Dec+5+to+Dec+9

=Connie Bergum is our esteemed guest Wednesday during 6th and 7th period.= All students are invited to attend. Connie is an accomplished children’s writer. She will be teaching students how to use storyboarding for drafting stories. =All students are invited to attend.=

Students research papers were graded on a rubric. Anyone can rewrite their paper to add items they missed from the rubric. Monday we will be discussing transitions which students know well when writing memoirs (The next morning. . .) but need a bit of review for research papers. (“As I mentioned before, victims that self-bully often feel like they deserve to be hurt” (Kayla).) Kayla wrote a terrific Bully Research paper that I posted on the class website. It is at the bottom of the first page. Lambenglish1.wikispaces.com

This Week we will examine the characters from the movie that students watched last week and compare them to the archetypical Heroic journey plot. A plot analysis is due Monday.

Students are encouraged to bring in **__Picture Books__** from home to facilitate examining them for ideas. (Students watched Harry Potter 7, Prince of Persia, or Avatar.)

=Tuesday: In the lab: Review bully papers and grades. Research children’s picture books. What are the basic requirements? What advice can we get about writing one?= =Wednesday: Examine Picture books. How are journey stories told? Look at the other picture books? What can the stories be about? Where can we find story ideas? Retelling folk tales, real life journey’s, movies.=

=Students will use a storyboard to design a picture book with a journey story. Then they will review what publishers need in order to consider a book.= =Friday: Greek Roots Quiz 9=