WAKE UP!!!
:-)
Yes, September is over, and with it the first six weeks of the school year. Gone. Gone with the wind. Gone with the fleeting memories of summer. Gone with-- Oh, forget it. You're not reading this nonsense anyway. Why bother? All you want from these things is to scroll down to your bloody class and see what the assignment is. If you even do that. I mean really: what kind of a nutcase am I to believe that anyone actually bothers to check this silly page day after day to see what kind of inspired or (mostly) uninspired lunacy I come up with? Seriously, I ought to have my head examined. I'm going to go to bed now. Wake me when September ends.
What?
Crap.
CW: We were in the lab today and you wrote stuff and I had a few conferences. You know what didn't happen? We didn't make a huge dent in the Conference Chart, which after six weeks stands as follows: Emily 8, Justine 1, Natalie 5, Kevin 1, Jack 2, Haley 5, Ross 2, Mac 3, Katie 4, Marie 1, Natasha 1, Alex 1. If you don't have at least 5, you are behind. Guess what time it is? Time for six week progress cards...
HW this weekend: Submit the piece you are currently most focused on to turnitin.com today or tomorrow and, starting Sunday, go online to provide feedback on others' pieces.
E2CP: We've been discussing Our Town this week and today we compared themes within it to the poem "Lucinda Matlock" by Edgar Lee Masters. Your HW this weekend is to focus on the sermon that the minister/Stage Manager gives near the end of Act Two (p 75) about how people go through life "two by two" and how the purpose of that journey is to have babies. Using Act Two as your reference and quoting from at least two different places within the act (other than the sermon itself), how does this speech portray what is going on in this act?
E3H: So we've been working on some poetry (Ch. 5 of Sound and Sense) this week. For the weekend, I have selected three of those poems, "Mind" (p 80), ""Toads" (p 82), and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (p 84) and created discussion groups at turnitin.com. Any time this weekend, head on over and get into these discussions. I'd like each of you to join all three conversations. You only need to post once in each, but you're not limited to that. :-) Take a look at what classmates are saying: this is a conversation; allow what has come before to develop into what comes next. Oh, and use the text.
A second assignment you have--a simple one--is to submit a 2.0+ draft of your "metapoem" piece from last week to turnitin.com by Sunday night. That's it; just submit it. Note: you are not required to bring it for conference on Monday. Choose anything you'd like for that.
And now: the weekly "Who has missed conferences?" List.
It's a doozy, because I missed last week, so it's a two-week wonder:
Allie G, Andy N, Peter D, Summer F, Andy N, Tucker W (2x!), Tommy W, Patrick W, Adam B, Katherine W, Claire J, Emma W, Laura C, Ahmmad T, Isaiah R, Amadeus K, Claire F, Martin K, Emmett P...
Plus from this past Monday and Tuesday, needing makeup by next Friday...
Kasia G, Brian H, Tom M, Angela W, Savanah S, Madeline C, Summer F (that's 2!), Emma B, Katherine J, Casey L, Gabriella T, Margot D, David G, Tommy S, Amanda G, Brian M, Robby S, Camron B, Meghan H
Let's go, guys! Guess what week it is? Six week progress card week!
Have a nice weekend!
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