Friday

HW: Continue group/independent reading book reading schedule.

Today:
Present first book BINGO topics
Conference with Mrs. B. AND revise

• What are your writing about?
• Why are you writing about this? Personal reason as well as intent for audience

Revision of your paper

• Delete at least 10 words. Look for unnecessary adverbs (ly/y)
• Rewrite opening lines one time- use dialogue, description, an original or new thought
• Replace at least three bland words- good, great, happy, sad, bad, new, old- with more descriptive words: uplifted, morose, sullen, decrepit

Continue reading

Thursday, May 27

HW: Continue reading group reading next assignment. Work on BINGO card.

In class: Complete first BINGO Square.
Present to class at the end of the hour.

May 26

Homework: Read at least 30 pages in your OR book!

Today:
Meet with your groups.
Determine reading schedule. Books must be completed by Monday June 7th.
Turn in a copy of your reading schedule to me today.
You will have part of the following days to work/read:
Thursday, 5/27
Friday, 5/28
Tuesday, 6/1
Thursday, 6/3
Friday, 6/4

May 25

Homework:
Bring group reading book to class tommorrow (for points). If you do not have it in class you will read Into the Wild (a great book).
Today:
Turn in essays in the following order:
From TOP to BOTTOM

• Final typed paper
• Rubric
• Draft
• Peer Revision

Complete first draft of Reader's Theatre piece. Process:
1. Determine topic. Pick a very narrow topic. If you pick skiing, write about one day of skiing, one hour of skiing, a specific ski manuever, etc.

2. Complete some type of brainstorming about your topic.

3. Determine the genre in which you will write.

Advice columns, autobiographies, advertisementsBooks, biographies, birth announcementsComics, cover letterDirectionsEssays, eulogies, email, engagement announcementsFun facts, fable, fairy taleGraphic novels, guest books, guides to anything (a happy life, etc.)Haiku, How-To-Do-SomethingInvitationsJournalsKLists, letters, lyricsMagazine articles, memoirs, mythsNews articles, news features, narrativesObituaries, on-line adsPoetryQuotes (a book of your own quotes)Reviews (CDs, books, movies, restaurants), recommendationsRules, regulationsStories, scripts, songsThank you cards, timelines, toilet booksUVignettesWeb pageXYZines (online magazines

4. Draft one page minimum or the equivalent of one page.

May 24

Homework:
Final, typed essay due TOMORROW at the the start of class! Late papers will loose points. You must turn in a paper to pass the semester.
Edline has paper reminders.

Reading Groups
Your GROUP reading book MUST be in class on Wednesday. Process:
1. Create a group of three-four (NO MORE THAN FOUR)
2. Determine one book that will interest all of you. See my lists provided on the link below.
3. Check the book out at the library, by the book, or see if it is in the classroom library.
4. If you do not have a group or a book by Wednesday, I will place you in a group and you will read one of the books I have available.

The Young Adult Library Association's Best Books of 2010

Graphic Novels

Recommended Books for College Bound Students


Today:
Peer Review
Form Book Groups

MLA FORMAT REMINDERS

Emanuel Ruiz and Paly Yang

Mrs. Barniskis

American Literature

25 May 2010

Adrift on the River of Friendship

Entire paper is doublespaced

Work Cited is included!

Work Cited

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Signet Classics, 2008.

May 19

Homework:
Begin typing essays. Options:
1. Assign one person type who is a great typist
2. Divide up the sections
-save the sections on a jump drive and then you can combine all the sections on a school
computer
3. Use your school email accounts to write your section, and send them to one person to compile
as one essay.

Essays should be typed, compiled as one essay, and printed out by MONDAY! 10 pts. You may have to meet before school on Monday to combine all the sections onto one document.

Today
Each group will:
1. Finish writing drafts.
2. Read over the rubric
3. Determine THREE areas of weakness in the draft. What are three things on the rubric that you need to improve on in the draft.
3. WRITE OUT those three things somewhere on the draft.
4. Star * one paragraph that you want me to review with you as a group.
5. Bring your draft, rubric, and your list of three things up to my desk for a conference.

Thursday, May 19

Today
HOMEWORK:
Determine what book you will read in your choice groups by the end of the day Friday! Bring book to class book by Tuesday. The book should be challenging, at least at your reading level, and enjoyable. It needs to be approved by me.

Today:
Finish drafts. All drafts are turned in today at the end of the hour.
Each draft paragraph is worth 5 pts. Ouline is worth 10.
You will star one paragraph you wish me to revise.
All typed final papers are due on Tuesday.
Late paper will be docked 50%.
No late papers accepted after June 1.