Sci Fi - Week 5

September 30 - October 4

Monday, September 30

  • vocab warm-up:
    • vocab crossword
    • vocab quiz tomorrow!
  • CoW
    • p. 1 from 100 hall
    • p. 5 from 200 hall
  • Essay notes
  • Essay assignment!
    • Outline form available! (not required)


Tuesday, October 1

  • Vocab quiz #2
    • Look at your words!
    • Ace the quiz
  • Work on the essay


Wednesday, October 2

  • Work on the essay!
    • Ask for help!


Thursday, October 3

  • Last day to write
    • tomorrow you need a draft for peer editing
  • MLA formatting
  • Use the Purdue OWL - Online Writing Lab
  • Make sure you're including quotations from the text!
    • If you're using a film, it's okay to tell what happened
      • don't need exact quotations
      • You do need correct citation: Joss Whedon, Firefly, "The Train Job"


Friday, October 4

  • Bring your ID card on Monday
    • We'll be checking out Station Eleven
  • Peer editing
    • share your essay with people at your table
    • fill out an editing sheet for essays by two other people
      • give them those papers!
  • Fix your essay if there's time
  • Essay due on Monday
    • we'll have printers to print out on Monday