Read Aloud & Indie Read.
STUDY: “Why Is Being Scared So Fun?” TEd video
Quickwrite #20: What does Michael Jackson’s Thriller say about the thriller?
DEADLINE: Writing #5 – QW or MB (the “opposite” of what you wrote for draft #3) due no later than end of day Tuesday 10/26 (that’s TODAY!)
Be sure to be here for WRITE CLUB tomorrow!
Read Aloud & Indie Read
Work on blackout poetry (still QW #19 – tape your created poems in your notebook).
REMINDER: Catch up on anything missing in your writer’s notebook or overdue on GClassroom.
Read something awesome!
Jordan Peele’s Get Out.
REMINDER: Catch up on anything missing in your writer’s notebook or overdue on GClassroom.
Read something awesome!
Book Talk & Indie Read.
READ: “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King (1981) & “Afterword: TWD Vol. 2″ by Simon Pegg (2004) (If you missed class you can find these on today’s stream for GClassroom – you’ll need to print one out or get a copy when you return to class).
RLaW: Choose one of the two pieces and annotate it for Read Like a Writer, Big Moves/Small Moves, rhetorical appeals. Note how the author does what he does in the margins.
DEADLINE: Writing #5 – QW or MB (the “opposite” of what you wrote for draft #3) due no later than end of day Tuesday 10/26
Book Talk & Indie Read.
STUDY: “A brief history of my newspaper blackout poems” – Austin Kleon https://austinkleon.com/2014/04/29/a-brief-history-of-my-newspaper-blackout-poems/
Try it out!
Indie Read.
READ: Washington Post review “Jordan Peele Made a Woke Horror Film” by Bethonie Butler
BEGIN VIEWING: Get Out written & directed by Jordan Peele
Book Talk & Indie Read & update reading post-it in padlet (I forgot to announce this 1st hour).
READ/STUDY/NOTES: “End” from Donald Murray’s A Writer Teaches Writing (you can find a pdf on today’s GClassroom stream).
Also recommended – “And In the End” from Tom Romano’s Crafting Authentic Voice
STUDY: And That’s a Wrap…. a look at “real” endings with your WRITE CLUB group. How can you start to diversify the ways you choose to end?
DEADLINES:
Indie Read & update reading post-it in padlet.
READ: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon sections 8, 9, & 10 – pages 98-end. (If you missed class, you can find a PDF on GClassroom to stay caught up.)
VIDEO: “Why Music Makes Us Feel (According to AI)” – University of Southern California
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/3113/why-music-us-makes-us-feel/
PAST DUE: Any writing you haven’t submitted in GClassroom. If you submit late work, please be sure to email Mrs. C when it is complete.
TO DO: Read something awesome!
Book Talk & Indie Read. Update the reading padlet (I forgot to announce this in class).
Group Discussion Day on Novel #3 – Dear Martin, Everything Everything, or All American Boys.
Read something awesome!
Book Talk & Indie Read
STUDY: For Starters…. a look at “real” beginnings with your WRITE CLUB group. How can you start to diversify the ways you choose to begin?
DEADLINES:
Mrs. Connolly's Class 