803 Workshop 9/22/06

Aim For Reading : No Aim

Aim For Writing:You’ll revise your drafts by intergrating box and just adding conculsion and trying out introductions

                                  Homework

1)Read For 30 min

2)Finish introduction revise draft and on loose leaf by adding box and jots, introduction and conculsion

803 Workshops 9/21/06

Aim For Reading:You’ll kepp track of where you’ve been in the book by using post-its to parapharse important parts

Aim For Writing: You’ll add a meaning ful concclusion to your answering “Why was this event important to me” and ” What Did I Learn From This?”

Homework

1) Read For 30 mintues NOTE: YOU SHOULD BE READY TO BEGIN YOUR 2ND BOOK I’M CHECKING LOGS!!!!!

2) Re -read your narrative and ask yourself “What’s The Heart Of My Story?” Box & Jot this Heart to say more about it

803 Workshops 9/20/06

Aim For Reading: You’ll bulid your story wolrd by thinking about whta the characters will do next.

Aim For Writing: You’ll use the box and jot method to revise your personal narrative for description and detial.

Homework

1) Read For Reading For 30 Minutes
2) Finish rough draft make sure you have at least a significant

803 Workshops 9/19/06

Aim For Reading:You’ll create empathy for fictional characters by noticing how they feel and what they want.

Aim For Writing: You’ll plan your personal narrative event by creating a timeline of moments.

                                          Homework

1) Read for 30 mintues and LOG IT!!!

2) Start draft of personal narrative. MUST BE AT LEATS 2 PARAGRAPHS!!!! Done

803 Workshops 9/18/06

Aim For Reading: You’ll practice envisionin by adding character’s voices to the movie in your head.

Aim For Writing: No Aim For Today

                                    Homework

1) Read For 30 minutes!!!

2) Get Post – Its for tomorrow!!!

803 Workshops 9/14/2006

Aim For Reading:You’ll practice envisioning by adding character actions to the movie in your mind.

Aim For Writing:You’ll use your journal entries by reviewing them for “Seed Ideas” of people or places.

                                  Homework

1.)Read for 30 minutes. Log it!

2.)Make sure you have a detailed journal entry that focuses on a Person or Place  

801 workshops 9/13/06

reading aim: you’ll practice envisioning by using the authors words to make “a movie in your mind”

writing aim:you’ll create a personal narrative by following the writing prompt

homework:take a seed idea or a small idea from one of your journal entry and make a new entry ot write a new entry

2) read for 30 min and log it

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803 Workshops 9/12/2006

Reading Aim:You’ll clarify meaning in your book by questioning the text and the author.

Homework:  1) Read for thirty minutes.  2)  Write a journal entry that begins, “If I could give the world a gift it’d be…”  Explain why.

801 writing 9/12/06

AIM: you’ll create a personal narrative by following the writing prompt

homework: 1)read for 30 min.

                 2) write a journal entry…. ” if i can give the world a gift it would be”….

explain why