Let's Write!

Over this past weekend, we started writing our NaNoWriMo novels!

By the end of today, you should have finished 10% of your word count goal.

We will spend most of today writing, but we need to talk about how you update your NaNoWriMo account to show your word count progress.

This is something you do EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Let's practice.

Novel Inferences

Happy Wednesday!

We will read at the bell.

Yesterday you practiced making inferences about characters with passages from other texts. Today you will be able to make inferences and discover more information about the characters from your own novel.

You will need to click on the link that corresponds to your own group below. It will open a view-only file. You have a couple choices:

• Have one person make a copy that you all share and work on together (remember that I can see who edits it and when!)
• Each person can make their own copy and you can work individually or with partners to choose passages and write descriptions.

No matter which option you choose, you must share it with me.

Period 4

Group ONE

Group TWO

Group THREE

Group FOUR

Group FIVE

Period 6

Group ONE

Group TWO

Group THREE

Group FOUR

Group FIVE

Group SIX

Characters

Source: Bell of the Literati

Today you can get your netbooks!

For reading today, you can either read your choice novel or your group novel. Just make sure you're on track to finish the group novel by October 6!






Now that you've all chosen your books, we have some work to do, and we're going to start with character analysis and inference.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS TO ANALYZE
This is a view-only file. Make your own copy. You will need to share it with me. If you don't share with me, you didn't turn it in. (Don't be that guy.)

Now that you've practiced with these character descriptions, remember that you are being introduced to new characters in your own novels that you can also make inferences about.


After you finish looking closely at the character descriptions above.
1. Go back to your own book and look at what you've read so far. Find passages that describe a character. 
2. Pick one passage and type that passage into your Writer's Notebook.
3. Explain what that passage says about the character. What can you infer from that passage?

Moving Forward

Source: teenfictionbooks

Hello and welcome to your new seats!

Get comfortable. You're going to be here for a while.

No computers today. Weird, right?

Get your books out!

You've just joined a group that you're going to spend a lot of time with over the next few weeks.

• Introduce yourselves (make sure you know everyone's name).
• Together, create a list of books that you all have in common (meaning every single person at your table has read that book).

I'm going to be giving each table a list of books. 

1. Read the synopsis for each book on your synopsis sheet, and begin to explore which titles you are all interested in reading.
2. As a group, decide which book you will all read together.
3. We're going to the library to check them out (this is why you need your ID)

When you return from the library, discuss your reading schedule with your group. You will need to have your book completed by Monday, October 6th.