Notes, thinking skill project.

1. Journal:

What does thinking about how and what you think do for you?

2.  Groups and notes.  Get them from another if you didn't research and if you did, compare and contrast them with another.

3.  Notes... TAP, 6-Traits, Writing Process.

4.  Narrative Dues and Don'ts.

Do:  Start en media res:  In the middle of the action.
Do:  Tell a story we care about/are interested in.
Do:  Have a beginning, middle, end, and (maybe) a moral.
Do:  Be human.
Do:  Pick a 30 second period of time to describe.

Don't:  Be egotistic:  we don't care about your 8th grade wrestling championship, you do.
Don't:  Start with all the background.  Start in the middle of the story!
Don't:  Write about your kids.
Don't:  Try to make yourself sound amazing-- Be yourself.

5.  HOME WORK!  Grading "Mother Nature."   Grade with rubric

5.5.  Homework-  Thinking Skills final Project.... Create your masterpiece....  A Crane.

6.  HOME WORK!  Don't forget to be thinking of your narrative essay... Drafts due next Thursday!

7.  HW-  Read...  "A Hanging,"  Create 10 TS questions for another to answer about the story.

Thinking, cont.

1.  Journal:

Do you jump to conclusions?  When's a time you assumed something and were wrong?

1.5-  Names.

2.  Inferring Quiz... Here.

3.  Groups and questions...Switch and Answer-- HOMEWORK!

4.  Groups and storytelling-- Model my story... HW is to plan and tell!

5.  HW-  Questions...

6.  HW-  6-Traits... What are they?

7.  HW-  Writing Process... What is it?

8.  HW-  Books by Next TUESDAY!

Babe Smith has been killed. Police have rounded up six suspects, all of whom are known gangsters. All of them are known to have been near the scene of the killing at the approximate time that it occurred. All had substantial motives for wanting Smith killed. However, one of these suspected gangsters, Slinky Sam, has positively been cleared of guilt.

Statement's About Story B

T  F  ?  1.                  Slinky Sam is known to have been near the scene of the killing of Babe Smith.

T  F  ?  2.                  All six of the rounded-up gangsters were known to have been near the scene of the murder.

T  F  ?  3.                  Only Slinky Sam has been cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  4.                  All six of the rounded-up suspects were near the scene of Smith's killing at the approximate time that it took place.

T  F  ?  5.                  S. The police do not know who killed Smith.

T  F  ?  6.                  All six suspects are known to have been near the scene of foul deed.

T  F  ?  7.                  Smith's murderer did not confess of his own free will.

T  F  ?  8.                  Slinky Sam was not cleared of guilt.

T  F  ?  9.                  It is known that the six suspects were in the vicinity of the cold-blooded assassination.

Thinking Skills

1.  Attendance!

2.  Please turn in your homework assignment to the front desk.

2.5  Set--  Abbot and Costello--------  "Who's on First?"

3. Journal:

Have you ever thought something, believed something to be absolutely true, and then discovered you were wrong?  What happened?  How did you figure out you were wrong?  What lesson did you learn from this experience?

4..  Thinking Skills quiz...

5.  Notes... Thinking Skills...

6.  Reading and Thinking skill questions... 

Welcome!

Welcome to Class!

1.  Class procedures...  Attendance


2.  Journal: (We start with one every class.  At least 1/2 a page, please.)

When you're taking a new class, it's a good idea to think about what you want out of that class.  What do you want out of this one?

3.  Syllabus and books...  (legal stuff)  





4.  Diagnostic Essay... "The Art of Authorship" by  Mark Twain  

      Please read the following essay and respond to these questions:

1.  What is Mark Twain claiming about writing or his writing process?
2.  Do you agree or disagree and why?

  Please be sure to write an essay in response that offers your potential reader a beginning, middle and end.

5.  Homework-  Return with your typed essay in MLA format.

6.   Homework... Follow this link and complete the "Improving Information Literacy Skills" tutorial provided by our excellent library.  Please print out your final score and bring it to class.

7.  Homework:   Please return with the last page of the syllabus signed.