Nov+7-11

Tomorrow, we'll be working with our essays again. You should have your outline and draft complete.
 * Monday:**
 * Periods One & Two:** Today, we selected books for literature circles. If you were absent, peruse the books on the lefthand side of the lhhs-book club wikispace: http://lhhsbookclub.wikispaces.com/ Choose at least five and list them in order of preference.


 * Period Three:** Welcome to the new period three class! Tomorrow, you'll have approximately half the class to work on your autobiographical letter to me and it will be due on Wednesday. You might like to work on it a bit tonight.

Make sure your thesis statement is a good one, and that you've revised your introduction to work well with your new thesis statement.
 * Period Four:** Today, we viewed the following Power Point about effective thesis statements:

**Tuesday:** or create a topic of your own and begin the draft of your next persuasive piece. Be sure to check it out with me before you put too much work into it.
 * Periods One & Two:** Choose from the following list of persuasive writing topics

Before you begin writing, read the following notes about ideas and details. Consider writing an outline for this essay, before you begin drafting. An outline will allow you to think through the details before you begin writing, and may make the drafting process smoother.


 * Period Three:** Your autobiographical letters are due tomorrow.


 * Period Four:** Today we discussed Reading Like a Writer. If you were absent today, please see Mr. Charters (STU intern) for the work you've missed.

[] and follow through this package. It will teach you to both read like a 'reader' and 'writer' and give you valuable ways to respond to literature that move you beyond simple plot recall. Any day that you find it takes you less than an hour to complete your English lesson, work on this package. Also, if you're following this wikispace from home or TAP you should be committing **at least** two hours a week to independent reading, a novel of your own choice.
 * If you're following this wikispace from home or TAP**, please go to

**Wednesday:** Today we discussed how each of the six traits on the writing rubric are linked to each other AND the importance of parallel sturcture.
 * Periods One & Two:**

Choose a topic, and begin drafting OR choose a draft you've already started and begin working. Our goal, is to have three solid expository essay drafts.
 * Period Three:** Please open and review the following files:


 * Period Four:** We looked further at Reading Like a Writer today. Mr. Charters presented a short paragraph and pulled out each of the RLAW categories from it. You were then presented with a paragraph of your own and individually tried to find each of the concepts (Ideas, Organization, Voice, etc.). These were reviewed at the end of class. Below is Mr. Charters' model paragraph and his responses, along with the paragraph you were presented with.

**Thursday:**
 * Periods One & Two:** Today we read the essay "Hypnosis" and assessed it using the [|Common High School Writing Rubric]. Then we spent the rest of the class writing and conferring.

Then we spent the rest of the class writing and conferring.
 * Period Four:** Today we examined the 'Idea' trait, and read the notes about ideas and details:

**Friday:** **Remembrance Day - NO SCHOOL**