Aim: How do we evaluate our best Credo?       

Journal Prompt #1: "My best work"
What makes your best work your best work? Explain.

We hope you have had fun writing about your beliefs. We also hope they are not all serious. Some beliefs are beliefs that remind you to stop and have fun. For example, I believe that pretzels and ice cream are a marriage made in heaven.

Today you should be completely focused on your best Credo--editing, revising, polishing it before you submit it for your performance task. Don't forget that you must submit proof that you were edited (peer editing worksheet) along with your Credo or points will be deducted. An editing sheet showing that you edited someone will count toward classwork points. The credo you do not turn in for a grade will also count toward classwork points.

Final Credos must be typed, double-spaced 12 pt. font, and at at least one-page long. Sharing Day is Wednesday.

For inspiration, you can listen to or read a multitude of personal essays at this Web site. 


Today's Agenda
I. Do Now
II. Focusing on the best
III. Writing Workshop
IV. Closing

What's due

• Final Credos are due on Wednesday for Sharing Day.
• Journals are being collected for 1st Marking Period grade.
• Independent reading book
• "Where I'm From" poem (Overdue)

Always check Engrade for your up to the minute progress in this class.