Thursday, ,10 October

The class began by writing about the food at the center of the story students are working on, but in a completely different context. Many students were able to see the food and what it could symbolize better once they considered the food in a different context.

The class then reviewed the syllabus and grading policy.

Next Mr. Zartler provided the following information about the current story project. This rubric should be used immediately for students to assess progress on their story.

Due dates:

Final Rough Draft (complete, typed, meets all requirements): Monday, 14 October

Credit Draft (as perfect as can be; meets all requirements): Thursday, 17 October

For each of the following requirements for this piece list examples or copy passages that show you have demonstrated your ability to produce the aspect of writing.

Requirements:

Be a well written and edited story.

Story has character(s); conflict; and resolution.

List the conflict and the resolution:

Uses food or eating as a symbol. (If food or eating is the source of a lesson, that is ok, but not as interesting or as challenging). Just having food or eating as a prop or activity in the story is not enough. The food should stand for something beside itself.

Explain what food is used as a symbol and what it symbolizes:

There should be dialogue and the dialogue needs to be properly formatted.

New paragraph begins (including indent) each time the speaker changes.

Exact words spoken are within quotation marks.

Examples:           

There should be setting description. Description includes at least two of the following categories:

List examples for each that you include:

Objects

Dimension

Atmosphere

Senses

           

There should be blocking (Characters moving).

Examples:

Next the class was given a packet from Mark Bittman's Food Matters. A SOAPS+Claim analysis of the introduction is due on Monday.