Wednesday, Oct. 4 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Turn on computer, pull up research document (it should be shared with me)

}Research Time:

◦Step one: finish finding potential sources (You should be done with this)

◦Step two: weed out your sources and start taking notes on articles (You should be done with at least 2 articles and 1 video OR MORE)

◦Step three: Find more videos/continue taking notes on pictures/slide shows and videos

◦Step four: Finish taking notes on sources: aim for 9-12 sources with substantial notes

}If needed, work a bit on your short story as well

◦Due tomorrow

MLA Format handout explanation (make sure your final looks right)

You will need to have a blank rubric with your final draft at the beginning of the block tomorrow

}Homework: By tomorrow, have the notes for at least 1/2 to 3/4ths of your sources complete (to be safe, you could have all but one or two, but we’ll have about 25 minutes of time to finish notes tomorrow). 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 tomorrow, and share your findings with a group and start your writing on tomorrow or Friday

Tuesday, Oct. 3 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Suffixes

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Finish peer revision

◦Look at peer revision answers

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

}Make sure you have headphones!!

}How to take notes from potential sources

◦Own words, copy and highlight, copy only important info

}How to take notes from videos/pictures

◦You should take notes on at least one video/audio clip

}Research Time

◦If you didn’t show me yesterday, today make sure this is on your research document!!

–Topic written out in sentence/question form (what guides your research) What is it like to be        in    dealing with   ?

–At least 7 key terms/words/phrases you will use for researching

–Around 15 (the more you have the better) articles and videos (I will be checking this today)

◦Step one: finish finding potential sources

◦Step two: weed out your sources and start taking notes on articles

–By tomorrow you should have notes on at least 2 articles and one video!!

◦Step three: Start taking notes on pictures/slide shows and videos

}HWK: Revise and edit short story, final due THURSDAY. Make sure you are done with notes for at least 3 of your sources (or to be a bit ahead of the game, around1/2 to 3/4ths or more of the articles you have)

Monday, Oct. 2 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes

}International Human Experience Research

}On the research document from Friday, you need to continue finding potential sources.  You need at least 15 (the more you have the better) articles and at least one (hopefully more) video or image slideshow. Tomorrow we will begin taking notes the articles.  When you get 15-20 solid seeming articles/videos/slideshows/etc, switch to working on your short story.  Tomorrow will be the last class time on it.

NEED 15-20 POTENTIAL articles and videos by TUESDAY!

}Make sure you have headphones TOMORROW!!

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦Peer Revision on Turnitin –due Tuesday at 1:00

◦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 Thursday!

–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

Friday, Sept. 30 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Verb Tense

}Comma Reminders

}Workshop Time

◦Revising  and Editing to next draft

◦Yellow= Something in Editing Section (Dialogue, fragment, verb tense), Comma Issues –from sheet

◦Pink= Fluency, Sentence Structure (general), 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.

◦Work on: revise/edit/peer edit, work on draft, etc

◦Rubric

}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   ?

– By Monday: Research Document started (question on document)

–At least 7 key terms/words/phrases you will use for researching

At least 3 potential sources

Thursday, Sept. 28 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Dependent Clauses/Fragments

}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

◦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

–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)

}Editing Draft due 8pm tonight

}Re-Title your draft: Name Editing Draft

}Final Draft due THURSDAY: we’ll have some workshop time tomorrow and next week

}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?

}Read your book if you have time left

Wednesday, Sept. 27 Agenda

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

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦Work Time Choices:

–Finish first draft, upload to Turnitin

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

}Universal Theme and Symbolism

}“The Sniper”

◦What is the theme of this story? While reading, close read the story for details that show theme. 

}SSR Letter due Friday

Tuesday, Sept. 26 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: New Seats

}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 latest, beginning of class tomorrow

}**Drafting Time –Share document with me NOW, first draft submitted to Turnitin by 9AM Thursday, {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

}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)

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

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

◦Post your group’s info to Schoology

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

}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)

Monday, Sept. 25 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: PoV, Setting, Mood review; Mood words handout

}“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.

◦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.

◦https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231266349049/

}SSR letter due Friday

Thursday, Sept. 21 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Character Writing Illustration

}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 (details on next slide)

}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 defining and writing about revenge

}Collect AoW Reflection

Wednesday, Sept. 20 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Finish TIQA, check mine on board, read if finished

}Precise adjectives- word choice

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

◦Share Show don’t Tell writing with partner

}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)

}In Glossary 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?

}Discuss and take notes 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. –