Agendas
Wed 5/15
Make a copy of Phase 4 Menu
Get to work and record what you do today
May 5/14
Norton Warm-up
Browse the Titles
Make a Doc Called Norton Warm-up
Pick one--write a warm using your favorite title.
Read and finish the form
Conference Sign-Up (for Piece #3 and whatever else you might need)
Fri 5/3
Peer Edit Piece #3--spend at least half of today working together.
Choose a group of at least three people
Are you set for Phase #3 assignments? Check: Folders, Assignments and Deadlines
Tues-Wed 4/30-5/1
Content/Language Objectives: Students will wrap-up Phase #2 through conferences and and begin Phase #3.
Agenda:
Make a Phase #3 Folder
Wed 4/24
Piece #2 Peer Edit after break
Piece #2 Due Friday
Tues 4/16
Update your reading log--finish book by weekend of 4/27
IC Check
Tues 4/9
Work Time
IC Check/Check in with me
Peer edit after break
Comp2 Team Drive
verbs
Week One Deadline today
Warm-ups # 1 & #2 This week
Contribute to: Comp2 Warm-ups and Writing Prompts Page
Tues 4/9 1:05-3:05
Second half of Class: Peer Edit Piece #1
Fri 4/5
IC Check
Schedule Check
Check-in w/me
Work time
Tues-Wed 4/2-3
Wednesday: 1/2 hour Reading Time
Finishing Week One Activities
Organizing your Comp2 Folder
Team Drive--join
Phase 1 Overview
Writing Process
Start by Wednesday
Warm-ups # 1 & #2 This week
Contribute to: Comp2 Warm-ups and Writing Prompts Page
Warm-ups # 1 & #2 This week
Contribute to: Comp2 Warm-ups and Writing Prompts Page
Week one
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get into Week One activities, see some examples and work towards Phase #1. they will get a bigger sense of how the class will operate.
Agenda:
Wed-Fri 3/20-22
Week One Checklist put it in your folder and keep working
Review the formats/options
Conference with me--folder check
Try each of the following:
A Poem
Try one of Taylor Mali's Writing Exercises
A Micro Fiction
A Mini-Screenplay
Screenplay Format
A Mini-Memoir
An Mini Essay
Tues 3/19
Create a folder and share it with me. (your name: Comp2)
Name and why you write, what you like.
Week One Checklist put it in your folder and keep working
Syllabus
History and theory behind the class
Screenplay Format
Week of 3/13
Business:
Grades--Let's Check IC--everything but Piece #4 is graded
email me about any make-up or significant revisions
Two Final Images:
CYWTB? Sheet (Tues)
Writing Tips
Mary Klages Tips (A college Prof's frustrations)
Fumblerules (for fun)
Pfouts' Writing Site--what do we want to know? Email me things to cover before we're done.
The OWL at Purdue (Advice to College Writers)
Ask questions/discuss issues
Last Things:
Peer Edit Piece #4 due this week. (Tues)
Piece #4 due this Friday 3/16
Email me when it's ready--if you want to speed it up.
Final conferences--if you want them.
Wednesday walkout?
Wed: Wrap up/Final Letter
Week of 3/6
Piece #3 Conferences (Who's missing?)
Read other Norton nominees
Piece #4
Piece #4 Ideas Sheet (Do your own then we'll put one in the Team Drive)
Wed:
Warm-up #6
Allegory/Alternative Format/Models
Writing time
Pfouts' Writing Site--what do we want to know? Email me things to cover before we're done.
Friday: Peer Edit 11:35
Tues-Wed 2/27-28
Piece #3 Conferences
Norton Warm-up
Pick a title from the table of contents and write what comes to mind.
Have you posted?
Read for Wednesday:
"Gun Crazy" p.275
"Being a Man" p. 251
Warm-up #5
For Friday, read:
“The Owl Who Was God” James Thurber (pg. 1111)
“Waiting” by Edna O’Brien (pg. 62)
Friday 2/22
Piece #3 Due
Proofreading tricks
Talk about writers on writing
Have you posted?
Read one that interests you
Friday ( and pick a Norton Essay: Maybe mine?)
Look at the rest of my website--what do you want need?
Week 2/20
Showing vs. Telling:
Norton Search. Bring us something to critique. Norton Nominations
Read other nominations--we'll do them from here on out
Writers on Writing Write Up
(explore, read and write up what you found interesting)
Piece #3 conferences. When you're ready.
Piece #3 Due Friday
Friday (talk about writers on writing and pick a Norton Essay: Maybe mine?)
Look at the rest of my website--what do you want need?
Week of 2/13
Tues-Wed-Thurs:
CYWTB?
Let's Make an Active Sentence
Piece #3 Underway--check ins
Thursday: Peer Edit Piece #3
Writers on Writing (explore, read and write up what you found interesting)
Tues-Wed 2/6-7
Tues.
Piece #2 Due
and/but scan, first word scan
Midterm Grades Thursday--get caught up with Phase #2
FanFiction:
Look at some professional writers
Pick a passage from your book
steer clear of dialogue
Wednesday
MicroFiction Warm-up
my example
Try soomething big
or write the backstory to something cool you found
Warm-up #4
Grades: posted & clarified
Friday: Conferences, FanFiction Due, Start Piece #3,
Week of 1/30
Fri 2/2
Sentence Pattern Exercise
Peer Edit Piece #2
Piece #2 Due Tuesday
FanFiction
an exemplar
MicroFiction
Wed 1/31
"S----- First Drafts"
content
analyze--verbs, colon, dash, sentence variety and patterns
Worktime
Peer Edit after break
Tues 1/30:
How did you do with last week's checklist?
Grades
Comments on Vonnegut?
Piece #2 whip-around
Read/Write
Peer Edit Wednesday for Piece #2
Week of the 1/23: Conferences and start Piece #2
This Week's Checklist
Do Influential People Exercise
Short writing Assignment (see below)
Have a Conference on Piece #1 (Conference Sign-up)
Do Warm Up #3
Start Piece #2
A Reading Update--tell me about your book--both content and style
Resources for Warm up #3:
Short writing assignment #2: Kurt Vonnegut readings and response. Find the links below. Read them and write a 1-2 page response.
Writing with style (pdf)
Writing with Style (if pdf doesn't work)
Eight Rules for Creative Writing
Piece#1 Deadline: Fri 1/26. Revisions allowed throughout the quarter.
Fri: 1/19:
Proofreading tricks/last revisions
Piece #1 Graded Drafts Due. (Conference Sign-up)
Bring books and start them--if you haven't
Piece # 1 Due Date today. Deadline: Fri 1/26. Revisions all quarter.
Tue 1/16: Work time/Check-ins
Wed 1/17: Peer Edit/Revision time
Go to Team Drive--if you haven't
CYWTB? 1/17
Fri 1/12
Content/Language Objectives: Students will do more Pre-writing for Piece #1 through warm-ups and planning. They will begin the drafting process for Piece #1.
Agenda:
Do another warm-up:
Do you have a book? Do you want suggestions?
Reading/Writing Time
Decide what you'll do for Piece #1 (Due next Friday)
Info Sheet/Why I Write
CYWTB?
Ideas Page
11/10 Warm-up #1
11/12 Warm-up #2
Wed 1/10
Content/Language Objectives: Students will get a vision the course, give input on how to tailor it to themselves and begin thinking about Piece #1.
Agenda:
That guy stories?
Questions on the Syllabus
Go 'round: Name and why you write
No Red Ink--check your email.
Web searching--links page submissions
Writing Site/Agenda--make sure you've made clear what you need and want. On your Info sheet/Why I Write
Warm-ups vs. Ideas Page
Try a warm up--put it in your folder
Homework: Come with pre-writing for Piece #1
Tues 1/9
"That Guy" warm-up/game
Why I Write:
Go 'round: Name and why you write
Homework: finish your "Why I Write"
Read the Syllabus
Try one of Taylor Mali's Writing Exercises