Thursday, Oct. 18 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes

}Act 1 Scene 1 Cont.

◦Finish pg. 945

◦view family interview

◦Who would Prince be today? Pay attention to when he comes into the play. What did he say?

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Perspective Story Rubric 

◦Theme Conferences

◦Work at whatever step you need to complete (revising for craft/content, revising for editing (and meeting with me), etc. End result: best piece of writing you have ever created)

–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.

}Take a look at your first short story

◦Most likely you have some similar issues (especially punctuation, sentence structure, and grammar), so check your perspective story for those.

◦I will be grading this one more critically than the first one, so REALLY look at your story.

}All parts of the story

◦Make sure your story has all aspects of a plot chart (especially the falling actions/resolution)

◦Universal theme –theme tracing meeting

}Show don’t Tell

◦Make sure you have LOTS of details!

}Revising sometimes means taking things out that don’t work.

}Fluency- make sure your story SOUNDS good and that sentences and words flow

}Edit/Proof Read

◦Print out your story if it will help you check for errors more.

}Meet with me if you would like: make sure you have a purpose in our meeting…

You will be publishing a draft of your story on your blog next week, so work on it over the weekend!!!