Agenda, October 29

Reminder: Keep all your work, including graded  freewrites,  pre-writes, and published drafts. We'll need them to revise.

Due Yesterday: Rough draft of two poems or two pages of fiction.

Due before the beginning of class on Wednesday: Teacher conference about your two week packet.
Due by the end of class on Wednesday: You must complete a peer review for one of your classmates. Be sure to put your name on the back of the purple paper.
Coming Wednesday: The laptops are coming! The laptops are coming! 

Unit 3: Character  
Today's Learning Targets:
I can work with a peer to improve my writing.
I can recognize and correct sentences with errors.
I can make decisions about the effect of punctuation.

1. PW #37: Show, don't tell (finally!)
2. Syntax Practice #4: Parentheses 
3. Dashes vs. Commas vs. Parentheses
4. PW #38: Varying syntax style
5. Peer Review / Conference / Revision Time