1. Classroom Expectations
Senior Composition

2. Think of this as...
working on a magazine...
...on deadline
...for a boss

3. Start with the assignment
College Application
Essay

4. Short
lessons
Long Conference +
Individual Writing
time

5. In-class conferences
I focus on
one or two
elements of
writing
You record
issues and
edit your
paper

6. Revisions
until you
get an A
within reason

7. When others are
conferencing...
you’re writing!

8. plagiarism
turnitin.com

9. AT
next grading group
+
those missing assignments

10. Split Due dates
Group B
Group A
Group D
Group C

11. Split Due dates
Group C
Group B
Group A
Group D

12. Grades
80%
papers
20%
Everything
else

13. Monday reading day
You
choose
the book
short
response
writing

14. technology
iPads
laptops
dead trees
keyboards

15. Food

16. final thought
There is nothing to
writing. All you do is
sit down at a
typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway