Sunday, October 3, 2010

Weekly Agenda Oct 4-8

The Color of Water

MON & TUES
Symbol paragraphs
-20 common errors
-identify your errors and correct
See 2 sample paragraphs
-identify basic parts
-note style choices by author
--sentence length, word choice, transitions

-review and ask clarifying questions
-see student examples
DUE OCT 29TH
-freewrite and begin vignettes
-creative writing techniques
HW Read Chapter 9 & 10 and 3Qs per(read chapters 9-12 this week)
Brainstorm ideas for personal vignettes

WED
Collect typed paragraphs
SSR
Journal Entry #6
HW Read Chapter 11 & 12 and 3Qs

THURS & FRI

Course Outline?
-signatures
Review Chapter 10
-identify and mimic writng techniques
-vocabulary
Freewrite
-identify best parts of ours
-expand
Memoir Assignment
-connect to Cisneros example "Bord Bad"
-characterization
-figurative language
-length
Special Someone Freewrite
-now you create imagery

Reading Quiz
3Q discussion
-vocabulary review
Quaker Share Quotations
Character Venn
-choose and record best descriptive language
HW Rewrite two vignettes and type one to turn in for feedback on Monday, worth 10 pts each.
NO Reading unless you need to catch up

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