Thursday, August 29, 2019

Scars: August 29, 2019

Focus: How have your childhood stories and scars shaped who you are?

1. Warming up with an explanation of your Academic Character grade

2. Exercising your memories and writing muscles with "Being 12"

3. Mapping your scars

4. Drafting a story using the craft moves we've noticed so far: Sensory imagery and metaphor

5. RADaR revising and sharing beautiful words

HW:
1. Ongoing: Follow your reading schedule, remembering that each week you need to spend at least one hour outside of class reading.

2. Tomorrow: 
  • BRING YOUR INDEPENDENT READING BOOK TO CLASS.
  • I will collect your Notebook at the end of class for our first notebook check.




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