Reading; Choose your own writing; Book Club & Sharing

Before we move into our next unit (play/script writing), spend 20 minutes of 7th period reading the book you are reading for your book club. Instead of yelling and shouting and talking or working on the computer, unplug and read. Read SILENTLY for 20 minutes.

When you have spent some time reading, and you are feeling ready to write SILENTLY...

Please spend the rest of 7th period writing ANYTHING you want: a poem, a short story, a script, an essay, a vignette, an article, etc.

Follow the writing process to come up with something to write about, then write about it. This is completely your choice as to genre, length, style, subject matter, etc.

Just like writers, write today during 7th period. Make a date with your muse and keep it!

During 8th period, take a few minutes (until 1:30) to finish your writing session. Save your work. If you completed something, you may bring it to your "workshop".

Then get together in your book groups.

1. Talk about the stories or pages you read.
2. Talk about the things you learned about writing from reading this author.
3. Talk about what you would do differently if YOU were the writer of these stories you have read so far.
4. When you are done discussion, spend some time in a "workshop" sharing a story or poem or two from your portfolio.

HOMEWORK: Keep reading your book, but you will no longer meet in your book group. Try to finish the book (or as much as you want to read) on your own.