WEEK 3: Novel Studies/Poetry

RESOURCES: Dialogue Tags| Adding Imagery| Peer-edit Form| Short Story Exemplar

MONDAY

1. Dialogue: Open notebook to pg 101 and complete the organizer for the dialogue in your story. Highlight all dialogue in green.
2. Imagery: Add two types of imagery to your story using the link.  Highlight all imagery in pink or red.

HW: Continue revising and editing your story for dynamic dialogue and vivid imagery.  

TUESDAY

1. Peer-edit: Compete checklist for student next to you after proofreading your own story.
2. Author's Chair: Read aloud 2nd draft of story to class for feedback using rubric.
3. Final Draft: Apply changes from peer-edit to your story by rewriting a final version using blue/black pen.

HW: Write a complete final draft on separate paper using blue/black pen. Due Wednesday.  No late stories will be accepted without staying after school for tutoring.

WEDNESDAY

1. Journals: Use rules for dialogue and create a conversation around the scenario in class.
2. Presentations: 4-Point Narratives

HW: Apply changes to your final draft if you did not present today.  Presentations will continue tomorrow and possibly Friday.

THURSDAY

1. Journals: I have never been more frightened than when...
2. Presentations: 4-Point Narratives

HW: None

FRIDAY

1. Journals: Write a poem expressing your feelings about America.
2. Notes: Harlem Renaissance
3. Poem Analysis: Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

HW: Read "When the Negro Was in Vogue" by Langston Hughes and answer the 3 discussion questions in notebook under '2-Point Writing'