Friday Freewriting: September 23, 2016

Focus: What do artifacts reveal about their owners?

1. Warming up with dropping your Level 1 questions in the bucket and celebrating some of yesterday's successes

2. Getting into your writing space and investigating your artifacts; click HERE for the possibilities

3. Bringing it back to Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:

• Pick one of our narrators (Oskar, his grandfather, or his grandmother).

• Make a list of the artifacts they collect.

• What do these artifacts reveal about the character? What insight do they offer you to who this character is, how this character's mind works, what this character values, what this character fears, what this character loves, what this character lacks, what this character desires above all else?

HW:
1. Read through page 141 for Tuesday. Leaders need to prepare a syllabus for Tuesday and post it on the class Google doc.

If you miss a Fishbowl or Socratic, you must make it up. Fishbowl: Read over the syllabus and blog comments, then add an extended comment to the class blog. Socratic: Read over the syllabus and the class notes, then add an extended comment to the class blog.

2. Spend 30 minutes this week on your journal; bring your journal to class each day. We will start our reading journal conferences on Wednesday.

3. If you don't feel like waiting another week or two to get your essay back, come on in for a conference (no sign-up necessary). We'll grade it on the spot, and it won't be scary.

4. NEXT FRIDAY IS THE END OF 6 WEEKS. All make-up work from the first 6 weeks must be submitted by this date. After Friday, any grade in IC will remain as is.