Class Minutes Oct. 21, 2010

To start off class, Ms. Wall began with prayer and then we all wrote a requiz on the short story terms. After that we we did "The Painted Door" anticipation guide, which was a handout that Ms. Wall gave us. Then, when we were finished the guide, we read the story as a class. Other things we worked on were expanded moments and misplaced modifiers.

Class Mintutes: Tuesday, October 19th

Today we wrote an in-class personal composition. We could use our texts, outlines, and text-world graphic organizers as aids. The PC was due at the end of class.

Class Minutes: Friday, October 15th

1. Prayer
2. Work was handed back and reviewed
3. Discussed Personal Composition
4. Smartboard notes on narrowing the topic, writing theme, and uncovering supporting evidence
5. Wrote 2 more Text-world organizers, including theme statements
6. PC research and outline for homework
7. Discussed misplaced and dangling modifiers...to be cont'd on Tues.

Class Minutes: Wednesday, October 13th

1. Prayer
2. Daily focus question: What does the rocking horse symbolize?
3. Conventions of a fairtale: make parallels to, "The Rocking Horse Winner," worksheet
4. Handback assessments of Tattoo assignments
5. Read sample personal composition. Highlight and label rhetorical devices
6. No homework

Class Minutes: Wed. Oct 6th and Fri. Oct. 8th

Mrs. Wall was away on Wednesday, but we:
1. Used our One Question/ One Comment worksheet (based on the reading of "The Rocking Horse Winner") to discuss the short story in small groups, completing the QAD sheet for each question brought to the table. QAD stands for Question, Answer, Detail.
On Friday:
2. We used our list of rhetorical devices and examples to locate and identify rhetorical devices in example essays.
3. We reviewed the 11 pre-reading "quiet conversation" questions for "The Rocking Horse Winner" and selected one as a prompt for a PC
4. We reviewd how to write a PC
5. We completed a pre-writing chart on TEXT-WORLD connections
6. Get ready to write next week.

Class Minutes: Monday, October 4th

1. Prayer
2. Quizzes with revisions were returned
3. Tattoo paragraph drafts were returned with comments. Good copies with revisions and tattoo image due Wed.
4. A "Quiet" Conversation pre-reading activity for, "The Rocking Horse Winner,"
by D.H. Lawrence
5. Debrief responses as a class
6. While reading the short story, complete the worksheet: One Question, One Comment, which is the starting point of next class