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.