Sunday, November 30, 2014

December 1-5

Welcome back!  It's December already, and our second-to-last week before finals.  Please review grades in Illuminate and submit any late work for partial credit before December 15.  We will be turning in 6 vignettes on December 12th, and 500 pages of independent reading on December 15.

MONDAY:  Discuss Mango up to page 65.  Draft up vignette about influential person.  Activity for editing/revising and finding interesting, descriptive words.  DUE: Mango, up through page 64. HW: Finish draft of 3rd vignette, influential person, for Thursday.

TUESDAY: Cluster brainstorming exercise for neighborhood vignette (#4).  View examples and write out brainstorm.  Read Mango through page 87 for Thursday.

WEDNESDAY:  Independent reading/work on vignettes/read Mango.


THURSDAY: Discuss Mango through page 87.  Turn in draft of 3rd vignette for check-off (handwritten is okay).  Work on finishing 4th vignette, your current neighborhood, or a neighborhood from your past that made an impression on you.  Read Mango through page 110 (finish the book) for Monday.


FRIDAY:  Current events day.  Read and annotate article, prepare outline and essay in response. 

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