Pun Intended: Class Log & Discussions: independent reading

"It was wonderful to walk down the long flights of stairs knowing that I'd had good luck working. I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

But sometimes when I was started on a new story and I could not get going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.'

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say. If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut the scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declaritive sentence I had written."

- Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

independent reading

August 31, 2007

long weekend in store!

Today: chunk test, writing edition. the end

If you missed it, expect to make it up.

PSA: Listen up! As you all know, I have very strong OCD tendencies... especially with my books!! The individuals who have been removing my books for a single period, then carelessly tossing them back on the shelf, to fall wherever they may land, will be busted and forever written in the black book in my mind! If you need a review of the alphabet so that you can learn how to alphabetize, then I shall arrange one. Just remember, it takes you FIVE SECONDS to shelve a book properly, yet it takes me my WHOLE LUNCH BREAK to FIX all of the misplaced books. THIS WILL NOT CONTINUE.

To those of you who haven't done this, bravo. Five bonus points in my heart. Now enjoy your weekend.

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August 24, 2007

You survived the first week!

I passed out all the sheets you should need to keep track of your independent reading. You got a time log, a book log, some project/report ideas, a list of classic authors you could try, and some expectations I have of you in regards to your reading at home and for silent reading in class.

Once those sheets were passed out and explained, we did a little version of "book speed dating," otherwise known as a book pass. I hope you guys found some titles or authors or genres you will be interested in pursuing.

Have a good weekend! READ!

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