AF: Preparing for Semester 1 Conferences

Here's the notebook portion.  How's your notebook looking?

What am I missing? Check your notebooks and tell me what I am forgetting to check for.

First, the Summer Homework

September

• About Me Page
• SOAPS
• Sentence Work (9/22) simple, complex, compound, complex-compound
• Describe your bedroom
• Describe a place where you a perfectly content

October

• Groucho Marx/Warner Brothers (10/1-2) stamped
• How and why we annotate (10/7) notes
• Girl scout ad (10/8) -- rhetoric of images
• John Downe (10/9) notes
• Big Assignment:  JFK Inaugural Address -- Descriptive Outline
• Star Wars
• Controversial topics
• Freewrite Friday
• Sentence frame from They Say/I Say (Curious George stamp)

Multiple Choice Monday -- 3 Mondays on one page

November

• Freewrite Friday (11-7)
• Argument Structure - in graphic structure
• Stasis Theory
• Loop Writing
• How to fix a run-on

Vocabulary -- 8 pages of vocab, through the Awakening

Make a New Section in Your Notebook entitled “January Semester Review”