WE HAVE BEEN HAMMERING OUT DRAFTS of the "consider" essay and examining non-fiction essays at the same time. Three reminders: on the day of your workshop, you should send me an email listing the students who have NOT submitted their written notes. That list should include absent students. Secondly, you will have one week from the date of your workshop to complete a revision. Finally, I will collect the notebooks in class on Thursday. As we did with first quarter, I will have students write reflectively about how you have used your journal before I collect it.

Monday

Workshop on the consider essay continues.
HW: Finish your notes on everyone's essays. We will close our workshop on Thursday.

Tuesday

Today I will pass back journals, grades, and lecture on our use of the journals and a shift in our workshop protocols. Journal: In five minutes, craft as many "X, but Y," sentences as you can. We will also finish Henry's workshop on gladiators.
HW: Complete your first independent choice entry (ICE) in your journal. Tonight, use the structure of the sentences we practiced in class (X, but Y) to write an extended version of one sentence. The first half of your journal, in about one page, write about X. Then, in the second half, also about a page in length, explore the Y as it stands in contrast to X.

Wednesday

In class journal: describe an aroma, an odor, or a smell. Workshop.
HW: You should, by Friday, complete your second ICE journal. The specifics on that entry were handed out in class, and it focuses on alternative ways of organizing memoir.

Thursday

Workshop on the last two essays.
HW:

Friday

Workshop. If we finish early, we will turn to sentence diagramming!
HW: Reading and providing feedback to Ali, Zoe, and Mary Kate's essays.