Wednesday, March 18 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: MEETING #3
• Discuss Big Idea ex with whole class (people from diff books)
• Work on your bibliography entries and posting pictures to your story on your blog
• Final Short Story (with bibliography entries) due MONDAY the 23rd: turn in to Classroom (FINAL DRAFT assignment)
• Story with pictures in blog due by Monday the 23rd
• 10 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc 
• Be safe, remember, lots of stuff due on Monday and we'll start class up again on the 30th!!!

Tuesday, March 17 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Bibliographic Entries: How to
• Writer’s Workshop Time: FINAL EVERYTHING SHORT STORY RELATED DUE MONDAY!!! (Assignment in Google Classroom as well as blog post on YOUR edublogs blog)
• Bibliography due with the final copy
• Alphabetical order! You DO need to add addresses.
• Peer Edit and Self Edit as you work toward your final draft
• Consider using a computer resource for editing assistance:
• Grammarly.com, slickwrite.com, Easy Bib’s grammar portion, Ginger writer, Turnitin’s purple layer, prowritingaid.com, hemingwayapp.com
• Perspective Story Rubric reminder
• Work on what you need to do to make this story the best piece of writing you have done -be prepared to post a close to final draft on your blog
• Third/fourth draft –fluency and general self-edit
• Draft posted on your blog after 15–should be at a ‘final’ point
• Title the post your story’s title
• I will not be grading THIS online version...
• Enhancing Readers’ Understanding
• Need at least 3 images/videos/links posted by MONDAY
• Meeting #3 CHANGE TO TOMORROW!!!

Monday, March 16 Agenda

• Explanations of how things will work during online learning starting March 30th -change calendar for book club meetings (nothing March 23-27)
• Bell Ringer: Meeting #2
• See Google Classroom for Meeting Agenda
• MEETING 3 WILL BE WEDNESDAY!!!

Friday, March 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 15 minutes Reading time
• Writer’s Workshop:
• Sign up for a conference with me to talk about your theme tracing and what you’ve been working on/what you still want to do
• Need to confer with me today or Monday
• Work on REVISING your story (think of the theme and human experience, etc)
• Remember, part of revising is often DELETING things, not just adding
• Universal theme? What are your plans for revising for it?
• Work on EDITING your story: 
• Print out draft to edit: use your comma note sheet/ideas from Quill
• Consider using a computer resource for editing assistance:
• Grammarly.com, slickwrite.com, Easy Bib’s grammar portion, Ginger writer, Turnitin’s purple layer, prowritingaid.com, hemingwayapp.com
• Big Ideas from Section 1 –make sure you have examples on your notes sheets from yesterday!

Thursday, March 12 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Sit with your book club group with your thought log and book out, ready to start
• Meeting 1
• See Google Classroom for meeting agenda link
• Hwk: Read for Meeting #2

Wednesday, March 11 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Pivotal Moments
• Under your personal identity chart from last week/Monday, brainstorm a list of moments, events, ideas, etc that you feel have been important in your life
• Pick the 2 that you feel are the most pivotal (a turning point to who you are today): one that is within your control, one that was not
• Independent Reading Time (Make sure you are ready for Meeting #1 tomorrow)
• Writer’s Workshop: Theme Tracing and more: see next slide
• • Theme Tracing:
  • Theme tracing –what is your theme? Where is it alluded to? What details build your message? –highlight all pieces of theme as you develop it (think of “The Sniper”)
  • Also use printed copy for editing
  • Once you have highlighted the whole story, keep in binder for conference on Thursday/Friday
• Upload to Turnitin to use the computer generated editing

Tuesday, March 10 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Sit with your book club groups
• Quill Time (work on the comma correction ones if you haven’t finished yet as well as the others assigned)
• WN Entry (Quick Writes in Book Club section):
• “We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups. It’s a natural tendency, since we must see the world in patterns in order to make sense of it; we wouldn’t be able to deal with the daily onslaught of people and objects if we couldn’t predict a lot about them and feel that we know who or what they are.”     -Deborah Tannen
• Respond to this: Do you agree? Why yes/no? What parts? What is the benefit of looking for patterns? What gets lost when we view the world like this? When is it harmful or offensive to see others as representatives of groups?                
• Independent Reading Time 
• Thought log: if you were gone yesterday, talk to those who were here yesterday about expectation reminders
• Take out a sheet of paper from your Book Club section of your binder: Discussion Discussion (previous slide)
• Discussion Guidelines and Rubric
• Writer’s Workshop: REVISE and EDIT
• • All parts of the story
  • Make sure your story has all aspects of a plot chart (especially the falling actions/resolution)
  • Show don’t Tell
  • Make sure you have LOTS of details!
  • Revising sometimes means taking things out that don’t work.
  • Fluency- make sure your story SOUNDS good and that sentences and words flow
  • Edit/Proofread
  • Pink: basic conventions (punctuation (other than commas), capitalization, verb tense, etc.) fluency
  • Yellow: things that are in your editing section: sentence structure (fragment/run-on, comma splice, commas), dialogue format, etc.
  • Print out your story if it will help you check for errors more.
  • After first meeting: Meet with me if you would like; make sure you have a purpose in our meeting…
  
  

Monday, March 9 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Identity continued (Identity Chart b4)
• “Stories We Tell Ourselves”
• For question 3, consult your identity chart rather than make a new list, and then answer the questions based on your chart
• When you finish the 4 questions (put with identity chart in your book club section of your binder); read your book
• Independent reading time MAKE SURE YOU ARE WRITING THINGS IN YOUR THOUGHT LOG FOR THURSDAY!!
• Prep for Meeting 1 (Thursday): put all of these handouts in your book club binder section
• Writer’s Workshop 

• Work on your draft (making it better, starting with the ‘-’ column ideas or other places you know you need to work
• Conferences with me: you can either share with me what you’ve been working on with revising or share your for revising one of your ‘-’ notes, sign up for a conference/come up to me and we’ll meet on what you are planning to do (and I’ll answer any questions you have)
• Continuing with Revising, Editing, and working on your story
• Editing Draft: 
• Pink: basic conventions (punctuation (other than commas), capitalization, etc.), fluency
• Yellow: things that are in your editing section: sentence structure (fragment/run-on, comma splice, commas), dialogue format, verb tense, etc.

Friday, March 6 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 Minutes Reading Time
• Identity Continued:
• Identity Chart 
• Writer’s Workshop
• Goal on Post It from feedback on your first story for your second -NEED for Monday’s meeting (revision goal, editing goal) 
• Revision Brainstorm Discussion: share a ‘-’ point from your comments
• Overall issue I noticed: many stories seem like they could just have a few words changed and have an experience that happened here in WI…that’s not our goal…
• The HUMAN EXPERIENCE of an individual in a different country (some things are universal, but many things are dependent on the place you live…SHOW THIS in your story)
• Start fixing your story from an editing perspective as well.  I will be reading through this weekend for that, and you want me to get as far as possible when I hit six highlighted errors. You need to copy your draft into the editing draft assignment in Classroom for me to do it.  Also, Upload your draft to Turnitin, and title it: Title Editing Draft
• If your story is in the Editing Draft Assignment in Classroom, I will read
• Fourth block: Quill assignment

Thursday, March 5 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Independent Work time: start with the comma sentence corrections, if you get two completed today, work on others if time
• Remember to fill out your reflection form: what is at least one rule, skill, idea from the activities today that you will try to remember for your writing?
• Book Club: Calendar Creation 
• Book Club binder section set up: big ideas, Quick Write/WN section
• WN: Brainstorm ideas for these questions: What is identity? To what extent do we determine our own identities? What influence does society have?
• “Two Names, Two Worlds” -annotate while reading 
• Questions due Friday
• Independent Reading (if you turn in your letter, I can give you your book club book if I have it)