Mr. Shaw's Classes
  • Film
    • More Than a Game
    • Medora
    • Student Films
    • Original Film
    • Earth
    • Winged Migration
    • More Than Honey
    • When We Were Kings
    • A Small Act
    • Spellbound
    • Miss Representation
    • Wasteland
    • Expedition to the End of the World
    • The Fog of War
    • Inside Job
    • 20 Feet From Stardom
    • Throw Down Your Heart
    • Searching for Sugarman
    • No Impact Man
    • Food, Inc.
  • 9A
    • Helpful Words
    • Short Stories
    • The Odyssey
    • Beowulf
    • Final Exam
  • 9B
    • Night
    • Grammar & Poetry
    • Helpful Words
    • Research Paper
    • To Kill a Mockingbird
    • Romeo & Juliet
    • Final Exam
  • Envision U2
    • Project Based Learning
    • Khan Academy
    • Reading
    • Essay
  • 11 LIT
    • Into the Wild >
      • Inner Outer Circle >
        • Preparation
        • Nature / Society
        • Travels
        • Family
        • Maturity?
        • Stampede Trail
        • Rhetorical Analysis
    • Rhetoric & Research
    • 396 In Cold Blood
    • 343 In Cold Blood 5th Hour
    • 234 Catcher in the Rye 3rd Hour
    • Station Eleven
    • Transcendentalism
    • Frankenstein
    • Huck Finn
    • New Year's Resolutions
    • Spoon River Anthology
  • 11 COMP
    • Helpful Words
    • The Form of the Essay
    • Illustration
    • Narration
    • Description
    • Process Analysis
    • Definition
    • Comparison & Contrast
    • Cause & Effect
    • Division & Classification
    • Final Exam
  • AP
    • Summer 2018 Blog
    • Rhetorical Analysis
    • Education
    • Work
    • Brother, I'm Dying
    • Blue Highways
    • Politics
    • In Cold Blood
    • Walden
    • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
    • Eats, Shoots & Leaves
    • The Form of the Essay >
      • Helpful Words & Concepts
      • Illustration
      • Narration
      • Description
      • Process Analysis
      • Definition
      • Division & Classification
      • Compare & Contrast
      • Cause & Effect
      • Argument
    • 30-Second Commercials
    • Persuasion
    • Independent Non-Fiction
    • Independent Non-Fiction #2
    • Room for Debate
    • Writing Workshop
    • Ramping UP
    • Tribe
  • Interact
  • 12A
    • Helpful Words
    • The Things They Carried
    • Personal Narrative
    • This I Believe
    • Compelling Voices
    • Persepolis
    • The Alchemist
    • Alchemist Blog
  • 12B
    • Native American Literature
    • 1984
    • Dickinson, Collins, & Whitman
    • The Canterbury Tales
    • The Crucible
  • CW
    • Short Story

Monday, September 16

        TODAY'S AGENDA:
  1. Spend the first 30 minutes editing your memoir.
  2. Discuss the plan for the Important Words Quiz & Basic Grammar Concepts Quiz.
  3. Discuss pages 295-298 about illustration.
  4. Identify Topic, Thesis, and Specific Examples with a partner from “Anxiety:  Challenge by Another Name” pages 80 - 83​

Tuesday, September 17

          TODAY'S AGENDA:
  1. JOURNAL #4 RULES OF LIFE  
  2. ♪ Duke Ellington: “Switch Blade” and "Very Special" from Money Jungle
  3. Identify Topic, Thesis, and Specific Examples with a partner for David Brooks "The Moral Indecency of the Away Message," and “The Case for Shorter Words” pages 310-313 
  4. Here's the illustrative essay rubric.
  5. Important Words Quiz tomorrow
  6. Writing Workshop Day tomorrow . . . 

Wednesday, September 18

       TODAY'S AGENDA:
  1. Complete unfinished Agenda Items from Previous Classes
  2. ANSWERS to Illustrative Essay Topic, Thesis, and Specific Examples
  3. Study for Quiz
  4. Writing Workshop Day​
  5. Important Words Quiz

Thursday, September 19 and Friday, September 20

        TODAY'S AGENDA:
  1. Writing Workshop Days for your illustrative essay​

Monday, September 23 and Tuesday, September 24

  1. Monday = Editing Workshop Day--Essay Editing Groups
  2. Tuesday = Important Word Quiz Retakes
  3. ​#6 WRITING ADVICE
  4. Classroom Discussion of Zinsser's editing on page 172-174.
  5. Ears are often better than eyes: read your essay out loud and listen to what you wrote. ​ What is your partner's topic, thesis, and to what extent do the three or more specific examples or stories prove it?
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