Go to this link to this link to take a quick little assessment of your grammar and conventions level so I can help you through the semester.

Start by reading the comments on the post of what we as a class know or think we know about foster care and Native Americans.  Next, we are going to watch the first three videos in this playlist.

As you are watching, you are going to annotate/take notes on these points:

• What is said in the videos that is similar to what your classmates or you typed in the comments of the last post as well as the article on Sherman Alexie we read?
• What is said in the videos that is different from what you or your peers thought you knew and the article we read?

We will discuss these tomorrow, so take these written notes in your Reader’s Notes section (Flight section).

With your partner, talk about what you ‘know’ (from first-hand experience, from what you’ve heard from others, from what you’ve seen in the media, etc) about these two topics:

Since it may have been a significant amount of time since some of us have been in an English class, a good way to start may be to remind ourselves of the things that we should be doing EVERY TIME WE WRITE (In ALL classes, on ALL social media platforms, in EVERYTHING).

With your neighbor, you are going to create a brainstormed list of what we need to do when we are writing (ideas, grammar, format, punctuation, structure, conventions, etc).  Once you create your list on paper, you are going to comment on this post with the list in order of importance.

Once you (or your neighbor) have written a comment, you need to read through this link to get some more information on why we will be writing so much 🙂

Grammar Infographic

As a second (individual comment) on this post, you need to explain three important points from the infographic and why you think they are important.