Description, cont.

0.  Attendance and caption contest, here.

1.  Journal-  Descriptive Practice...  Video here.

2.  Descriptive Game... It's like.

3.  Poem Discussion... Let's find descriptive tricks....

4.  HW-

Think, really think, about your story, and be ready to tell the story to another next class.  Also, prepare an outline or plan of how you'll tell your story.  Please bring the plan to class.

Decriptive Beginnings...

1.  Essay checks.  Format, Read aloud. 

2.  Journal-  Be a reporter...

3.  Descriptive Essay assigned....

4.  HW- Readings- 

Descriptive Reading:  "The Deer at Providencia" on page 150 plus the first set of questions 1-6.
Descriptive Reading:   "The Vietnam Wall" on page 176.
Descriptive Reading:   "Facing It"  on the world wide web with no questions. 

  Common Mistakes...

1.  Fragment.                              
2.  Comma Splice
3.  Run on
4.  Tense shift.
5.  Verb tense agreement.
6.  Parallelism.
7.  Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
8.  Comma after introductory elements-



3.  Groups and Editing.  Questions for readers to answer, below.


1.  Does the essay begin in the middle of the story?

2.  Does the essay seem to have a beginning, middle, and end?

3.  Would the essay be interesting to some people?

4.  Does the writer have a voice?  Do they sound unique?

5.  Would you tell this story to another person?

6.  Was anything left out of the story?

7.  What's the topic of the story?

8.  What's the purpose of this narrative?

9.  Write a compliment...


4.  Closing and what's up-

Your final draft is due for submission on Tuesday.

Workshop-

.  Welcome to class...

2.  Journal-

We're moving into discussing description, so let's practice!  Describe a familiar object without saying its name or function.

3.  Groups and Narrative Workshop-  Fish Bowl.

4.  What type of comments are okay?  How do I comment?

5.  Groups and editing.

6.  Closing and HW-

7.  HW-  Bring your revised draft to class on Thursday.

EXTENDED JOURNAL-

1.  Draw a map of an area you lived in for a while as a child/young adult.

2.  Fill in interesting things you remember.

3.  Summarize one story that you think others will find interesting.

4.  Tell that story to another.


6.  Reading and Discussion.  Compare and Contrast answers with a partner.

7.  Reading discussion.  What's important for us?

8.  HW-  Read The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson.

9.  HW-  TYPED drafts due on Tuesday.

Grading w/ Traits.

1.  Journal-  Tell a story that shows what you are like as a student...

2.  6 Traits review... quick and group grading...  Read "Mother Nature"

3.  Use this rubric to grade...

4. HW-  Narrative Essays:

Reading and questions from Patterns  "The Lottery" by Chris Abani with questions 1-6 under "Reading Closely" and "Salvation" by Langston Hughes with questions 1-6 under "Reading Closely."

5. HW-  Your Narrative Essay Typed Draft Due TUESDAY, in a week.

Starting Notes and Practice...

1.     Journal-   What thinking skills did you use to complete origami?  Take out your definitions list and tell me which you used and why...

2. Extended Sentence Fluency work…

I went to the park.

I saw a dog.

He was brown and black.

He barked.

He started to run towards me.

I panicked.

He ran faster.

I ran faster.

He caught me by the leg.

He pulled me down.

I fell.

He jumped on my face.

He opened his mouth.

I saw his teeth.

He licked me.

He wagged his tail.

3.  Voice Practice...

4.  HW-  Complete this worksheet related to sentence types...

Final Thinking Skill Project...

1.  Let's do our final project, or, at least practice for our final project.  FUN!

2.  HW-  Follow these directions to complete your Origami Crane!