Mon. 2/23/15

Learning Target:

• Use STAR revision to track improvements on your rough draft

Work Collected:

• Weekly reading check-in (orange form) for week 7

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Read for at least 30 mins.
• Lit circle discussion #2 tomorrow: reading + row 2 of worksheet

Summary of Class:

• Read for fifteen minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Participles: misplaced modifiers
• Notebook: record the incorrect sentence and write two possible solutions to this grammatical error
• "Churning in the Atlantic Ocean, we anxiously watched the weather report for information about the hurricane."
• Finish talking about STAR revision
• Examples of changes in an essay
• Begin revising (and tracking these changes on) the rough draft of your memoir
• Examples of leads and conclusions: click here
• Final drafts will be due some time next week
• Reminder: lit circle discussions tomorrow