Wednesday / Thursday 30 / 1 November / December

In class we wrote to various prompts.

Periods 4 and 5 finished reading the interview with Ruth Reichel.

All periods read a profile of french food critic Francois Simon, and a restaurant review by Frank Bruni.

There was extensive discussion about the role of the critic, and comparisons of the reviews to the rubric for writing a review provided earlier by Mr. Zartler.

Monday / Tuesday 28/29 November

We began with the prompt:
"Dear Santa" or with one person giving another a gift.

Writer's then received the following rubric and prewriting exercises for the restaurant review:

Next the class discussed "100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do"

Most of the classes then began reading an interview with famous food writer Ruth Reichel.

Writer's were asked to write about each of the questions on the "Thinking about Writing a Restaurant Review" that hadn't been addressed already in class.