Good Morning!

1. Good Morning! Please pick up an PINK packet, and take out a piece of notebook paper. Write your name and THIS learning target on the top! Learning Target: Explain key features of the class policies

2. Agenda 5 Sept. 2013 • Learning Targets and Daily Work • Classroom Policies and Procedures • Homework: • Continue brainstorming your RA Poem (finished brainstorming is due tomorrow, and the typed up peer draft is due Monday) • Get the parent letter signed and back by Tuesday • Remember, you need a college-ruled spiral notebook by Monday!

3. Learning Targets and Daily Work What we’re doing Why we’re doing it

4. Bellwork 9/5/13 • “An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.” -George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and 1984 1. Restate the author’s claim in your own words. What is he saying? 2. Take a position-do you agree or disagree? Use at least 2 specific details/examples to support your point.

5. Classroom Policies • Details to add: • I am available A lunch everyday in the 200 prep room • I’m in room 810 1st and 2nd, room 210 3rd • I’ll be here all day Thursdays (200 prep room is homebase) • Are you a TA periods 4, 5, or 6? With your teacher’s permission, I can work with you during those periods on Thursdays

6. Classroom Policies Quiz • What’s the late work policy for this class? • How will your writing be evaluated? • How are the grades weighted? • What’s your homework? • Did you meet our learning target today?

7. Until the bell rings: Continue brainstorming and drafting!