Starting with a news story from this past Sunday’s New York Times. Annotating for how the writer sets up direct quotes.
Reading paragraphs about “The Man in the Well” aloud in class, and revising.
Key revision takeaways: avoid signposting language before and after quote (an example of this is seen on page #, this quote shows that, the reader can see that) and including the author, type of literature, and title in the topic sentence.
Reading and practice annotating Cormier’s I am the Cheese (pages 28 through X).
TOMORROW: Reading a new story, and starting some non-fiction annotation techniques.

Reading a NYT article about rumor, and the impact it had on an Amazonian tribe who recently gained access to the internet.
Story time: reading “The Fish.” Annotate for how rumor drives the action of the story, why Col. Tung’s attempts to kill the fish fail, and why the fish is ultimately killed.
Distributing a new packet on non-fiction annotation techniques. We won’t get to this until Friday at soonest.
THURSDAY: If the NTHS network is live and working on student iPads, we will head to the Library for orientation.

Checking network connections, overview to connecting to Canvas, google drive/apps
Writing paragraph about story, “The Fish”: In Russell Bank’s short story, “The Fish,”… Describing the key lesson of the story, without using to be helping/linking verbs in claim.
Using visualthesarus.com to locate stronger verbs
After break, working in Library for orientation.
TOMORROW: We will return to the library to conduct some simple research, and to use Noodle Bib to create a 3-source annotated bibliography.

Starting in library for training on using Noodle tools to create annotated bibliography.
In W-348, we will read a new short story, “Going to School.”
Ending the day with reading from our novel, I am the Cheese.
NEXT WEEK: We will review the non-fiction annotation techniques you received this week, continue reading our novel, and shift our focus onto grammar/parts of speech review.