Rested and Ready for Workshop

Monday will be our first opportunity to work with our first drafts. We'll define what helps us most in getting feedback our writing groups. Each of you will make up your own guidelines or expectations for what kind of conferencing works best for you. I hope each of you comes in prepared for sharing your work, and I'll do my best to see that all of us have an opportunity to provide input to the writing groups. It takes a high level of trust and responsibility to make it work.

Tomorrow we will also begin our journey into the class Weblog, and I will be sending letters and information to your families about the project. You will have your own Weblog for our literature discussion, but Ihope that you have shared this site with them so that they can at least see a similar model to what we will be doing.

Those of you interested in lightening up your load may leave your big blue textbooks locked in your lockers for the next few weeks. We'll be starting To Kill A Mockingbird and participating on the Weblog for literature discussion.