Week of 11/1-11/3

FOR MONDAY:  Read the FOUR "Why I Write" essays HERE.

Monday:  Discuss "Why I Write" essays.  Review memoir choices.  HW:  Read "Memoir or Fiction," "The Whole Truth," and "Everything But the Truth."  All are linked HERE.

Tuesday:  Discuss memoir essays.  Finalize memoir choices.

Wednesday:  Establish reading schedules and begin reading memoirs.

Thursday and Friday:  Play and read and relax and play some more!

October 25-29

Monday:  Discussion of Everything Asian.

Tuesday:  Discussion of "Salvation."  Rough Draft of "This I Believe" essay due.    Peer review of rough drafts.

Wednesday:  "A Hanging"

Thursday:  "Shooting an elephant"

Friday:  In-class AP Prompt:  Personal narrative.

Week of 10/18-10/22

Monday:  Intro to "This I Believe" essays.  Read and listen.

Tuesday:  Discuss "This I Believe" samples.  Watch "This I Believe" videos.  Review brainstorming.

Wednesday:  "Shame" by Dick Gregory

Thursday:  "Salvation" by Langston Hughes

Friday:  "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell

HW:  Due Tuesday, 10/26: draft of "This I Believe" essay

Week of 10/11-10/15

College Essay Week!

Monday:  Discussion of "slice of life" approach to essays.

Tuesday:  Read and discussion articles:  Cornell Admissions Director presentation and How Quirky is too Quirky?

Wednesday:  You make the decision:  review of essays...who would you select?  Brainstorming and drafting of your own essay.

Thursday:  Drafting; Peer review; Conferencing

Friday:  CRISP it...personal editing process. 

Week of 10/4-10/8

Monday:  "Speaking of Courage" and "Notes"

Tuesday:  In-class prompt on The Things They Carried, with particular attention to "Lives of the Dead"

Wednesday:  Discussion of Narration/Description rhetorical mode; hand out Everything Asian
 
Thursday:  Review of Tuesday's prompt

Friday:  (I will be chaperoning a field trip.)  Reading day:  bring Everything Asian.

Monday:  Bring in topic or draft for college essay.