First and sixth periods practiced taking notes (and we debriefed the process at the end of the period) for the memoir. We’ll begin writing it in earnest tomorrow.

Second and fourth periods finished up the unit on short stories and writing about literature. We began the unit on the Odyssey. We’re already behind and I didn’t want to get further behind, so I skipped three units that we’ll return to later. (We skipped Mockingbird because of inadequate copies in the library: another class is using them!)

Seventh period began working on a first draft. We went over some guidelines for a first draft in an effort to decrease worries about the “rightness” of an initial draft and thereby increase the quality of writing.

Homework

• First and sixth periods: do some free writing about the memoir topic (it must be connected to reading or writing, but that is the only requirement.
• Second and fourth period:
• complete notes begun in class by reading pages 1025-1031 and taking notes;
• complete and turn in the final essay by Thursday (note: this a day later than initially stated).
• Seventh period: none.