Friday, Feb. 28 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading Time -fill out reading record
• Research Based Writing Guidelines
• Example Realistic Research-based Fiction
• Writer’s Workshop
• Finish any steps that you haven’t (research, notes, etc)
• Story Map or Plot Chart: you need a plan for your story that covers the main points of a short story (like we made for our last story) (Due beginning of class Monday at latest): digital or paper
• Your story must have exposition (setting, characters, internal and external conflict), rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution, universal theme
• Get story map checked 
• Start your story 

Thursday, Feb. 27 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: What do I still need? Get your computer, log on, think of the question, “What am I missing?”: 
• Final class research time (+/- 45 min)
• Anything that helps answer “What is it like to be in dealing with ?” –what aspect of the life of that person/group do you not know yet? Find answers!
• You need to have at least one video that you are using as a resource.  Look through the videos on BBC and Reuters before going to YouTube or just searching the web –BUT now that you are thinking of what you may be missing about this perspective, you can search the wider web, but make sure your sources are CREDIBLE
• Remember, you are going to become a person with this perspective, so get as much information as you can to help you write AS a/the person in the situation/event/issue
• In order to start writing your story tomorrow (which is where you need to be), you need to have notes on at least (minimum) 9 sources (Aim for 12 or even more with images and such)!!
• 10 min Reading (or read when you are done with notes)
• Collaboration Time
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Wednesday, Feb. 26 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 minutes Independent reading
• How to take notes from videos/pictures
• You should take notes on at least one video/audio clip (label for me so when I check notes, I can see which are video, which are article)
• MAKE SURE YOU HAVE HEADPHONES
• By end of block, have the notes for at least 3/4ths of your sources done. Your end goal of sources should be around 9-12 quality, reliable sources with LOTS of notes on each to help you answer your research question and become a person in that place/situation.   Be prepared to finish your note taking and share your findings with a group tomorrow and start your writing on Thursday/Friday
• If you finish taking notes, start to organize your notes, figuring out what event/situation/issue you could work into a short work of realistic fiction.  Highlight details of your notes that you feel you want to use
• Independent Reading Time
• if you finish notes/need a break

Tuesday, Feb. 25 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 Min Reading
• How to take notes from potential sources
• Own words, copy and highlight, copy only important info -see previous slide
• Turn on computer, pull up research document 
• Step .5 (starting point of Tuesday): pick one of the sources you have (even if you have fewer than 15) that you think will have a TON of basic info on your situation.  Use it to practice note taking and to see if you need to narrow your focus
• Research Time: 
• Step one: finish finding potential sources (You should be done with this by end of block)
• You need to have at a minimum 15 potential sources to start notes
• Step two: weed out your sources and start taking notes on articles (You should be done with at least 3 articles or more by the end of today’s class)
• Step three: Find more videos/continue taking notes on pictures/slide shows and videos
• Make sure you have HEADPHONES!!
• Step four: Finish taking notes on sources: aim for 9-12 sources with substantial notes
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Monday, Feb. 24 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Collect Final Draft of Short Story
• Print off, back to back (make sure it is in MLA like we talked about with your first draft.), paperclip with rubric on top
• Intro to International Human Experience Research
• Research Time
• Today I need to see:
• Topic written out in sentence/question form (what guides your research) What is it like to be      in dealing with ? 
• Research Document started (question on document)
• At least 7 key terms/words/phrases you will use for researching 
• Step one: finding potential sources
• Around 15 (the more you have the better) articles and videos (I will be checking this end of Tuesday/beg. Wed.) –at least 3 videos
• Step two: weed out your sources and start taking notes on articles (more info on this Tues.)
• Step three: Start taking notes on pictures/slide shows and videos (will talk about Tuesday/Wednesday)
• Independent Reading Time (10 minutes in the middle of class to break up research)

Friday, February 21 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Human Experience in Fiction Assessment
• TIQA
• Writer’s Workshop Time 
• What is the theme? How to reinforce?
• Apps to help you edit: Turnitin Purple Layer; Prowritingaid.com; Hemingway App
• 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 in Classroom (we set the document to this for the first draft, make sure you didn’t change)
• 12 pt font
• Readable font
• 1.5 spaced at least
• Left aligned
• 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
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Thursday, Feb. 20 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Take out the short story rubric
• Writer’s Workshop time on Story: looking at standards on Rubric
• Upload ‘new’ draft to Revision option in Turnitin –We’ll talk about a peer revision option tomorrow (due end of Fri.)
• 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
• “The Sniper” Discussion
• Sniper TIQA
• TIQA Suggestions (add to notes)
• Themes from Discussion
• Write a TIQA paragraph where you explain what the theme is and the textual evidence that builds that theme. –due today
• 10 min Independent Book
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Wednesday, Feb. 19 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep/Editing: Complete Sentences vs. Incomplete, Verb Tense, and Comma Rules
• 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 (at minimum 3 from different parts of story)
• Continue working on your story when you finish reading 
• Writer’s Workshop Time
• Work on making your story the best thing you’ve ever written
• Final Draft due Monday: Peer Edit option tomorrow (have a ‘new’ draft ready: make sure you are working on both editing and revising)
• 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
• 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. 

Tuesday, Feb.18 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 minutes Independent Reading
• 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 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)
• Editing Draft:
• Re-Title your draft: Name Editing Draft and make sure it is the one in the Classroom assignment (end of block)

Thursday, Feb. 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Activities: complete 1-2 activites then read your independent book
• Human Experience: Directions on Edublogs 
• Discussion and Posting a comment then a post
• Writer’s Workshop
• Revision focus (what did you write yesterday?)
• Have you addressed all requirements in story?
• If time, start fixing basic editing things too
• Rubric
• End of block: Upload draft to Turnitin (MAKE SURE TO CLICK CONFIRM!)
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Wednesday, Feb. 12 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 minutes of reading
• Writer’s Workshop Time (35)
• 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