Agenda, October 1

Due Monday: Read 30 minutes Saturday and Sunday. Record your reading when you finish.
Due Tuesday: Bookmark #3, front and back

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can create important setting details."
"I can capture believable places with my writing."
"I can have fun with writing."

1. Personal Reading
2. A Book Talk
3. Two Poems about work
4. Character brainstorm
5. Writing 6: A believable character

Agenda, September 30

Remember to read for homework. Complete your bookmark as you finish. Don't forget there's a back!

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can identify important character details."
"I can make connections between myself and characters in stories."

1. Personal Reading
2. Partner Conversation - get your partner's name, attitude towards sports (non-judgmentally),and post high school/senior project plans.
   
3. "Mint," by Craig Lesley
4. Writing 5: Compare yourself to one of the characters in "Mint."

Agenda, September 29

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can identify important character details."
"I can make connections between myself and characters in stories."

1. Personal Reading
2. Partner Conversation
   
3. "Mint," by Craig Lesley

Agenda, September 28

Due Now: Bookmark #2, front and back

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can identify important character details."
"I can make connections between myself and characters in stories."

1. Personal Reading
2. Group storytelling
3. Revise Writing 4 for Ideas and Content: Tell me a story about something that happened at work.
4. "Mint," by Craig Lesley

Agenda, September 27

Due Tomorrow: Bookmark #2, front and back

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can identify important character details."
"I can make connections between myself and characters in stories."

1. Phones and Participation Points
2. Personal Reading
3. Writing 4: Tell me a story about something that happened at work.
4. Group storytelling
5. "Mint," by Craig Lesley

Agenda, September 24

Due Now: "Juggling" Chart
Read 30 minutes each, Saturday and Sunday

Learning targets:
"I can explain why an opening line is interesting."
"I can write an interesting opening line."
"I can have fun with writing."

1. Personal Reading
2. Bookmark Models
3. Opening Lines
4. Writing Time

Agenda, September 23

Don't forget - read 15 minutes each night and record your reading when you finish (hint! hint!).

Today's Learning Targets:
"I can create a narrative with a complex organizational structure."
"I can have fun with writing."

1. Personal Reading
2. Whole class juggling
3. Individual juggling
4. Writing time

Agenda, September 22

Today's Learning Targets:
"I can explain why an author would choose a complex organizational structure."
"I can identify important descriptive details."
"I can have fun with writing."

1. Personal Reading
2. Finish "Native Cutthroat" and discuss
3. Descriptive detail competition
4. Whole class Juggling
5. Individual Juggling

Agenda, September 21

Due Now: Bookmark #1

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can decode a complex narrative organization structure."
"I can create my own complex narrative."
"I can have fun with writing."

1. Collect Bookmark #1
2. Personal Reading
3. Bookmark #2: 9/21 - 9/27
4. "Native Cutthroat"
5. Juggling

Agenda, September 20

Due Now: Planner check
Due Tuesday: Bookmark #1

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can use the grammar decoder to improve my own conventions."
"I can help my classmates improve their writing."
"I can decode a complex narrative organization structure."

1. Planner check
2. Personal reading
3. Revise "September" paragraphs
4. "Native Cutthroat," by William Kittredge

Agenda, September 17

Did I say Friday? I meant ...
Due Monday: Bring your planner
Due Tuesday: Bookmark #1
DON'T Forget to read 30 minutes on Saturday and Sunday

Today's Learning Goals:
"I can connect or contrast my personal experiences to poetry."
"I can have fun with writing."

1. Personal Reading
2. Name that Place Voting
3. Five phrases to describe a river / lake
4. Two poems
5. Interrupted Writing: "The sun smiled down on the lake."

Agenda, September 16

Due tomorrow: Bring your planner to class
Due Tuesday: Bookmark #1

Today's Learning Targets:
"I can explain how a character is shaped by the place he or she lives."
"I can organize my thoughts about a character into a paragraph."

1. Personal Reading
2. Who wants a folder?
   
3. "The First Sunday in September"
4. Writing #3: Write a paragraph in which you explain how one of the three types of characters in "The First Sunday in September" is shaped by the place he or she lives. Use your best conventions. Skip lines. Due today.
5. Map of Oregon
   
6. "Name that place" voting

Agenda, September 15

Due NOW: Bookmark Check
Due FRIDAY: Bring your planner to class
Due NEXT Tuesday: Bookmark #1

Learning Target: "I can identify important character details."

1. Personal Reading
2. "The First Sunday in September"
3. Map of Oregon
4. What did we learn today?
   

Agenda, September 14

Due NOW: Personal reading book
Due NEXT Tuesday: Bookmark #1

Today's learning target: "I can identify important character details."

1. Personal Reading
2. How to track your personal reading
3. Share a description
   
4. "The First Sunday in September," by Ken Kesey
5. What did we learn today?

Tonight's Homework: Read 15 minutes. Fill out your bookmark when you're done.

Agenda, September 13

Today's learning target: "I can understand how my life is shaped by where I live."

1. Rate your weekend
2. Writing #2a: How is your life shaped by where you live?
3. Place and Personality
4. Writing #2b
5. Geo"graph"y
6. Reading: "The First Sunday in September"
7. What did we learn today?

Due Tomorrow: Walk in the door with your personal choice reading book in hand.

Agenda, September 10

1. I am an Oregonian because ...
2. A tour of the room
3. Name that place, part II
4. The Best of Oregon City
5. Name that place voting

Due Tuesday, 9/14: Bring your personal book to class.

Agenda, September 9

Here's today's to-do:

1) Writing Assignment #1: Are you an Oregonian? How do you know? (Stage 1 Writing)
2) Class expectations (Need a copy? Visit eClass.)
3) Name that place, part 1
4) Personality Graph
5) Find Someone Who ...

Due Tuesday: Bring a personal reading book to class.