Vivid description Part 2

We self-evaluated the character/scene posters we drew on Monday in terms of the quality of detail used in the drawings (both details from the book and from our own imaginations). See the worksheet in the crate.

We finished reading Chapter 2 of To Kill a Mockingbird and read a sample literary journal response on it. We then tried writing our own literary responses on our independant novels in our journals. (NOTE: The novel, and all the journal entries, should be finished by Friday, Sept. 24th).

We then tried applying some of the writing techniques we liked in Mockingbird and our own novels (dialogue, similes, foreshadowing, description, etc.) to our own writing. We revised a piece of writing from an earlier day to "explode" a moment of it into detailed, vivid writing.

Student finished class by turning in their writing and their self-evaluations as well as answering these four questions on a sheet of paper:
1) One thing that confuses me in this class is...
2) One thing that frustrates me in this class is...
3) One thing I'd like to see more of in this class is...
4) For the next seating chart I would like to sit... because...