Week 2 Syllabus: August 28-September 1
SO FAR YOU HAVE COMPLETED THREE assignments: a survey about yourself that includes a story about an animal, a paragraph about “About Competition” posted to our squarespace blog, and a signed course expectations sheet submitted to Canvas via Scan Genius. On top of that, you have annotated the poem, participated in a group discussion, and turned those in stapled to a printed copy of your paragraph on the competition poem. If ANY of these are incomplete, do those TODAY. This week we will practice re-annotating the first 75 pages of the summer reading, and write answers to a series of questions about those same pages. BRING YOUR COPY OF CURIOUS INCIDENT EACH DAY.
TUESDAY, August 29
Review of syllabus and homework submitted.
Cheating: a how-to guide compliments of NT Board of Education
Selecting the three BEST paragraphs posted on squarespace blog.
HW: Re-read an annotate pages 1-10 in Curious Incident: circle vocab words, write out your questions as a reader, and add notes on what type of person Christopher is.
Wednesday, August 30 (BSAD)
We will use the audio from the novel (click here) to listen to while re-reading an practice annotations.
HW: Re-read an annotate the NEXT ten pages from the novel (from where ever you get to in class). Your revision of the poem ¶ is due in class on Friday.
Friday, September 1
Reposting your revised as a comment to your original post on squarespace. This is the draft I will grade in Canvas.
Small group work on the student paragraphs selected Wednesday by the OTHER class. You will practice discussing writing using our two pronged method: What did the writer do well, and where do you see that? And what could the writer do better, and how?
Crossword!
HW: Finish re-reading The Curious Incident, up to page 74, for class on Wednesday