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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