Final Workshop Day for Presentation!

Wednesday marks the final day for in-class work on presentations and conferencing.  To avoid bedlam and maximize productivity, keep conferencing at your own table with members of your group, and whisper or talk so softly that others aren't interrupted with noise pollution.  You will be earning participation points today for your QUIET demeanor and ON-TASK behavior.  Please no carpet area or moving to sit with friends!  I have to insist that everyone can concentrate, so beware of ruining part of your presentation grade with bad behavior (heavens forbid)!

When you have finalized your presentation slides and set the transitioning, please email your presentations to me at both addresses:  bjames@spsmail.org    and  katie.ann.james@gmail.com.   Tuesday we are starting presentations, and you will be handing in your presentation packet, made up of two things - your outline and your conferencing notes.  You won't need a folder, but you will want to staple your notes to your outline for full credit.

We will play the lottery for the order of presentations, so come prepared!  Good luck!  Break a leg!  Can't wait!

If you haven't handed in your autobiography packet (first draft with conferencing notes and second, polished draft) or your annotated bibliography, turn them in before next week.  Last chance for full credit is this week, and the last chance for late credit for these and anything else is Tuesday, December 9th!

For Friday:

First, a sad farewell to Ms. Reaves!  You will be writing a letter, and she will give you more input.  Please show your respect by giving her your very, very best on this day!

You are wondering what's in store for Friday, and if all goes well today, we may finish "loose ends" quietly, but there'll be no conferencing so that those of you wanting to work on the portfolio may do so in class.

A "loose ends" day is not a "free" day.  Rather, it is a class period set aside for organizing the portfolio, for polishing the presentation independently, or any other composition work for this class.  On Wednesday you all received print outs of your grades.

Friday is a good day to devote to missing items, polishing your pieces for the portfolio, and reading the blog!  (Your portfolio cover sheets are available on the front table.  Remember, you will make necessary corrections to your three formal pieces - your "This I Believe" narrative, the personal statement, and the autobiography.  You will choose one of those pieces to make substantial revisions! Fun!)  Friday is a day to work in pleasant silence!