### aka “refill the well” ## Writers are readers. (T2: Reading) In addition to writing every day (or at the very least every week!), I encourage you to get in some independent reading time whenever you can. For this class, you can document some of that time and use it as a “T2: Reading” assignment. Check out the [[reading and note-taking strategies]] first! ##### ALSO, if you read something awesome and want to share, please add a suggestion to the “[READING RECOMMENDATIONS](https://docs.google.com/document/d/15xKhG3cRtOMY-6x7YBZqa9rLhx9Cz9U-lhwUXylNA38/edit?usp=sharing)” doc! #### Suggestions - Do additional reading from [[all the Mentor Texts|one of our mentor texts]] or something you find on your own. Provide [[Marking the Text|annotations]], summary, reflection, or other notes for your artifact/evidence. - [Student example](https://drive.google.com/open?id=10j05VZ9e3X5cjysB-RnC1R5hv2og3xwl&authuser=mschulte%40waukesha.k12.wi.us&usp=drive_fs) - If you read or watch an instructional mentor text, you could focus on something you disagree with or aren’t sure about, and explain why. That could be interesting. - Read on your own—pleasure reading is good for you! [Pick a book](https://www.thestorygraph.com/) or publication of your choice. - Read something you find in the “(Text)books” button of Creative Writing class - Find an article, news story, blog post, etc. that seems related to this class, and write a response to it. For example, [here’s one about AI](https://stephanango.com/photoshop-for-text) that I thought was interesting. - Make some book reviews, as in [this student example](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OpQwq2TGX49h6mq091IUxpQT255fCs5HHgZIWrOg9VE/edit?usp=sharing) (thanks, Morgan P!) - Participate in a book club, reading group, help session for another class, or an AVID tutorial, and bring a question about a text (include reflection, summary, relevance to your reading and writing life, etc). - Seek out and immerse yourself in reading [something you don’t fully understand](https://reactormag.com/the-joy-of-reading-books-you-dont-entirely-understand/). Reflect on why you were interested, what parts were challenging, what mindset you had to be in to stick with it, what parts you *did* understand, what potential metaphors you found in the text, etc. - [[Making Connections|Make a connection]] and explore it and write or make a video about it. Here’s a [[text to text]] example. Here’s an example involving [[find companion texts for a story|finding a set of “companion texts”]]. ##### Regardless of which of the above options you choose, when you’re finished, do this: 1. Tell me what you read (if it’s a book for instance, give the title and author and what part you read). 2. Show me evidence or artifacts of your [[close reading]] process or other [[reading and note-taking strategies]]. Instead of just saying (for example), “I made some [[Marking the Text|annotations]],” include a link to or image of your notes. Give me an idea of what kind of experience you had as a reader. 3. Then, tell me what grade you would give yourself for this reading activity this week, and explain why you would give yourself that grade, based on [this general rubric](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT9YzY3mqa9CKfXF9rYw57TO6t31xndVwQJpL1jKzNU/edit?usp=sharing). You may use some of these “I can…” questions if they seem helpful, and reflect on them in your self-assessment: - Did I “explore and explain how an author’s {rhetoric, literary elements, structure, [[point of view]], or vocabulary & diction} are most effective and appropriate for their purpose”? - Did I “determine the main idea and support it with specific details from the text (both explicit and inferred)”? - Did I “articulate a literary idea and expand on it using connections from multiple texts and prior knowledge and experiences”? - Did I “develop thought-provoking or surprisiing questions for deeper understanding and further exploration”? - Did I “delineate and evaluate an argument, applying a “lens” such as constitutional principles, logical fallacy, legal reasoning, belief systems, codes of ethics, philosophies, etc”? - Did I “make multiple non-obvious connections among other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, identities, eras, and personal experiences”? <br> ---- [Associated standards](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G-ffffPuAtCboosZgrsnNehrBqqzRyL4_HrzhlfPRN0/edit?usp=sharing): R.11-12.9 Choose and develop criteria to evaluate the quality of texts. Make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, identities, eras, and personal experiences. (RI&RL)