1. Journal: Most of us have
played hide and go seek at some point in our young lives. Describe the best hiding place you had while
playing this game in at least five well developed sentences. If you didn’t play hide and seek, try describing
your favorite place to go when you need to get away.
2. Turn in original one page personal response with the three essay
question response to Lines…
3. Reader’s Workshop (Teacher conferencing during workshop)
a. Critique various pieces of student
writing as assigned by teacher.
b. Those who do not get an assigned piece
are to perform a peer read or two on one of your classmate’s writing.
c. All pieces to this point should be done.
4. Reminders:
a. PM
pictures and folders due tomorrow.
b. Resonance
Piece should be done.
Tuesday 3/11
1. Journal: What are some
places, things, or people from your past that seem to act as symbols in your
life? Describe a few and what they mean
to you symbolically.
2. Discuss journal and ways
such things become symbols in our lives.
3. Writer Workshop:
Nostalgia Writing with Setting (Teacher
conferencing during workshop)
a. Think of a place like Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey – a place that evokes great
emotion in you and has come to act as a symbol in your life.
b. Write a descriptive piece (3 – 5
paragraphs) or a poem (50 lines) capturing the imagery, emotion, and symbolism
of the scene.
c. At least PW and focus today; begin
drafting if desired.
d. If you need ideas, there are several
great questions to get you thinking on pp. 58-60 you can use.
4. PM pictures and storage due today.
We will be checking these in throughout the week. Place materials in storage today.
5. Bring craftsy stuff tomorrow!
Wednesday 3/12
1. Journal: Describe an
imaginary place you’d like to escape to from time to time. Go heavy on the imagery.
2. Writer Workshop:
Visual symbolism and Nostalgia Writing (Teacher
conferencing during workshop)
a. Draft your Nostalgia Writing with
Setting Piece.
b. Have peer read once drafting is done.
c. Revise now or at home.
d. Design a visual accompaniment to your
Nostalgia Writing; the obvious choice is to draw the setting, but your options
are unlimited.
1) Draft it first please – even a
thumbnail is better than nothing.
2) You writing will be with your
artwork, so plan accordingly.
3) White paper, some construction
paper, crayons and markers are provided.
4) Don’t forget the symbolic and
emotional importance of your scene.
e. Draft as time allows.
f. I have time built in to finish all this,
so don’t feel you should finish for HW.
It’s not HW.
3. If convenient, check in pictures and storage.
Thursday 3/13
1. Journal: First lines:
tba.
2. Writer Workshop:
Visual symbolism and Nostalgia Writing (Teacher
conferencing during workshop)
a. Work on Nostalgia Writing and
Artwork. Drafting and revision (as far
as you can) done today.
b. Final
copy, ready for display on our bulletin board, due Monday, 3/17.
c. You are free to polish up any other
writing you wish as well. You may peer
read and you may even start a whole new writing or just do some journal
writing.
Friday 3/14
1. Journal: If you could
have been born in any other time period, past or future, when would you wish to
live? Why? Who would you be? What would
you do? What would your life be
like? What would you world look like,
feel like, smell like…? You get the
idea.
2. Reader/Writer Workshop
– Resonance Pieces
a. Students will share their resonance
pieces, explaining their context and rationale.
b. Discuss the meaning of the assignment
and the place of style and substance in our writing. Other issues may include voice, content, what
it means to be a writer, etc…
3. Reminder: Nostalgia Writing and Artwork due Monday, 3/17.