Tuesday: Start Presentation

*Wednesday Reading Day
*Today: Using the handout you've been working with: create an insightful presentation about why your writer writes and what that means for "appreciation of writer's choices" while you read. Include 3 Costa's Questions that were particularly challenging and insightful towards the writer's aesthetic-- look at second definition: what is your writer's aesthetic and how is that helpful towards the "appreciation of writer's choices?

What will you need to accomplish today and Thursday to present a polished, stellar piece on Friday? Plan it out and stick to it!

Use the rubric to give additional insight into what to include and delve into for a stellar score.

Notice:
Ideas: Demonstrates strong knowledge of the writer’s aesthetic (look up if you don't know this word). Effectively uses quotes from the interview to support ideas. An articulate, open-minded presentation of the writer. 

Multimedia: All images, sounds, and programs enhance the ideas and allow for an expression of ideas. There are no technical difficulties.  -not all presentations are enhanced by powerpoint and not all images are insightful (how does a picture of Morrison add insight or intellectual depth? It doesn't.)

Presentation of Ideas: All group members speak clearly with strong and convincing voice and purpose. Presentation is seamless and clearly planned and practiced (how can you make sure this is a high score? What does this look like to achieve? If your group is going to practice it together-- when does the presentation need to be completed?).  
     -whom ever is present that day is presenting, regardless. It would be an act of kindness to give everyone access to the presentation so they don't have to recall the ideas on their own. Also, include everyone in all ideas so the one or two people left to present don't misrepresent the group.

Conventions: spell and grammar check both spoken and written- use elevated academic voice (not casual speak)
 

Powerpoint for Say, Mean, Matter and the Costa's Three Levels of Thinking Handout!

Powerpoint


Costa

Monday and Tuesday! Recap and Moving Forward

We are going over this powerpoint to review and push forward HOW to explicate and WHY it matters.

Please take notes and explore as we go.

This is one of those activities that you get out of this what you put into it-- remember the IB Learner Profile: be open, aware, profound and meaningful.  :)

Wednesday is a reading day: bring your novel to read.

Wednesday and Thursday

Now that we've completed the writer's workshop....it is time to plan the re-write.

Thursday Rules:
1. Take the class period and plan. Slow down and consider what types of changes you need to make and how to go about making that type of change throughout the essay.
2. Resist the urge to work within the original essay today. The result tends to be to make superficial changes.
3. Remember, use the paragraph structure so it works for you, but that doesn't mean to ignore all the work that occurs within a paragraph...or within two paragraphs.
4. Use the materials available to you: provided in class
5. Do NOT start completely over and do something TOTALLY different. You may drop a paragraph if needed (maybe it repeats in topic) and add a new one to better address a different craft....

Friday Rules:
1. Write your essay.
2. Show what you've learned about commentary for both content and while you write.
3. Turn in on Edmodo. Attach it through your backpack. Do NOT copy and paste. ATTACH.

Thank you,
      Street Shines   :)

Writing Workshop on Nikki Giovanni

You will have two days to give feedback. Pace yourselves with that in mind.
Five minutes to really look at the essay through different filters?
     Thesis: impact or "so what" supported by craft (or is craft elsewhere?)
     Organization: development and transitions
     Word Choice: how effective and precise are the words
     Are examples precise? Worked into the sentence or a stand alone?
    Overall effectiveness? It doesn't have to be written to a formula to "work"

Write the Commentary!

Feel free to use the packet about writing commentary to help focus and remind you of the goals we are striving for.

Write the commentary.

Last five minutes of the class period today-- print.  :)

Brainstorm for Commentary

1. Select a poem from the poetry packet that no one else in your group is writing about. Write a commentary for that poem.

2. You have two days to write: what is your process to write complexly?
Today and tomorrow you need to plan and write.
     Your paper needs to be printed 5 minutes before the end of class tomorrow.
     *Honor code: don't work on it at home....trust the process of writer's circle to work.
   
Monday we will be going through writer's workshop- TRUST THE PROCESS- stop scrambling and let the ugly writing appear. This has been a HIGHLY successful process for those who do use and trust the process.

A more comprehensive definition of metaphor...

A metaphor is a whole lot more than a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as. 

Here's what they have to say at the Purdue OWL. 

And did you know that chicks dig metaphors? 

A call for photos!

We are looking for your single-subject evocative photos for this blog! 

Extra-credit? 

Nah, but you do get a photo credit and the publication! :) 

Email submissions to: lizshine.osd@gmail.com along with your name/teacher. 

How to be creative.

In class, Monday 10/7--Wednesday 10/9

Step 1: In a group of 3-4 peers (already chosen), explicate the rest of the poems in the Giovanni packet. Remember to look up words and allusions you don’t know and to follow the steps in the Fool-Proof Guide. Remember that you want to explore each step in depth, not write down one or two responses and move on.

One reason why it's good to read books.

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” 
― James Baldwin

Autumn Sunset