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

Friday, May 29 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: BwF Project time (30-45 min) –perspective journal turn in if you didn’t yesterday

*Outline review

*Writer’s Workshop

*Continue looking through the story, taking notes on what themes are present, how it shows themes, what literary ideas come up, how it shows its era (LOOK AT YOUR NOTES, I WILL NOT TELL YOU THE ERA’S CHARACTERISTICS) –

*You should be done taking notes (re-reading, highlighting, actual notes) by end of class today

*Share outline with me on Google Docs by end of hour (outline due end of work time Monday)

(To see outline template, click on the word 'outline')

Thursday, May 28 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Collect Perspective Journals (if complete), question sheet

*Thesis and Note-taking for the final paper

*OMM Big Idea assessment

*Work on figuring out theme/thesis, taking notes, and starting the outline when done with assessment

THESIS CREATION:

*Assignment: Compare (how they show the same theme) and Contrast (how they show era/how they show theme differently) two selections from two different eras

MY EXAMPLE: 

*Selections: “The Trial of Thomas-Builds-the-Fire”, “The Law of Life”, “Yellow Wallpaper”

*Theme: ‘Cultural’ beliefs followed blindly destroying the individual?; Society silencing one who is different?

*Possible thesis: “The Trial of Thomas-Builds-the-Fire,” “The Law of Life”, and “The Yellow Wallpaper” embody the eras they were written in while emphasizing the idea that when society blindly follows the beliefs of the majority, individuals who don’t ‘fit’ are destroyed as well as displaying other similarities.

*Your thesis at this point is a ROUGH DRAFT!!  It can and most likely will change as you develop your body paragraphs

NOTE TAKING:

*Identify the theme you are focusing on and the stories

         *Look for quotes/passages that you feel BEST show that theme, write down the page number and why or highlight and write why next to it (choose more than you need so you can pick what fits/what is best)

         *Find other similarities: write down quotes to use

         *Remind yourself the characteristics of the era you are looking at and find differences or similarities between the stories with quotes that show these characteristics (the era)

Wednesday, May 27 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Book Pitch work with partner

*Perspective Journals due Thursday/Friday: should have 1-16, 17-29, 30-52, 53-65, 66-83, 84-end {full page} (or 84-98 and 99-end)

*End of book discussion with small group

*Foreshadowing, Figurative Language, Symbolism, and Tragic Hero (talk about these things)

*Work on questions, literary terms notes (foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, symbols), big idea notes –all need to be done by tomorrow

*Big Idea Notes Sheet: Make sure for American Dream and one of your other two big ideas that you have a theme connected to that idea and two pieces of textual evidence that show each one perfectly (WITH PAGE NUMBER):

*Introduce Final Paper

*you should know of what stories you are analyzing and have copies of them by tomorrow

*Add your name to the list with the titles of the stories you are writing about (if you need a copy, talk to me)

Tuesday, May 26 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: With small group, go through the big idea sheet and discuss where the different ideas have been seen (start with Am. Dream, be specific, page numbers/textual evidence always helpful).

*With the same small group, work on discussing and then jotting down answers to questions (1-8), especially questions 5 and 7 on sheet then add your opinions on these questions: Why doesn’t Curley’s wife get a name? What could Steinbeck be saying by not giving Curley’s wife a name but giving the cathouse runners names? Or is it just trying to make something out of nothing that she has no name and they do? Explain why you think what you do.

*Add this to the ‘power’ question (8) on sheet: Why does Curley’s wife verbally attack Crooks the way she does at the end of section 4?

*Assessment on OMM coming soon (best guess=Thursday)

*Share best points with large group

*Read Section 5 and 6

*Perspective journal: either half page for 5 and half for 6 (switching perspectives), or full page for both together (one person’s perspective)