Building the Foundation: October 17, 2016

Focus: What foundations do we need to build for strong writing?

1. Warming up with Grammar Rule You Must Know #1: Subject-Verb Agreement

• Make yourself a grammar folder, and place it inside your American Lit folder.

• Click HERE, make a copy, call it "Subject-Verb Agreement," and put it inside your grammar folder.

2. Investigating your personal grammar pitfalls from your cultural hysteria essays; starting on your grammar fixes and setting content goals

• Read over the feedback. Then, at the end of your essay, summarize one or two things you did well and one or two things to work on.

• Click HERE for a sample "Grammar Fix."

• You will get to use this essay as a "cheat sheet" on the timed writing at the end of the gothic unit.

3. Returning to memoir writing and considering your narrative arc

HW:
1. Please finish your grammar fixes by this Wednesday. You don't need to print them; you can just put them in your grammar folder. (See above if you need an example.) If you wish to revise the content of your essay (not just the grammar), you must conference with me. All revisions must be submitted by November 11, which is the end of 12 weeks.

2. Optional (but encouraged): Sign up for a memoir conference by clicking HERE. Final memoirs due Oct 31 by 3:00 pm. These will be submitted electronically to www.turnitin.com rather than printed (we'll go over how to do this in class).

3. IF YOU HAVE NOT CONFERENCED WITH ME ON YOUR JOURNAL, YOU MUST BRING IT TO CLASS TOMORROW WITH YOUR YELLOW SHEET.