Action List: 3.8.11

Blogs of the Week: Hot Kool Aid, bloggerett16, Dewdrops on Daisies, and Te Amo. Great reads, all.

For today:

1. First, note some changed dates for the ATW project: The full peer review of your project, including photocopied passages, is next Tuesday, 3/15. The full, final project, with copies of your passages, is now due Thursday, 3/17. These are both one day earlier than originally planned.

2. Today, you have a few options.

(a) Prepare a reading log--periods 3 and 5 have blogs due today.

(b) Start searching for poems and passages that you can use for your ATW project. Your introduction and first body paragraph are to be peer reviewed on Friday, so it's good to get started soon. Try using the "Poetry Tool" at the Poetry Foundation to find a poem or two for your theme. If you like, you may use the poem that you wrote about for yesterday's peer review.

(c) Look at the sample ATW essay on the class website, or the "Diction Observation Guide" to get a better feel for how this project should work. Or ask me for guidance.

(d) Try the multiple-choice exercise on making claims about diction, found on the HHS class page under "Notes."

(e) Play Rock-Paper-Scissors against a computer and be surprised how tough it is to beat.