Goal: Practice writing six word memoirs and introduce our first new text of 2020Agenda:
Journal
Six Word Memoirs
Submit Your Memoirs
Survey the Text
Begin Reading
Navigating the Waters Questions
1. Journal
How are you feeling today? Write about it.
2. Six Word Memoirs
- We are going to kick off this week by learning about memoirs (specifically, we're talking short memoirs, even as short as six words!)
- Here are some resources to get us started:
- Here is the definition of a memoir:
3. Submit Your Memoirs
- In your journal, we are going to have six minutes to write 6 different six word memoirs.
- Your six word memoirs can be about anything: life, school, relationships, work, etc.
- When you are ready, submit your six word memoirs HERE.
- You should be posting at least two six word memoirs to the above link (I can see which ones you wrote, but your classmates will not see your name).
- We will move through the "Survey the Text" process for our next text, "Guilty as Not Charged" by Darin Strauss.
- Who is Darin Strauss?
- Where is he from?
- What is he famous for?
- What is his family life like?
- What has happened in his life that has shaped who he is as a writer?
As we read our next text, we will listen to it being read aloud by Strauss himself. We will read the bio ourselves first.
6. Navigating the Waters Questions
- There are questions in Google Classroom called "Navigating the Waters: Guilty as Not Charged."
- From today forward, our GC documents will be arranged by story (so the newest thing should always be at the top).
- We will need to use the RACE format for these questions:
Reminders:
ASB will be selling prom tickets soon. I hope we will see you there on 2/28!
