Wednesday, Oct. 18 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Syllables

}Romeo and Juliet Terms (do you have them all? What happened on Mon.?)

}Writer’s Workshop: Revising and Editing

◦Take a look at your first story, identifying some areas of concern with your writing for you to focus on with the current story we are writing

◦Second draft –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.

◦Work on REVISING your story (think of the questions from Monday, from the suggestions you brainstormed for your areas of concern, etc)

–Remember, part of revising is often DELETING things

–Need to confer with me today or tomorrow

}Read choice book, Blog Post instead of SSR letter (I’ll post mine tonight and we’ll talk about it tomorrow)

}Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse clarifications

◦Video: Review of John Green video; https://youtu.be/I5lsuyUNu_4

}Read through Prologue

◦Video on pronunciation

◦Rhyme Scheme and Translation

Tuesday, Oct. 17 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Find your – comments in your draft

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Come up with a specific plan of attack for one of your areas of concern

◦Sign up for a conference with me to talk about the plan

◦Work on REVISING your story (think of the questions from yesterday and human experience, and from the suggestions you just brainstormed, etc)

–Remember, part of revising is often DELETING things, not just adding

◦Universal theme? What are your plans for including it?

◦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.

–Take a look at any issues from your first story, to help you know what you may struggle with and should focus on for this story

◦As you work on your story, our third draft is going to focus on Universal Themes and Fluency

}SSR Week: If you need a break from writing, take some time to read your book. We will be using your blogs for this week’s SSR letter

Monday, Oct. 16

}Bell Ringer: Grab a Lit Book and Go to Reader’s Notebook –make a Romeo and Juliet Section

}Literary Terms pg 930 and 932

◦1{Soliloquy and Aside}, 2{Tragic Hero, Antagonist and Pun}, 3{Foil and Comic Relief}, 4{Dramatic Irony and Allusion} 5{Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse}

◦Need definition, examples given in explanation and possibly examples from other books/movies/sources

–Read through your TV blog post, and check the other blogs you commented on for additional comments connected to yours.

–If there are any comments that need to be responded to, DO THAT.  Check out Belle’s blog for a good example of conversation through comments

}Character Questions: become the main character from your perspective story and answer the questions on the sheet.  Make sure you answer at least 8 of them; everyone needs to answer #3, #8, #9, #13 and #14.

}If time, discuss your answers with the person sitting next to you

}Writer’s Workshop

◦After posting on the board, work on your draft (making it better, starting with the ‘-’ column ideas or other places you know you need to work

◦Conferences with me: when you have an idea how you are going to work on 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 and working on your story

◦Start fixing your story from an editing perspective as well.  I will be reading through tonight for that, and you want me to get as far as possible when I hit six highlighted errors.

Friday, Oct. 13 Agenda

 }Bell Ringer: Roots

}Discussion of Video Preview

}AoW ‘Discussion’

◦Go to collaborator’s blog, read their post.  You need to write a comment on their post that is at least 4 sentences in length (aim for more).

◦Comment Discussion on your post, then read through other classmates’ posts, commenting on at least two and TYING IN OTHER IDEAS FROM THE ARTICLE!

}Go to the post on my edublogs blog to take Shakespeare Intro quiz

◦http://www.dukeofdefinition.com/shakeback_beg.htm

–1. Click Check when you are done

–2. Click "OK"

–3. Copy the entire quiz: from "your score is..." on the top, through the entire document, to "torn down" at the bottom.

–4. Create a Google Document and share it with me

–5. Paste what you copied onto that document (your score and the words of the quiz with your answers- DON’T FIX ANYTHING!!)

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Post one of your – comments and one of your + comments from your draft on the side board

◦Editing Draft: While working on revising for craft, you also should be looking at editing.  Upload your draft and tonight/this weekend I will read for editing issues: Story Title: EDITING DRAFT

Thursday, Oct. 12

}Bell Ringer: Finish notes from Lit Book/Check of “Shakespeare’s World” notes

}Shakespeare Intro: The info from this, as well as the reading from earlier, can be used for the quiz. Make sure each question has lots of details underneath.  You don’t want one answer, you want lots of ideas from different videos/article. The videos can answer multiple questions and you will want to use info from multiple videos for each question

◦Extra Credit: Post a blog post on your blog with a link to a video, set of pictures, or article you think helps give a better understanding of Shakespeare or his influence or any of the other questions.  Along with the link, post what you think can be learned from what you found. 

◦When you have finished the note taking, work on one of these things: your first draft of the Perspective Story, your AoW blog post, read your own book

}Discussion of Shakespeare notes from reading and preview videos

}Small group post on Schoology

}Homework: Finish craft draft (if not done yet; it will be late if it is not complete by approx. 9:00 this evening); in order for me to read your draft, it must be uploaded to Turnitin

Wednesday, Oct. 11 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Commenting on narrative leads

}AoW

◦Blog post due by Friday (your voice, a few thoughts, at least one image)

◦During this work time, either work on your AoW or on your first draft

}In Writer’s Notebook: Discuss with partner and record notes: What do you know about Shakespeare and/or his works? List anything and everything you can think of about who he was/is, what he wrote, when he wrote, etc.

}“Shakespeare’s World”

◦Read and take notes pg 926-929

◦Take detailed notes as there will be an open notes quiz (after discussion of all notes tomorrow or Friday) –post one piece of info to the board

}Work Time if you finish the reading and notes before we move on:

◦Choices: Work on first draft, write the blog post, read choice book

}Homework: Work on draft, AoW blog post

Tuesday, Oct. 10 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}Making a blog

}Writer’s Workshop: turn on computer

◦Once you posted the first post, work on your first draft.  Remember to think of Universal Theme!!

◦Make sure you are basing what is happening off your research (do more if needed)

◦Narrative Leads: Post the beginning of your story on your blog.  Your Commenting Collaborator will read what you have so far and give suggestions: what narrative leads technique is being used, what can be done to keep reader’s interest, what questions do you have, etc.

◦Once you’ve posted, check your collaborator’s blog, then comment, then go back to your post, read their comments, and get back to work on writing your story

◦First draft (Craft Draft) can be done at the end of workshop time (shared with me on Google Docs and uploaded to Turnitin) but is due by Thursday evening (but there will be no class time for it on that day)

◦Work on your first draft over the next few days, when it is done, write “Name Completed Craft Draft” as the document title on Google Drive and Turnitin: I will only read through drafts that are titled this way

Monday, Oct. 9 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}Narrative Lead suggestions (shared)

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Get story map checked (if it is complete and shared with me, I will check it); if it’s not done, complete the story map

◦Begin writing your rough draft; consult your notes for details and remember the requirements we talked about Friday!!

◦By the end of class today you should have 1/3 to HALF of your draft done (or more)

◦Rough Draft due Thursday about 6pm, but I cannot promise work time on it on Thursday

}AoW –on the blogging blog (http://mrsjohnson715.edublogs.org )

◦Close Read due Wednesday (see the directions on the blog for the close reading/notes options)

Friday, Oct. 6 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Finish Collaboration (theme reminders –“Sniper” para)

}Research Writing Project guidelines

}First Person Accounts

}Organize your notes, figuring out what event/situation/issue you are going to be writing about first –once you have thought about how to make your information match the requirements, you can start making a story map (make a copy of the story map shared with you)

}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 middle 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

Thursday, Oct. 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Rubric (top), final draft: paper clipped together in that order

}What do I still need?

}First Person Accounts Vs. Typical News Stories (Perspective Writing)

◦Facebook: Humans of New York (refugee perspectives)

–https://medium.com/@humansofnewyork/humans-of-new-york-refugee-stories-243336f4adeb#.pmcklityr

}Get your computer, log on, think of the question, “What am I missing?”:

◦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!

}Final class research time (+/- 35 min)

◦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

◦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)!!

}Look through your notes, create a list of the information that you have that you feel could be universal/common in other situations

}Collaboration time

◦Universal Big Ideas for Themes sheet with you when you go, along with your list of common