Mrs. Sochacki at ABVM Catholic School

9. 9."Don't worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing." -- Unknown
10."If you have much, give your wealth.
If you have little, give your heart." -- Arab proverb
11."An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." -- Cato the Elder
12."There is a great distance between said and done." -- Puerto Rican proverb
13."Beware of a wolf in sheep's clothing." -- Aesop
14."Make friends before you need them." -- Unknown
15."Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." -- Chinese proverb
16."The way to be nothing is to do nothing." -- Nathaniel Howe
17."If you were another person, would you like to be a friend of yours?" -- Unknown
18."To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." -- proverb
19."Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." -- Mark Twain
20."Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." -- Henry Ford
21."Don't judge a book by its cover." -- English proverb
22."The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue." -- Unknown
23."You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." -- Unknown
24."If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." -- Unknown
25."You can encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." -- Maya Angelou
26."We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will." --
Thomas Edison
27."We must be authors of the history of our age." -- Madeleine Albright
28."You can't unscramble eggs." -- John Pierpont Morgan
29."A book is like a garden carried in a pocket." -- Chinese proverb
30."No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate
reasons for having passed through it." -- George Washington Carver
31."We may all have come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
32."Choose your socks by their color and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no
sense. Choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."-- Unknown
33."Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." -- Thomas Edison
34."Each life is like a letter of the alphabet. Alone it can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning." -- Unknown
35."Your children need your presence more than your presents." -- Jesse Jackson
36."A friend who lies for you may also lie against you." -- Unknown
37."The price of your hat isn't the measure of your brain." -- African-American Saying
38."The wastebasket is a writer's best friend." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
39."We are wiser than we know." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
40."Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." --
Eleanor Roosevelt
41."People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don't know each other. They
don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
42."You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
And you are the guy
Who'll decide where you go." -- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
43."Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright." -- Benjamin Franklin
44."He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most." -- Thomas Fuller
45."Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- John Watson
46."The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers." -- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
47."The sleeping fox catches no poultry." -- Benjamin Franklin

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An online writing tool to help you organize your thoughts and words when writing:

http://www.writingfun.com/writingfun2010.html

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Paragraph #1 - introduction
Paragraph #2, #3, #4 - each gives insight about a particular aspect of the experience using dialogue, sensory details, an anecdote....
Paragraph #5 - concluding paragraph pulling it together, drawing a conclusion, posing further action, restating the event....

Introduction - 11/10/10  
p9 - Adding Details using "who" - due TH 11/11/10
p10 - Unity - Revising to Unify - due TH 11/11/10
p11 - Coherent Paragraphs (pre-typed) - complete by end of class in computer lab - 11/11/10
p12 - Unified Paragraphs - due 11/16/10
p16 - Types of Introductions - due 11/16/10
p17 - Organization & Coherence...Transitions - in class 11/16/10
p18 - Types of Conclusions - in class 11/17/10

BRAINSTORM ideas into Graphic Organizers, Word Bank, include Sample Dialogue - 11/17/10

p26 Prewrite idea helpers, p27 Elaboration, p30 Dialogue (mini lessons) - TH 11/18/10

finish Graphic Organizer (include sample dialogue), Word Bank - due TH 11/18/10

Typed Rough Draft - due Mon 11/29/10

Get peer review signatures in classs - Mon 11/29/10

FINAL draft due Wed 12/1/10
Final Personal Narrative (60 points possible) including:
1. graphic organizer (10 points possible)
2. word bank  (10 points possible)
3. rough draft with peer review signatures (20 points possible)
TOTAL = 100 points possible
 ALL  DUE Wed 12/1/10


Coherence: Making Connections....Creating Coherent Paragraphs

Follow directions for revising these paragraphs.

    Robert Frost became famous as a poet of rural New England. However,
Frost was actually born in San Francisco, California. He worked unseccessfully
as a schoolteacher and a a chicken farmer. In 1884, at the age of ten, Frost moved
to the East, where he spent the rest of his youth and young adulthood.
Discouraged, Frost moved to England with his familyin 1912. In 1915, he
returned to the U.S., where publishers were finally ready to print his books.
His first two collections of poetry were published in England in 1913 and 1914
 and were praised by British critics.

     Toward the end of his long career, in January of 1961, the poet received
an unusual honor when he was chosen to recite one of his works
at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy. Frost received the first of several
Pulitzer Prizes for his verse in 1923. His poetry won him great popularity; and
when he died in 1963, Frost was the most honored and best-known American
poet.

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW
7.RL.6 ANALYZE HOW AN AUTHOR DEVELOPS AND CONTRASTS THE POINTS OF VIEW OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OR NARRATORS IN A TEXT.

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Character Description

Descibe a person you know who lives a life of helping others. Give more than physical traits. We want to know about their nature, their mannerisims, who they are in your life. Use words that show us or demonstrate their character, their gifts, their form of giving. Use strong verbs to show us who they are. Do they demonstrate a life of service, a life given to others? How?

Notes - Tues Jan 18, 2011
Graphic Organizer - Wed Jan 19, 2011
Word Bank - Thur Jan 20, 2011
Strong Verbs to demonstrate Lesson, Review RUBRIC - Mon Jan 24, 2011
begin Rough draft in class - Tuesday Jan 25, 2011
Discuss/share/ compare with peers - Wednesday Jan 26, 2011
Review pronouns, add stronger vocabulary, check organizational structures, look at samples - Thur Jan 27, 2011
Typed Rough Draft due Monday Jan 31, 2011
Peer Review of rough drafts - Mon Jan 31, 2011
FINAL TYPED PAPER DUE WED FEB 2, 2011


Character Description - 100 total points possible

graphic organizer - 10 points possible
word bank - 10 points possible
rough draft with peer review signatures - 20 points possible
Final Draft - 60 points possible

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SHIPWRECKED!
7.RL.9 COMPARE AND CONTRAST FICTIONAL PORTRAYAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT
7.W.9 DRAW EVIDENCE FROM LITERARY AND INFORMATIONAL TEXTS TO SUPPORT ANALYSIS, REFLECTION AND RESEARCH.

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A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW
7.RL.6 ANALYZE HOW AN AUTHOR DEVELOPS AND CONTRASTS THE POINTS OF VIEW OF DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OR NARRATORS IN A TEXT.

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"PROVE IT!" RESEARCH HUNT
7.W.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital resources, search terms effectively, assess credibility and accuracy, quote and paraphrase, citation format followed.