WEEK 7: Final Draft of New Chapter

RESOURCES:  Syllabus| RACER| Zinc + Springboard

 MONDAY-WEDNESDAY
  1. Rough Draft: HW check for 3-4 page narrative in your rough draft section.  Include a page and half for your narration/dialogue and a poem with Tyrone's reflection at bottom. Look at these final drafts from last year >>>HERE<<<
    • Narration/Dialogue: See link from novel for sentence starters and tips on using dialogue. Need 7-10 lines of dialogue in your final draft.
    • Original Poem: Write a poem about the character's conflict, future dreams, family, etc
      • Poem must use two literary devices
      • Poem must be minimum of 8 lines long. You can break it up into stanzas, add a rhyme scheme (AABB vs ABAB and arrange your lines into patterned syllables.
      • Poem must have a title connected to theme (main point)
      • Poem must have a TPCASTT organizer completed for it.
    • Tyrone's Reflection: Include a minimum of 4 sentences at end of your new chapter with Tyrone narrating what your poem revealed about your new character.
  2. Peer-edit: Have a student read over your story and complete peer-edit organizer.  You must use at least 2 of these edit marks in green ink when marking text of peer.
  3. Final Draft: Apply changes to your paper after peer-edit before beginning to type or hand-write your final version after Tuesday's writer's workshop.  Submit final story to mr.leu9lit@gmail.com.
  4. Extra Credit: Design the cover of our class anthology for a HW grade if your artwork is selected by the class. See last years examples >>>HERE<<<
HW: A short summary explaining the errors in the peer-edit you completed in the lab along with recommendations for how to improve events in story (Example: Ed's paper was full of run-ons and he didn't capitalize titles and proper nouns.  One suggestion is...)  
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WEEK 6: Final Week for Fiction/Poetry

RESOURCES:  Syllabus| RACER| Zinc + Springboard | Bronx Masquerade 58-107- (AUDIO) | Bronx Masquerade (TEXT) | Vocab List #2|Vocab List 3| Vocab List 4| Character Logs (12-18)| Bronx Audio (107-167) | Mr. Leu’s Book of the Break

MONDAY
1. Complete assignments below:
       >Complete vocab that goes with Snowden article.
       >Take short 7 question quiz on article
       >RACE Paragraph: Is Edward Snowden a hero or traitor?  Support answer with at least 3 direct             quotes from the article using author's last name in parenthesis (Shaw).

TUESDAY
1. Double-entry journal: Read Tyrone's part of the poem 5 O'clock News and use the notes to analyze, connect, and ask questions about the line you choose for DEJ
2. Writer's Workshop: Revise RACE paragraph from Monday lab.
3. Review for Unit Test
HW: Write a short summary explaining your idea for a new character/chapter for Bronx Masq

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY
  1. Review Unit Project: Create a new character to add to Mr. Ward's 10th Literature class.  The character must be somebody totally new and unlike the other characters.  Complete the steps below for characterization to help bring this new character to life!
  2. Brainstorm: New character you will add as a new chapter to Bronx Masquerade. In your Writer's Workshop section copy the following characterization map to help you. Characters must have the following:
    • Personality Traits: Adjectives describing their personality
    • Speech: A few lines of dialogue that reveal their personality and struggle
    • Thoughts/Feeling: List how they feel about themselves, school, their classmates, family, their future
    • Effect on Others: How do the other classmates react to this student.  Does the character have enemies? Who? Do they have friends? Who?
    • Actions: What do they spend most of their time doing? What major things have they done?  What future goals are they working towards?  If they have no goals in life, why?
    • Looks: What do they look like (height, weight, skin color/complexion, hair texture, eye-color, etc) 
  3. Rough Draft: Write 3-4 pages in your rough draft section.  Include a page and half for your narration with dialogue and a poem with Tyrone's reflection at bottom of second page.  Look at these final drafts from last year >>>HERE<<<
    • How to use dialogue using novel for sentence starters and tips. Need 7-10 lines of dialogue in your final draft.
    • An original poem about the character's conflict, future dreams, family, etc
      • Poem must use two literary devices
      • Poem must be minimum of 8 lines long. You can break it up into stanzas, add a rhyme scheme (AABB vs ABAB and arrange your lines into patterned syllables.
      • Poem must have a title connected to theme (main point)
      • Poem must have a TPCASTT organizer completed for it.
  4. Extra Credit: Design the cover of our class anthology for a HW grade if your artwork is selected by the class. See last years examples >>>HERE<<<
HW: A complete rough draft (3-4 pages) is due Monday 25th along with TPCAST organizer filled out for your poem in rough draft.  This will be a grade first thing in lab.
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WEEK 5: FICTION/POETRY


 RESOURCES:  Syllabus| RACER| Zinc + Springboard | Bronx Masquerade 58-107- (AUDIO) | Bronx Masquerade (TEXT) | Vocab List 4| Character Logs (12-18)| Bronx Audio (107-167)

MONDAY
1. Read the novel Bronx Masquerade.  You will need to have read PAGES 60-110 before Friday.
2. Update character logs
3. Compete vocab list #4.
4. Narrative Writing: Think about a time when you faced a challenge. Write a story about that time, including how you dealt with the challenge and what its outcome was. Be sure to narrate an event or a series of events and to include specific details so that the reader can follow your story. Put story in Narrative section of notebook and refer to notes on 4-Point Writing.
HW: Narrative Writing

 TUESDAY
1. Writer's Workshop: Revise narrative from Monday lab using STORY strategy for organizing info.
HW: Read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.

 WEDNESDAY
1. Notes: TPCASTT (strategy for breaking down poetry)
2. Watch the beginning of 13th (Netflix) by Ava Duvernay and discuss the dark history leading to the Harlem Renaissance and the birth of writers like Langston Hughes
3.Read Harlem by Langston Hughes and use TPCASTT strategy to answer questions about poem.
4. 2-Pointer: Write a paragraph explaining a time someone you know or yourself had a dream deferred.
HW: Harlem questions, read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.  Quiz on Friday

 THURSDAY
1. Group Work: Analyze your assigned poem using TPCASTT.  Do a gallery walk for 5 poems.
2. Review for Quiz on Friday covering pgs. 60-107 (Tanisha-Amy).
3. Write a poem for Open Mic #3.
HW: Harlem questions, read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.  Quiz on Friday

 FRIDAY
1. Quiz on pgs 60-107 (Tanisha-Wes), vocab list #3 and notes from this week (Hint: TPCASTT)
2. Open Mic #3: Share poems to class.
HW: Read pgs 60-107, complete logs, and vocab list 3.  Quiz on Friday
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