1.  Journal-  What's important in a descriptive essay?  What are you trying to accomplish?

2.  Essays and quick chats.

3.  Pantry Pamphlet groups and suggestions.

4.  Pantry packing/delivering.





Thursday-  And then.. Test,  , Vocab test.  We'll be busy.

Descriptive Essay due next Tuesday.

Next Thursday, Oct 8th, Pamphlet example.

Descriptive essay planning....

1.       What might you write about for a descriptive essay?

3.       National Anthem-  Description practice.

6.       Attendance.


9.  My plan for Desc Essay.


12.  Pantry donations by Tuesday, if you can, for a pantry planning day.


13.  Pantry pamphlet to be placed in bags... What should go on it?


16.  Vocab, Thursday, And then there were none test, Thursday, descriptive essay, too.

We started to understand the book

1. We created vocab, we discussed descriptive essays as our next topic, and we made a character map for And Then There Were None

2. Next is descriptive essay intros  +

3. HW was to read, by Tuesday the 29th, through chapter 13, stopping at 14.

Essay Exam Prompt

Essay Test-

In three paragraphs, using specific quotes from your book, name a theme in And Then There Were None, and explain why you believe it is one of the themes in the book.

HW-  Read Chapters 4-6, stopping at 7, for HW, and be prepared for an easy comprehension quiz.

HW-  Thinking about a social problem for a research based argument essay.

1.  Essay Work.... Individual 2x.   Wanna turn it in?

2. Groups, quick... just for typos.

3. Test-  And then there were none!

1.-  Journal-

 Look up the 6 traits of good writing on some device and share with partners and list and define them.


2. Notes...


6 Traits-

TAP- 

Topic,-  What it's about
Audience,- Who it's for
Purpose-  Why we're writing it. (To inform, To persuade,  To entertain, etc.)

Writing Process-  A series of recursive steps that help writers complete written work.

1.  Invent-     Creating ideas to write about.
2.  Organize- Plan your work, work your plan.
3.  Draft-        Bake your cake-  Don't measure.
4.  Revise-     SF, V, I, O, WC
5.  Edit-         Grammar only!-  Frosting.
6.  Publish-    Perfect, gets a star.

















3.  Readers?

4.  Books and Dates-   And there were none, aka "10 little Indians"  Read up to chapter 4- That's chapters 1-3 by Thursday.    Also, have your completed essay in class, by this same day.

Required Books

We worked in groups and watched friends and choose books.

And then there were none-  Agatha Christie   

Slaughterhouse 5- Vonnegut

One Flew over the cuckoos nest-  Kesey

Things Fall apart-  Achebe

 Sept 15

Bring a final Draft to class on Thursday, ready to be submitted.

1.  Essay check-  who did their HW?

2.  Groups and reading, if possible.

3.  HW-  edit draft of your essay, complete a works cited.

4.  Next Class.  Works Cited details/ practice, editing groups.

5.  Novel-  Pick a work of classic literature that you have not read and bring the title and author to class.

6.  Attendance

1.  Problems and Planning....

 Journal-  If you were to turn your problem into an essay, what would the plan be for the essay-?


2.  Share prob/plan with another.

3.  Share prob/plan with groups, selected.

4.  School problem we can help with: Pantry.

5.  HW-  Write a draft of your P/S essay for class on Tues.

6.  TS project as well, Tuesday, PA, ORG.

1. Journal-  

Write about at time when you learned something new.  How did you learn it?  What was your process or what steps did you go through?


2. More thinking skills... Lateral thinking.


3.  Questions and editorials...

4.  Names.

5.  Attendance.

6. HW-  Return with an idea of a local problem...