1. 9/5 & 9/6
GOOD MORNING! After you have copied the Objective and Homework in your agenda, please prepare your Rhetorical Device Vocabulary Flipbook for turn-in.
Please put your name, period, and date in the upper right corner of the BACK page. If your back page is black, please tape a stickie on the back that contains the previous information.
Then, place your assignment sheet in the last page of the flipbook with the rubric facing up. Please make sure your name, period, and date are on this side of the assignment sheet.
I will walk around and personally pick-up your work. While doing so, I will have you initial the formal register for on-time turn-in.
After your quad has its pile properly prepared, please get out a sheet of notebook paper in preparation for our weekly quote response.

2. 9/5 & 9/6 “We are made to persist; that’s how we find out who we are.”
Next, please get out a piece of paper and label and date it: Quote Response #4 – 9/5 or 9/6. I will collect your RDVF while you complete the quote.
Silently read the quote to yourself. Then, interpret the quote in a paragraph response. You will have 6 minutes for this writing activity.
“We are made to persist; that’s how we find out who we are.”
Tobias Wolff_
American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist
Life Skill of the Week: Persistence - the quality that allows someone to continue doing something or trying to do something even though it is difficult or opposed by other people

3. 9/5 & 9/6
Next, please clear your desk in preparation for our first activity. You will need the following: Blue or Black Pen Highlighter Essential Question #1 – WBE (I will pass this back to you.) Essay Corrections for Expository Writing Grammar Error Tracking List Content Error Tracking List Today will be a reflection day. We will discuss the grading observations for your class regarding this assignment. After, you will have time to reflect on you own performance and set personal writing goals for the school year.

4. CONTENT CODES – EXPOSITORY
This is a list of the common content & grammatical errors on which you should focus when executing future writing assignments as per the grading observations of the Writing Baseline Exam – EQ#1. Please record this information on the back of your grading rubric.
CONTENT CODES – EXPOSITORY
C – 1ST & 2ND person PRONOUNS Do not use I, me, we, us… or YOU
I – Generalization
Concrete Example supported with What it Means & Why it Matters development
B – Wordy / Filler
Material that does not develop and/or say anything new
GRAMMAR CODES
8 – PRONOUN antecedent
11 – Vague PRONOUN
2d – Introductory Element
4 – COMMA Splice / Run-On
3 – SENTENCE Fragment

5. 9/5 & 9/6
First, please take a few moments to read and summarize the information found on the “Top 20 College Level Grammar Errors” handout by highlighting and annotating the text. Second, reread your response. Third, highlight every sentence that has an error. Fourth, record each noted grammar error onto your Grammar Errors tracking sheet. Fifth, record each noted content error code onto your Content Errors tracking sheet. Sixth, on separate sheet of paper, write the rule of each noted error one time. For papers with less than 5 sentences, you must write EACH infraction 5 times. Seventh, use a blue/black pen to isolate and fix the GRAMMAR errors by writing new, grammatically & contextually correct sentence(s).

6. 9/7 & 9/8
GOOD MORNING! After you have copied the Objective and Homework in your agenda, please prepare for your first QTR 1 Agenda Check. You will be self-assessing if you have written the Objective and Homework for EACH of the following days:
A – 8/15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 29, /5, 7
B – 8/16, 18, 22, 24, 28, 30 9/1, 6, 8
Please make sure your Agenda Check slip is COMPLETELY filled in and ACCURATELY totaled.
Please leave your agenda OPEN to page 9/7 or 9/8.
Please stack your agendas in ONE pile at your quad.
I will collect your homework after I have checked everyone’s agenda. So, if you haven’t “quite” finished your work, today is your lucky day.

7. 9/7 & 9/8

8. 9/7 & 9/8
Next, please clear you desk in preparation for peer-assessing the Rhetorical Device Vocabulary Flipbook assessment. You will need a red pen. Please wait patiently for further instructions. This will be a whole-group guided activity. We will review and discuss each device as we peer-assess the product. It is of the utmost importance that you are listening and following directions as it is the flipbook that will guide our future readings as we consider Author’s Craft and Author’s Purpose.