May 31

I am imprisoned at the District Office on Juniper Street. An all-day meeting. Imagine your dullest class. Imagine you have this class all day with only two short bathroom breaks and one 45 minute lunch. Imagine endless PowerPoints of charts and numbers and vocabulary you don't really understand. That's what I face today.
Tomorrow we begin with acting out parts of Romeo and Juliet, so please prepare for that or do more writing on your Multigenre Projects. Remember you need 1, 500 words altogether. If you can't think what to write look over at the right side of the blog for a list of possible things to write.

May 26

Today's warmup is to write an obituary for Romeo, minimum 150 words. I'll give you ideas on how to do it:

I just found out we don't have school on Monday. (Shows you how dense I am.) That really makes me want to remind you of what you (and I) face over the next two weeks:You need an official rehearsal for your acting.You need two props for your acting.You need a backdrop for your acting.You need several genre's of writing that add up to 1,500 words.Remember that in my world every paper needs revision so the first draft you give me of any genre will not get you any points. If you do a paper without showing me anything until you are done you might find you need to do something over again because you misunderstood the assignment, so please check in with me or Ms. Legakis soon.You've had very little homework in this class but now is the time for you to manage your time--all of it. That might mean working over this holiday. Excuses about not having enough time to do 1,500 words will fall helplessly to the ground since you will have four uninterupted days to finish this work. Ms. Legakis is out sick today so we can only use the lab today.

May 25

Work on your backdrops or on your Multigenre Project.

May 24

There is a warmup today. You may either do the Advice Column or the Diary. Whichever one you do must be at least 150 words. See the directions by going to the Yellow Star on the desktop.

May 23

SSR + work on Multigenre Projects.

May 19

We'll begin the Multigenre Project today. I want to show you some of the kinds of writing you can do.

May 17

Today we begin the next part of the course. We will spend most of our time the rest of the way in the lab.

Today we'll work on "The Wedding". By the time you leave today I'll expect you to hand in:
A Guest List with at least 10 guests
A Menu
A long paragraph telling what each table would talk about
A description of the ceremony

If time we'll talk about the acting you will be doing.

May 12

We'll spend most of the period watching the film today but I may stop the movie occasionally to point out important points.

May 11

SSR + a drawing/writing exercise called CHARACTERS.

May 10

Here's today's warmup:
Save as LastNameFirstInitialFIGHT

In 100 or more words tell me a story about a time when two people were arguing. They were about to fight it out when a third person tried to stop the fight. It could be real situation that you witnessed or took part in. Or it could be a story you make up.
Did the fight happen? or was it stopped? Did anyone get hurt--physically or emotionally? Where did this all take place? When? Why did the people want to fight? Was there any lesson learned because of what happened--or didn't happen?


Next we'll act out a bit of the play, then see that part in the movie.

May 5

We'll do a worksheet, then watch the film.

May 4

SSR + watch more of the film