Agenda, April 19

Due Friday: Rough Draft for Packet 2 (two pages of fiction or two poems)
Due Today: Bring a book
Due Today: Revision Exercise 1-3.
Due Friday: Pre-writes 8-19
Due Monday: Freewrites 8-16
Due by end of class Monday: Teacher conference. Show me your rough. Talk to me about it.
Tuesday is lab day / final draft day.
Unit 2: Structure: Beginnings, endings, middles, and laying the words on the page

1. Reading Time: Look for foreshadowing.
2. Pre-write #18: Write a well developed paragraph in which you discuss the structure of your novel. Be sure to include the author and the title. Underline the title.
3. Revision Exercise Three: Revise the following sentence three times without using any forms of the verb "to be" (is, am, are, was, were, be, been, being, and contractions that include those words): He's looking forward to tomorrow.
4. Pre-write #19: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
5. What happened next?
6. Work Time