ENGLISH 9

FINAL CLASS TO CREATE YOUR PUBLISHED PERSONAL RESPONSE 

1.) Finish Bowling for Columbine.

2.) Read personal response examples from the Performance Standards of BC (not yet within expectations and exceeds expectations and note the differences in quality).

3.) Review of the writing booklet with a focus on the 6 Traits of Writing and strategies you can use to improve your writing.

-Ideas
-Organization
-Voice
-Word Choice
-Sentence Fluency
-Conventions

Remember, you're handing in (in this order)

1. Published work (typed): version 3.0 with self-assessment of published work (purple sheet) 
2. Revision copy of your work (typed): version 2.0 
3. Draft with self-assessment (purple sheet - should have this done already): version 1.0.

3.) Continue working on your personal response until it is in a "published" state.  This response is due January 10th, 2012 (Thursday after we get back), but I'm not giving you any more class time to work on it.   

4.) Last 15 minutes - Christmas surprise.