1. Quickwrite #4 • Read over your answers to the post reading questions from LOTM. • Based on your reading and analysis, which of the 6 traits do you think is Mark Twain’s strength? • Provide an example.

2. Quickwrite #4 (5 minutes) • Write 5 specific adjectives that describe you as a five year old and 5 specific adjectives that describe you now.

3. Reflective Composition • Read and discuss the college application essay prompts. • Review/Discuss the graphic organizer • Class Model • E:\English 11\Reflective Composition\graphic organizer.doc

4. Writing On Demand – 30 minutes • Choose a prompt • Prewrite/Organize your thoughts • Compose 1st draft in your writer’s notebook • If you finish early, highlight all plural and possessive nouns in your writing.

5. Quickwrite #7 • Read over your answers to the post reading questions from “MSLA.” • Based on your reading and analysis, which of the 6 traits do you think is Maya Angelou’s strength? • Provide an example.

6. Quickwrite #9 • Out of the two compositions you have completed, explain which one is more appealing to you at this point. • Who do you think would be interested in reading your writing? In other words, who is your audience.

7. Writing Workshop – Reflective Composition – Music permitted after instructions are given. • Choose a prompt for reflective composition #3 • Write silently for 45 minutes • You may go back and add to reflective composition #1 or #2 • Edit/Revise RC #1 or #2 • KEEP ALL WRITING IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!

8. Quiz Tuesday on Blackboard Quiz on Tuesday, September 6 • Theme, craft, and vocabulary from “Life on the Mississippi” and “My Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors” • Study and review vocabulary

9. Final Draft – Due by the end of class on Friday, September 16 • Log into blackboard • Click on the assignment tab and read the directions for the assignment • Choose a topic from your writer’s notebook • Compose your essay in Microsoft Word

10. Revising to add figurative language mini lesson • Revise two of the following sentence by adding sensory details or figurative language • The sun looked beautiful. • The medicine tastes bad. • The shortstop’s throw was bad. • From the collision came a terrible sound. WHEN YOU ARE COMPOSING YOUR REFLECTIVE COMPOSITION, ADD FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TO IMPROVE WORD CHOICE.

11. Agenda 9/16/11 • Log into Blackboard • Take Figurative Language Quiz – 15 minutes- This quiz is timed • Complete Reflective Composition • Self and Peer Evaluation • Submit Essay via Blackboard

12. Writing Workshop Agenda – You can listen to music • Reread/review feedback on Reflective Composition • Revise Reflective Composition • Submit 2nd Draft via Blackboard – Due Thursday • Read directions and requirements for argumentative essay on Blackboard • Type Argumentative Essay • Self/Peer Evaluate Reflective Essay • Submit 1st draft via Blackboard – Due Friday

13. Editing Symbols • RO = RUN ON SENTENCE • FRAG = FRAGMENT/INCOMPLETE SENTENCE • SVA =SUBJECT/VERB AGREEMENT PROBLEM • WW =WRONG WORD • VT =SHIFT IN VERB TENSE • SP =SPELLING ERROR • ? =CONFUSING SENTENCE;REVISION NEEDED • AWK =REREAD AND REVISE