Tuesday, June 6 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Work Time on Books with Friends Book Pitch and/or paper

*Meet with me when called up or if you have other questions

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*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!

*PRACTICE GIVING PRESENTATION

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

Monday, June 5 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Book Pitch work time

*Works Cited Page reminder (Anthology entry) –shared with you

*Writer’s Workshop

*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!

Friday, June 2 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop: if you are conferring with me today, work on that first

*Writer’s Workshop

*Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME TODAY, MONDAY, OR TUESDAY

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper (except conclusion)

*If you are worried your paper is too long…the average for this paper is between 9 and 11 pages

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading the 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

*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 (at various times throughout the hour, depending on where you are with the paper)

Thursday, June 1 Agenda

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

*Writer’s Workshop/Writing Conferences

*PUT YOUR THESIS AS THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR PAPER (unless you have written an intro, in which case, the thesis should be the last line of the intro)

*At the end of today, you SHOULD be done with rough draft of the body: I will be looking through the papers that have been shared with me TODAY/TONIGHT

*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