Thursday, March 10, 2011

Friday, March 11, 2011

ACW


Peer Conference
  • Compete the peer conference over your short story with the partners I assigned you yesterday.
Workshop
Split the remaining time after the peer conference today to do the following:
  • scan pages for your children's story
  • trade text with someone for proofing, and to see how it looks (attractive or not)
  • start putting your children's book together, and figure out how you want to bind it
  • start creating a final draft of your short story
Deadlines
  • 8:05AM Tuesday--FINAL DRAFT OF SHORT STORY
  • 9:50AM Wednesday--CHILDREN'S BOOK, IN ORDER AND READY TO COPY

CREATIVE WRITING--DO ALL THE STUFF IN ORANGE AND IN GREEN!

Group Sharing (from 11:25-11:50)
  • Gavin, Amanda, Alex and Tiffany--get your group guidelines and the neon green group reading sheets off the circle table.  Get your group, and go to your assigned room, and read to each other.  Be back to the room at 11:50.
@11:50





Snapshot Poem
1.      Okay, so you had a partner read your poem, and he or she filled out the rubric for you.  So what should you do now?   (Uh, go get your Snapshot Poem off the circle table.)
2.     First of all, is anything less than a four?  Then that probably needs work (revision) today.
3.     Secondly, is there anything you disagree with?  Was your partner too easy on you?  Then that probably needs work (revision).
4.     Lastly, are you satisfied that the Snapshot Poem is the strongest it can possibly be?  If not, make revisions as needed.
5.     Finally, fill save and print the final copy, staple it on top of the rubric, and FILL OUT THE RIGHT SIDE of the rubric.  Then it’s drawer time!  

Portfolio
Pick up your Portfolio and Revision Thinking sheet (that you filled out yesterday) off the circle table, and read over my comments.
Make a folder in your Student Volume called "Portfolio", and drag the pieces you think you're going to need for it into that folder.  
Edit any pieces that you know you will use for the portfolio, but that you probably won't revise.  (This includes removing the MLA format from it--you don't want the MLA format in your portfolio.)
Think about what you need to do over the next four days to get your PORTFOLIO rolling.  Do you need to take your folder home?  Do you need to check out an iBook?  Make sure to drag the pieces you want to work on to the iBook desktop, so that you can open them and work on them at home.

Life at Thirty
Open up your first draft of LIFE AT THIRTY (saved in class folder).
Turn to page 47 in your book, and read the questions at the bottom of the page under "Revising Life at Thirty".
Hit "Track Changes", then revise this piece to where you can answer "YES" to all those questions at the bottom of the page.
Save it over your original in the class folder.

Homework for Tuesday




Work on the structure of your portfolio. 
Even though you don’t have the pieces finalized to put in there yet, you need to be doing the following:
·       Re-reading all the orange pages in your binder.
·       Gathering materials
·       Setting up templates (computer projects)
·       Creating overall structure (hand-crafted projects)
·       Layout out the portfolio, based on the ten (or more) items you’re including
·       Finalizing your title idea
·       Finalizing your table of contents title and layout

MODERN PROSE

Read!  :-)

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