First period looked at their first drafts and began narrowing down their topics. (Often students have multiple topics in one first draft.) We’ll be writing a second draft in class tomorrow, as well as doing additional revision.

Second and sixth periods worked on free writing for the same memoir as first period.

Fourth period did some project planning after we went over a review of prepositional phrases. We’ll be working on phrases through the week as we work on the Odyssey board game project.

Homework

• First period: revise the first draft, adding notes in the margin beside each paragraph indicating the topic(s) of the paragraph.
• Second and sixth periods: choose one of the topics discussed in your free writing and do another free write on it (five minutes long).
• Fourth period:
  • complete the prepositional phrase activity;
  • work on project planning.