The Schedule for the week of 10.25.10:

Your final rewrites of the Analytical Essay and the rewrites of College Essay should now be emailed to me as attachments with proper MLA formatting. These are a substantial part of your first quarter grade, since they should represent the best of your writing for the quarter.

Monday 10.25.10, Finish Independent Reading book.

The rest of the schedule is To Be Announced. For the meantime, make sure all of your work is complete. I will be on Professional Development on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week and will try to have your grades done by Thursday.

Schedule for the week of 10.18.10:

The Schedule for the week of 10.18.10:

• Monday 10.18.10, Late-entry, the schedule is 7,1,2,3. Long Block. In class essay on “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio. Here is the passage explication handout and here is the Scoring Guide for your essay.

• Tuesday 10.19.10, Day 1.. This is the first day of a four day, intensive writing workshop. I will plan little mini lessons to open each class and then be able to work with each of you individually

• Wednesday 10.20.10, Day 7. Writing workshop continued.

• Thursday 10.21.10, Day 6. Writing workshop continued.

• Friday 10.22.10, Day 5. Long Block. Writing workshop continued. Final rewrites of Analytical Essay due by the end of the day. Final rewrites of College Essay also due by the end of the day.

Agenda for Week of 10.11.10

image: Rupert Garcia

You should be reading your Independent Reading Book.  You are to finish the book on October 25th.

10.11.10: Columbus Day: No School

10.12.10: Day 5: Long Block: Homework: D.J.s on “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio.  Class on “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio.

10.13.10: Get Ahead Day: No Class.

10.14.10: Day 3: Long Block: Homework: D.J.s on “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio.  Class on “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio.

10.15.10: Day 2: No Class.

Next Week:
10.18.10: Late Entry: Long Block: In-class essay  on “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio 

Agenda for week of 10.4.10

Image: Mahoning 1956, by Franz Kline Oil and paper collage on canvas, 203.2 x 254 cm —Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art. © 2009 The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

 
10.4.10 Day 3: Finish reading 1st third of Independent Reading.  In class, I will explain the Reader’s Notebook Entries.  They are due on 10.6.10 and will be graded on The Reader’s Notebook Rubric.

10.5.10 Day 2: No Class Due to Rotation.

10.6.10 Day 1: Reader’s Notebooks are due.  In class we will have the guidance department present.

10.7.10 Day 7: In class: “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio.

10.8.10 Day 6: College Essay Due.  In class: “Plum Plum Pickers” by Raymond Barrio.

Agenda for week of 9.27.10

Joe Brainard's "Untitled" Collage 1975

 

9.27.10 Day 1, Homework: Turn in selection of independent reading.  Click here for the assignment details.  In class we will be looking at the last in-class essays you wrote, as well as the scoring guide that went with it, and developing strategies to make theme more complex and sophisticated in your writing.

9.28.10 Day 7, Class # 2 on “Red Shift” by Ted Berrigan as well as review of "Poetry Explication Handout."

9.29.10 Day 6, Poem Explication on Ted Berrigan’s “Red Shift” (In-class).  Click here for handout on Poetry Explication.  Click here for Scoring Guide on essay.

9.30.10 Day 5: Long Block, We will begin updating your  blogs and will have in class time for independent reading time.

10.1.10 Day 4, We will begin updating your  blogs and will have in class time for independent reading time.
 

I expect that you will use your time "at home" to read your independent reading book.

 

Next week:
 

10.4.10 Day 3, Need to be finish first 1/3 of independent reading book.  Notebook Entries will be due.