Friday, Nov. 8 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 minutes to comment or read. When you finish the short story, do this: WN: Do you believe that Perkins-Gillman achieved her purpose through this story? (What do you believe her purpose was; why yes or no?)
• Go to my edublogs page and do what the most recent post says
• Discuss “The Yellow Wallpaper”
• Small group, discuss annotations –what is the story about, how does it show social issues (the role of women), your interpretation of the story, especially the ending of the story, and additional questions
• Post your Ts Qs and Es on Google Classroom 
• In WN, finish this statement and then support yourself in a paragraph: Perkins-Gillman proves that society’s impact on the individual is because . Be as thorough as you can be, textual evidence is always a plus. (**put your words/phrases on the board…)
• Read book/post for BAL while waiting for all to be done (at any point)
• Commenting on blogs due Monday
• Literary Concepts: foreshadowing, satire
• Satire: a technique where foolish customs/traditions/ideas are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society, it is often accomplished through humor or wit, but isn’t always (it can be abrasive or bitterly critical)
• “The Lottery”
• Read through, annotating ideas of society and individual, satire, post-modern characteristics, as well as other basic annotations (highlight/underline AND write what you are thinking with it)
• Be prepared to come up with some FANTASTIC Epiphanies Monday!

Thursday, Nov. 7 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Small Group on Patrick Henry’s “Speech in Virginia Conv.” 
• TQE: post one of each on the whiteboard after 15 minutes
• Large group on Patrick Henry
• How to comment on blogs/commenting collaborators
• Reminder of Realism Era: what was life at the time, social issues, etc.
• “The Yellow Wallpaper” 799/packet 

While reading: annotate (comment/connection/question/etc at least two annotations should be discussion questions) be able to discuss your interpretation of the story, especially the ending of the story tomorrow

Wednesday, Nov. 6 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 60 minutes Writer’s Workshop
• Collect paper (paperclip rubric to paper and works cited page)
• Blogging About Lit 
• Calendar Check
• Time to write first post (due tomorrow) or read (independent book or “Speech in Virginia Convention”
• “Speech in Virginia Convention” due tomorrow
• Three rhetorical questions and the assumed answers from the speech.  Why include these questions? EX: “Is this the part of wise men…” he wants listeners to think that, no, wise men search for freedom with open eyes, seeing truth. 
• Allusion: find another mention of a literary/historical/biblical event.  Any thoughts as to why it would be included? Take a guess…
• How does this fit in the topic (the individual and society)?
• How do you see themes of independence or freedom in this speech? (Themes of the era)“Speech in the Virginia Convention”

Tuesday, Nov. 5 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: The Individual and Society section: write a quick list of ways that an individual can interact with society. Think of these ideas: can individuals change society? Can society change individuals? Can you exist without society? Can society exist without individuals? Are there different definitions of society that matter here? 
• First Post: What is your book? Why did you pick it? Who are you reading with (if you are)? What are you looking forward to in this project? What are you apprehensive about? What are you going to do to ensure your success? –due Thursday
• (150 words, why you are reading that book, at least one image) 
• Writer’s Workshop Time –see next slide
• MLA Format (reminders shared through Google Classroom)
• Confer, peer editing/revising, Turnitin (ways to work on draft with help)
• Paper with rubric (standard based/single point) due tomorrow after 30 min
• Patrick Henry Speech –I’d highlight in three or four different colors, if possible {DUE Thursday}
• Three rhetorical questions and the assumed answers from the speech.  Why include these questions? EX: “Is this the part of wise men…” he wants listeners to think that, no, wise men search for freedom with open eyes, seeing truth. 
• Allusion: find another mention of a literary/historical/biblical event.  Any thoughts as to why it would be included? Take a guess…
• How does this fit in the topic (the individual and society)?
• How do you see themes of independence or freedom in this speech? (Themes of the era)“Speech in the Virginia Convention” 

Monday, Nov. 4 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: One Pagers
• Blogging About Literature
• Schedule creation, book requesting if needed 
• Reminder, the book needs to be CHALLENGING for you!
• I’ll check your calendar if you have it ready
• Writer’s Workshop: 
• Work on revising for craft comments, editing 
• Issues noticed: Introduction information (fluency through intro, leading to thesis), unity when supporting thesis (topic sentences), depth of analysis (keeping analysis tied to topic sentences and thesis); SYNTHESIS OF THE EXAMPLES
• Synthesis: presenting new ideas based on interpretations of other evidence or arguments; analysis of multiple sources together.
• Editing noticed: academic voice; italicize long works; citation format; general conventions; comma issues; sentence fluency; sentence structure
• Turning a second draft into a final reminders
• punctuation, capitalization, academic voice, format, other grammar or conventions; fluency, sentence structure (fragment, run-on, comma splice)
• Meet with me to confer on comments
• YOU NEED A WORKS CITED PAGE 
• Paper due Wednesday!!

Friday, Nov. 1 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ONE PAGERS
• Writer’s Workshop: 
• Work on revising for craft comments, editing (I haven’t read through EXACTLY for editing, but I did notice stuff…)
• Issues noticed: unity when supporting thesis (topic sentences), depth of analysis (keeping analysis tied to topic sentences and thesis)
• Editing noticed: academic voice; italicize long works; citation format; general conventions; comma issues; sentence fluency; sentence structure
• Intro, Conclusion, Body Examples
• Introduction information (fluency through intro, leading to thesis),
• Turning a second draft into a final reminders
• punctuation, capitalization, academic voice, format, other grammar or conventions; fluency, sentence structure (fragment, run-on, comma splice)
• Meet with me to confer on comments
• YOU NEED A WORKS CITED PAGE 
• Paper due Wednesday!!

Thursday, Oct. 31 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Analysis vs. summary: need to print out a copy of your body paragraphs first
• You need at least three colors of highlighters or colored pencils.
• Find the Summary vs. Analysis handout to use as notes (extras in folder if needed)
• Highlight everything that you feel is summary in one color, everything that is analysis in another color, anything that can be synthesis (and some may be both synthesis and analysis) in the third color
• Read your comments in Turnitin
• Meet with me (bring your highlighted copy)

• Work on changing from first draft to second draft, getting your analysis to be at least two times more than your summary (for Crucible quote analysis), adding more evidence of current connection, depth of analysis (not just that it proves your thesis, but WHY and HOW)

Wednesday, Oct. 30 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Work time while girls are at Women of Tomorrow
• Step 1: Body paragraphs done and uploaded to turnitin
• Step 2: ONE PAGER COMPLETION
• Step 3: Intro and Conclusion first draft
• Step 4: Find a book for the next quarter
• If ladies return, specific work time on one-pagers (presentations are TOMORROW)

Tuesday, Oct. 29 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Blogging About Literature mini-intro
• Writer’s Workshop time to work on body paragraphs, then go into Intro and Conclusion first draft
• write together -analysis practice in Google Drive
• Work on Intro and Conclusion when body rough draft is complete
• Intros: Attention getter, Necessary Information (author’s name, title(italics), plot info related to thesis), Thesis 
• All need to tie together, need fluency, one idea builds to the other
• Conclusions: restated thesis (new words/order, same idea), re-emphasize arguments (not summarize everything you said), explain ‘so what?’ and possibly tie back to attention getter
• Writer’s Workshop: full first/second draft (when you are ready for me to read it, upload it to Turnitin) by end of block-ish (second has the intro and conclusion)
• Better analysis: tied to topic sentences, fully proving the thesis, take parts of the quote to explain
• Take out unnecessary summary!!!

Enrollment key: F2019amlit Class ID: 22251669

Monday, Oct. 28 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop time
• 15 minutes work time: Work at whatever step you need to complete (theme tracing, revising for craft/content, revising for editing (and meeting with me), etc. End result: best piece of writing you have ever created)
• Consider using a computer resource for editing assistance:
• Grammarly.com, slickwrite.com, Easy Bib’s grammar portion, Ginger writer, Turnitin’s purple layer, prowritingaid.com, others?
• Draft posted on your blog after 15–should be at a ‘final’ point
• Title the post your story’s title
• I will not be grading THIS online version...
• 10 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc 
• MEETING #4 
• Enhancing Readers’ Understanding
• Need at least 1 images/videos/links posted by tomorrow