1. Read in memoir and complete third reader response by Monday, 12/1 (submit via email).
2. Continue to update quotation log and log of voice/persona development--progress check on Monday, 12/1.
3. Work on scaffolding plan and rough draft for creative writing piece, due by Wednesday, 12/3.
Use this description sheet to begin scaffolding plan.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
For Tuesday, 11/25...
Discuss with your parents how you learned to
read. Since they will probably have a stronger recollection of this experience
than you do, ask them about how you learned to interpret and read letters and words, what types of questions you
asked, what you were most interested in as far as particular books, stories you
liked to be told (even if they were not read to you, just told by a family
member), or what your favorite reading spots were when you were younger.
This is meant to be a fun activity, not stressful! If you are uncomfortable asking your parents, or if they do not have strong memories of the occasion, try to remember for yourself a time when you read something that made your imagination take flight or just made you feel alive and interested in another world.
Please bring these stories and experiences with you to class tomorrow to share (they need not be written down, just committed to memory well enough to be retold), and, if possible, the book or a few books that you enjoyed reading as a child!
This is meant to be a fun activity, not stressful! If you are uncomfortable asking your parents, or if they do not have strong memories of the occasion, try to remember for yourself a time when you read something that made your imagination take flight or just made you feel alive and interested in another world.
Please bring these stories and experiences with you to class tomorrow to share (they need not be written down, just committed to memory well enough to be retold), and, if possible, the book or a few books that you enjoyed reading as a child!
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Enjoy memoir reading time!
Enjoy your snow day and extra reading time for your memoir!
Remember, your next reader response is due on Thursday.
See you tomorrow!
Remember, your next reader response is due on Thursday.
See you tomorrow!
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Synthesis Prompt Creation for Social Issues
Use this document for help in the creation of a synthesis essay prompt to go along with the social issues topic highlighted in pink on your card from class today. Please complete your synthesis essay prompt for homework this evening to the best of your ability. Be sure you at least have your six sources ready to link to your document, even if the prompt is problematic for you.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Over the course of this week...
As presentations are underway, you should be working on the following reading assignments:
1. Read and take notes on ch. 3, pp. 58-63 (DUE WED., 11/12)
2. Read and annotate the following article (DUE WED., 11/12)
"Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov (speech delivered in 1948)
Also, for our next class project, you will be reading a memoir. Consider the following statement to help you distinguish between a memoir and an autobiography.
"An autobiography focuses on the chronology of the writer’s entire life while a memoir covers one specific aspect of the writer’s life. So, if I chose to write about my complete life up to this point—including growing up in Cincinnati, my time in New York, the few years I spent in Chicago and eventually landing at Writer’s Digest—I’d write an autobiography. If wrote a book about the winter of my sophomore year in high school where I got my tongue stuck to an icy pole, I’d write a memoir." -- Brian Klems, Writer's Digest
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/memoir-vs-autobiography-2
1. Read and take notes on ch. 3, pp. 58-63 (DUE WED., 11/12)
2. Read and annotate the following article (DUE WED., 11/12)
"Good Readers and Good Writers" by Vladimir Nabokov (speech delivered in 1948)
Also, for our next class project, you will be reading a memoir. Consider the following statement to help you distinguish between a memoir and an autobiography.
"An autobiography focuses on the chronology of the writer’s entire life while a memoir covers one specific aspect of the writer’s life. So, if I chose to write about my complete life up to this point—including growing up in Cincinnati, my time in New York, the few years I spent in Chicago and eventually landing at Writer’s Digest—I’d write an autobiography. If wrote a book about the winter of my sophomore year in high school where I got my tongue stuck to an icy pole, I’d write a memoir." -- Brian Klems, Writer's Digest
http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/memoir-vs-autobiography-2
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