Thursday, October 24, 2013

Agenda, October 24

Reminder: Keep all your work, including graded  freewrites,  pre-writes, and published drafts. We'll need them to revise.
Due Monday: Rough draft of two poems or two pages of fiction that include strong figurative language, killer first lines, lots of showing, clear, believable characters. Your rough draft needs to be a document that is separate from your freewrites and pre-writes.
Coming Friday: Sharing Time
Coming Wednesday: The laptops are coming! The laptops are coming! 
 
Unit 3: Character  
Today's Learning Targets:
I can develop rough ideas into a complete draft.

I can write an interesting, correctly punctuated sentence with a semi-colon.
I can recognize and correct sentences with errors.
  1. Drafting time (up to 30 minutes, if you use it)
  2. Syntax Practice #2: Semi-colons
  3. PW #36: "Richard Cory"
  4. PW #37: Show, Don't Tell

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