Next week the marking period ends. On Tuesday your journals will be due.
What goes into a journal?
Glad you asked: all your pre-writing, notes from class, ideas for stories/poems/plays, cartoons, articles, quotes, historical facts, figures, lists, homework assignment reminders, brainstorming exercises, journal exercises from class, character descriptions, writing, writing, and more writing. Pretty much everything that inspires you to write.
How is it graded?
Glad you asked again. I count pages and then compare your grades with other students. I place numeric cut-offs that usually look like this for a 6 week marking period (note this sometimes changes): 30+ pages = A+ 25-29 pages = A, 20-24 = B+, 15-19 = B, 11-14 = C+, 9-10 = C, less than 9 = D, not turned in = F. These #'s are full pages, not half-pages in general. I usually round up for your benefit.
Today: finish your HIT MAN story and begin working or try to complete your Questionnaire exercise (see below). Send these items to our dropbox with your name on the file. Ex. John Smith - Hit Man story.docx
HOMEWORK: Please read pages: 112-143. In your journal try one of the following prompts, taken from the stories in this selection:
1. Write about someone coming home after a long absence away.
2. Make a metaphor about an aspect of life literal (as in Dinner Time)
3. Write a story that takes an aspect of life and make a metaphor of it (as in the Anatomy of Desire)
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