Thursday, October 31st

*Read: 10m
*Journal #10:  Sub-topics and Emerging Theme.

---Here's a model.
*Research Process: Reminders
---Highlighter: 3 lines or fewer
---Comment tool: Paraphrase longer sections
*HW: 8 marked-up sources by Monday
---Show TOMORROW for +3pts
---12 by Wednesday (this is a change)
---50%+ from databases.

*OBJECTIVE: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative digital sources.

Wednesday, October 30th

*Grab Chromebooks; pull up Scrible
*Read: 10m
---Check first 4 sources.
*Research Process: Reminders
---Highlighter: 3 lines or fewer
---Comment tool: Paraphrase longer sections
*HW: 8 marked-up sources by Friday
---12 by Tuesday
---50%+ from databases.

*OBJECTIVE: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative digital sources.

Tuesday, October 29th

*Read: 10m
---*Leftover Interview #1 Answers
*Details:  Feature Story Assignment Sheet
*Research Process: Reminders
---Highlighter: 3 lines or fewer
---Comment tool: Paraphrase longer sections
*HW: 4 marked-up sources by TOMORROW

---8 by Friday; 12 by Tuesday
---50%+ from databases.

*OBJECTIVE: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative digital sources.

Monday, October 26th

*Read: 10m
*Research Process: Overview
---Highlighter: 3 lines or fewer
---Comment tool: Paraphrase longer sections
*Finish "Intro to Databases"?
*HW: 4 marked-up sources by WEDNESDAY
---50%+ from databases.

*OBJECTIVE: Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative digital sources.

Friday, October 25th

*Read: 10m
---Check Interview answers & Website Evaluation
*Discuss Websites
*Delete "Let Grow" & "Farmworker Family" from Scrible source-list.
*Intro to Online Databases
---Off-campus link in upper-right corner of this page
---Due ASAP

*OBJECTIVE: Evaluate multiple sources of information.

Thursday, October 24th

*Read: 10m
*Finish Website Evaluation: The C.R.A.P. Test
---First, visit each and evaluate using C.R.A.P. test.
---Website #1
---Website #2
---Website #3
---Website #4
---Website #5
---Website #6
---Website #7 (from this URL)
---Then, discuss & rank them.
------Due: 7m from end of class
*HW: Interview #1 Answers Due FRIDAY (this is a change)

*OBJECTIVE: Evaluate multiple sources of information.

Wednesday, October 23rd

*Read:  10m
*Website Evaluation: The C.R.A.P. Test
---First, visit each and evaluate using C.R.A.P. test.
---Website #1
---Website #2
---Website #3
---Website #4
---Website #5
---Website #6
---Website #7 (from this URL)
---Then, rank them.
------Due:  End of class TOMORROW.
*HW: Interview #1 Answers Due FRIDAY (this is a change)

*OBJECTIVE: Evaluate multiple sources of information.

Tuesday, October 22nd

*Book Talk:  Frederick Douglass
*Read: 10m
*Paper-proposal Conferences: 10pts
---Finished with that? Begin generating questions for Interview #1.
*Interview #1 ANSWERS due Thursday.

*OBJECTIVE: Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience

Monday, October 21st

*Read: 10m
*Paper-proposal Conferences: 10pts
---Finished with that? Begin generating questions for Interview #1.
*Interview #1 ANSWERS due Thursday.

*OBJECTIVE: Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience

Thursday, October 10th

*Read:  10m
*Share:  One person/story/topic
*Details:  Interview #1
*Finish Journal #9:  Full page!
*Paper-proposal Conferences:  10pts
---Finished with that?  Begin generating questions for Interview #1.
*Interview #1 ANSWERS due Thursday after break (10/24).

*OBJECTIVE:  Follow a writing process to produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience

Wednesday, October 9th

*College Essays:  An Invitation
*Read: 10m
---Check second row of organizer.
*Analyze structure of "Farmworker Family"
*Journal #9:  Brainstorm a list of people you know (and could possibly interview) who have lived an interesting story.  Here's a model (page 1, page 2).
---Light, heavy, one episode, many episodes . . .

*OBJECTIVE:   Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience.

Tuesday, October 8th

*Read:  10m
*Highlight "Farmworker Family" (research/narrative)
---Review
*Complete 2nd row of organizer
---Fill out with table
*--OR-- Finish Research/Narrative Formative
*HW:  2nd Row of Organizer due TOMORROW
*HW:  Research/Narrative Formative due TODAY via Google Classroom before 11:59pm.

*OBJECTIVE:  Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience

Monday, October 7th

*Read:  10m
*Read "Farmworker Family"
---Using Scrible toolbar, highlight three paragraphs that are ALL research.
---Use a different color to highlight three paragraphs that are ALL narrative.
---Open Google Drive and start a new doc.
------In that doc (and using the Scrible Writer Add-on) create a table with your narrative quotes on one side and your research quotes on the other.  Be sure to label the column headings!  Here's a model.
------Add a final row to the table in which you FAKE some quotes as if they came from the same article.
*HW:  Submit that doc to the "Research/Narrative Formative" assignment in Google Classroom.
---Due Wednesday before 11:59pm (16pts)

*OBJECTIVE: Gather relevant information from authoritative digital sources.

Friday, October 4th

*Read:  10m
*Get an additional insight for "ending" and "misc." from someone NOT at your table.
*Crowdsource!
---Condense & Review
*Add "Farmworker Family" to your Scrible sources (pull it up and hit the "S").

*OBJECTIVE:   Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience

Thursday, October 3rd

*Book-talk:  The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
*Read:  10m
*Your future-self is going to write a piece organized like this one.  Study it like a writer.  What "moves" should you make (or avoid) in the beginning, through the middle, and at the end of a piece like this?  Fill the FIRST ROW of the organizer with advice to your future-self.
*Get an additional insight for each box from someone NOT at your table.
*Crowdsource!
---Condense & Review

*OBJECTIVE:   Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience

Wednesday, October 2nd

*Read:  10m
*Study/Craft
---Highlight in two colors for narrative & research

*HW:  "Intro to Scrible" Google Classroom assignment due tonight before 11:59pm.


*OBJECTIVE: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style, and voice are appropriate to the task, purpose and audience