Updates and Due Dates for Assignments (Reading, Classwork, Homework, etc.)
Due dates will be updated (and possibly adjusted) as we progress through the unit.
Current Unit: Personal Narrative
* Complete the True-False quiz, student info questionnaire, get TW letter signed, and return to me by Wed. Feb. 1 along with Icebreaker worksheet.
* Due Tues. Jan. 31: Essays that Worked and Concrete/Abstract sheets in your packet.
* Due Wed. Feb. 1: Moving from general to specific worksheet
* Due Thurs. Feb. 2: Diction worksheet & Simile/Metaphor sheet
* Due Fri. Feb. 3: Setting exercises
* Due Mon. Feb. 6: Active vs/ Passive Voice Sentence combining and Trimming
* Due Tues. Feb. 7: Opening Lines
* Due Wed. Feb. 8: Character Devlopment exercise and What's in a Name?
* Due Thurs. Feb. 9: "Fish Out of Water" story
* Due Fri. Feb. 10: "Truth is Stranger than Fiction"
* Due Mon. Feb. 13: Two-story picture piece (in class). PERSONAL NARRATIVE DUE.
* Due Tues. Feb. 14: Story from Inanimate point of view
Make sure you are READING and annotating the packet that has the quote bubble on the front. It contains a glossary of terms on which you will be tested (test date to be announced). Tentative date: Feb. 28.
* Due Wed. Feb. 29: REVISED personal narrative due in MLA format.
Ongoing Tasks
Writer's Notebook: Continue to put seed ideas in your Writer's Notebook.
Writing Folder: Please continue to put your writing into your Writing Folder. You NEED to save your work in the folder. Otherwise you will not have a piece to revise for the final exam.
Disclaimer:
I support artistic truth and creative expression 100%. However, please make sure that the writing you submit is appropriate for the high school classroom setting. Aim for PG-13. Writing that could be interpreted as remotely offensive, demeaning, degrading, vulgar, threatening or contains gratuitous or graphic depictions of sex, violence, or vulgarity will be deemed ungradeable. That doesn't mean that you have to write about bunnies and rainbows. I am familiar with and have even enjoyed Tarantino films, Puzo novels, and Bukowski poems. I watch South Park and The Whitest Kids U Know. However, please do not submit writing that by comparison makes these works seem like Blues Clues, Sesame Street or the Teletubbies! I'm confident that you will have plenty to write about and will not have to compromise your artistic integrity!