Wednesday, September 08, 2004

Digging for Potatos & Topics

Bellwork: Pick up a potato and write about it in your journal for 6 minutes. Share it with a partner, and then pick a new topic to write about for 6 minutes. Share that with a partner and then "loop" your writing: pick your favorite part out of the previous two writings and use that as the topic for a third piece of writing for 5 minutes.

Read pages 19-22 in Making Sense to see how the journaling and looping will help you create topics for writing.

Copy down journal rules from the overhead into the back of your journal and show Mrs. Gilbert your journal and topic tree to get credit.

Pick out a pleasurable reading novel (any fiction or nonfiction) and bring it to class tomorrow along with your journal.

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