1.  Choose from the following prompts. Write the prompt at the top of the page. Only one use of prompt per week. If there is something important that you would rather write on today, write your prompt at the top of the page. 1. Take a minute to remember your summer-- What are some good decisions you have made in the past couple weeks? Give specific examples along with the outcomes or possible future outcomes. 2. Do you feel like you have positive relationships on campus? Why or why not/? give specific examples 3. Think about the classes you have taken over your school career, in which did you spend time critically thinking the most or problem-solving? In what classes did you work on communicating your ideas with others through group discussions or presentations? 4. Remembering last year, did your middle school give you opportunities to help improve it or the community around the school? 5. What learning have you done in school that will help you in the future? Be specific and explain with details

2.  Objective: working alone in 10 minutes you will make notes on how you might revise your essay to make it a 4 on the narrative essay rubric  Assignments:  10 minutes writing  Student handbook: highlight important information  read sample essay/ re-read your essay / make notes for tomorrow’s revision  Cornell Style notes: NOUNS  HW: complete noun worksheets, page 3 & 4

5.  Re-read the essay prompt  Read the former student example  Write your name on the Narrative writing rubric  Read the rubric  Score example essay  Re-read your essay  Write 4 things you can do to improve your essay for tomorrow’s revision in computer lab

6.  Objective: working alone in 10 minutes you will upload your autobiographical narrative to turnitin.com  Assignments:  Return essay & rubric  Go to library  Log on to powerschool using your user name & password  Set-up Word/ type/ save to desktop  Print out & turn in with rubric and original  Up-load to turnitin.com  HW: complete Noun worksheet

7.  Objective: working alone in 10 minutes you will upload your autobiographical narrative to turnitin.com  Assignments:  Go to library  Open your Word document from yesterday  Print out & turn in with rubric and original  Up-load to turnitin.com

8.  Objective: you will demonstrate your knowledge of nouns  Assignments:  Cornell Style Notes: Nouns  Noun worksheet  HW: complete Noun worksheet

9.  Objective: you will demonstrate your ability to understand what you are reading by taking the Stanford Reading Diagnostic  Assignments:  Collect C.Notes & Noun worksheet  Complete as much of the reading diagnostic as you can

10.  Objective: working alone in 10 minutes you will make notes on how you might revise your essay to make it a 4 on the narrative essay rubric  Assignments:  Composition Book: choose which entry you would like me to read this weekend.  Underline all the nouns in your entry  Make sure your name is on the front cover  Turn it in  Review vocabulary assignment  Page 15: “Vocabulary for Most Dangerous Game”  HW: complete vocabulary assignment