Friday’s Drafts. We have a rough draft due on Friday: the introduction and one body paragraph from your project. This draft should have your actual name, not your alias. Like the last one, this is a pass/fail draft—either you have it and it is typed and you get the full 10 points, or it isn’t and you get zero.
ATW Conferences. For another 10 points, you need to confer with me during class either today or Friday about your project. Here are your options: (a) today, we can work through one of your passages and plan a claim and some of your response, or (b) on Friday, we can review the draft that is due that day. One or the other, the choice is yours.
Today’s Menu. We get five points of participation both today and Friday if we stay off of the games and are productive. Here are some things you can do today to be productive. Do any or all of them:
1. Find those passages: the Poetry Foundation web-site, your poetry journal, our classroom library.
2. Profile a poem or passage—like we have done with the Walton Ford painting “Falling Bough” and some diction exercises, compile (a) distinctive quotations from your passage, (b) words that describe that language, and (c) a possible claim for a paragraph about that passage.
3. Read any or all of the sample essays for this project. There are several:
a. My sample that was attached to the “Harlem” response that we annotated with highlighters.
b. Jessie Hanselmann’s, on our HHS notes page.
c. My sample beginning for the “Water” ATW project I am working on.
d. A “Winner” from the peer review we conducted on Monday.
4. Error Hunt—go through the draft for your diction exercise and see if you can find any of the six “Errors of Support and Discussion” that are demonstrated on the purple handout (and online.)
5. Use the “Observation Guide” for diction on the HHS notes page to help you free-write a response to one of your passages.
6. Informal peer-review of a friend’s work so far.
Any of these menu items can be done with a friend, collaboratively, if you are able to stay on task.
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