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November 30, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Charles Dickens PowerPoint |
1. To understand the life
of Charles Dickens and
where his writing came
from.
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2. Using a dictionary, begin
looking up and writing the
definitions for the "A Christmas
Carol" vocabulary.
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2. To become familiar
with the meanings of
the "A Christmas Carol"
vocabulary.
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December 1, 2009
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Objectives |
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1. Review "A Christmas
Carol" Pre-reading questions.
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1. To have the "A Christmas
Carol" Pre-reading questions
answered completely and
with adequate supporting
details.
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2. Read Act I, scenes i and ii
of "A Christmas Carol."
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2. To comprehend and
analyze Act I, scenes i and
ii of "A Christmas Carol."
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December 2, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Review homework questions.
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1. To have the homework
questions answered
completely and with the
correct answers.
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2. Read Act I, scene iii of
"A Christmas Carol."
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2. To comprehend and
analyze Act I, scene iii of
"A Christmas Carol."
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December 3, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Review homework questions. |
1. To have the homework
questions answered
completely and with
correct answers.
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2. Read Act I, scene iv of
"A Christmas Carol."
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2. To comprehend and
analyze Act I, scene iv of
"A Christmas Carol."
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December 4, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Quiz on "A Christmas Carol"
Vocabulary words #1 and #2.
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1. To complete the "A
Christmas Carol"
vocabulary quiz in the
class time given.
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2. Complete looking up and
writing the definitions for the
"A Christmas Carol" vocabulary.
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2. To have the "A
Christmas Carol"
vocabulary filled in
completely.
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3. Illustrate a scene from Act I
of "A Christmas Carol."
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3. To make a visual
representation of a
scene from Act I of
"A Christmas Carol."
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November 16, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Peer Edit your short stories. |
1. To Peer Edit a partners
paper.
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2. Each of you share with the
other what you found while
peer editing.
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2. To give valuable
feedback to your partner
by sharing what you wrote
and found while reading
their short story.
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3. Make adjustments to your
short story.
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3. To fix your short story
so it is ready for final
draft writing.
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Novmeber 17, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Edit your short story
one last time.
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1. Edit your short story one
last time. Not only editing for
elements of a short story, but
also spelling and grammar errors.
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November 18, 2009
| Agenda |
Objective |
| 1. Word pre-test |
1. To start thinking about
words, word origin, and roots.
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2. Review the pre-test
answers
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2. To watch a video on words
and complete the questions
that go with it.
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3. Word video and
questions
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November 19, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Review the video questions
answers.
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1. To have the correct
answers on the questions
sheet.
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2. Review the word develop
sheet
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2. To correct the words
develop sheet.
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November 20, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Word Origin PowerPoint |
1. To learn about the origin
of our language and take
notes as we go.
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2. Review the homework
sheets.
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2. To correct the homework
sheets and complete the ones
you didn't do.
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November 9, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Continue writing your
short story.
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1. To write your short story. |
November 10, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. How to improve your
short story.
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1. To go through how to add
detail to your short story to
make it more interesting.
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2. Start improving your
short story.
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2. Start going through your own
short story adding detail and
making suggestions in the
in the margins or on opposite
page.
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November 11, 2009
NO SCHOOL-VETRANS DAY
November 12, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Continue working on
improving your short story.
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1. To continue to read your
short story adding details,
sensory images, and to take
out unnecessary information
to make your short story
readable.
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November 13, 2009
| Agenda |
Objective |
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1. Finish writing your short
story and start re-writing.
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1. Make sure you have all
elements of a short story
included, make sure you have
enough detail, sensory
images, and imagery to make
your story interesting to read.
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November 2, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectvies |
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1. Read your fiction book
and look for the theme
(major or minor).
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1. To take notes on sticky
notes as you read your
fiction book to be able to
figure out the theme of
your book.
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Nobmeber 3, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Writers Notebook-Plot |
1. To get down the basics
of the short story you will
write. You should already have
some ideas, but you need to
now right them down. Write
down the setting, characters,
exposition, rising action,
climax, falling action, resolution,
and the theme of your short
story.
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2. Start writing down the
plot of a story that you
would like to write-use
what you already have in
your notebook to help
you. If you want you can
create a plot graph in
your writers notebook.
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November 4, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Continue writing in your
writer's notebooks. Finishing
your plot graph if needed.
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1. To have your plot
graph finished.
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2. Start writing your short story
thinking about everything we have
learned about short stories and
what you have seen in the
short stories you read.
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2. To start writing a
short story in your
writer's notebook.
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November 5, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Review for the
Short Story Test
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1. To understand the
concepts and definitions that
will be on the Short Story test.
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November 6, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Short Story test-
when you are finished
bring it up to me.
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1. To complete the short
story test within the
class period.
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2. Work on your short story
in your writer's notebook.
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2. To continue writing your
short story in your writer's
notebook.
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October 26, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Tone notes |
1. To review and understand
what tone is.
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2. Figuring out and
establising tone
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2. As a class try to figure
out the tone of a short
piece and to figure out how
the author created that
one and why.
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3. Difference between tone
and mood.
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October 27, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Read the short story
"Seventh Grade" and discuss
the authors tone toward
seventh grade.
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1. To read and understand
the short story and to
figure out the tone of the
story.
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October 28, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. What is the tone
of your fiction book.
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1. To go back through
what you have read so far
to figure out what kind of
tone the author has towards
specific topics, characters, or
subjects.
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October 29, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Theme notes |
1. To understand what
theme is.
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2. Figuring out the theme
of a story.
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2. As a class figure out the
theme of a story and figure
out how yo come to that
conclusion.
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October 30, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Individually read a
short story and identify
the theme.
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1. To read and understand the
the short story and the theme
of the short story.
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2. In small groups, come
together to discuss the
theme.
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2. To discuss in small groups
what the themes are and how
they came to that theme.
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October 19, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Character Notes |
1. To understand what type
of characters there are and how
an author creates their characters
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2. "After Twenty Years"
characters and characterization
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2. To read and understand
the short story "All Twenty
Years" and understand who
the characters are.
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October 20, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Character maps for
the "After Twenty Years"
characters.
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1. To identify all of the
characteristics of the two
main characters in "After
Twenty Years" to prepare
to write an open response
on the characters.
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October 21, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Read your fiction book
focusing on the characters
and the characterization the
author uses.
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1. To understand the
characters in your fiction
book better by paying
attention to the way the
author makes them. Use
your post-it notes to write
down places you get more
about a character or when
you are left with a question
about a character.
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October 22, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Read your fiction book
focusing on the characters
and the characterization the
author uses.
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1. To understand the
characters in your fiction
book better by paying
attention to the way the
author makes them. Use
your post-it notes to write
down places you get more
about a character or when
you are left with a question
about a character.
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October 23, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Write in your writer's
notebook: come up with
characters that you would
want to write about.
Describe them in great detail.
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1. As an author to create
believable, realistic
characters that could be in
a short story or fiction
story.
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October 13, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Setting Notes |
1. To review and understand
what setting is and why setting
is important.
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| 2. Sensory Words |
2. To understand how authors
authors create vivid images of
the setting by using sensory
words.
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| 3. "All Summer in a Day" |
3. To individually read the
short story "All Summer in a
Day" and complete the setting/
sensory words sheet.
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October 14, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. While reading your fiction
book you are to focus on how
the author creates the setting
and what kind of sensory words
they use. Use the post-it notes
to mark the pages and places
you find details about the setting.
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1. To figure out the
setting of your fiction
book and to take a
close look at the
details the author
created to give you as
a reader a better
picture of setting.
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October 15, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
1. While reading your fiction
book you are to focus on how
the author creates the setting
and what kind of sensory words
they use. Use the post-it notes
to mark the pages and places
you find details about the setting.
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1. To figure out the
setting of your fiction
book and to take a
close look at the
details the author
created to give you as
a reader a better
picture of setting.
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October 16, 2009
| Agenda |
Objective |
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1. Creating a vivid
description of a setting.
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1. To create a setting that
would make a reader
interested and that would be
detailed enough for a reader
to become engrossed in the
location.
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October 5, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. What is fiction? |
1. To review what fiction
is to start our unit on
fiction and short stories
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2. Short Story Notes
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2. To review the brief
history of the short story
and to review what the
modern short story has.
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3. Pick a fiction book
to read in class
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October 6, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Short story organization notes |
1. To understand the basic organization of all short stories
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| 2. Plot graph |
2. As a class youwill complete
a plot graph to understand how
to complete one on your own
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October 7, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Individually read the short story
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and complete
the plot graph as you read
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1. To read and
understand the short
story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
and to correctly
complete the plot
graph
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October 8. 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Individually continue to
work on the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
plot graph
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1. To finish the
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" plot
graph by the end of class
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September 28, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Finish using editing
reference sheets to
make posters.
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1. To make visual
representations of guidelines
we need to know to read,
write, and edit.
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2. Adding detail to your
long composition.
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2. To understand how
to add detail to your long
composition, specifically sensory
details and to start editing to
add detail.
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September 29, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Editing your long
composition for grammar,
spelling, etc. (Standard
English Conventions).
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1. To understand how
to edit for grammar,
spelling, etc...and to
self-edit your work for
spelling, grammar errors
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September 30, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Go through your
long composition one
last time to check for
topic/idea development
and Standard English
Conventions.
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1. To self edit one
last time according to
the rubrics and what we
have reviewed.
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2. Start handwriting a
final draft of your long
composition.
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2. To neatly handwrite a
final draft of your long
composition.
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October 1, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Peer Edit
PowerPoint
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1. To understand what
I expect of you when
you peer edit a peers
paper.
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| 2. Peer Edit |
2. To start peer-editing
a partners paper.
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October 2, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Get back with
your partner, exchange
papers and continue
peer editing.
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1. To finish peer editing
your partners paper.
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2. Each of you share with
the other what you found
while peer editing.
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2. To give valuable feedback
to your partner by sharing
what you wrote and what
you found while reading
their paper.
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3. Make adjustments to
your long composition.
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3. To fix your long composition
so it is completely ready for
final draft writing.
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September 21, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. What is a long composition essay? Take notes in your writing section of your notebook |
1. To understand what a long composition essay is and how to write one. |
| 2. Pick a long composition topic |
2. To pick one of the topics to write your long composition on |
| 3. Receive the writing log, the writing meeting recorder, and your summer reading open response quiz |
3. To put all three papers in your writing section of your notebook. To record your summer reading open response quiz grade in your writing log, and to decide if you will re-write your open response (must sign up and go to peer-to-peer) |
September 22, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Review how to complete the long comp graphic organizer |
1. To understand how to fill out all pages of the graphic organizer |
| 2. Work on filling out the graphic organizer |
2. To complete all parts of the graphic organizer with adequate detail so you are ready to write your long comp |
September 23, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Write your five paragraph long composition essay (write it in your writing section of your notebook) |
1. To write all five paragraphs of your long composition |
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2. Make sure you set-up your paper the way we reviewed
~each paragraph gets its own page
~Skip every other line
~Write Neatly
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September 24, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
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1. Go through the long comp topic/ idea development rubric and define unknown words
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1. To understand what is expected on the long composition in terms of topic/idea development |
| 2. Editing reference sheets |
2. To put the editing reference sheets in your notebook and to organize them by section |
September 25,2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Use the editing reference sheets to make posters |
1. To make visual representations of guidelines we need to know to read, write and edit |
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OLD AGENDAS
September 14, 2009
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Objectives |
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1. Review what good readers' do
a. I will read "The Open Window" to model the strategies good readers use
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1.To notice and identify all of the different strategies good readers use when they are reading |
| 2. Make a list of the strategies good readers use |
2. As a class come up with all the different strategies good readers use and keep the list in your readers' folder |
| 3. Read your independent reading book and write down when you use a strategy. |
3. To show me what strategies you are using when you read. |
September 15, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Read two different personal narratives (individually). Take notes as you read identifying what a personal narrative is. |
1. To understand what a personal narrative is and what you must include if you were to write a personal narrative |
| 2. With a partner discuss the two personal narratives you read and discuss what a personal narrative is and what a personal narrative includes |
2. To work with a partner to make a list of what a personal narrative is and must have |
September 16, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Start writing in your writers' notebook: Pick different experiences you have had and write about them. |
1. To write about as many personal experiences that you have had. They can be experiences from what you did this summer to a childhood memory, to a favorite or least favorite memory. |
September 17, 2009
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Agenda
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Objectives |
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1. Start writing your personal narrative
a. Re-read what you wrote yesterday in your writers' notebook
b. Pick one experience that you will write about
c. Start writing
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2. To go through your writers' notebook to find an experience to write about and begin writing your personal narrative |
September 18, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Continue writing your personal narrative (we will come back to these occasionally so leave a few pages blank) |
1. To write as much of your personal narrative as you can |
| 2. If you finish writing re-read you personal narrative and make any corrections you see |
2. To improve your personal narrative |
September 8, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. How to talk about books effectively (whole class, large group, or with a partner) |
1. To come up with rules/guidelines on how to talk about books effectively. |
| 2. Turn and Talk with a partner who read the same required summer reading book as you (Tiger, Tiger or The Thieves of Ostia) Focus on setting, plot, and character |
2. To apply our guidelines we created as you talk with your partner about the setting, plot and characters. |
September 9, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Summer reading Open Response Quiz. You must finish writing both open responses in class |
1. To successfullyanswer both open response questions in accordance with the given rubrics |
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September 10, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Finish your open responses and edit them |
1. To make sure your summer reading open response is ready to be graded |
| 2. Come up with different categories for books |
2. To help me organize my library by coming up with creative name/categories for books |
September 11, 2009
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Agenda
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Objectives |
| 1. Ways we Chose books |
1. To come up with all the differnt wasys we chose books to read |
| 2. Book Pass |
2. To preview books in order to find ones you would like to read and ones that you don't think you would like to read |
September 2, 2009
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Agenda
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Objectives
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1. Review Classroom policies
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1. To understand how to behave and where to find things
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2. Set-up ELA notebook
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2. To understand what is expected of you this year
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3. Review classroom expectations
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3. To understand how to organize your notebook
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September 3, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Respect |
1. To review and discuss what respect is. Who/What should we respect? How do you gain respect? How should we give respect? |
| 2. Begin creating your ME Collage |
2. To show me and your classmates who you are through words and pictures on your collage |
September 4, 2009
| Agenda |
Objectives |
| 1. Work on and finish your ME Collage by the end of class |
1. To finish creating your collage that shows me and your classmates who you are. These will be hung up in the classroom |
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