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1. Questions on Diverse response #1 – due tomorrow!
2. Complete work from Tuesday on recasting tales to a literary lens.
3. Small group share.  Read your recast, discuss the recast and then identify which critical lens is the focus on the recast.  Discuss how you know which lens offers the perspective.
4. Share with the entire class.
5. Theory Wars: Review assignment and begin with taking notes.

Homework:

Diversity Independent Reading:

Section 1: Thursday, October 1 (summary and reaction)

Section 2: Friday, October 9 (all four parts of the response noted above)

Section 3: Thursday, October 15(summary and reaction)

Section 4: Friday, October 23 (all four parts of the response noted above)

Critical Lens Essay: Tuesday, November 3

Please type your responses in MLA format!

1. Finish reading Seedfolks. Discuss the book.
2. Journal #10 9/30/09: Over the past few weeks, we’ve read Seedfolks and developed several ideas to write about this year and we wrote 5 WBC pieces and we’re working on one refined personal narrative.  What connections can you make between your life and Seedfolks? How is this story relevant to your life? What does your writing (WBC, personal narrative) show about you as a person?  What does your writing show about you as a writer?  For instance, where does your writing show improvement?
3. Share ideas for your brainstorm of your personal narrative.  Begin working on your draft.

You need a draft of your writing for Friday.  Your draft may be hand-written or typed.  It needs to be 1 ½ to 2 pages long.

4.Time permitting: parts of speech notes for review

Homework:

Draft of personal narrative due Friday, October 2

Revision due Thursday, October 8

1. Review personal narrative assignment questions.
2. Dialogue in writing: Make a list of five statements you have overheard today. Write them as close to verbatim (word-for-word) as possible. Then, rank them from most interesting to least interesting. Have you heard people talking at home, in the hallways or in class?  What do people say?

* Discuss: How the location of the person influences what or how they say something? How should dialogue sound in your writing?  How can you write so it sounds real?

* Be sure to put dialogue in your personal narrative

*When using dialogue between characters and changing speakers, start a new paragraph.

*Share your dialogue with a partner.  Does your dialogue sound like real conversations?

*Add or revise dialogue in your personal narrative

3. Share brainstorm for personal narrative writing in small groups.

4. MAPS notes

5. Peer review model and practice

Homework:

1. Personal narrative draft: Thursday, October 1
2. Personal narrative final draft and process work due Thursday, October 8

1. Journal #11 9/29/09: Open topic.
2. Reading and Writing in the 21^st Century: short films and discussion

3.”My Papa’s Waltz”: Read the poem to yourself several times

Construct an oral reading of the poem that conveys it’s meaning – which words would you stress/emphasize.  Is one reading the definitive reading?  What does Roethke mean to communicate?  What other ways are there to read the poem?

4. Introduction to “Literary Theories: A Sampling of Critical Lenses”.  Review each lens and the role of lenses.

Time permitting:

5. “Little Miss Muffet” by Russell Baker. Read and discuss.

After actively reading..

• List the 7 perspectives from which Little Miss Muffet was analyzed.
• Which perspective was the LONGEST (most words)?
• What was the main point of that section?
• Which perspective was the SHORTEST?
• What was the main point of that section?

6. Now, it is your turn to recast a familiar fairy tale or Mother Goose rhyme or song lyrics.  You may choose your own tale or nursery rhyme or song lyrics.  I also have a few selections you may use.  In groups of three to four, write from at least three perspectives.  For today, decide which fairytale you will work on tomorrow.

Homework:

1. Diversity Independent Reading:

Section 1: Thursday, October 1 (summary and reaction)

Section 2: Friday, October 9 (all four parts of the response noted above)

Section 3: Thursday, October 15(summary and reaction)

Section 4: Friday, October 23 (all four parts of the response noted above)

Critical Lens Essay: Tuesday, November 3

Please type your responses in MLA format!

If class time allows select a fairy tale, rhyme or song to recast.  If we do not discuss this in class, this conversation will carry into Wednesday.

1. Journal #9 9/29/09: Vocabulary (writing terms)—copy words & definitions; use each in a sentence.
memoir (n): An account of the personal experiences of an author.

narrative (n): A story told in speech, writing, and/or with images.

compose (v): To create or produce.

draft (v): Create by thinking and writing.

revise (v): To reconsider and modify.

2. Review and turn in WBC #5: Exploding the Moment

3. Over the past few weeks you’ve been engaged in various writing activities.  Now, you will be developing one selection and taking it through the writing process.  Read the personal narrative writing assignment.  You may choose to revise a selection that you’ve already been working on or start something new.  You may also develop a story from your life map.

4. Review ways that we can brainstorm

Create a brainstorm for your writing.  List, freewrite, web, etc.

5. Share your brainstorm with a partner.

6. Read “The Dare” and “The Perfect Hideout”.

Discuss the use of specific details, description, dialogue and diction or word choice.  Your personal narrative will need to include details, description, dialogue and diction (strong nouns and verbs).

7. Work on your own personal narrative draft

Homework:

Brainstorm topic for personal narrative for tomorrow: Wednesday, September 30

Draft of personal narrative due Friday, October 2

Revision due Thursday, October 8

1. Turn in WBC#5: Detail writing
2. Over the past few weeks you’ve been engaged in various writing activities.  Now, you will be developing one selection and taking it through the writing process.  Read the personal narrative writing assignment.  You may choose to revise a selection that you’ve already been working on or start something new.  You may also develop a story from your life map.
3. Discuss ways that we brainstorm. Create a brainstorm for your writing.  List, freewrite, web, etc.
4. Share your brainstorm with a partner.
5. Read examples of a personal narrative together.  Pay attention to specific details, description, dialogue and diction or word choice.  Your personal narrative will need to include details, description, dialogue and diction (strong nouns and verbs).
6. Discuss: What was interesting to you in your reading?  What specific details or description did you like?
7. Time permitting: adjective problems exercise!

Homework:

Complete your brainstorm for the personal narrative.

1. Personal narrative rough draft for Thursday, October 1
2. Personal narrative final draft and process work due Thursday, October 8

1. Journal #10 9/28/09: What is your initial reaction to your diversity novel?  What strategies might you try to actively read your novel?  Why?  What different perspectives can you consider in the novel?  That is, are there different points of view from characters or outsiders that might lead to a different reading of the text?
2. Share responses to the journal.
3. Revisit reading tips:

Reading advice – notes and readings

Using the information we have covered:

1. 1. In-class notes
   2. Listening as You Read
   3. How to Mark a Book

Create the BIGGEST list possible of all of the best advice you can use to improve your likelihood of remembering what you read

1. Strategies to mark a text for ACT reading

Homework:

1. Diversity Independent Reading:

Section 1: Thursday, October 1 (summary and reaction)

Section 2: Friday, October 9 (all four parts of the response noted above)

Section 3: Thursday, October 15(summary and reaction)

Section 4: Friday, October 23 (all four parts of the response noted above)

Critical Lens Essay: Tuesday, November 3

Please type your responses in MLA format!

1.  Journal #8 9/28/09: If you could be only one of the following, which would you pick?  Explain why & defend your choice.

Very athletic
Very attractive
Very intelligent
Be sure to have a clear position and support for your journal response.

Seedfolks

Review WBC assignments: WBC #3: Neighborhood story, WBC#4: Artifact story, WBC#5: Exploding the moment

Homework:
Make sure all 5 WBC assignments are complete!

1. Review all parts of speech.  Review the definition and examples
2. WBC #4: Neighborhood story.  Review and turn in.
3. The Courtyard – paying attention to detail and adding details to our writing

WBC #5: Paying attention to details.  Write a piece about at topic of your choice, but focus on using specific details.  If you are struggling with finding a topic, revisit some of your earlier WBC pieces.

Time permitting:

Over the past two weeks you’ve been engaged in various writing activities.  Now, you will be developing one selection and taking it through the writing process.  Read the personal narrative writing assignment.  You may choose to revise a selection that you’ve already been working on or start something new.  You may also develop a story from your life map.

Discuss ways that we brainstorm. Create a brainstorm for your writing.  List, freewrite, web, etc.

Time permitting; share your brainstorm with a partner.

Homework:

1. WBC #5: Detail writing due tomorrow.

1. Journal #9 9/25/09: Open topic.
2. Silent reading of diversity novel
3. Complete a Silent Reading Response and turn in today!

Homework:

Diversity Independent Reading:

Section 1: Thursday, October 1 (summary and reaction)

Section 2: Friday, October 9 (all four parts of the response)

Section 3: Thursday, October 15(summary and reaction)

Section 4: Friday, October 23 (all four parts of the response)

Critical Lens Essay: Tuesday, November 3