Week at a Glance: Feb 21 - 25

If you missed a class, please check out the archives.

English 8

• Silent Reading with an Adult Presentation: You will present on the experience of reading this book with an adult. You can choose to focus your presentation on what you learned about the adult, on what you learned about reading, on what your discussions were like, on the best and worst part of reading with your adult, etc... You will also have a visual to aid you in communicating your ideas to your audience. The visual should relate to the experience but it can also relate the the book itself if you like. You will not be summarizing the book - but you can set the context by explaining in one or two sentences what the book is about if that helps you communicate the experience of reading that book with your adult.
• DUE on Wednesday the 23rd for 1.3 and Thursday the 24th for 2.1.

English 11AP

• Your project is due at the beginning of class on Tuesday the 22nd.

Writing 12: Next class tba.

1. Please hand in your memoir to the office in manuscript form (as per instructions in last week's post - see archives) with this attached.
   
   
1. Writing my memoir felt...
2. I started my memoir on ...
3. Overall, it took me about _____ hours to write.
4. I spent ____% of that time on revision.
5. I wrote ____ drafts.
6. Here is what I did to challenge myself:
7. Here is what I would do different next time:
2. Due Feb 28th: by this date, please email me the text of a spoken word piece (slam poetry) that you have written. If you'd like examples please look for the following poets on YouTube: Shane Koyzan, Alicia Keys, Def Jam Poetry, and others.
3. Due March 7th:
4. Due after Spring Break: 
5. Your memoir will be available for pick up at lunch on Feb 28th in W201. If you don't pick it up at this time, I will hand it over to the teacher taking over for me and she or he will return it to you at the next meeting.