Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

ACW


Organization

• I went over the seven-day plan for the rest of the term.
• We clarified all deadlines and timelines.

Workshop--People worked on the following, dependent on need:

• scanned pages for the children's stories.
• printed children's story pages.
• reviewed their peer conference comments from the short story.
• worked on their short story.
• worked on their children's story.

Homework

• Continue working on the above items.
• Your short story AND your children's story are both due tomorrow.
• Get the short stories to me at 8:05 so I can get them copied, please!

CREATIVE WRITING

Organization

• Everyone created a "Getting Organized" checklist.
• We started out by reviewing Friday's blog--anyone who had NOT completed an item on Friday's block wrote down the item on his/her checklist.  
• We wrote for a few minutes about what we'd accomplished on our portfolios (based on the assignments listed on Friday's blog).
• We quickly got into quartets and talked about our portfolio.

Revision

• I handed back Perfect Moments (first drafts), as well as a checklist for what to do to revise them from first to second draft.
• People worked on creating a solid second draft, and on completing the checklist.
• I matched people up with peer conferencers--the directions to follow were on the handout (extras on yellow board behind Gavin).

Homework

• Work on your portfolio!  It's due in eight days.

Assessment

• I had people review and then re-evaluation their WWYLN? stories, then hand them back in.  For the four of you who were absent, here are the directions:

WWYLN? Self-Grading

1)            Re-read the WWYLN? FINAL DRAFT RUBRIC. 

2)            Carefully read your WWYLN?

3)            Please a NUMERAL in each blank that accurately reflects your work on that items. 

4)            Use a MARKER, and make the numeral BIG, because you’ll be writing over your old evaluations, in some cases!

·      4 = went above and beyond what was required; my work shows careful thought and effort

·      3 = I met the requirements competently—did what was asked of me

·      2 = I made some effort to complete the requirement, but I didn’t quite make it.

·      1 = I didn’t do this item at all.

TURN IN:  To the folder labeled “WWYLN” on the circle table.