Monday, March 6, 2017

Monday, March 6 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes
}Finish Prologue
◦Translation
◦Video on pronunciation
◦Rhyme Scheme and Sonnet Definition
}Print off your story (hopefully you have worked on revising it, so it isn’t the same version as early last week)
◦Theme tracing –what is your theme? Where is it alluded to? What details build your message? –highlight all pieces of theme as you develop it (think of “The Sniper”)
}Writer’s Workshop time
◦Take a look at your first story, identifying some areas of concern with your writing for you to focus on with the current story we are writing
◦Second draft –editing draft:
–Pink: basic conventions (punctuation (other than commas), capitalization, etc.) fluency
–Yellow: things that are in your editing section: sentence structure (fragment/run-on, comma splice, commas), dialogue format, verb tense, etc.
◦Open your perspective story, find a sentence with highlighting in your draft (if you titled it Editing Draft) and write it (the entire sentence) on the board (underline what is highlighted)
◦Work on what you need to do to make this story the best piece of writing you have done
◦Third draft –fluency self-edit

}Read choice book, Blog Post instead of SSR letter (I’ll post mine tonight and we’ll talk about it tomorrow)

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