MODERN PROSE

• We read!
• I also put in daily reading grades, and I talked with some people about their books.

CREATIVE WRITING


Writing Experiment #7

• We took ten minutes to write.  The writing could be related to war, peace and veterans, or it could be a free-write about any topic.

Organization

• We said "hello" to Unit 2 (p. 29).

Writing Lesson #1

• Paragraphing--I read and discussed page 30, and then everyone paragraphed page 31 on his/her own.
• We got with partners and talked about why we broke the paragraphs the way we did.  Some arguments broke out--it was great.  :-)
• I passed out John Green's original version, with paragraph breaks, and we checked our paragraphs against his.

Writing Lesson #2

• Line Breaks and Endline--I modeled how I wanted partners to work on page 32, and then we took ten minutes to work on the poems on that page, breaking them into lines.
• We talked about how we broke the lines and why.
• We looked over the eight items on page 33, but we'll go into more detail on that on Monday.

Writing Lesson #3

• Tips on Titles (p. 36)--we read the tips there, and then we went through Earthbook to find three strong titles, and three week titles.

Homework

• Writing Experiment #8--This I Believe or Making a Comeback, twenty minutes

AP ENGLISH

Peer Conferencing

• I went over Nick and John's peer conference example from last year.
• We traded the Romantic Art Essays.
• We took twenty minutes for peer conferences.

Frankenstein Review

• We talked about the Frame Story, and we took some notes in our packet.

Wordle

• We created the Frankenstein Wordle:  http://www.wordle.net/create

Homework

• See the wiki!