Friday, December 5, 2014

Exploring the Author's Craft Essay

In the honors we had our first presentations today.  They came off pretty well over all.  A couple of points to improve but overall...success!

Homework tonight for the honors:

Continue to prepare for the debate/presentation if you haven't gone yet.  Even though we have selected our Monday presenters, everyone needs to be prepared to go on Monday.

Satire is due Monday.  I collected several today.  Looking good!

You need to do some writing this weekend.  This is not polished-intro-body-conclusion-essay writing.  Instead you are doing some exploring.  Some stream of consciousness writing.  You are exploring your story for possible author's craft topics.  Remember you need to select a craft move and then offer a reason why the author chose to use it.  As a reminder here is a link to the charts we looked at in class.  Remember they are not all-inclusive.  Write two pages in your writer's notebook.  Good luck.

In the standard classes we looked at a couple sample presentations.  They were a little rough so we changed the plan for today and decided to add additional presentation work time.  We are going live on Monday and we all need to be ready.

Until next time...

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