Friday, September 30

20 minutes of Writers' Workshop: drafts are due for a grade by Friday midnight.

Groups wrapped up discussions analyzing President Bush's 9/11 speech for tone; discussed with the whole class.

Began discussing Jamaica Kincaid's essay, "The Ugly Tourist" using the SOAPStone organizer to focus our thoughts. (We will wrap up our discussion on Monday.)

HOMEWORK

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Word Power 3&4 and Introduction to Rhetoric vocabulary Quiz.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Rough draft of the Common App/memoir essay due for a grade from Ms. Bishop.