Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

CREATIVE WRITING

·      Please sign in!

·      Please pick up “Survival Tips” off my desk.

Housekeeping

1.      Survival Tips 

2.     The Blog

·      What is it?

·      How do you find it?

·      Take the oath of I-promise-I'll-never-come-in-and-ask-you-"Did we do anything when I was absent yesterday?"  :-)

Organization

We all successfully signed on to our school domain g-mail, and we typed, saved, and printed our first assignment from there.

Writing Experiment #1--Around the Block

1.      Writing Experiment

·      It’s a first draft.

·      Do your best work…

·      …but don’t agonize over it.

·      Work quickly!

·      Type your guts out!

·      See the survival tip about not stressing about your first draft.)  (See #15 and #21)

2.     Take a look at the requirements for this assignment.

3.     Check out the models. 

·      Models are not perfect examples.

·      Models are glimpses at how some people chose to approach this assignment.

4.     Editing Lesson

·      MLA format for heading

·      Required on everything you hand in this term.

5.     Organization

·      Sign into/Create your google account. 

·      We’re typing here today, and for most of the term, so get comfortable!

6.    Save this assignment in there

7.    Print a TWO-SIDED to room 212.  (This is standard for the term, so please never ask the question, “Where do I print to?”)

AP ENGLISH

• Please click on our schedule for the week in google docs.