First and sixth periods began making a rubric for the memoir project (tentatively due next Monday). We also did some planning via clustering. The draft rubrics are below: Second and fourth periods looked at Joseph Campbell’s mythic archetype (the monomyth) and...
First and sixth periods continued working on their memoirs, practicing adding sensory details to their writing. There were some truly amazing examples in class of using the senses to show rather than tell. We’ll be finishing up the memoir late next week or early...
First and sixth period worked on adding sensory details to writing. We looked at two passages from the I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings excerpt (the description of Mrs. Flowers’s living room and the description of eating the cookie Mrs. Flowers had baked) that...
First and sixth periods continued working with the memoir. With the completion of tonight’s homework, we will have first drafts ready to begin revising tomorrow. Second and fourth periods began the Odyssey. We looked at the opening passages — an invocation...
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...
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