This week, we're doing a mix of writing our short stories, and starting our short nonfiction unit from the Literature book. We started with Lesson 13 - Playing with Voice in Dialogue. This was a tough prompt, because many students will probably not want to add dialogue to their story, so it was solely a "write to write better" lesson for some. The writing prompt: Go back to your second rising action event. Write a scene of dialogue between your main character and a disagreeing supporting character in that event.

For reading, we completed the Reader's Workshop on pages 754-759 in the Literature book, finishing the 12 Close Read questions on pages 757-759 for homework if need be.

Homework:
* Finish Close Read questions, pg. 757-759.
* Read 20 min. / Blog
* Bring reading material to class Wednesday.