Thursday, October 22, 2009

Thursday, October 22

Today was an important day in Writers' Workshop -- the deadline for submission of your first piece. The goal, set back in September, was for you to have finished three drafts of your piece, and we asked you to submit all three drafts, plus three peer-conference sheets and a final editing checklist, by the end of today's class period.

Most of you met this goal successfully. Those of you intent on writing longer pieces turned in your first few chapters, and others of you finished up poems that were remarkable for their diversity of subjects. By the end of the period, everyone had turned in a final draft packet, and, although not every packet met the three-draft, three-peer-conference standard, all represented two months' worth of good effort and good writing.

If you didn't turn in your Logos/Ethos/Pathos reflection paragraph today, please do so tomorrow, or Monday at the latest.