January 3, 2011

  1. Bell-ringer: Silent Conversation

Topic:  The Christmas/New Years Vacation

Directions:
1. Pick up a sheet of lined paper from the pile provided.
2. Write at least three sentences about the topic above.  Write your name by each entry you make.
3.  Pass the paper back one.
4.  Respond with at least one sentence to what the previous student wrote.  (What would you say to that if you were having a verbal conversation?  Would you ask a question, make a connection to your own life, respond with words to describe what the student wrote?)
5.  Keeping the same paper, write at least three new sentences of your own about the topic above.
6. Pass the paper back one.
Repeat the above steps.  If you are sitting at the back of the column of seats,  after you have written pass the paper to the person at the front of your column.

[If your were absent, make up this assignment by writing one page about  the Christmas/New Years Break we just had.]

2.  Discuss creating leads for news and other newspaper-type articles.  You should include the who, what, where, when, and perhaps a why and/or a how?
     a. Ms. Dorsey gave an example
     b.  Other student example(s)
     c.  create your own example

3.  Brainstorm items you'd find in a newspaper.  We are going to create our own newspaper.
Audience:  students and others at American Fork Junior High
Purpose:  to inform and entertain

4. Students took time to consider what sort of item each would like to write.  We will be doing this on our wiki.

Assignments so far:
         Katelyn:  news item about her own experience:  "Police Beat"
         Libby:   take and report a poll about favorite electives at A.F. Junior
         Brice:   peer tutoring
         Alexia:  honor society?


Next time:  computer lab to work on our newspaper
Friday:  computer lab again