Friday, December 8, 2017

December 7

Homework




  • Writing Minutes
  • Story Draft (if necessary)
  • Persuasive Draft (if necessary)
  • 5 Haiku

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Monday, November 20, 2017

November 16

Homework

  • Writing Minutes
  • Short Story (if necessary)
  • Begin outlining and writing your persuasive essay

Monday, November 13, 2017

Nobember 9

Homework

Writing Minutes
Continue/ Finish short story
Gather resources, especially those which are in opposition to your viewpoint.  Be prepared to organize and outline your essay next class!

Saturday, October 28, 2017

October 26

Homework




  • Writing Minutes
  • Continue working on your story draft
  • Gather sources both for and against your opinion.  (You do not need to agree with the information presented against your view of your topic.  However, you do need to know what arguments are being made against your belief in order to address them.)

Friday, October 20, 2017

October 19

Homework

  • Writing Minutes
  • Short Story Draft
  • Write out an opinion you want to defend
  • Begin gathering resources to support your opinion

Thursday, October 12, 2017

October 12

Homework

  • Writing Minutes
  • Continue working on your short story
  • Begin thinking about topic for a persuasive paper 

Friday, October 6, 2017

Friday, September 29, 2017

September 28

Homework




  • Writing Minutes
  • Try to complete the rough draft of your story this week

Friday, September 22, 2017

September 21

Homework

  • Writing Minutes
  • Continue working on your story.  Pay attention to your protagonist this week.

Friday, September 15, 2017

September 14

Homework


  • Writing Minutes
  • Continue working on your story.  Pay attention to your antagonist. 

Thursday, September 7, 2017

September 7

Homework


  • Writing Minutes
  • Freewriting (The phone rings.  The voice on the other end says, "We need you again," and hangs up.)  
    • Do this if you need extra writing minutes.
  • Begin pre-writing for you short story.
  • Writing Expectations can be found here.

Thursday, January 5, 2017

January 5

Homework




  • Writing Minutes
  • Report draft (Unless I am editing your draft this week)
  • Short Story Draft (Unless I am editing your draft this week)
For work on your bibliography and/or notes page(s), here's a site that you might find useful!