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1. Welcome! English 9

2. Today’s Agenda • Review calendar • Care and feeding of your “hook” • First draft, self-assessment, 2nd draft Read Write Speak Listen

3. This week in English 9 • This week in English 9 Read Write Speak Listen

4. Care and feeding of your hook • Use your hook to open your essay and generate interest in your writing. Read Write Speak Listen

5. Care and feeding of your hook • Open with an announcement: • Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ’97: • Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. (Atrributed to Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., MIT commencement address) Read Write Speak Listen

6. Care and feeding of your hook • Open with a bold and challenging statement: • When most people think of their grandmothers, they think of a sweet, chubby, gray-haired little old woman who bakes cookies, and always has something nice to say about others. Unfortunately, my grandma is the opposite of this. She is a boney, arthritic, black-haired old woman who burns cookies and seldom has anything nice to say about others. Read Write Speak Listen

7. Care and feeding of your hook • Open with quotation from somebody: • “Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometimes by action dignified.” This, as said by Friar Lawrence, (Act II, sc. iii, lines 21-22), in William Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, comes ironically close to describing his own part in this tragic love story. Friar Lawrence is the sole aide and advisor of the fateful couple, yet his guidance, virtue as it was meant, plays a major role in the lovers’ demise, thus turning vice. Read Write Speak Listen

8. Care and feeding of your hook • How you felt, a personal experience, or an anecdote: •   I sat with my legs crossed and hugged my knees. My head hung low and I stared at the ground. The tile floor was brown and white and felt cold on my bottom. I leaned my back against the wall. I could hear my classmates’ voices vibrate through the walls. Curious, I peeked my head around the corner and saw that it was art time. I leaned back against the wall and crossed my legs. The hall was empty except for me. It was very quiet, too, which gave me the urge to talk even more. I was in third grade and it was the first time I had gotten in trouble for talking. Read Write Speak Listen

9. Today • If you are not done with your first draft, work on that. • If you are done with your first draft, work on the self-assessment. • If you are done with both, work on your second draft. Read Write Speak Listen

10. Homework • Read your choice book • Work on your reading log. • Work on your second draft. Read Write Speak Listen

11. Bye! • Come back tomorrow! Read Write Speak Listen