Week at a Glance: Oct 4-8

English 8

• Keep reading - each day at home and each day in class. Remember to bring your book to class!
• 2.1: Due Wednesday - Write either a story you are told, a story you retell, or a story that is told about you. Half to full page of writing, single spaced. First draft is fine.
• 1.3: Due Thursday- Write either a story you are told, a story you retell, or a story that is told about you. Half to full page of writing, single spaced. First draft is fine.

English 11 AP

• Monday: Due today - a statement in response to one of the following:
• Do you believe that everyone is involved in a personal battle with good and evil?
• What does it take to give into temptation - what is at stake and how does one decide to give in?
• Wednesday: Due today - Assigned Readers' Theatre Roles

Writing 12

• Next meeting: November 2nd at 7:15am.
• First assignment: describe the view from a window - any window, bedroom, restaurant, bus, wherever - as seen by the character you gave birth to this morning and who has just received either very good or very bad news. Have some specific news in mind but do not mention it in the exercise. Don't even hint at it. The reader should be able to deduce if not the exact nature of the news, the tenor of it, whether it's good or bad, simply by the way you describe the view. The obect here is to give the reader a sense of your character's internal life by relying on meaningful imagery alone. (This exercise is adapted from "through your character's eye" by Michael Knight in Naming the World.)