Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Essential Question: How do you write both narratively and reflectively about events from your life?

Agenda:

1. Write for 10 minutes about the follow picture:

​2. Reflection: How are you the sum of your influences? How are you not? 
Write for 5 minutes. 

3. Think of a mistake you made in your life that you have learned from. What was it? What did you learn? 

4. Copy into your document and cold read Jessane Collins' A Mistake That Should Last a Lifetime.
What stands out to you? Include some notes on the bottom of your document.

5. Spend 15 minutes talking to the text. Comment and highlight to create at least three of the following:

• comments (details that stood out to you and why)
• connections (how can you connect this to your own life, something else you've read, or the wider world around you?)
• questions (What does this make you wonder or question?)

Be prepared to share your annotations in your group and with the rest of the class. 

6. Write for 10-15 minutes about a mistake you learned from. Aim for 200-300 words for your rough draft. 

Assignments:

• Writing Prompt
• Reflection on Influences 
• Mistake brainstorming question
• "A Mistake That Should Last a Lifetime" annotations
• Mistake quickwrite