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Sacred Writing Time: Engage with Homework and Writing Prompts

Utilize your Writer’s Notebook for National “Take a Wild Guess Day” with prompts, fun facts, and quotations to inspire writing. Reflect on the vocabulary word "speculate" and engage in quiz reviews and text analysis on identity struggles in Chapter 3 and 4.

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Sacred Writing Time: Engage with Homework and Writing Prompts

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  1. RSG Chapter 4 Write down your homework.

  2. Sacred Writing Time • Have your Writer’s Notebook out and ready to be checked.

  3. It’s April 15. Today is National “Take a Wild Guess Day.” Do you have a hunch, speculation**, or an intuitive sense of how this day became a holiday? Sacred Writing TimeDid you come to class with an idea to write about?As soon as class starts, quietly make that pencil dance! Trivial Fact of the Day: Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to chew and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. Interesting Quote of the Day: “Celery, raw/ Develops the jaw,/ But celery, stewed,/ Is more quietly chewed.” --Ogden Nash (American poet) **Vocabulary Word of the Day: speculate (verb) – this action word can mean two things: to reflect deeply on a subject or to make a guess based on reasoning but not necessarily solid evidence. Did you speculate about anything yesterday?

  4. Quiz Review • As we review the quiz, check over your own answers.

  5. BCR vs Written Response • Define • analyze • As we read through the example, mark the required elements in the margin.

  6. Responding to Text • What is identity? How is Ji-Li struggling with finding her own identity in Chapter 3 and 4? • identify topic sentence • give text • connect the text to other text • analyze how these examples support your topic sentence • close with a thoughtful sentence

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