Monday
1. Journal: none.
2. Grammar of the Day 1 – 6 quiz.
3. Reminder: Both SRDs of your 1st two pieces with a final copy
of one of them should be in your portfolio as of today.
4. Fill out Enrichment Sign up sheet if you haven’t already.
5. Writer’s Workshop:
Definition Essay
a. Discuss topic filters:
1) Personal taste: pare your topics
down to things you think you’d enjoy or find interesting.
2) Criteria 1, p. 123: does your topic
have enough characteristics to make it interesting and “fully-developable?”
3) Criteria 2, p. 123: make sure you
can develop your topic in a way that is interesting to your intended
audience. Who is or will be your
audience?
4) Consider your purpose in writing a
Definition Essay. Wouldn’t hurt to write
it down.
b. Share your topic, purpose,
audience. Have topic checked in.
6. HW: Read Chapter 1: Prewriting
Tuesday
1. Journal: 10 minute open
write
3. Writer’s Workshop:
Prewriting
a. Discuss the various methods suggested in Chapter One: we
will return to these with each paper we write.
b. Focus: Classical Invention: pp. 9-11.
1) Examine the strategy and the example
in the book together.
2) Do Activity 2, p. 11. If someone in your group has one of the
topics, do that one to give them some extra help.
3) Share results with class.
c. Read Prewriting
Strategy: Classical Invention pp. 123-124 before starting your prewriting
to get some ideas.
d. Do
your prewriting for your Definition Essay in Classical Invention style – due tomorrow.
4. Have topic checked in during activity if needed.
1. Journal: Book of
Questions
2. Grammar
of the day 8
3. Writer’s Workshop
a. Select your paper’s focus and purpose based on your
Classical Invention PW. (10 minutes)
Your audience is the class, including me.
b. Have
PW checked during focusing session.
c. Read pp. 124-125 together: Writing Strategy:
Make the Organization Reflect the Purpose
1) Discuss: How does the student’s
organization match her purpose? What is
her purpose?
2) Discuss the overall organization:
a) There will be a thesis at the
end of the introduction – perhaps better called a controlling idea for the definition.
b) She is using a topic sentence
for each idea. You should be sure to do
the same.
d. Create
an outline for your Definition Essay in any format you wish. Be sure to include your thesis and topic
sentences. Due Tuesday, 2/19.
1. Journal: none
2. Grammar
of the day 9
3. Writer’s Workshop
a. You have been recruited into Cupid’s Army as the
Ambassador of Love. As a part of your
duties, you are to explain to those who do not believe in love what exactly it
is that Cupid brings to them. To this
end, write a 40 minute essay defining love
to such an audience.
b. Place draft in Portfolio.
4. Reminder: OL for Definition Essay is due Tuesday, 2/19.
5. HW: Read Understanding the
Definition Essay, pp. 118-119 & Guidelines
for a Successful Definition Essay, pp. 121-122.
Friday
No School: Conference Comp
Day