Workshop #1; Personality Tests; Tiny Survey; Galton
LAB: (period 1)
This morning please select 2-5 people to form a workshop group. Your group should have at least 3 people in it (you and two others or you and up to four others--so you can get appropriate feedback on your writing.) Invite peers who are too shy into your group please so that they might feel welcome and gain some advice about their writing. You will work in these groups for at least this marking period.
To choose a group, try to join peers whose work you admire or that you have a genre in common (poets working with poets, fiction writers working with prose writers, filmmakers working with playwrights, that sort of thing.)
The goal of a workshop is to help each other out of the goodness of your soul, not to avoid that kid you never talk to. Since you won't really be "talking" too much with these peers anyway, do yourself a favor and open your social group a little.
Your workshop should be handled on a Google drive. Share your email address with your peer workshop group.
2. Complete the tiny survey.
Period 2:
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Audiobook
HOMEWORK: Read The Catcher in the Rye. Aim to finish by Oct. 17. Assignments and such for this book will be forthcoming, but get started this long weekend on reading the book. You can just listen to it as well, if you prefer. See the audiobook link above (or check an audiobook out on Audible or your smart phone or from the public library...)
This morning please select 2-5 people to form a workshop group. Your group should have at least 3 people in it (you and two others or you and up to four others--so you can get appropriate feedback on your writing.) Invite peers who are too shy into your group please so that they might feel welcome and gain some advice about their writing. You will work in these groups for at least this marking period.
To choose a group, try to join peers whose work you admire or that you have a genre in common (poets working with poets, fiction writers working with prose writers, filmmakers working with playwrights, that sort of thing.)
The goal of a workshop is to help each other out of the goodness of your soul, not to avoid that kid you never talk to. Since you won't really be "talking" too much with these peers anyway, do yourself a favor and open your social group a little.
Your workshop should be handled on a Google drive. Share your email address with your peer workshop group.
- Make a shared folder for your workshop group. Put each person's name on the folder's title.
- Include me on your workshop folder (bradley.craddock@rcsdk12.org).
- All workshop pieces should be added to your shared workshop folder so that any Google document you put in your folder can be accessed by your peers (and me).
- Give each person the ability to edit your work.
- Put any work you want to workshop in the workshop folder for your group.
- Add comments on each other's pieces.
- Keep track of your revision history for your portfolio.
For the rest of the marking period, you may workshop any piece of writing you need to. Simply upload your file to your Google workshop folder.
You may spend your time workshopping or writing. Next class you may continue to do the same.
Before you leave the lab today, please do the following:
1. Take a personality test.
Personality test #22. Complete the tiny survey.
Period 2:
- Francis Galton (1822-1911, English)
- "The Hitman" by T.C. Boyle
- Write your own short, short story or create a comic strip about nature v. nurture
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Audiobook
HOMEWORK: Read The Catcher in the Rye. Aim to finish by Oct. 17. Assignments and such for this book will be forthcoming, but get started this long weekend on reading the book. You can just listen to it as well, if you prefer. See the audiobook link above (or check an audiobook out on Audible or your smart phone or from the public library...)
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