The major focus of the week is Moving Voices Benchmark #7: Scene Group Script. In both Language Arts and Project Studio, you will have most of class time to integrate your Moving Voices narrative with those of your fellow group members into a cohesive scene, which you will perform as reader’s theater at the end of the week.
This is also the last week of the quarter, and therefore time for you to be tying up loose academic threads. Your first quarter grade is based largely on the quality of and evidence of effort toward the following assignments:
Important: If any of the quarter’s three writing assignments is missing by Monday, Nov. 5, you will earn a No Credit (NC) for the quarter.
Monday’s Fast Rotation (Lesson 23)
We review components of your first quarter grade; a print-out of your assignment turn-in record is handed out for review. We take a look at some personal statement screenshots. Scene groups for the Moving Voices Project are introduced, and your group can start planning for the week’s scene script assignment.
Tuesday/Wednesday (Lesson 24)
Workshop time for your scene group to prepare for Benchmark #7: Scene Group Script. Meanwhile, I conduct a formal Song of Solomon thesis log check for your quarter grade. You should be read up to page 285 with 14 thesis logs.
Thursday/Friday (Lesson 25)
Class is held in the theater, for a formal reader’s theater presentation of your Scene Group Script.
Personal Statements
are being handed back this week, as I finish reading them. I try to have a short conference with you as I hand them back. Almost every writer is asked to revise for a final draft, which will not be due until the end of the semester.
Posted by Justin Wells : 10/28/2007