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

September 3, 2010

September 3, 2010

1. Bell-Ringer: Write creatively about the photograph shown.  You can see it here (the top picture) at

More Creativity

2. Me-Bag Presentations
September 3

Hannah
Rachel
 Monica
Kennedi
Kenzie
Heidi
Madi
Robyn
Skye
Taylor H.
Katie
Courtney
Emmalee
Miranda

3.  Prewriting -- What do you do before you write?
 Notes and prewriting exercises should be recorded in your composition book. Label the page "Prewriting" and include today's date.

• observing
• collecting experiences
• free writes
• focused free writes
• brainstorming
• trees and spider webs
• 
  

September 1, 2010

Don't forget to bring your Me-Bag if you signed up for today:
Liam
Hannah
Rachel
Karla
Megan
Brogan
Brice
Monica
Kennedi

Bell-Ringer:  Students read a poem called "A Slice of Life" and responded to it in their composition books.
2.  We discussed the Writing Process, and students wrote about their own writing process.
3.  Students presented Me-Bags.