Rhetoric & Comp – Thursday, November 18th

Pre-Conference Post-its (to guide your thinking)

WRITE CLUB!! Follow Bless, Address, Press protocol to work through the rap rhetorical analysis drafts. Some extra tips for making sure your paper does what is supposed to do (you can find this pdf on today’s GClassroom stream).

DEADLINES: Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)

PAST DUE: Writing #6 – Part Two: rhetoric of rap paper due no later than end of day Wednesday 11/17 (this draft should be complete)

English 9/10 – Thursday, November 18th

Indie Read

READ: More 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). We read to page 265 (and we’ll be finishing this book on Monday).

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).

Multi-Cultural Lit – Thursday, November 18th

Read Aloud – Carmela Full of Wishes by Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson

NOTES: Watch & take notes – Clint Smith’s “The Danger of Silence”

READ: Time for reading the new novel: Love, Hate & Other Filters, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, or Patron Saints of Nothing.

DEADLINE: Target #1 for the next novel is Tuesday 11/23. Get reading!!

Rhetoric & Comp – Wednesday, November 17th

Indie Read.

STUDY: Tips for works cited page for this paper. Learn to use Style Handbooks like the Purdue OWL to keep your citations correct and consistent. Always choose the simplest way!! (slide of tips on GClassroom)

WRITE TIME/DEADLINE: Let’s work on this paper/ watching Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (an Ice-T film)

DEADLINES:

  • Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)
  • Writing #6 – Part Two: rhetoric of rap paper due no later than end of day Wednesday 11/17 (WRITE CLUB tomorrow!)

Rhetoric & Comp – Tuesday, November 16th

Read Aloud & Indie Read

QUICK REMINDERS: Don’t regress into formula and old habits just because you are working with text/poetry that might make it feel like a more “traditional” assignment. Keep the new strategies you’ve learned in mind. Experiment a little – there is no “one way.”

WRITE TIME/DEADLINE: Let’s work on this paper/ watching Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (an Ice-T film)

DEADLINES:

  • Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom)
  • Writing #6 – Part Two: rhetoric of rap paper due no later than end of day Wednesday 11/17

PAST DUE: Writing #6 – Part One: rap lyric annotations were due no later than end of day Sunday 11/14 (a couple of days ago now. . . )