Tuesday, 12/18—Day Thirty-Four
CREATIVE WRITING
Organization (Five
Minutes)
1) Get all your papers back, and do a folder log-in. (Papers and folder are on the heater.)
2) Please review my comments carefully.
3) Are there any of these pieces that you might want to include in
your portfolio?
4) If so, add it to your portfolio folder in your google drive.
Dialogue Editing (Fifteen
Minutes, MAXIMUM)
1) You and your partner for the Partner Dialogue Story need to do the
following:
a. Sit down together, and carefully review my comments. I only wrote comments on ONE person’s story
and green sheet.
b. Correct your story on google drive; then both of you will have a
clean copy.
2) Talk about the following with your partner:
a. What did you do correctly in this story?
b. What do you need to work on?
3) How Am I Grading This?
a. I will open your stories later today, and I will click on “File”,
then “See Revision History”.
b. I’ll look for the edits you made with your partner today.
c. If you made all corrections, you have an “A”. If you make some corrections, you’ll earn a “C”. If you don’t make changes at all, you’ll get
a default “F”. L
4) Why does this matter?
a. Your revisions need to be error-free, perfect final copies.
b. Ask Mr. Collins (today) or me (tomorrow)
if you have questions about the corrections you’re making.
Comments About Yesterday’s Classtime
As of 9:30 PM Monday night:
1) Number of people who completed the Portfolio Revision #1
Assignment
a. 1st Block = 12
out of 23 people (52%
of the class)
b.
2nd
Block = 7/21 people (30%
of the class)
2) Number of people who completed the Portfolio Revision #2
Assignment
a. 1st Block = 11/23 people (47% of the class)
b. 2nd Block = 6/21 people (29% of the class)
·
Thank you to those of you who worked in a focused way to complete
your work for your revisions and portfolio.
·
To everyone else: please
understand, if you did not do these assignments by start-of-class Tuesday, you
will be receiving a “zero” for your daily grade, which you cannot make up—because
these were IN-CLASS assignments.
·
My question for those of you who did not complete the assignments
is this: what were you doing during
the forty minutes I gave you Monday in class to work on these two assignments? That is a huge chunk of time you
squandered.
·
I’m doing the math like this:
o Santa Helper Letters should have
already been done.
o Autobio Poem might have needed
a half-hour of your time.
****17/23 people turned this in on time in first block = 74% of the class
****9/21 people turned this in on time in second block = 43% of the class
****NOTE: Poems with rubrics are worth TEN PERCENT OF YOUR ENTIRE TERM GRADE.
****17/23 people turned this in on time in first block = 74% of the class
****9/21 people turned this in on time in second block = 43% of the class
****NOTE: Poems with rubrics are worth TEN PERCENT OF YOUR ENTIRE TERM GRADE.
o That left forty minutes, twenty minutes for
each revision.
NOTE: REVISIONS ARE
WORTH BETWEEN TEN and FIFTEEN PERCENT OF YOUR ENTIRE TERM GRADE.
Revising Piece #3 for Your Portfolio (Twenty-Five Minutes)
1) Your portfolio is due in eleven class days.
2) You have selected FIVE pieces so far to include. You created a folder for them in google
drive.
3) Open that folder, and piece #3 of those five pieces to start
revising today.
4) This is the time to SHOW EVERYTHING YOU’VE LEARNED this term, so do
your best work!
5) Make at least ten revisions to this document—not just edits, but
revisions:
a. Add words and sentences.
b. Take words and sentences out.
c. Switch words and sentences around.
d. Take out words and sentences, and replace them with others.
6) 1st block: Put it in this
folder: https://drive.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/?tab=wo#folders/0B4pq4r-bWrm_YXRMTk9PYk9fRnM
7) 2nd block: https://drive.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/?tab=wo#folders/0B4pq4r-bWrm_ci1YWG9jRDh2aW8
8) If the link doesn't work, go to our class folder, and you'll see
"Portfolio Revision #1" there.
9) If you can’t remember how to get something into a folder, ask
someone for help.
10) Type me a note at the top:
“Dear Willis, please look at my revisions, and comment on _________ and
________, so I can make my final draft for my portfolio.” Tell me what you need help with! Or what you want my feedback on!
Revising Piece #4 for Your Portfolio (Twenty-Five Minutes)
1) Follow all the steps above, but save this piece in this folder:
2) 1st block: https://drive.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/?tab=wo#folders/0B4pq4r-bWrm_eVEwemF6YVJGUFU
3) 2nd block: https://drive.google.com/a/washington.k12.ia.us/?tab=wo#folders/0B4pq4r-bWrm_ZlVpWHcyQi1QdEU
If the
link doesn't work, go to our class folder, and you'll see "Portfolio
Revision #3 and #4" there.
All of
the above items must be completed when I check Tuesday night/Wednesday
classtime, or they will receive zero-credit—no late work accepted.
12/18/2012
College-Prep Reading
11:20-12:03—Quiet, Independent Work Period (Daily Grade)
The Enlightenment
1.
Click on the following link:
http://www.online-literature.com/periods/enlightenment.php
2.
Here you fill find eleven detailed paragraphs about The Enlightenment.
3.
Working on your own, create a set of outlined notes that helps
you make sense of what you’re reading.
4.
From your outlined notes, I should be able to see organized
thought, not simply a regurgitation of the facts.
5.
Share your notes with me at 12:03, before you go to lunch.
6.
Thank you!
12:30-1:15—Class Discussion
1.
When I get back at 12:30, we’ll review your notes.
2.
We will talk about the pendulum.
a.
How did the Age of Enlightenment grow from the Renaissance Age?
b.
What similarities do you see, and what resonances do you hear?
c.
What’s different?
d.
What reaction (the pendulum) do you think will come next?
3.
Think about the Thomas Paine Common Sense excerpt you read and
annotated for American Lit. How does it
fit in to the Age of Enlightenment?
Homework
· Vocab cards (directions/grading on yesterday’s blog)
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