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Staff Review Day 2

 Agenda: Continue Reviews Homework: Make sure your documented review sheet is in Make sure you have a full draft Make sure you are caught up

Staff Review

 Agenda: Warm-up: Overview of WS Staff Reviews 2 staff 1 peer Be prepared to continue tomorrow Homework: Finish reviews by Friday w/ signatures

Personal Essay Big Edits Day 2

 Agenda: Review of yesterday Use your edits to make the big draft changes Prepare for tomorrow's readers Homework: Make sure you have a draft for tomorrow 

Personal Essay Big Edits

 Agenda: Warm-up: Overview of the Big Edits process Workshop: Make sure your draft is completed Identify the areas needed for Big Edits Homework: Make sure you on on track with your draft

Back Work Half Day

  Back Work Half Day Make sure you are done with author comparisons Make sure you have completed ~40% of the vocabulary site Check on any other missing work

Library Day #5

 Agenda: Continue reading your book Complete journal for the inciting incident (starting a fight) Homework: Make sure that you are caught up At this point, you should have your draft roughly completed for edits next week

Bene and Mal Review

 Agenda: Bene and Mal Worksheet Continue working on personal essay Homework: Make sure you are caught up  

Personal Essay Workshop Day 2

  Agenda: Continue working on your personal essays Homework: Make sure that you are caught up on assignments

Personal Essay Workshop Day 1

 Agenda: Continue working on your personal essays Homework: Make sure that you are caught up on assignments

Book Session #4

 Agenda: Warm-up: Book Pacing Document Reading Session #4 w/ "Starting the Fight" inciting incident journal Homework: This journal needs to be completed by the end of next week

Getting Ideas Out

 Agenda: Getting it down notes (Gelb ch. 4) Starting TedX Talk-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAe_Ku zE-Cs&ab_channel= Free Writing Overview 10-15 minute free write Select the 1-3 most important ideas you came up with in your free write Homework: You need to be ready to start writing Tomorrow is a library day

Choosing a Voice and Writing Workshop

 Agenda: Point of View review: https://youtu.be/acURl_KBiRI Choosing a Voice Overview Personal Essay Writing Workshop Homework: You should have started your personal essay in class today You should have made progress on the bene/mal vocabulary list on the vocabulary site

Catch-up

 Agenda: Review of common essay traps Additional time for Personal Essay Selection Slip or bene and mal vocab list Homework: Make sure you are caught up.  We will be moving on tomorrow.  

Sample Student Analysis

 Agenda: Read sample student essays Complete analysis worksheet Homework: You should submit anything you did not finish in class

Book Session #3

 Agenda: Continue reading your free choice book By the end of today's session, you need to submit your exposition journal Homework: Make sure that you are caught up

Choosing Your Topic

 Agenda: Common Essay Traps to Avoid (Gelb ch 2) PPT Take notes as we go over this information Essay Topic Selection Slip Use your Senior Survey and Self-Talk Questions to help Homework: Submit topic selection slip

6 Word Memoirs

 Agenda: NPR Overview--https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123289019 Monday Musing Journal: Should we consider these stories actual stories? Link to what we are working on Elements of a good story-->are they present? How we may need to edit ourselves down Homework: Make sure that you are caught up Bring back The Crucible for extra credit

Bene and Mal Practice Continued

 **Sick Day** Agenda: Finish vocab poster if you are behind Practice on the bene and mal list on vocabulary.com Homework: Make sure you are caught up

Bene and Mal Practice

 Agenda: Warm-up: Review of what makes a story well-written (and said!) with The Golden Girls  https://youtu.be/XSnQzd8wFAs?t=51  Finish chart for "All Summer in a Day" Review bene and mal Complete vocabulary poster for choice word Homework: Finish whatever you have left of your vocabulary poster