Good afternoon,

 

This year's YAP is underway and I want to address some things.

We have been working on YAP for a couple of weeks, primarily brainstorming characters, settings, and "calls to action" (aka problem/challenge/inciting incidents). We are working this week on generating our "working draft" which is due next Monday. For those who work effectively and more quickly, they should have a working draft complete by the end of the week. For others, some work will be required at home on the weekend. Any work that students are asked to do on YAP at home will be written in the agendas, so unless there is something written there, you probably don't need to worry. I prefer to have students develop the meat of their story here before refining and adding details and emphasis at home. That means that most rough work will continue to happen in class while the conversion to a final draft and some of the later stages will take place at home (again, in the event students aren't able to finish in class, some rough work may need to be done from home).

 

Hopefully that helps to clarify why parents haven't heard much from me until now!

 

-Mr. Dyson