Oct+3-7

**Monday:**
Today we talked about evaluating an analyzing text. Here are "5 Big Questions" to help you evaluate and analyze: Here is my sample evaluative and analytical response: After reading today, you were to use the questions to help you write your own, similar response.

**Tuesday:**
We used this video, [|Everything Burns] as a writing prompt today. If you missed it, watch the video and respond in writing. Write for ten minutes. You should have received your 'Show NOT Tell' statements back today. Here is another sample: Now you need to go through the draft of your memoir, which was due today, and find three spots where you 'told' and you could 'show'. Highlight those three parts, then begin revising them so they are 'showing' and NOT 'telling'.

**Wednesday:**
Today we used 'Double Entry Diaries' to respond to our independent reading. Here is my sample: Write your own!

**Thursday:**
Today we discussed the rule of SO WHAT? Make sure you can make the **meaning** in your memoir evident.

**Friday:**
If you didn't confer with a peer during class today, make sure you complete this over the weekend. You memoir is due one week from today, but please do not start working on a final copy until after Tuesday's class. **There is more work to be done!**