Session 5 Agenda

  
I.   Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking:  Exploring Hicks' Digital Writing Workshop
(4:00-5:00)  What are these tools?  How can we use them to teach the writer to write and the reader to read?  What do they offer us personally as readers and writers?

5:00-5:15 Break
 
II.   618 Reading/Writing Workshop Time   (5:15-6:40)
1=Prewriting   2=Drafting    3=Revising  4=Editing   5=Publishing
6=Peer Conference   7=Teacher Conference  8=Independent Reading


(5:15-5:45)  Finalize Rules and Routines for Writing Group; 
                       Conduct first writing group conference (without teacher)


(5:45-6:40)   Independent Writing Time 
                       Suggested activities for the evening:     
                   1.  Prewriting and drafting possible genre piece #1.