Week at a glance August 19 - 23, 2013

WRHS Open House

Wednesday, Aug 21 -- 6:00 - 9:00 pm

After a brief but excellent start last week, this week we'll begin with our first peer review activity as we look at the results of the College Application Essay.  We'll discuss the strategies students used and the challenges they faced, as well as some guidelines for what makes an excellent response.  The College Application Essay is due via e-mail on Tuesday night.  We'll then move into our textbook and analyze how the editors of the textbook define presence within writing.  The editors highlight four specific characteristics, which we will analyze in four exemplary examples.  We'll wrap up the week with a look at how various writers view components of the writing process.  Students will select a quote they find interesting or relate to and create a quickwrite response.

• Mon: College Application Essay - peer review and revision
• Tues: College Application Essay due by 11:59:59 to ritchjoh@usd437.net  The Four Qualities of Presence within an essay -- notes and discussion.  Complete the Presence Inventory.
• Wed: The Four Qualities of Presence - begin reading, annotating, and discussing exemplars.  Finish reading and annotating the remaining pages.
• Thurs: The Four Qualities of Presence - finish exemplar discussion.
• Fri: Quickwrite - read the selection of quotes.  Select one and create a one-page response, due by the end of the hour.  WP reading homework: read Alexie 27 - 30 before coming to class on Monday.

Bring your Writer's Presence textbook to class from now on beginning Monday, Aug 26.