Creating your Renaissance Little Project: February 3, 2017

Focus: What are we really trying to create?

1. Warming up with a brief and painless quiz on Grammar You Must Know #4: Modifiers

2. Unveiling the weekly structure of our Color of Water unit:

Mondays	Tuesdays	Wednesdays	Thursdays	Fridays
New grammar mini-lesson Tribute memoir writing	Reading time Discussion of Color of Water (see bookmark)	Vocabulary Investigating topics in Color of Water and commenting on blogs	Reading time Discussion of Color of Water (see bookmark)	Grammar “quiz” Writing lessons/revising your tribute memoirs

2. Offering you an "example" of a Little Project for some inspiration:

• Take note of the images. What patterns can you find among the images?

• What is this commercial really trying to create? In other words, how do the images and the narrated lines combine to create something greater?

3. Creating your Renaissance Little Projects

• Click here to review the main goals of this project.
• Click here if you'd like Ms. Binney's plan sheet for more structure.
• This will the last large piece of work time on this project, so use it wisely! One week to showtime.

HW:
1. Read Chapters 6, 7, and 8 in The Color of Water for Tuesday, February 7; complete one blog entry (metacognitive or dialectical journal).

2. Renaissance Little Projects due February 10 (next Friday).