Week #2 - Open Letters, Ultimate Guides, Writing Response Groups, and Mumford...Oh My!

Hello Writers!

I hope this update finds you well and settling into the new school year and our class.  By now, you are aware of the expectations and rigor that is expected of you.  Hopefully you are in full celebration of the freedoms you are being given as young adults and writers.  I hope to see you take full advantage of your writing and revising opportunities.

Extra Credit Opportunities - this will be added to your participation grade:
* Poetry Club - Wednesday's at Lunch.  Attend/Share/Be Supportive
* Boxes of Tissues 
* Hand Sanitizer
* Do you have an article/mentor text that you believe would be of value for use to read and emulate - if so bring it in and let's see if we can use it!
* Chocolate Chip Cookies

Upcoming Events:
* Rudy Francisco (Nationally known spoken word poet) Assembly - Friday 9/20, Per. 6, 7
* Poetry Assembly - Friday 9/27, Time TBD - Featuring members of the San Diego National
Spoken Word Team

Here is the tentative schedule for the week. Please note that all Mentor Texts are handouts.  If you are absent you will need to get a copy - read and annotate.

Monday
*  Freewrite- 10 minutes (Use your Writers NB Guide)
*  Revisit the Kanye piece.  What do you notice about tone, style, structure that you can emulate in your own writing?
* Writing Time - WI #2 - "An Open Letter" - typed draft due Tues. 

Tues
* WI #2 draft due - work check. Share. Plans to Revise, Rewrite
* Mentor Text - "The Ultimate Guide To Writing Better Than You Normally Do"
* WI #3 - "The Ultimate Guide To....." - typed draft due Friday

Weds.
* Freekwrite - 10 minutes (Use your Writers NB Guide)
* Writing Response Groups (Have WRG handouts w/you)
* We will model protocol and expectation
* Writing/Revising Time

Thursday
* Mentor Text: "The Worst Things Of All Time"
* WI #4 - "Don't Let ______ Trick You...." - typed draft due Weds 9/18 (work check)
* Writing Time

Friday
* Author's Chair - Share your writing - WI#1-WI#4, Poetry, Songs (Participation)
* Work Check - WI#3, Revisions WI#1,2,4
* Writing/Revising Time

Please stay up to date on all of your Writing Invites.  You should experiment and play and have some fun.  These are not your typical articles or writing opportunities - so I expect to see creativity and individual voice.  Be proud of your ideas - make them come to fruition.

You will be sumbitting a typed final copy of ONE of your writing invites for your first assessment (grade) on Friday 9/20.  Be sure to turn in your best work.  Own it.

Samakosky
Turner