Homework: Revise your draft. Study for the vocabulary test. Make sure to bring your url info so we can do the bibliography (MLA works cited page).
Thursday: Good Copy, Edited draft, notes, and works cited page are all due.
Monday: May USSR forms are due. Ensure that every line is full. Write in a lively and compelling fashion about each book. You should have at least two books since we also read Never Cry Wolf. If you are aiming for an A this year, be sure to have read a classic and follow the criteria on the course outline. You must bring a novel to class each day. By forgetting a book, you lose the daily participation marks.
Ways to improve your new journalism writing:
Today, I returned the edited versions of your first three paragraphs.
Most paragraphs did not have enough "fun" mixed in with the facts. However, the facts were good so all you need to do is re-read the samples until the techniques that make the facts interesting jump out at you.
Make it funny. Use examples / comparisons from your own life to bring the facts to life. We don't know what it is really like to be a sloth but we know what it is like to have to do homework when we have no energy. Describe that feeling.
We don't know what it is like to eat a snake whole but we know how we feel after eating a Xmas or birthday dinner.
We don't know what it is like to be hunted but we know how it can feel scary to walk through the lounge at lunch or to feel as if you have done something wrong and you feel isolated and alone and alert.
You have watched films, your family and friends, and read books about struggle so you know defeat and you know success. Put those allusions into the article.
This style of writing requires great creative leaps. You will need to revise and revise and revise to make it unique just like you did during the poetry unit.
This kind of writing is worth 30% of your English 10 and 12 exams so get started on learning how to do it now!!
Writing about the world and making it interesting means knowing the techniques to use and taking risks.
