Monday: Ms. Reaves and I returned This I Believe packets for one final revision to be turned in on Wednesday. Students were given the option of revising belief statements and papers. We spent the class period responding to bloggers' 101 Things. Ms. Reaves gave a presentation on The Bear Claw and the writing conference.
Wednesday: We turned in the final This I Believe packets. We read all of Friday's reading responses and we were assigned to comment to a minimum of 10 prior to the 2nd reading response due date.
Friday: Ms. Reaves and I miraculously graded and returned all This I Believe packets. We spent the class period conferencing. You were given the challenge of reading eight introductions and revising four. Those will be due on Tuesday at the beginning of class if you didn't turn it in today.
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The next weeks:
THE NEXT PROJECT is underway. You will be writing a feature style autobiography in three parts (to be determined by you). Project due dates are as follows:
1st draft of section one is due on Tuesday, September 23nd at the beginning of class for conferences.
1st draft of section two is due on Thursday, September 25th at the beginning of class for conferences.
(2nd book response is due Friday, September 26th)
1st draft of section three is due on Monday, September 29th at the beginning of class for conferences.
2nd draft conferences for the combined (all) packets are Wednesday, October 1st.
Final packet is due on Friday, October 3rd with an electronic copy to be sent to bjames@spsmail.org as well.
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