23 February 2015 Before the bell rings 1

23 February 2015 Before the bell rings, 1. Remove all items from your desk except paper, a writing utensil, and your annotated copy of Never Cry Wolf. 2. Discourse: Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf a. author purpose, text mode/pattern, audience b. author style (diction & syntax = tone) c. take discourse notes Homework: a. Bring your journal tomorrow! b. Study Island 11 -20 due 20 March c. Purchase, read, annotate Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods due 16 March

24 February 2015 Before the bell rings, 1. Remove all items from your desk except your journal, paper, a writing utensil, and your annotated copy of Never Cry Wolf. 2. Complete Rhetorical Device 5 in your journal 3. Discourse: Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf a. author purpose, text mode/pattern, audience b. author style (diction & syntax = tone) c. take discourse notes Homework: 1. Writing Assignment: Revise one TW of your choice (Argument 1, 2, or 3)—due 9 March 2. Begin tonight: type the original draft, share your Google. Doc, edit/revise every EVEN day. 3. Purchase, read, annotate Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods due 16 March

25/26 February 2015 Snow Day Tasks, 1. Review the TW prompts that you retrieved Wednesday from my room. Did you not understand part of the prompt passage or what it was asking of you? 2. Go to Weebly and complete the Snow Day Tasks due Monday. Homework: Purchase, read, annotate Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods due 16 March