Agenda for Friday, December 18th
Objective: students will be able to apply skills and develop an effective open response
- Start-up: Reread pages 40-42 and list three examples as to how Gloria engages the reader
- Focus lesson: flow of argument
- Independent work
- Pass in both open responses by the end of class
- Read Bronx Masquerade
- Conference with me
- Work on Reader’s Responses (7 due Monday)
- Study for vocabulary quiz
- Closure
Homework:
Be ready to pass in 7 Reader’s Response on Monday
Vocabulary quiz on Tuesday
Agenda for Thursday, December 17th
Objective: students will be able to revise their writing
- Start-up: List problems with example answer
- Focus Lesson: revising open responses
- Independent work
- Edit, revise, and rewrite open response if necessary
- When done, read to page 140 in Bronx Masquerade; don’t forget to keep up with the character sheet
- If finished, you may work on a Reader’s Response
- I will be conferencing for Writer’s Workshop today
Closure
Homework:
You need two more RR by next Monday (7 total)
Vocabulary quiz on Tuesday
Agenda for Tuesday, December 15th
Objective: students will be able to utilize vivid vocabulary in place of dead words
- Take a handout from the table and work on it independently
- Focus Lesson: Vivid Words in ORQs
- Read Bronx Masquerade
- If you have read thro ugh page 130, you may work on a Reader’s Response
Closure
Homework:
You need two more RR by next Monday (7 total)
Vocabulary quiz on Tuesday
Agenda for Monday, December 14th
Objective: students will be able to respond to literature
- Define new word droppers:
- Hoopla
- Jaded
- Mundane
Focus Lesson: Organizing Reader’s Responses
Due Date
Question
Your name
In order in your RW section
Read Bronx Masquerade
If you have read through page 110, you may work on a Reader’s Response
Closure
Homework:
You need two more RR by next Monday (7 total)