Make Cycles

infographic of make cyclesYou can find our current Make Cycles in the drop down menu and on the Make Cycles page. New Make Cycle released every two weeks.

Calendar

Events in September 2020

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August 31, 2020
September 1, 2020

All day: Mentor Texts

All day
September 2, 2020

Work with mentor texts by Alma Flor Ada and Jacqueline Woodson

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September 3, 2020
September 4, 2020
September 5, 2020
September 6, 2020

All day: Make Cycle 1: Make

All day
September 7, 2020

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September 8, 2020

All day: Read

All day
September 9, 2020

  • Chapter 1 from About the Authors “Writing Workshop: A Happy Place Where We Make Stuff” (p. 1-22) and 
  • Unit of Study A: “The Kinds of Things Writer’s Make…” (p. 155-158) and
  • Unit of Study B: “Where Writers Get Ideas” (p. 159-164) and respond to prompts.
September 10, 2020
September 11, 2020
September 12, 2020

All day: Watch TED talk and write lists

All day
September 13, 2020

September 14, 2020
September 15, 2020

All day: Mentor Texts work

All day
September 16, 2020

September 17, 2020
September 18, 2020
September 19, 2020

All day: Make Cycle 2: Make

All day
September 20, 2020

September 21, 2020
September 22, 2020

All day: Read About the Authors

All day
September 23, 2020

  • Reading Chapters 2 from About the Authors and working with Appendix C

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September 24, 2020
September 25, 2020
September 26, 2020

All day: Read About the Authors

All day
September 27, 2020

Read and respond to chapter 3 & appendix D due (two part prompt)

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September 28, 2020
September 29, 2020

All day: Mentor Texts

All day
September 30, 2020

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October 1, 2020
October 2, 2020
October 3, 2020

All day: Make Cycle 3: Make

All day
October 4, 2020

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Make Cycles

Make Cycles

I’ve organized this class around a series of “make cycles,” which will allow us to focus on an aspect of writing and the teaching of writing in two week cycles.

  1. Make Cycle 1: Assumptions & Stances
  2. Make Cycle 2: Purposeful Storytelling
  3. Make Cycle 3: Engaging Expositions
  4. Make Cycle 4: Compelling Arguments
  5. Make Cycle 5: Multimodal Composing
  6. Make Cycle 6: Creating Effective Writing Assignments
  7. Make Cycle 7: Revise & Remix

I will add the new make cycle usually on Friday evenings at the end of a cycle, so you can expect to see Make Cycle 2 posted on Friday, Sept 4 and then a new cycle shared every other Friday after that. They will appear in the drop down menu at the top of our course site under Make Cycles.

As I add new weeks to the drop down menu, I will archive the previous weeks’ cycles on this page.