Monday, March 31

ESSAYS: Many of your essays still need to be handed in! Essays were due Friday and are officially late. You will be slightly marked down for handing them in late, but GET THEM IN. To those that have handed them in, I’ve provided you feedback but your grades are a secret. Judging by my comments, you should be able to tell whether your essay needs work or not. All of you could improve and re-submit. Wednesday is the last day to submit any missing work. Everything is late at this point and will be marked down. You can email me your essay until midnight on Wednesday (ncliedl@gmail.com).

QUARTER 4: Today is the first day of fourth quarter. Our focus for Quarter 4 is on memoirs. A memoir is "a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources." We brainstormed about what memoirs are and watched this video explaining them. 

NOTEBOOK 4.1: We did Notebook assignment 4.1: 6 Word Memoirs. Writer Ernest Hemingway famously wrote this six word memoir:

For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

A touch depressing, huh? 

Notebook 4.1 is to write at least five of your own. They don't have to be personal. They can be about life, how you're feeling today, the Badgers and the Final Four, whatever. We watched this three minute Youtube clip to give some ideas. Here are some of Mr. L's examples: 

• My passions: teaching, traveling, hiking, Packers.
• Oh crap. Getting married on Sunday.
• Minnesota, Madison, California, Vietnam, Chicago, Madison.
• Last Final Four I was 16.
• Just turned 30. Let's do this.
• Sunday Game of Thrones. And marriage.
• Get busy living or get busy dying.
• Eddie Lacy. The new Marshawn Lynch.