Santa has a mid-life crisis

Writing Workshop

1. Citations and Works Cited: Make sure your quotes are properly cited within your paragraphs and that you have a completed works cited to hand in with your final draft!
2. Continue peer editing with your partner if you did not finish last class. We will be spending class time today working on peer editing, revisions and final drafts

Adversity Essay Rough Draft

1. Adversity Essay Rubric 
2. Writing workshop: Peer Edit using Explain Everything

Power of One Essay: inserting quotes in the rough draft

1. Comma Practice

2. Inserting Quotes

3. Rough Draft Work

Country Lovers

1. Assign essay: rough draft due Monday

• Click here to view the prompt and outline

2. Writing prompt: Write about a place that is meaningful to you. Describe it using sensory details to help the reader visualize.

3. Discuss “Country Lovers” 

4. Read “The Toilet”

HW: The Toilet Reading Response

end o' book discussion

1. Comma Review continued

2. Share Tanka poems

3. Discuss end of book reading questions done for HW

HW: Read "Country  Lovers" for next class

For homework, I would like you come prepared with three discussion questions and answers over "Country Lovers." These  should be in your quarter two folder. Please have one of each type of question:

• Right there question:  the answer is right in the text. ex: what happens to Grampa Chook?

• Pulling it together question:  the answer is in the text, but the reader has to pull it together from different parts of the text. ex: what are some important lessons that Peekay has learned through his relationship with Doc?

• Author and me question:  the answer is not in the text.  The reader must use the information provided in the text and his or her own knowledge/interpretation to figure out the answer.ex: Why do you think the author never tells us the names of Peekay’s mother or grandfather?For that matter, why don’t we ever learn Peekay’s real name?

Comma Review

Writing Groups tasks:

a. Share tanka poems

b. comma rule group activity (in shared folder)

We will be sharing our sentences on Friday and also discussing the end of the book. For homework, I would like you come prepared with three discussion questions over book three. Please have one of each type of question:

• Right there question:  the answer is right in the text. ex: what happens to Grampa Chook?

• Pulling it together question:  the answer is in the text, but the reader has to pull it together from different parts of the text. ex: what are some important lessons that Peekay has learned through his relationship with Doc?

• Author and me question:  the answer is not in the text.  The reader must use the information provided in the text and his or her own knowledge/interpretation to figure out the answer.ex: Why do you think the author never tells us the names of Peekay’s mother or grandfather?For that matter, why don’t we ever learn Peekay’s real name?

"Crackling Day"

1. Blog Post #6: Reflection Questions for Writer's Blogs Due Friday
2. Reading Quiz
3. "Crackling Day" Read together and complete Tanka Summary