Monday, Sept. 30 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Collect Final Draft of Short Story
• Print off to LIBRARY (HSIMC), back to back (make sure it is in MLA like we talked about Fri.), paperclip with rubric on top
• Human Experience in Fiction Assessment
• Classroom Assignment
• • How have the stories we’ve read so far shown the human experience? USE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO ANSWER QUESTION (TIQA paragraph[s])
  • “Sound of Thunder”, “House on Mango Street”, “Cask of Amontillado”, and “The Sniper”
  • Human Experience: What it is like to be a specific person at a specific time in a specific place.
  • The details and specifics that go into the overall experience of being a human
  • Emotions, events, beliefs, behaviors, thoughts, etc.
  • Step One: Look at previous brainstorm and add more 
  • Step Two: choose point/idea (must be about 2 of the four (or all four))
  • Format choice –TIQA then TIQA (diff para) or TIQAx2 (one para)
  • Step Three: Find Textual Evidence
  • Step Four: Write the TIQA paragraphs 
  • READ your independent book once you turn it in
• Intro to International Human Experience Research

Friday, Sept. 27 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Take out the short story rubric
• Writer’s Workshop time on Story: looking at standards on Rubric
• Sniper TIQA
• TIQA Suggestions (get back TIQA #1)
• Themes from Discussion
• Write a TIQA paragraph where you explain what the theme is and the textual evidence that builds that theme. –due today
• Writer’s Workshop Time 
• What is the theme? How to reinforce?
• How to revise for a final –first look through whole paper for anything that could have been marked dialogue, commas, sentence structure, etc., then think of your theme and other aspects of short stories
• Due Monday!
• MLA Format: look at sheet handed out
• 12 pt font
• Readable font
• 1.5 spaced at least
• Rubric with the final copy
• Use rubric to help revise and edit to the BEST PIECE OF WRITING YOU’VE Ever DONE
• HWK: Revise and edit short story, final due Monday (today is last day of class time).

Thursday, Sept. 26 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep: Complete Sentences vs. Incomplete (quill.org)
• 10 min Independent Book
• Human Experience Form –click to it from classroom
• Human Experience: how does your story show the human experience? Be specific as to how.
• Is your story’s human experience and the details in general of your story (the characters, the plot, etc.) an American experience or an international experience/ universal? What makes you say this? Are there aspects that are primarily American? Are there aspects that apply to all humans?
• Work on your story when you’ve submitted the form
• Editing draft: I have marked six errors on your draft.  Based on the points below, figure out what the issue is, fix it, then look through your draft, fixing similar issues
• Revising  and Editing to next draft –I have NOT marked everything that can be worked on in your draft, some things you will have to look for and fix based on other things that were commented earlier
• Yellow= Something in Editing Section (Dialogue, fragment, verb tense), Comma Issues –from sheet; Sentence Structure
• Pink= Fluency, Other Basic Convention Issues
• Six Errors Highlighted:
• Upload ‘new’ draft to Peer Revision option in Turnitin –peer revision due end of Fri.
• “The Sniper” Discussion

Wednesday, Sept. 25 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop Time
• Work on making your story the best thing you’ve ever written
• Editing Draft:
• Re-Title your draft: Name Editing Draft and upload it to Turnitin (end of block)
• Turnitin: Class ID: 22498299 Enrollment Key: F2019eng9
• Final Draft due Monday: we’ll have some workshop time the next few days
• Peer Edit option tomorrow (have a ‘new’ draft ready: make sure you are working on both editing and revising)
• Think about: How does your story demonstrate/reflect the human experience? What aspects? In what way? 
• If your paper is ‘done’ in your mind, print it out, read it out loud quietly to self (check for fluency) and/or self-edit, etc. 
• Definition of Theme–notes in Short Story section of Reader’s Notebook  
• universal theme doc in Classroom
• “The Sniper”
• What is the theme of this story? While reading, close read the story for details that show theme.  -Write the theme (BIG IDEA + MESSAGE) on the story and make sure you have some details to show it through the story
• Continue working on your story when you finish reading “The Sniper”
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Tuesday, Sept. 24 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Activities: complete 1-2 activites then read your independent book
• Human Experience: Directions on Edublogs 
• Discussion (small and large)
• Writer’s Workshop
• What my comments mean
• Dialogue (natural), Show don’t Tell/more showing, development of aspects of a short story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution), character details (backstory, relationships)
• First Draft Evaluation: Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, Developing, Beginning
• Meet with me
• Revise from first draft/second to second/third if you have Comments from me and have figured out where to start with those comments 
• Revising: working to make the ideas of your story stronger, adding more showing/details, removing parts that don’t work, adding more character detail, move ideas and sentences around, substitute words (stronger descriptions, details, etc)
• Rubric

Monday, Sept. 23 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Turn on computer and take out “Cask of Amontillado”:  Questions for “Cask of Amontillado” in Google Classroom
• After you submit your answers, print off your first draft (back to back printing), turn in to me, put a check by your name (then read your independent book)
• 10 minutes of reading
• Writer’s Workshop Time
• Peer Question Flooding: 
• Read peer’s story, write all questions, comments, ideas on their draft. Read it looking for ways to help them revise
• You should have MANY things written on your peer’s story (ABSOLUTE MINIMUM =10)
• At the end of their story, write one thing you think they are doing well with and one area where you think they should focus their work
• Ideas: things you don’t understand, suggestions for clarity/detail/plot, things you like 
• When done, start working on revising your story (finishing if not done, planning on how to make this story the best you can) or read your independent book
• Draft in Classroom by 5:30 today DON'T CLICK TURN IN!!!!!!! 

Turnitin: Class ID: 22498299 Enrollment Key: F2019eng9

Thursday, Sept. 19 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Dialogue format mini-lesson (editing section)
• Writing your own Short Story 
• Your short story: story map/plot chart outline (in classroom)
• Get it checked before beginning First Draft –show me as soon as you are done
• Story map/Plot chart due, at the latest, end of class today
• Writer’s Workshop
• Story map: Get it checked ASAP
• **Drafting Time –Use the document shared with you in Classroom, first draft submitted to Turnitin by Monday ? (LATEST), {typed, double spaced}, Second draft due ?
• If you do need a break, read your book rather than cause a distraction (also, don’t go to sites other than those being used for music or research for your story)
• I will be checking in on your progress throughout class

Wednesday, Sept. 18 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: PoV, Setting, Mood notes
• Tone and Mood words 
• “Cask of Amontillado” pg 344
• While reading, take notes on text of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)
• Annotate as needed to help understand story as well
• If you finish reading the short story, read your independent book

Tuesday, Sept. 17 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Precise adjectives- word choice 
• Show Don’t Tell –notes in the craft lesson section
• Show Don’t Tell Quick Write: in WN, pick a picture from the link in Classroom and SHOW the individual in it as a character
• House on Mango Street Discussion
• TIQA Notes: Craft Lesson Section
• Character Traits:
• Write a TIQA paragraph to answer this question:  Look at the character details and inferences you made while reading.  Based on these, what conclusions can you draw about this character. In other words, pick at least one, if not two, adjectives/phrases you would use to describe her and then analyze why you chose them.  Make sure you have a piece of textual evidence to support your claim (the Q portion of TIQA): TURN IN AT END OF BLOCK
• 10 Minutes Reading

Monday, Sept. 16 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Diagnostic 
• New Endings: 
• You can only switch if you have a full page
• Read through, answer three questions at the end of their story
• 1) What was your favorite phrase/sentence/image? Why?
• 2) What could they have done to make their writing stronger?
• 3) What was the biggest similarity OR difference between their story and yours?
• Make sure your name is by your answers.  Hand it back to them and read your book
• Short Story #2 Focus: Character
• In Reader’s Notes -Short Story section: Character Guided Notes
• Excerpts from House on Mango Street 
• Highlight character details, annotate what inferences you make; read your book while we wait for all to finish reading

Friday, Sept. 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Group Change (sit in your seat but don’t take your stuff out yet)
• Independent Reading Time –goal meetings start Monday -be prepared with packet and thoughts about your book
• Another author’s version - Did this version make the changes you would have?
• What source details?
• How interpreted/transformed?
• Discuss the new version
• Write new version of ending (one page minimum (1.5 spaced), first sentence or two textual evidence, your version due Monday
• Due Monday: One Page New Ending SoT
• • Think of how you want to change or add on to the end of the story
  • As you plan, you want to find a place in the story to start.  The only requirement is that the butterfly must be stepped on and the future must change; other than that, you can change what you’d like.
  • The first sentence or two need to be textual evidence.  A few suggestions would be pg 45 ”Just ran off the Path, that’s all…” or pg 47 “Embedded in the mud, glistening green…” –Italicize (if typing) or Underline (if handwriting) your textual evidence
  • Your new end/changed story needs to be at least a page in length (if typing, set it to 12 font and 1.5 spaced)
• Read your independent book when done