March 15 - HOMSOBJECTIVE: By the end of class, students will use laptops to begin writing their personal vignettes, as well as to create their cover pages and tables of contents. Students will make real life connections to text, and utilize literary elements in their writing. DO NOW: What types of REAL people are you most interested in reading about every day? Celebrities? Criminals? People with interesting jobs? What about these people makes reading stories about them so interesting? Can an ordinary person be as interesting as a celebrity? DIRECT/GUIDED/INDEPENDENT INSTRUCTION: Begin/Finish writing 10 possible titles for your vignette project. Make them CREATIVE, and ATTENTION GRABBING! Just like in House On Mango Street. The weirder the better! You will choose 3 of these titles to expand into full vignettes. Pick the 3 you can write the most about! PROJECT REQUIREMENTS: In order of importance: 1) 3 well written vignettes. No less than 2-3 paragraphs in length (You can write more if you want or need to). 2) Table of contents page with your 10 titles 3) Cover page for your book of vignettes. Remember, I am grading for length, content, and grammar. Use this time today to have me read your work! I am here to help! I will hand back your simile/metaphor quizzes from yesterday while you work. EXIT PASS: Save and SEND/SHARE all work you have done today before you leave. Otherwise you may lose ALL your work!

OBJECTIVE:  By the end of class, students will use laptops to begin writing their personal vignettes, as well as to create their cover pages and tables of contents. Students will make real life connections to text, and utilize literary elements in their writing.

DO NOW:
What types of REAL people are you most interested in reading about every day? Celebrities? Criminals? People with interesting jobs? What about these people makes reading stories about them so interesting? Can an ordinary person be as interesting as a celebrity?

DIRECT/GUIDED/INDEPENDENT  INSTRUCTION:

Begin/Finish writing 10 possible titles for your vignette project. Make them CREATIVE, and ATTENTION GRABBING! Just like in House On Mango Street. The weirder the better!

You will choose 3 of these titles to expand into full vignettes. Pick the 3 you can write the most about!

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
In order of importance:
1) 3 well written vignettes. No less than 2-3 paragraphs in length (You can write more if you want or need to).
2) Table of contents page with your 10 titles
3) Cover page for your book of vignettes.

Remember, I am grading for length, content, and grammar.
Use this time today to have me read your work! I am here to help!

I will hand back your simile/metaphor quizzes from yesterday while you work.

EXIT PASS:
Save and SEND/SHARE all work you have done today before you leave.
Otherwise you may lose ALL your work!