Book Reviews and Other Things

I'm sorry I can't be with you today. I expect that you treat your guest teacher with the same respect that you treat me. Actually, scratch that. Treat your guest teacher 187% better than me!

Today is a bit of an individual work day. You get to use most of your time working on things that are due in the next few days.

Each of the colored boxes? They represent
about a paragraph in your book review.

Choices!

1. Work on your book review. It is due on Thursday, in class and printed on paper in correct MLA format (like you learned on Friday), and then you will submit it to turnitin.com by midnight. Use the chart to help you organize it.
   (P.S. I will teach you about turnitin.com on Thursday)
   (P.P.S Make your own document to write your book review in. I did not sent you a template.)
   
2. You can work on your Vocab Root worksheet/studying. You have a AB/TRANS Test on Friday.
   Click here for the slides.

IMPORTANT HOMEWORK/DATES

• THIS WEEK - Take your House on Mango Street book back to the library.
• Wednesday, January 20th
• TRANS vocab work is due
• Thursday, January 21st - Book Review PRINTED VERSION due, with MLA formatting
• BY MIDNIGHT Thursday: Book Review submitted on Turnitin.com (you'll learn about this on Thursday.)
• Friday, January 22nd - Vocab Root Test (AB/TRANS)

Welcome Back!

You wrote a novel! 

Congratulations!!!

The first thing we do today?
READ!


First order of business:
 In your English Journal (not your novel!), start a new entry at the top of the document with today's date.

Now that NaNoWriMo is officially over, it is time to reflect on the experience. Write a paragraph or two describing your experience. Don't spend more than ten minutes on this. Just write as much as you can. Some questions to get you started might include:

• What did you like or dislike about NaNoWriMo?
• What did you learn?
• How has your view of writing changed?
• What has changed in your own writing?
• What was difficult and how did you overcome those difficulties?

Second order of business:
Since you finished writing your novel, and probably got a lot of reading done as well, you're welcome to check out new books! (Please make sure you bring back books you've finished or want to abandon so others may read them.)

This week we're going to be spending time working on revision and editing!
This means you're going to take your novel and make it better.
Here are the things that you need to look for today:

1. My story has an ending that includes a resolution. (You can work on this as you need to, but you cannot simply stop when you hit your word count. You need the climax and resolution to complete the novel!)
2. I have divided my novel into sections or chapters in order to give it a structure that makes more sense for the reader.
3. I have divided my writing into paragraphs and have made sure that I have indented properly.
4. I have indented dialogue properly (each time there is a new speaker, there is also a new paragraph).
5. I have made sure that all dialogue is punctuated correctly. (Use of quotations, commas, question marks, etc.)
6. I have capitalized all words at the beginnings of sentences.
7. I have capitalized the word “I” every time I have used it.