Monday, June 8

*Bell Ringer: Collect Papers (rubric paper clipped to paper DON’T FORGET WORKS CITED)

*Final Work Time on Books with Friends Book Pitch

*PRACTICE GIVING PRESENTATION

*Time it when you practice –tell me the time after you have run through it at least twice out loud

*Order of presentations (volunteers and then random.org for rest of list)

*Peer Evaluation and Self Evaluation

*Order:

*1st Block:  Cassidy and Jessee, Josh and Violet, Livi and Jackson, Delia and Hannah, Amber and Brett, Colt and Jaeger, Anna and Amber, Jordan and Drew, Hunter and Thomas, Cody, Majel

*4th Block: Megan and Kevin; Andy and BB; Meg, Yana, and JMae; Chase and Mason; Spencer and Joel; Gauge; Dan

Friday, June 5 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Examples of Body Paragraphs

*Works Cited Page reminder (Anthology entry)

*Final Day of Paper Work Time! (but, if you know you will work on your paper this weekend, I would suggest working a bit with your partner on BwF)

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*At this point, you should be working on second draft of ENTIRE paper or even possibly your third draft

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading and looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Print out your paper for self editing (if you want to highlight for summary and analysis, it could be helpful)

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out.*** 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

*Book Pitch work time

Thursday, June 4 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop

*Writer’s Workshop

*Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME TODAY OR TOMORROW

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading and looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

*Book Pitch Work Time

Wednesday, June 3 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Work time on Books with Friends Book Pitch (20 min)

*Intro and Conclusion talk

*Introduction needs: attention getter, necessary information(selection titles, authors and eras) and your thesis (hopefully your main theme is in your thesis, otherwise it is part of the necessary info as well)

*Writer’s Workshop/Writing Conferences

*At the end of today, you SHOULD be done with rough draft of parts of the paper:

*You need to self edit.  I am not able to read through your whole paper, looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

Tuesday, June 2 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Summary vs. Analysis –find this handout and re-read it

*Work on Body paragraphs

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*If you finish your body paragraphs, work on your introduction

REMINDERS ON THE PAPER

*You are comparing and contrasting the two stories

*Within that you are

*Comparing treatment of theme or other similarities

*Contrasting how things were written/dealt with based on era and other differences (maybe within treatment of themes)

*The mention of eras must be in thesis

*For each point you are trying to make, I would suggest at least two quotes per story to make your argument strong

*TIQA –use this as you start to write your body paragraphs (after your outline is completed)

*This paper will likely not follow the technical “five paragraph essay,” but it still has the three parts (intro, body, conclusion)

*Books with Friends work time

Monday, June 1 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Calendar check (final paper due in a week!!)

*Things to remember/think about during Writer’s Workshop time

*Today you should be finishing your outline and then possibly starting the rough draft of your body paragraphs

*Each body paragraph point on the outline should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*Share a document (ON GOOGLE DOCS) with me that is or will be your outline (Thesis through body paragraph section is what is due today). Outline due at end of work time.

*Work on Body paragraphs

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations.

*BwF work time