Thursday, Jan. 16 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Activities (either of the assigned packs)
• Writer’s Workshop
• Intro and Conclusion Examples
• 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!
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Wednesday, Jan. 15 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Diagnostic: where are your grammar/convention areas of focus?
• Writer’s Workshop: 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!
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Tuesday, Jan. 14 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Analysis Revision ‘Answers’
• Work Time on presentation and/or paper
• You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper
• If you are worried your paper is too long…the average for this paper is between 5 and 9 pages (including the works cited page)
• 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!

Monday, Jan. 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Works Cited Page reminder (Anthology entry) –shared with you
• Writer’s Workshop
• Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME THIS WEEK 
• If we are conferring tomorrow, make sure your draft is in Turnitin before 6 tonight!
• Thesis is the first line of the document if no intro
• Reminders on paper:
• Work cited page
• Rubric check
• Support thesis throughout
• 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!
• Analysis Revision Practice
• 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)
• 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, Jan. 10 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop
• NEED TO CONFER WITH ME next week –meeting with me on Friday (or Thursday)? I expect a second draft at least…
• Reminders on paper:
• Work cited page
• Rubric check
• Support thesis throughout
• Rubric for Paper handed out, Rubric for Presentation in Classroom
• You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper (except intro and conclusion) by Tuesday at the latest
• If you are worried your paper is too long…the length for this paper is between 5 and 9 pages including works cited
• You need to self edit.  I am not reading the whole paper looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!
• 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!
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Thursday, Jan. 9 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: OMM Big Ideas Assessment  
• Work time on Ind. Book Presentation? (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 at least started with rough draft of the body: I will be looking through the papers that have been uploaded to Turnitin the evening before you are conferencing

Wednesday, Jan. 8 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: “To a Mouse” (where the title of the book comes from)
• What did you discuss yesterday that you feel needs to be shared?  
• Assessment tomorrow: need two themes with two pieces of evidence each
• 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.  
• No first person pronouns! (unless in a direct quote)
• If you finish your body paragraphs, work on your introduction
• When you have a draft that you are ready to confer about, upload it to Turnitin and sign up for a conference.
• Remember, Turnitin doesn’t update in real time, so only upload it when you aren’t going to work on it more (and you have all of your body paragraphs drafted)
• 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)
• Ind. Book Presentation work time
• If you haven’t worked on this in a bit and you have a few paragraphs of the rough draft done, I would suggest working on this for a chunk of time
• Final Blog comments due RIGHT NOW!

Monday, Jan. 6 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Read page 96-end together
• TQE Discussion on 5 and 6? Finish tomorrow depending on time
• Open NOTE assessment, NOT open book –on Thursday
• Thesis, Note-Taking, and Outlining
• Work on figuring out theme/thesis, taking notes, and starting the outline 
• Thesis check: your rough draft thesis must be checked by the end of the end of the hour at the absolute latest (rough draft thesis most likely will change)
• Outline Reminders
• Finish looking through the story, taking notes on how each shows themes, what literary ideas come up, how each shows its era (LOOK AT YOUR NOTES, I WILL NOT TELL YOU THE ERAS’ CHARACTERISTICS) –DEPTH OF THEME
• You should be done taking notes (re-reading, highlighting, actual notes) by end of class today (beginning of tomorrow at latest)
• Outline on Assignment in Classroom (Thesis through body paragraph section is what is due tomorrow). 
• Final Paper thesis check and work time (paper or ind. book proj.)

Friday, Jan. 3 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Finish Part 4 (76-83)
• TQE Discussion Pt. 4
• Intro to Final Essay
• you should know of what stories you are analyzing and have copies of them by Monday (beginning of block)
• Rough Draft Thesis due by middle of block Monday
• Work Time: themes, ideas for thesis: checked mid block Monday
• Hwk: Make sure you have finished your independent book and are posting your last post on your blog before it turns to Saturday, comments on 2 blogs by Monday; thesis check Monday (if not today); Read Section 5: 84-96 (stop after "...rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump.")

Thursday, Jan. 2 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Work time for reading for or writing post 8, planning final product, reading (make sure you are done with section 3 OMM to page 53)
• Read some of OMM together (get to 66??)
• Short discussion on 38-where ever we get after I read
• Big Idea Discussion
• With small group, talk about all of section 3 and then **POST specific examples of big ideas (3), literary devices (2), and TWO of the four types of conflicts in the book so far.  Then go through the big idea sheet and discuss where the other big ideas have been seen (start with Am. Dream, be specific, page numbers/textual evidence always helpful **ADD TO ONES EVEN IF YOU AREN’T TRACING). 
• Assessing understanding of OMM will focus on the Big Ideas tied to THEMES and Textual Evidence

Homework: Read part of Section 4 (66-76 stop at “Any you boys seen Curley?”), Post 8 (Final Post)