Aim: How can we do a funny article or a rant and rave for our fanzine?

Thursday, SWBAT begin their second page.

Aim: How can we do a funny article or a rant and rave for our fanzine?
Do Now: What are some things in school or life that really make you angry or annoyed?
Write a paragraph about one such situation or example.

THIS WILL BE COLLECTED! (5 min.)

Materials:
• Paper, pens
• Class blog, Macs
• Mr. Oliver’s rant and rave model

Procedures:
1.) Elicit Do Now responses-
AR: answers will vary (5 min.)

2.) Model:
I cannot stand this class! You guys drive me insane! First of all, I would just like one day where you guys can start off by doing the right thing, meaning, come in and immediately go to the blog and do the Do Now! You guys are so selfish, I mean, really!!!! Like you don’t spend enough time on the internet? Really!? You don’t spend all freaking night mindlessly surfing, going on AIM, like all night, and then Facebook, ad nauseum! Really!!!!!???? You have to do that here too, right?!
And you’re all so selfish! Really!? Really!? Do you have to check your baseball gloves and shoes and scores and everything else during class? Really!? And you guys really think I’m stupid, too. That’s the insulting part of it all… Do you think I was born in the 1870’s? No! I got news for you, I was born in the 1970’s, grew up in the 80’s and I know all about technology. I know when you’re at a site that has nothing to do with what we’re doing! I know when you are texting; I am not your grimy old granny, man! Really!? You really think that after almost three years of doing this that I haven’t seen it all before! Guess what, I have! I know when you’re texting and I know when you’re surfing and getting sucked into that monitor like a bowl of green jello! I was annoying my teachers before most of you were even a figment of your parent’s imaginations guys! You can’t get over on me.
Ugh! So anyway, I am thoroughly disgusted with most of you, but I know the same thing will happen to most of you that has happened to a lot of my other students: one day, probably next year, you will see me in the hall and you will smile because you remember this class fondly, and something I said was proven to be true, or maybe, maybe, maybe, something you learned in here will come in handy. Well, I’ll say it in advance, you are welcome! 
Here is my example of what a typical rant and rave article in your fanzine might be like, think about like one of those fan pages on Facebook.
What I just did was a rant and rave, this is the type of article that you should do for your fanzine. Now I want you to try to do a rant/rave on your own. (5 min.)
Are there questions or concerns at this time?
3.) Independent Practice/Group work:
Now, I want serious progress today, finish your first article and your partner should be working on his or her first article.
If you need to do internet research, you have ten minutes and then it will just be writing, so whatever you need to research do it now and take good notes.
No more dawdling! Your ten minute research period begins now, and then bye bye internet!
(10 min.)
Now it’s time to get down to the writing. Paper and pen or Word, but all progress must be checked by me before you can get your leave ticket.
Just like yesterday, your progress will be monitored by me.
By the end of today, I want to see your finished first article, or significant progress from yesterday and the beginnings of your second article.
Please e-mail me your progress at ROliver2@schools.nyc.gov

4.) Summary: Let’s have a three people at random share with us what they have been working on.
5.) Okay please e-mail me your progress at this time, ROliver2@schools.nyc.gov