Thursday, Feb. 15 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: prefixes

}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 

Try to have at least 10 potential sources by Monday as well

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Look at peer revision answers

◦Use rubric to help revise and edit to the BEST PIECE OF WRITING YOU’VE DONE

}Collect AoW Reflection (technically due MONDAY)

}HWK: Revise and edit short story, final due TUESDAY. Make sure you are done with notes for at least 3 of your sources 

Wednesday, Feb. 14 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}AoW Discussion

◦On the bottom of the article, list three important/interesting/insightful/etc points or questions from your discussion with your partner.

}Sniper TIQA

◦Write a TIQA paragraph where you explain what the theme is and the textual evidence that builds that theme. –due after 20 minutes

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦Upload Draft 2 to Turnitin!! Peer Revision on Turnitin –due Thursday

◦What is the theme? How to reinforce?

◦Conferences: Need to meet with me (If you haven’t conferred yet)

◦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 Tuesday!

–Printed out when the bell rings!

–MLA Format: look at sheet handed out

–12 pt font

–Readable font

–1.5 spaced at least

–Rubric with the final copy

Tuesday, Feb. 13 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Verb Tense

}Human Experience Form –click to it from blogging blog

◦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

}Theme: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231270331821/

}“The Sniper”

◦What is the theme of this story? While reading, close read the story for details that show theme.  -homework if you don’t finish

}Comma Reminders

}Workshop Time

◦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: if you want me to keep going, ask me if I have a chance to continue reading for editing issues in Turnitin

◦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.

◦Rubric

AoW Close Read due TOMORROW!

Monday, Feb. 12 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Dependent Clauses/Fragments

}Independent Reading Blog Post

}AoW Close Read due Wed.

}Theme: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231270331821/

◦Post your group’s info to Schoology

◦Once you’ve posted, work on your story while you wait for other groups

}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)

–First Draft Evaluation: Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, Developing, Beginning

–Answer: How does your story demonstrate/reflect the human experience? What aspects? In what way?

–Meet with me (if your draft has comments on it, you have written how it demonstrates the human experience, and you have done what the white board says)

–Revise from first draft to second if you have Comments from me and have figured out where to start with those comments (or second to third if you self-revise a bit more)

–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)

–Final Draft due TUESDAY the 20th: we’ll have some workshop time the next few days

}Editing Draft due 8pm tonight (if you want, google drive)

}Re-Title your draft: Name Editing Draft 

Friday, Feb. 9 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Dialogue format mini-lesson (editing section)

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦Work Time Choices:

–Finish first draft, upload to Turnitin by end of work time/by Saturday night (if it’s after that, still upload it, it will just be late)

–Answer: How does your story demonstrate/reflect the human experience? What aspects? In what way?

}Definition of Theme–notes in Short Story terms area of Reader’s Notebook

}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)

Thursday, Feb. 8 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: ACT Prep

}Time to finish “Cask of Amontillado”

}Writing your own Short Story

}Your short story: story map/plot chart outline

◦Get it checked before beginning First Draft –bring it to me as soon as you are done

◦Story map/Plot chart due, at the ABSOLUTE latest, beginning of class tomorrow

}**Drafting Time –Share document with me NOW, first draft submitted to Turnitin by Friday/Saturday, {typed, double spaced}, Second draft due ?

}You must share your draft with me on Google Docs

◦I will be checking in on your progress throughout class.  To be ready for tomorrow, you need to have at least 1/3 of your story's first draft written by tomorrow

}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)

Wednesday, Feb. 7 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Collect AoW Reflection

}PoV, Setting, Mood (Tone and Mood words in craft lesson section)

}“Cask of Amontillado” pg 344

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

◦**Question based on active reading: “What is the mood and what 2-3 details of setting most help establish that mood?”

◦**Question 8: Consider whether Montresor is a reliable or unreliable narrator. Is the reader to believe, as Montresor does, that his revenge is justified? Is Montresor more sane or crazy? Give details from the story to support your opinion.

If you don't get to these during class, that's ok, we'll start tomorrow with 15 minutes to finish.

◦Read “Behind the Cask” pg 352

◦Question 10: Poe often drew inspiration for his tales of horror from the real world.  Compare the details of “The Story Behind ‘The Cask of Amontillado’” with the story of Montresor and Fortunato. How similar are these accounts? Be specific and detailed in your explanation.

HOMEWORK: READ AT LEAST 10 MINUTES OF YOUR INDEPENDENT BOOK!!

Tuesday, Feb. 6 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: If you have colored pencils/markers, grab them before class starts

}Character Writing Illustration

◦When you finish, keep sheets and write reflection or read independent book

}Illustration Discussion and Self-Evaluation

◦Rate your ‘showing’ on a scale of 1-10 (10 being best).  Did you give enough detail in your writing to assist your reader in seeing exactly what you wanted them to see?  Explain after your numerical rating what you did well with and what could be improved

◦3 hole punch the illustration and put both that and your description in the WN section

}Take out your writer’s notebook: Human Experience TIQA 

}}In writer’s notebook: How have the two stories we’ve read so far shown the human experience? USE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE TO ANSWER QUESTION (TIQA paragraph[s])

◦“Sound of Thunder” p 34 and “Pancakes” p 194

}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: Brainstorm and choose point/idea

}Step Two: One paragraph or Two

}Step Three: Find Textual Evidence

}Step Four: Write the TIQA paragraphs 

}Turn in Human Experience Paragraph to folder in green crate and work on finishing defining and writing about revenge

◦If still time, work on reflection: due tomorrow!

Monday, Feb. 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: AoW Discussion and Reflection How-To

}1) Talk with your group about the following things:

◦What are your most pressing points (things you found most interesting/shocking/different/connect to)

◦How does this article fit into what you knew or thought you knew about the subject

◦What are things you still want to know

◦Post on the discussion record board at least one point for each person for each of the above things

}2)Find a question from each of the three/four of you: something you don’t understand or know or want more information about.  Pick the point that either seems to be the most necessary for understanding, or shared by most of you

}3) Do a quick online search and find an answer or some articles and ideas that help to add to your understanding.  Post both the ‘question’ and the ‘answer’ on Schoology (post the links to the articles)

REFLECTION:

3 good sized paragraphs

Connected to annotations and/or ideas brought up in the discussion as well as the specific details of the article itself

Can include information you find in research

DOES NOT JUST RESTATE ANNOTATIONS IN PARAGRAPH FORMAT

}Show Don’t Tell: Character Traits in Writer’s Notebook: 25 minutes of writing time (if you finish your character showing writing before we move on, read/write your reflection)

◦Start a story where you show a character (like the beginning of “Pancakes”) through the traits we talked about while reading “Pancakes” as well as the idea of Show Don’t Tell.

◦Put the character into a situation (action) and SHOW them (also show the place and/or the other details you are writing about)

◦Minimum 2 longer paragraphs by the end of writing time! (could need more to fully show character, but NOT A FULL STORY NEEDED)

}In Reader’s Notebook section: point of view (pg 186), Setting, and Mood (pg 302 and 304 in Lit Book)

◦◦What are the types of Point of View (3)? What are the specifics of each?

◦What is setting?

–How does setting influence: characters, conflicts and symbolism?

◦What is mood?

}In Writer’s Notebook: Is revenge ever justified? Is revenge necessary at times to right a wrong? Can acts of revenge resolve conflicts? If you think no, write why people still commit acts of revenge.  If you think yes, explain how or why. –read your book when you finish this prompt

Friday, Feb. 2 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: ACT Prep/Editing Section (slide 1)

}15 Minutes to finish “Pancakes”

◦Question 3 and “What is the climax?”

–Close Read your AoW/read your independent book when you’re done

}TIQA Notes

}Dynamic Character: go to the end of “Pancakes,” question 5

}Don’t make a new chart, refer to the chart made while reading.  Write a TIQA paragraph to show that Jill either is or is not a dynamic character based on the traits you wrote while reading. Make sure you have a piece of textual evidence to support your claim (the Q portion of TIQA)

}Read your AoW (close read) when you finish; if done with that, read your independent book

}Precise adjectives- word choice

◦Show Don’t Tell –notes in the craft lesson section

◦Share Show don’t Tell writing with partner

}Homework: AoW Close Read