| Date | WEEK 1 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal/Portfolio |
| 9/5 | Introduction to course and go over syllabus, journal, portfolio, map assigned In class writing |
Moments of your life exercise | |
| 9/7 |
Read 1-6, 9-14,18-21 WLS |
Discuss memory, memoir, autobiography
Share maps |
Map of your earliest neighborhood (exercise 1, |
| Date | WEEK 2 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 9/12 |
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Discuss writing | Map story (exercise2, p.24 WLS) |
| 9/14 | Read.36-42 | Discuss exercise 6-9 get handouts, selections on mothers: Annie Dilliard, An American Childhood; Lauren Slater, Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir; Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes |
Collecting material: write more stories from your map (2-3)
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| Date | WEEK 3 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 9/19 | Read Slater Dilliard McCourt |
Discuss handouts Mother/father story assigned |
1 page response to each reading (what moves you etc.) PORTFOLIO/ JOURNAL Due 9/19 |
| 9/21 | Read 35-47 WLS | Hand back writing
Assign cracking open a scene |
mother/father story |
| Date | WEEK 4 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 9/26 | Group work on scenes
Discuss beginnings, middles, ends |
Cracking Open (exercise 1, p.42 WLS) | |
| 9/29 | Shakespeare Behind Bars. due to p.127 | AIn class writing on SBB(identify a scene)
assign movie rental |
response- scene SBB |
| Date | WEEK 5 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 10/3 | Discuss movie scenes | scene in movie response=answer questions(ex.5, par.1) | |
| 10/5 | In class writing: Seeing Exercise
Handouts: Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Piri Thomas, Down these Mean Streets |
ECracking Open#2(p.48) Seeing Exercise | |
| Date | WEEK 5 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 10/11 | EXPLORATORY ESSAY DUE
In class: "Reading art" and hand out essay packets |
Evaluation Essay #1
Response to Reading art | |
| 10/13 | Pick out essay from packet and read/ Discuss essay ideas
Explain double column notebook Begin process of finding piece of art work |
Summary of essay idea | |
| Date | WEEK 6 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 10/18 |
Read chapter 6, 123-128(though 6a) and 29-31 on double column notebookRead Old Mrs.Grey 130-131 |
Hand back exploratory essays
Discuss OMG |
double column notebook on Old Mrs. Grey |
| JOURNAL CHECK 10/18 | |||
| 10/20 | Re-read essay from packet | Small group work: Discuss letters
Write letter to friend |
.letter to essayist
letter to friend |
| Date | WEEK 7 Reading due | In class activities | Due in Journal |
| 10/25 | Discuss Borrowing an Idea Look at models for ESSAY WITH ANALYSIS
Discuss outside source use and thesis |
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