Agenda, October 25

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.

Due before the beginning of class on Wednesday: Teacher conference about your two week packet.
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 dash.  
I can recognize and correct sentences with errors.
I can compare two poems about the same character. 

1. FW #32: "If we only had time ..." OR "Hearing screaming ..."
2. Sharing Time 
3. Drafting time (up to 30 minutes)
4. Syntax Practice #3: Dashes
5. PW #36: "Richard Cory"
6. PW #37: Show, Don't Tell