Tuesday, November 30, 2010

MODERN PROSE

• We read for about seventy-five minutes today.
• I conferenced with the rest of the class about their daily reading grades.
• I did a few book chats.

CREATIVE WRITING


Due

• Journal #3

Writing Experiment

• #9--Life at Thirty (or Forty):  I went over the guidelines on page 49.
• I read three models:  Nick's, Ben's and Ashley's.
• We took thirty full minutes to type a one-page rough draft of this piece.

Sharing

• We put up the Autobiographical Poems on the Big Screen.
• We shared them, and we kept filling out our blue sheets about details from the poems.

Homework

• None

AP ENGLISH

Due in Drawer

• page 16 Quick Write
• page 15

Due at Your Desk

• "Monkey Garden" highlights--I went around and checked these.

Pair Share

• We got with a partner, and we discussed the key details of the chapter.
• Each partner drew ten details from the chapter, for a total of twenty details on the poster.

Gallery Walk

• We went on a gallery walk and looked at all the posters and the details included.
• We talked a bit about what details were included in some posters, but not in others.

Small Group Discussion

• I assigned the questions on page 14 to groups, and we had fifteen minutes to prepare presentations for the class--four groups of three, and one group of four, since we had two people absent.

Whole-Class Preparation

• Small groups started presenting their responses to the questions on page 14, and we heard responses to questions 1-6.

Homework

• Type for twenty minutes on any item from page 17.