Writer's Notebook at 5 weeks

WN English 9                                         9/28

Write about what causes people in groups to become enemies.  (What causes people to hate each other?)

List at 5 weeks:

9/6 Poem

9/7 List of 50 things you love

9/13 What if you were president?

9/14 Revenge story scenario

9/15 Advice to your crazy friend who has love at first sight

9/19 Initial thoughts on R&J

9/21 Feelings got out of hand

9/23 Blame for the deaths in R&J

9/27 Most interesting character in R&J

9/28 Enemies

WN English 8                                                 9/28

Copy the poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost into your WN.  Now tell what you think it means.

List of WN topics for English 8 @ 5 weeks

9/6 50 Things you love

9/13 If I was president…*

9/14 A time you felt like an outsider

9/19 Someone you’d like to trade places with in modern media

9/21 A time you did something you shouldn’t have and regretted it later

9/26 Your kitchen, etc

9/28 “Nothing Gold Can Stay” poem and response, interpretation

*Not required to be 12 lines

English 7                         Writer’s Notebook topics @ 5 weeks

9/6 What has surprised you on this first day of school

9/7 50 things you love

9/13 What if you were president?*

9/15 What should be done to the worst bully?

9/19 Whose life would you like to live? (modern media)

9/21 Being uncomfortable

9/26 An outside memory

9/28 Who are you?