September 10, 2010

Bring your thumb-drives on September 10.



Bell-Ringer:  Select any of the prompts from your taped in list to write about in your composition book.
Examples and non-examples of memoir.

Your memoir needs a "so-what." 

Computer lab 223 for working on your memoir.  Bring your thumb-drive.  You may also email it to yourself.
Schedule for memoir:
September 10 -- Type and print a draft.
September 14 peer review -- revision
September 16 -- Revise in computer lab.
September 22 -- Final revisions and editing in computer lab -- ready  to hand in.

Extra credit for a Useless Fact: The ZIP in Zip code is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.  Tell me this fascinating factoid and earn 3 points of extra credit.  

ZIP is an acronym, "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words." (Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.)