Questions For Memoirists

Homework due tomorrow, Wednesday, December 2nd: Students should bring in the work they did on their literature circle assignments, and be ready to discuss the 7^th to 13^th chapters of Island of the Blue Dolphins. Each student should be able to answer the following question. Who were the Aleuts?

Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Reading the assigned novel does count towards the nightly reading. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, as long as you make sure you get your assigned reading done. Please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.

Continuing our work on personal memoirs the class read the handout, "Questions For Memoirists." We discussed the importance of writers choosing subjects that matter to them. If a writer is bored by their subject very likely their readers will also be bored. The 6^th grade writers then spent the rest of the writing workshop working on their own drafts of personal memoirs.

In cultural studies, the students continued to work on research for their Californian Indian Presentations. The 1^st drafts of their reports will be due next Monday.