Indie Read.
Quickwrite #23: Question/Statement starter (choose one and go with it)
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 the bottom of page 112.
TO DO: Make sure to keep your notebook updated! Have you missed any Quickwrites lately?
Read Aloud – A Different Pond by Bao Phi & Thi Bui.
Indie Read.
Quickwrite #26: New York Times Op-Ed video “Conversations with Asian-Americans on Race”
READ: “What Did My Mother the Chemist See in Betty Crocker?” by Celeste Ng (find this on today’s GClassroom)
PAST DUE: Writing #4 – review – due in GClassroom no later than end of day Sunday 11/7 (YESTERDAY).
Read Aloud: The Roots of Rap by Carole Boston Weatherford & Frank Morrison
Indie Read w/ padlet reading progress update.
STUDY: “Why Study Rhetoric? What Freestyle Rap Teaches Us About Writing” – Kyle D. Stedman https://writingcommons.org/article/why-we-study-rhetoric/
Hip-Hop preview… more on Monday.
DEADLINES:
Read Aloud: After the Fall by Dan Santat
Indie Read w/ padlet reading progress update.
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 the middle of page 94.
TO DO: Make sure to keep your notebook updated! Have you missed any Quickwrites lately?
Read Aloud The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson
Indie Read w/ padlet reading progress update.
Writing Day for Writing #4: Use this time to reread the assignment, check out the sample reviews, look at yesterday’s posts about directors & musicians, search around to find a focus, research background information, and/or start writing.
DEADLINES: Writing #4 – review – due in GClassroom no later than end of day Sunday 11/7.
Indie Read.
Quickwrite #22: Your thoughts on the n-word
Watch these videos about/from Blackish season 2: ‘Blackish’ Cast Tackles Using the ‘N-Word’ in Season Premiere Dre Debates The Word at Work – Black-ish Dre & Bow Discuss The Word – Black-ish
In-Class excerpt/scene from Dear White People Volume I: Chapter V
Revisit Quickwrite #22 with additional thoughts considering the videos we watched.
DEADLINES:
Indie Read w/ reading rate calculation & “other” goal setting (not quantity).
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 the middle of page 71.
Indie Read w/ reading rate calculation & “other” goal setting (not quantity).
Research & Writing Day for Writing #4: Use this time to reread the assignment, check out the sample reviews, look at yesterday’s posts about directors & musicians, search around to find a focus, research background information, and/or start writing.
Tomorrow: Be ready to use class time to write!!
DEADLINES: Writing #4 – review – due in GClassroom no later than end of day Sunday 11/7.
Indie Read w/ reading rate calculation & “other” goal setting (not quantity).
STUDY: Rhetorical Analysis – A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729). Recap main points & use of appeals. Read through of a rhetorical analysis of this piece. Note how it points out not just content but the “moves” the writer makes in accomplishing his rhetorical goal.
DEADLINE: Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom).
Indie Read.
Quickwrite #22: -ings (choose one and see where it takes you)
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 the end of page 54.
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