8th Grade--1/4

Today we began class by writing a brief description of a provided picture. These descriptions will be used during tomorrow's lesson. Next, we discussed the story "In the Jungle", and we talked about the elements of the writing that made the writer seem masculine and those elements that made the writer seem feminine. From this, we transitioned into a discussion about the elements of female and male written voice. We talked about the difference between generalizations and stereotypes, and then proceeded to put forth general observations about feminine and masculine written voice. We compiled a list of these traits, and this will hopefully help to guide us as we begin writing our gender fiction story starts tomorrow.

Due tomorrow...

-2nd draft of TKAM Summative piece due

Long term due dates...

-Gender fiction due on 1/9