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