Indie Read.
Research 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, and research background information.
Tomorrow: Be ready to tell Mrs. C what you are reviewing.
Book Talk & Indie Read.
STUDY: Rhetorical Analysis – A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729). Read through and annotate the use of appeals in this infamous Irish satire.
DEADLINE: Student-Led Book Talk (find the assignment and the varied/scaffolded due dates in GClassroom).
Indie Read (catch up in the new novel if you missed yesterday).
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 break on page 32.
Book Talk & Indie Read.
Finish: Anatomy of a Review Get Out (see yesterday’s post for a link to the article & the new GClassroom assignment to see pics of the notes we did on the board).
NEW ASSIGNMENT: Writing #4 – Review: music or film by influential black artists/musicians
Watch videos (to generate ideas for this paper):
Book Trailers & Indie Read.
Quickwrite #21: Fears – list 8 & then choose to expand into something . . . more
STUDY/REVIEW: Rhetorical Analysis – what is it?
ASSIGNMENT: Student-Led Book Talk preview & variable due dates assigned.
Book Trailers & Indie Read
Quickwrite #21: Fears – List 8, then choose 1 and expand.
READ: Start 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 through page 14.
Book Trailers & Indie Read.
Anatomy of a Review: Variety.com “Review: Get Out”https://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/get-out-review-jordan-peele-1201968635/ Read & dissect as a class (we’ll finish this on Tuesday) in preparation for the reviews you’ll be writing later this week of either song/album or film created by black artists/directors.
WRITE CLUB!!
Follow the Write Club procedures Bless, Address, & Press for each group member’s paper. Be sure to give feedback through MSWord in the margins (not just in discussion) that looks for what’s good = ), asks readerly questions ?, and makes suggestions in the form of “what if…” or “maybe try…” If you missed class, check the feedback your group members gave you and be sure to give them feedback too.
TO DO: Make any changes you wish to papers you’ve already written. Revision is always okay – we are constantly learning and observing new things that change the way we think (and write).
Read something awesome!
Read Aloud & Indie Read.
STUDY: “Why Is Being Scared So Fun?” TEd
Quickwrite #20: What does Michael Jackson’s Thriller say about the thriller?
REMINDER: Catch up on anything missing in your writer’s notebook or overdue on GClassroom.
Read something awesome!
Book Talk
Jordan Peele’s Get Out & review @ rogerebert.com https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/get-out-2017
REMINDER: Catch up on anything missing in your writer’s notebook or overdue on GClassroom.
Read something awesome!
Mrs. Connolly's Class 