Monday / Tuesday, April 7 & 8
Turn in the typed answers to the questions provided last week and your outlines. I want to be able to see them and grade them. I'll have them sent home so that I can also give you feedback. Make sure your names are on them.
Homework: Continue working on your Infernos. By Wednesday/Thursday, I would like for you to have typed, completed rough drafts of your first three cantos. These should be typed and double-spaced and you should have two copies of your rough drafts because I want you to get feedback from two different people. You do not have to take all that advice but take some if it is valid. Since your outlines and answers to questions were to have been typed, you should still have those as guidelines. Also, bring in your rubrics sheets. You will be giving them to your peer-editors to evaluate your work.
Wednesday /Thursday, April 9 & 10
Begin Peer-editing. As you are doing so, Ms. Lyle will walk around and check that you have completed the assigned work. Then begin writing the next six cantos, which will be due the following Monday/Tuesday, April 14/15.
Friday, April 11
Work quietly on Infernos. Completed rough drafts of cantos 4-9 are due--typed, and double-spaced, on Monday/Tuesday. A completed canto rough draft means that it has a beginning, middle, and end and includes the elements in the rubric provided.
Monday / Tuesday, April 14 & 15
Ms. Lyle will check that you have completed the six canto rough drafts--typed and double-spaced as required as you begin peer-editing with the rubrics. When the peer-editing is done, then begin rewriting your work. The final project, complete with bibliography, print-outs of research (if applicable), and all rough drafts or brainstorming or outlines or anything else involved in the process part, on Wednesday and Thursday, April 23rd and 24th.
Wednesday / Thursday, April 16 & 17
You have the entire class period to work on your Infernos. Even if you think it is done, work on it some more. Remember, the process part is a test grade in itself. If I hear that you are not working on your Infernos in class, I will think you have not edited enough and that will impact the grade you receive. I am a writer that edits usually at least 9 or 10 times and even then, will usually find something I could have done better. And I have been writing for decades.
Friday, April 18
Again, you have the entire class to work on this big project. It is due on April 23rd & 24th.
