Agenda, September 10

Due Every Day: Bring a personal choice reading book.   

Due last Friday: 

- Typed final draft

- Rough draft with notes from your revision partner

- FW 1, 2, and 3

Coming Wednesday: Small group sharing 

Unit 1: Word Choice, Figurative Language, and Setting

Today's Learning Targets:

I can use a freewrite to generate ideas.
I can use figurative language to affect the mood of the reader.
I can determine the impact of figurative language on meaning and tone in my personal reading.
I can take old sayings and make them new .

1. Freewrite #5: lashed, reckless, crystalline, caliber, pierced, cringe, mingle, milenium 
2. Figurative Language Practice #2: Metaphors (Choose a mood. Write three metaphors that create that mood.)
3. Independent Reading: Look for similes and metaphors
4. Pre-writing #2: Cliche' Busting
5. Pre-writing #3: "The Book of Love"