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.