September 8, 2010

September 8, 2010
Bring your thumb-drives on September 10.

Bell-Ringer:  Pick up composition book.  Tape into your composition book, read and respond to "Rambling Autobiography."  Follow the directions on that sheet.


Me-Bags
September 8 (Don't forget over the long weekend!)

Hannah
Monica
Katie
Emmalee
Miranda

Elise
Libby
Drew
Kyle
Austin
Kastan
Brody

Finish me-bags and do writing:  my favorite item, a striking item from someone else's bag.

More prewriting. brainstorming--  school
trees and spider webs  -- holidays

Collecting ideas for writing memoir. (receive handout to tape in your composition book)

What makes a bad memoir?  a good one?  

Memoir assignment:  You will write about a memory from your own life.  It will include enough detail to make it interesting and have a "So What?"

Possible Examples --
Restaurant
Disneyland (overhead)
if time -- "Lies"

Writing Workshop