october 6

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Everyday I Write the Book" by Elvis Costello & The Attractions]

Describe your writing process from beginning to end.  What do you do when you are faced with a prompt and the blank page? 

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Those who Can, Do

HW:
Literature Analysis #2 due tomorrow (Friday, October 7)
Vocab quiz tomorrow

october 5

JOURNAL TOPIC:
If you could have dinner with anyone, who would it be?  You can pick someone close to you, or someone famous, or even someone from the past.  Why this person?  What would you talk about?

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Essays/feedback continued
3. Rewrite your essay (in a new post entitled ESSAY 1 REVISED-- include an opening/introductory sentence that says, "After reading my colleagues' work and sharing ideas, I realized I could improve my first essay by [...].  I'm proud of the result.  Hope you enjoy reading it!"
4. Letters to mentors

HW:
1. 10 mins. min. on vocab
2. Please post Literature Analysis #2 by Friday
3. Please post your letter to a mentor (title: MENTOR LETTER DRAFT 1)

october 4

JOURNAL TOPIC:

Use five of this week's vocabulary words to describe your experience in this class yesterday.  Is it different for you when Dr. Preston isn't here?  How?  Why does the teacher (not) matter to your learning experience?


AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Catching up (1): essays/feedback
3. Catching up (2): Big Questions (*postponed)

***Please comment to at least three essay posts letting their authors know what worked and what could be improved in terms of: Hook; Thesis Statement; Organization; Mechanics; and Parting Shot.

HW:
1. 10 mins. min. on vocab
2. Please post Literature Analysis #2 by Friday

so, this is a thing

vocabulary: fall list #5

1. venomous
2. stolid
3. hypnotized
4. suspended
5. transformed
6. accuse
7. anticipate
8. fringe
9. melancholy
10. earnestly
11. dissolve
12. aggravate
13. illuminate
14. capillary
15. proboscis

october 2

*I'm out today.  Please complete the journal and the vocabulary.  If you get it done in class, no homework.  If you get it done in class early, please read your literature analysis book.  Please bring your IDs tomorrow.  Mahalo. DP

JOURNAL TOPIC:

Do we still want what we want by the time we get it?  Kids want to be older, adults want to be kids.  We want more independence, we want someone to take care of us.  Do you know what you want?  Does it feel good to get what you want?  Have we just gotten really good at wanting?  Give this your best thinking, to be continued in discussion tomorrow...

AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Vocabulary definitions and sentences

HW:
If necessary please finish and post your vocabulary

want to be happy? quit social media

That's what the young people in this article say, and it would account for the reported 11 million who dumped Facebook between 2011 and 2014.