2. Set up your composition book if you have it. Use the handout.
 Make sure you write both first and last name on the cover of your composition book. If you finish early, you may add to what you wrote yesterday or read your choice of materials. |
3. Making Appointments
4. Scribble: Ms. Dorsey's in charge of this one.
Getting ready for the Prompt: Ms. Dorsey will read a brief story -- "The Follower" by Jack Gantos.
Ms. Dorsey started writing a story from her own life, inspired by the story I just read to you:
A beginning for Ms. Dorsey's story --
"Everybody did it – at least everybody from the farming community of Clover, Idaho who was old enough to have a drivers license (maybe some who weren't old enough, too) and too young to fear death and dismemberment. We called it “Deadman’s Curve.” The name should have been discouraging, but for teens it was enticing. It was a sharp curve, following the curve in a large canal – large enough to swallow up a car or pickup.
The challenge was to see how fast you could go around the curve. Disobeying laws wasn’t in character for me, but at 16 I had been driving with a license for two years, felt so experienced, and had a need for speed."
"Everybody did it – at least everybody from the farming community of Clover, Idaho who was old enough to have a drivers license (maybe some who weren't old enough, too) and too young to fear death and dismemberment. We called it “Deadman’s Curve.” The name should have been discouraging, but for teens it was enticing. It was a sharp curve, following the curve in a large canal – large enough to swallow up a car or pickup.
The challenge was to see how fast you could go around the curve. Disobeying laws wasn’t in character for me, but at 16 I had been driving with a license for two years, felt so experienced, and had a need for speed."
Your Prompt: Write about a time when you were the follower and did something stupid
or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command or wish you would have disobeyed.
or disregarded mother’s advice or an admonition or command or wish you would have disobeyed.
"The Follower" by Jack Gantos -- Inspiration for your writing:
from Guys Write for Guys Read – "The Follower" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4649807
See also the book by Gary Paulsen Harris and Me or his book Masters of Disaster
for more stories about kids doing dumb (and funny when told as a story)
things because other kids are doing dumb things.
See the class calendar if you don't remember when your day is to present the scribble.
Scroll down to find the calendar at the bottom of this page.
Ideas for Scribble Prompts
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5. Present Me-Bags and take notes on others' presentations.
Set aside 3-4 pages under "Scribbles" for your notes on these.
Set aside 3-4 pages under "Scribbles" for your notes on these.
Presenting Today
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Presenting Next time – August 26
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Daniella A.
Benjamin B.
Nicole B.
Alan C.
Emily C.
Drake C.
Colby C.
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Brogan D.
Sarah D.
Devin D.
Anne F.
Emma F.
Deegan G. |
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