Friday, March 31st

*Read:  15m
*Write:  Update Dialogue Journal
*Study:  Hold Still by Nina LaCour
*Craft:  Jounral #12:  Show-don't-tell (objective correlative)
*Share:  For each item, choose a best-at-table.

*OBJECTIVE:  Understand how authors make writing vivid and engaging by using concrete details.

Thursday, March 30th

*Reminder:  Dialogue Journals
*Write: Continue drafting your first multi-genre piece
---Integrate details & develop themes from your book.
*Craft/Study: Refer to mentor texts for ideas about format, style, tone, etc.

*Share:  15m--Journal #11

---Pick a passage or section from your work with which you are especially pleased.  Explain which genre you're writing in and what you like about what you've done.

---THEN, read the passage (no apologies!).  Allow a pause while your table takes notes.

---Tablemates:  Journal #11

------Take notes over each reading:  

---------Name

---------Genre

---------What did they like about their writing?

*OBJECTIVE: Write in multiple genres with an eye toward audience and purpose.

Wednesday, March 29th

*Read:  15m
*Write:  Journal #10:  At its heart, my book is about [one word, brainstorm first].  In it, my author shows how [explain your emerging ideas about one of the themes of your book--start offering some supporting evidence by considering multiple characters, situations, conflicts, etc.].
*Study/Share:  Create Topic-word Compendium
*Craft:  Choose another topic, and draft another theme-sentence:  In my book, my author shows how . . .

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify and define topic and theme.

Tuesday, March 28th

*Read:  10m
*Write:  Continue drafting your first multi-genre piece?
---OR, Start anew.
---Integrate details & develop themes from your book.
*Craft/Study:  Refer to mentor texts for ideas about format, style, tone, etc.

*OBJECTIVE:  Write in multiple genres with an eye toward audience and purpose.

Monday, March 27th

*Read:  10m
*Write:  Fill out Google form with passages to study for writer's craft.
*Study:  Bronx Masquerade, by Nikki Grimes
*Craft:  Journal #9:  Adopt the voice (including tone, style of speaking, etc.) and perspective of a minor character from your book (use first-person).  Give their perspective on recent events in the story.
*Absentee Journals?

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze the impact of an author's choices in narrative writing, especially voice.

Friday, March 17th

*Read:  10m
*Write:  Dialogue Journal
*Study:  Rise of Fire
*Craft:  Journal #8:  Think of an "extra-ordinary" place or event from your book.  Put yourself in the place/moment and describe it (1st person) without referring to visual information (use smell, touch, taste, & hearing).
*Share:
---Table-shares
---One reader (author or not) per table.  Can we guess the context of the experience?
*Collect Journals

*OBJECTIVE:  Write with concrete sensory details:  Imagery.

Thursday, March 16th

*Read:  10m
*Study/Craft:
---Becker's Draft
---Explore the mentor texts for 1 genre (your choice).
*Write:  Begin Drafting your own version, inspired by your book and based on the mentor texts.
---Integrate details from your book.
---Develop themes from your book.

*OBJECTIVE:  Engage in the writing process and begin acclimatizing to multi-genre writing.

Wednesday, March 15th

*Read:  10m
*Write:  Journal #7:  Free Response
*Study:  What We Saw
---Multi-genre Writing
---At Table:
------Does your author incorporate multiple genres?  Yes?  Show / Explain!  What difference does it make in how you read the story?
*Craft:  Look back at our Mentor Text Compendium.  Thinking about the book you're reading (or have recently read), make a list of 5+ genres that might be interesting to explore in response to your book.

*OBJECTIVE:  Understand why authors might choose to work in mulitple genres simultaneously.

Tuesday, March 14th

*Read:  15m
*Write (Eventually):  Multi-genre Zines
*Study/Craft/Share:  Hunt for mentor texts.
---Add links to GoogleSheet
---Only ONE can be a "How To" source.  The rest should be true models.
---Post first link next to genre to "claim" that genre.
---Is this a text we could use as a model to create our own version?

*OBJECTIVE:  Understand how to find and use mentor texts to develop writing in multiple genres.

Monday, March 13th

*Read: 10m
*Write: Submit passage for study/craft.

---Interesting or well-crafted sentences.

---Interesting writing "habits."

---Just plain powerful.
*Study/craft/share:  Find "most useful" vocab from Friday

---Add 4-square to your own Journal (#6)

------WITH a NEW original usage

*OBJECTIVE: Analyze an author's choices in fiction.

Friday, March 10th

*Read:  10m
*Write:  Dialogue Journal (in G-Classrom)
*Study/Craft:  Journal #5:  Vocabulary
---Create a 4-square vocabulary page in your journal

*OBJECTIVE:  Identify and determine the meaning of unknown words.

Thursday, March 9th

*Review:  Journal Scoring Guide

*Read:  10m

*Write:  Journal #3:  Free Response 

---Use at least one em dash to "tag on" or interrupt.

*Study:  Imagist Poems

*Craft:  Journal #4:  Imagist Poems

---Pull an image, 2, or 3 from your book and combine them in to a short poem) . . . OR

---Write your own (inspired by the book).

*Share:  Elect a "best at table."  Someone--not the author--prepare to share it with the class.

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze an author's choices in fiction--including imagery.

Wednesday, March 8th

*Enter current pace & goals (through G-Classroom)
*Turn in Dumbshow Summary Grid
*Read:  10min
*Study:  Em dash
*Craft/Write:  Journal #2:  Em Dash
---In your journal, write three sentences in which you interrupt yourself—like this—or tag on additional details by using the em dash—like this.
*Share:  "Trade" your favorite sentence with a neighbor (such that you now have 4 sentences total).

*OBJECTIVE:  Discover and practice with the em dash.

Tuesday, March 7th

*Read:  Introduction to Workshop
*Discover Current Pace
*Set Weekly / Daily Goals
*Journal #1:  Opening Moves
---What SHOULD a story's opening moves DO?  What DOES your author do with your book's opening moves?  Evaluate:  What do YOU think of the opening moves?  HOW do they work on you as a reader?  If you find them somehow lacking, how and why?
*Share
---4-tops:  Make 2 duos, trade books with partner
---3-tops:  Pass books once
---Read partner's book's opening page, discuss

*OBJECTIVE:  Understand the differences between workshop learning and more traditional models;  Analyze the impact of an author's choices in the opening moves of his/her story.

Monday, March 6th

*Speedbooking
---E-book Options
*Take Survey through Google Classroom
*Time?  Start your book!

*OBJECTIVE:  Choose a book you think you'll love!

Friday, March 3rd

*Hamlet Essay Test
*You may have out . . .
---paper to write on
---play.
---prewriting (no drafts, just notes)
---essay prompt
*Reminders
---No intro/conclusion
---Attach, punctuate, document quotes
---Review scoring guide
*Monday:  Meet in library to select your book.

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze character development in a drama.

Thursday, March 2nd

*Watch Act V
*Multitask?
---Finish Preparing for Timed-write
---Write TOMORROW

*OBJECTIVE:  Analyze different versions of a play.  By prewriting, we will prepare to compose well-organized essays.

Wednesday, March 1st

*1st Hour:  Leftover Dumbshow
*Sorting:  Which characters are more dynamic/developed in the play (and, thus, might be more interesting to write about)?
*Prewrite for Timed-Write Essay
---Friday

*OBJECTIVE:  By prewriting, we will prepare to compose well-organized essays.