Today we read for 10 minutes, reviewed the importance of choosing post its for longwrites and then began Longwrite #4 in the reflection section of reader's notebooks. We then looked back at the creative stories we wrote on Tuesday and discussed the decision-making process for telling the story--which character would have the best story? Should I have the character tell his own story or should I have a narrator from outside the story tell it like maybe a person watching the bus stop? We then discussed speaker of a poem and how speaker does not mean author. We then looked at the poems from the other day and determined who the speaker of each poem was and why it mattered.
Afternoon: Sorry I had to be out this afternoon. In class we read for 10 minutes, then read through this handout and applied it to one of the poems we analyzed last week. Each group was to complete a character sketch of the speaker of his/her assigned poem (same one as last week). This was to be turned in (Maddie and Amelia and anyone else absent, complete the sketch on a google doc, name it speaker and share it with me :)--you two may choose to work together if it is allowed)
HW: Complete 40 minutes of reading and LW#4 by Wednesday (I am at a conference tomorrow).
