Please use this checklist to check your essay before you turn it in

1. Complete a self or peer (up to you) editing sheet for your essay link

2. Make a Works Cited page: An alphabetical listing of your sources that you used (first by author's last name and then by title if no author is given) NOT ALL OF THE SOURCES YOU READ--ONLY THE ONES YOU ARE PUTTING IN YOUR PAPER. SEE THE LINK BELOW FOR HELP

Owl at Purdue 

NOTE: AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE IT WILL HELP YOU MAKE THE CITATION--IT HAS TO BE DONE IN A VERY SPECIFIC WAY. 

Today we will finish The Glass Castle movie and work on the outline

*Whatever we do not finish in class today--we can work on tomorrow if we have time after the performance, otherwise you will need to do it on your own time--on Monday-Wed. of next week we will meet in the lab room 184 to type our essays.

*Remember, you received some handouts for our last essay on MLA format and how to vary signal words.

*We will also produce a Works Cited page next week.

Complete this survey/Work on Brainstorming and Synthesis Essay Outline Worksheets

survey link

Essay The Glass Castle

Click here for The Glass Castle essay: packet link

Essay Writing Prompt: How much freedom and supervision should parents give their children? Are parents today too overprotective? Or is “free range” parenting a kind of neglect? Explain why. Write an argumentative essay, backing it up with textual details from the articles. Use your outline for argumentation/persuasion to format. 

Your essay must include a minimum of 4 sources (min. 8 citations):
**The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (you must use this as one of your sources)
"Are Modern Kids Coddled?"
"Used to Be"
*A third article of your choice (or more)

Resources Online:

• “How much risk is good for kids? Parents make case for more adventurous childhoods” (NBC News)
• “Motherhood in the Age of Fear” (NYTimes)
• “Are Modern Kids Coddled?” (Newsweek)
• “Kids Solo Playtime” (NPR)
• “Maryland couple practicing “free-range parenting” investigated for neglect” (CBS News)
• Free-Range Kids
• “Free-range” parents cleared in 2nd child-neglect case (USA Today)
• ‘Free-range parenting’ advocate wages war against the belief that our kids are in constant danger (Raw Story)
• Maryland Officials: CPS Shouldn’t Interfere with ‘Free Range’ Kids (Parenting)
• Free-range kids: the upsides of relaxed parenting (San Jose Mercury News)
• Raising Risk-Takers: An Upside of Free-Range Parenting? (Huffington Post)
• American parenting has been misguided for decades — but one state is finally turning for the better (Business Insider)
• Free Range Parents Danielle and Alexander Meitiv Need to Stop Fighting and Put Kids’ Safety First (Huffington Post)
• Free Range Parenting: The Key Is Balance (Huffington Post)
• Used To Be (Huffington Post)

Writing Process:
Here is our packet: click here

Information from Robin (Just Buffalo Literary Center) for those who expressed interest!

TUES, NOV 19 (3:30-6:00pm)

Places and People Flash Fiction Workshop w/ Gabriel Bump

In this workshop, we will focus on settings and characters for flash fiction. You'll use writing prompts to create your own unique and fun settings, make up characters to populate your settings, then give your characters quick problems to solve. At the end of each workshop, you will leave with a finished flash fiction piece. Open to writers of all abilities.

WEDS, NOV 20 (3:30-6:00pm)

Open Workshop & College Essay Feedback

Just read. Just write. Just get inspired. Just get into college. At Open Workshops you can work on any reading/writing/arts-based project you like. We'll have volunteers on hand to give you feedback or help you get started!  *Through December, we'll have a special focus on College Essays but all writers welcome!*

THURS, NOV 21 (3:30-6:00pm)

Places and People Flash Fiction Workshop w/ Gabriel Bump

Workshop cont...Like always, you can come to this one even if you missed the workshop on Tuesday! 

CALLS FOR WRITING & ARTWORK 

SUBMIT POEMS FOR EXHIBIT & PERFORMANCE AT BURCHFIELD PENNEY

JBWC writers have been offered a very SPECIAL opportunity to participate in an upcoming exhibit at the Burchfield Penney! If you attended any of our recent environmental workshops, you are already set to be involved. If you missed the workshops, you can still participate! Check out this website with writing prompts, write something in any genre inspired by those prompts, and submit your work! 

Your work will be used in a video projection piece that will be on display from Dec 13 thru March 29th. You are also encouraged to READ your piece at the exhibit opening on Dec 13th! 

SUBMIT ARTWORK TO SELL AT LOCUST STREET ART STUDENT MARKET

Locust Street Art is holding a Student Holiday Market. Submit your original artwork and chapbooks and they will sell them for you at their holiday market! More info here. Work needs to be dropped off by December 3rd. 

Let's look ahead at the week's agenda:

1. First, we are going to review the requirements for visual literacy or "reading" pictures
****We can take some notes in the blank space on the side of your photo

2. We will look at picture #2 and complete the assignment on the back (first independently, and then second as a group)


3. We will review the final assignments for The Glass Castle and review the weekly agenda.

The entire book and study guide must be finished by Thursday--11/21--that's when we will begin the essay

*Read pages 129-144
*Complete the worksheet assignment that goes along with these pages

Please meet 184 today!!! We are going to work on AP Classroom Unit check-in

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/

link to the field trip info:
click here

Quiz Today!

First, we will write on the board our character assessments from Friday. Then, we will take the quiz for the remainder of the period. Remember, tomorrow we will meet in room 184 for College Board information, etc.

BOOK CIRCLES: The Glass Castle---Please write all responses on the provided lined paper---or type it and email.

Book Circles:

1. Choose 1 character from Section I. Write a characterization paragraph(s) describing your character. Give at least 2 adjectives you feel describe him/her and textual evidence as support.

2. Describe 1 MAJOR conflict in Section I. Is it internal or external? How does it drive the plot (keep it going)? Explain using at least 2 textual examples as evidence for your claim.

3. Describe the character's role in the family as far as his/her relationship with others and how he/she interacts with them. What responsibility does/he she fill?

4. MAKE A PREDICTION ABOUT HOW THIS CHARACTER MAY DEVELOP AND WHY YOU THINK SO.

Free-range kids

Link to the article: https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/05/26/free-range-kids-the-upsides-of-relaxed-parenting/

Today we will be looking at the final in-class article for the Glass Castle essay. We are going to read it, and write a rhetorical precis on it by yourself or with a partner. You have an example of this in your green packet (or I will put one up on the board for help). Remember, the precis, is a a few paragraphs following the format given. SAVE the article for future use.

precis help

Remember, you should read up until page 129 in the book and answer all the study guide questions for section I by Wednesday. You will have time in class on Monday to work on this.

Your first quiz on the book will be next week Thursday.