Today students editing their rough or final drafts using clocking, in which students pass their papers around the room to 1) get another set of eyes to find typos and other mechanics issues, 2) to correct some problems in class, thereby improving their grade, and 3) to allow students to read each others’ work.
- Clocking. We did 4 rounds of clocking. Round 1: misspellings, typos, and capital letters. Round 2: punctuation and paragraph breaks. Round 3: run-ons and fragments. Round 4: Editor-in-Chief (any other errors not yet corrected). Students wrote in corrections on their own papers in purple or green pen so that I know not to take off for those errors.
- Honors turn in memoir. Honors students turned in their final memoir, any rough drafts, their memoir draft checklist, and their Writer’s Notebook.
HW: Standard: Add changes to memoir to turn in tomorrow. Must be typed or written in pen on every other line. Honors: No homework.
We will be starting to read The Odyssey soon, which means I will be issuing textbooks. Since the textbooks are awfully heavy and contain a dry translation, I would recommend (especially to college-bound freshman with a special interest in English) buying your own copy of The Odyssey . Look for the translation by Robert Fagles, which is much more exciting (and truer to the spirit of oral storytelling) that the translation by Robert Fitzgerald (the one in the book). Buy it on Amazon here.
ALEXA GARVOILLE 