Agenda, April 18

Due Friday: Rough Draft for Packet 2 (two pages of fiction or two poems)
Due Thursday: Bring a book
Due Thursday: 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. Revision Exercise Two: 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): It is raining.
2. Pre-write #16: Desire, Obstacle, Action & Three First Lines: begin with an action; begin with a description; begin with a line of dialogue.
3. What happened next?
4. Pre-write #17: Mirror Poems.
5. Work Time