . . (w/ random pictures)
Notebook: Comma “rules” notes. Commas that separate items in a series (& coordinate adjectives) & Commas that help join independent clauses (creating compound sentences). The rest of comma “rules” tomorrow.
READ SOMETHING AWESOME!
Book Trailers & Indie Read.
READ: Finish Bad Girls w/ Perfect Faces by Lynn Weingarten. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom).
TO DO: Make sure your notebook is up to date. Use the ENGLISH 9/10 NOTEBOOK CHECKLIST tab at the top to see what you might be missing (and how to fix that).
Book Trailers.
Quickwrite #31. “I Am Limitless” by Lina Abojaradeh
Reading Time!
DEADLINE: Target #1 for the current group novels is Tuesday 11/23 (TOMORROW)
Take the student path survey (directions and link on today’s GClassroom stream).
Indie Read 🙂 & update the padlet with a new post-it.
TO-DO: Make changes and revisions as needed to any papers in your Dropbox folders, but particularly the rap rhetorical analysis (based on yesterday’s WRITE CLUB and your understanding of the assignment).
DEADLINES: Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)
Quickwrite #25: Random pictures (use the photo you chose and write anything you’d like: a description, a memory, something true, a made-up story… you decide)
Take the student paths survey (directions and link on today’s GClassroom stream).
Indie Read 🙂 and update your padlet with a new post-it.
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