Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 Follow procedures for the agenda and books. Get out your copy of the bell ringer. Get a copy of the rubric and keep it out on your desk. Get out your plot diagrams and the original story “The Dinner Party.” Bell Ringer: Think about your writing. Write three to five sentences explaining what you think you might need to revise in your paper. Remember that revision is different from editing. When finished, get a computer with your number and pull up your writing in 365.

Tuesday, December 4th Have your rubric, “The Dinner Party,” and your plot diagrams out on your desk. Do I have a full page? How many paragraphs do I have? __Look at Gardner’s story to see if you have around the same number that she does? If not, what is missing? Did I include all of the plot events? Which ones are missing? Do I have a great hook? Did I use examples of figurative language different from Gardner - simile, metaphor, or personification? Today’s tasks – 365 Forms -

“The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal.” December 4th - Do I have a great hook? How much did I ‘copy’ Mona Gardner’s words and language? Did I plagiarize? How can I tell?Hook Review - page 34 SpringBoard book “Nobody walks in Tulsa. At least not to get anywhere. Oil built our houses, paved our streets, and turned us from a cow town stop on the Frisco Railroad into the heart of Route 66.” “Depending on who—sorry, whom—you ask, I may have killed my three best friends.” “The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal.”  “When I stepped out in the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.”

Show versus Tell – Telling Sentence - It was an unusual cat. December 4th Did I use examples of figurative language different from Gardner - simile, metaphor, or personification? How much did I ‘copy’ Mona Gardner’s words and language? Did I plagiarize? How can I tell? Show versus Tell – Telling Sentence - It was an unusual cat. Showing Sentence -With yellow eyes glowing red, long, black fur that stood on end, and a mouth full of sharp pointed teeth that emitted a yowl like a tiger, I knew that the small animal before me was no ordinary cat. Looping is a revision strategy in which you underline an important event and add sentences with additional elaboration. Add figurative language that is different from the original author’s. Task – go to the blog and click on the form- complete 365 Form to add a hook and figurative language

December 3rd, 2018 Follow procedures for the agenda and books. If you have not turned in your bell ringer from the last two weeks, put it in the drawer now. Get a copy of the bell ringer and fill out the date. Get a copy of the compound and complex sentences task and a copy of notes. Put your nameand roster number on both. Bell Ringer: Write the definition and formulas for a compound, a complex, and a compound-complex sentence. Use your notes to check.