English 9 - Monday, Oct. 13th

Today we worked on our "Stones in the River" activity. This activity is designed to help you get some ideas for writing your three pieces for your creative writing portfolios. We will be working on these some more this week to make up for the fact that we had to breeze through this. If you would like to view my Stones in the River, click the link below. Next, we practiced the use of voice in our writing. We discussed how voice in writing is essentially the writer's fingerprint; it is unique and all your own, and you want your readers to be engaged in your topic through your voice. We completed three quickwrites (1. Write about something or someone who makes you really mad 2. Write about someone or something that needs your comfort 3. Write about something that you want very badly) in our Writer's Notebooks. If you were absent, write for four minutes for each prompt in your notebook. We will be doing more with these later on in the week. Tomorrow, we will be going over David Sedaris' hilarious essay "Big Boy" and analyzing it in terms of voice and purpose.

Ms. Alvarez' Stones in the River