Thursday, Oct. 31 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: One Quill Activity Completed
• Begin brainstorming any current issues or events that you can relate to or connect to your book.  You should have a list of at least 5 to share with your group during today’s meeting
• Make sure these are five ADDITIONAL ideas  
• Meeting #5

• Need to do Meeting 5 form through google classroom
• Writer’s Workshop -story and bibliography due TOMORROW!!
• Blogging
• Comment approving
• MAKE SURE YOU COMMENTED ON AT LEAST ONE STORY, hopefully two
• Work on your next and final draft using my comments and the comments of peers (as well as your own self-editing)

Wednesday, Oct. 30 Agenda

• Writer’s Workshop Time: 
• Understanding the Human Experience
• Reading commenting collaborator’s story on blog
• Comments due beginning of class tomorrow
• Finish working on your bibliography or helping others with theirs, working on your story, or reading your independent book. 
• Due Friday
• Blog post with 3 pics/videos minimum
• Short story paper copy (best draft with theme written on the rubric)
• Bibliography
• 15 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, answer quiz questions if you haven’t, comp book para (big idea), etc.
• ( track courage)
• Hand back quizzes and correct what your peer answered on the questions you created

Tuesday, Oct. 29 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Using the Q-chart, make a 7 question quiz on the first half of your book.  Create questions in all parts of the chart (comprehension and discussion); think of ‘teacher-like’ questions that would cover all important aspects of the book so far
• Follow-up questions are good (what do you think AND WHY?)
• 10 minutes reading –remember, comp book paragraph (big idea) is due Friday
• Using textual evidence (and TIQA format) will demonstrate your understanding in a way that aims to be above expectations
• Enhancing Understanding 
• Three pics (minimum) inserted in the correct place in your story due end of block
• Quiz Exchange (due Wednesday)
• Bibliography Work time (needs to be done with the FINAL draft -Friday)

Monday, Oct. 28 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop time
• 15 minutes work time: Work at whatever step you need to complete (theme tracing, revising for craft/content, revising for editing (and meeting with me), etc. End result: best piece of writing you have ever created)
• Consider using a computer resource for editing assistance:
• Grammarly.com, slickwrite.com, Easy Bib’s grammar portion, Ginger writer, Turnitin’s purple layer, prowritingaid.com, others?
• Draft posted on your blog after 15–should be at a ‘final’ point
• Title the post your story’s title
• I will not be grading THIS online version...
• 10 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc 
• MEETING #4 
• Enhancing Readers’ Understanding
• Need at least 1 images/videos/links posted by tomorrow

Friday, Oct. 25 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 15 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc 
• Writer’s Workshop
• Perspective Story Rubric reminder
• Work on what you need to do to make this story the best piece of writing you have done -be prepared to post a close to final draft on your blog
• Third/fourth draft –fluency and general self-edit
• Big Idea Paragraph (this needs to be done by next Friday):
• Pick one of the 30ish big ideas notebooks.  In that notebook, explain how the book you are reading shows that big idea.  
• What is your author saying about it based on what is happening/what people are saying/what it makes you think/etc. 
• How do the ideas in your book on this theme/big idea connect to ideas in reality, other books, your life, etc 
• If you can find evidence to support yourself, that would be great.  
• This should be a longer paragraph in length.  
• Write your name and the big idea you wrote about on the notebook paper in the green binder

Sharing of Big Idea examples on the posters

Thursday, Oct. 24 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Bibliographic Entries: How to
• 10 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc (reminder: HOMEWORK SLIDE) -–I will be checking annotations at this time (Find your discussion ?s)
• MEETING #3
• Discuss Big Idea ex with whole class
• Writer’s Workshop Time
• Bibliography due with the final copy
• Alphabetical order! You DO need to add addresses.
• Peer Edit and Self Edit as you work toward your final draft

Wednesday, Oct. 23 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 15 minutes Reading time: Meeting 3 tomorrow:
• • Read your section
  • Track your thinking THOROUGHLY (DON’T JUST WRITE DOWN WHAT HAPPENED)
  • Big Ideas 
  • Words of Wisdom
  • PAGE NUMBERS!!! (if not post its)
  • Create a GOOD DISCUSSION questions
• Writer’s Workshop:
• Sign up for a conference with me to talk about your theme tracing and what you’ve been working on/what you still want to do
• Need to confer with me today or tomorrow
• Work on REVISING your story (think of the theme and human experience, etc)
• Remember, part of revising is often DELETING things, not just adding
• Universal theme? What are your plans for revising for it?
• Work on EDITING your story: 
• Print out draft to edit: use your comma note sheet
• Consider using a computer resource for editing assistance:
• Grammarly.com, slickwrite.com, Easy Bib’s grammar portion, Ginger writer, Turnitin’s purple layer, prowritingaid.com, hemingwayapp.com
• Big Ideas from Section 2 –make sure you have examples on your notes sheets from yesterday!

Tuesday, Oct. 22 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Pivotal Moments
• Under your personal identity chart from last week, brainstorm a list of moments, events, ideas, etc that you feel have been important in your life
• Pick the 2 that you feel are the most pivotal (a turning point to who you are today): one that is within your control, one that was not
• 10 min Reading/Thought log check
• TQE Definitions
• Meeting #2
• See Google Classroom for Meeting Agenda
• Writer’s Workshop
• Have the Theme Tracing draft highlighted by tomorrow for a conference

Thursday, Oct. 17 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Sit with your book club group with your thought log and book out, ready to start
• Read for a bit while I check thought logs (can be to quickly finish for today or a bit into the next meeting [WHICH WILL BE TUESDAY!!!!!!!])
• Meeting 1
• See Google Classroom for meeting agenda link
• Hwk: Read for meeting #2

Wednesday, Oct. 16 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Take out a sheet of paper from your Book Club section of your binder: Discussion Discussion (previous slide)
• • What are the things that make a good discussion?
  • How do people show that they are actively participating?
  • What are negative things that people do when working in small groups?
  • How would you define a successful small group meeting? (in terms of school small groups)
  • What must people do before the group meeting for the meeting to run smoothly?
• Discussion Guidelines and Rubric
• Independent Reading Time (Make sure you are prepared for the meeting tomorrow)
• Thought log: if you were gone yesterday, talk to those who were here yesterday about expectation reminders
• Writer’s Workshop: Theme Tracing and more:
• • Show don’t Tell
  • • Make sure you have LOTS of details!
    • Revising sometimes means taking things out that don’t work.
    • Fluency- make sure your story SOUNDS good and that sentences and words flow
    • Edit/Proofread
    • Pink: basic conventions (punctuation (other than commas), capitalization, verb tense, etc.) fluency
    • Yellow: things that are in your editing section: sentence structure (fragment/run-on, comma splice, commas), dialogue format, etc.
    • Print out your story if it will help you check for errors more.
• • Theme Tracing:
  • Theme tracing –what is your theme? Where is it alluded to? What details build your message? –highlight all pieces of theme as you develop it (think of “The Sniper”)
  • Also use printed copy for editing
  • Once you have highlighted the whole story, keep in binder for conference on Tuesday
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Tuesday, Oct. 15 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Quill Time (work on the comma correction ones if you haven’t yet)
• Book Club Reading Time: MAKE SURE YOU ARE WRITING THINGS IN YOUR THOUGHT LOG FOR THURSDAY!!
• Writer’s Workshop 

• Work on your draft (making it better, starting with the ‘-’ column ideas or other places you know you need to work
• Conferences with me: you can either share with me what you’ve been working on with revising or share your for revising one of your ‘-’ notes, sign up for a conference/come up to me and we’ll meet on what you are planning to do (and I’ll answer any questions you have)
• Continuing with Revising, Editing, and working on your story
• Editing Draft: 
• Pink: basic conventions (punctuation (other than commas), capitalization, etc.), verb tense, fluency
• Yellow: things that are in your editing section: sentence structure (fragment/run-on, comma splice, commas), dialogue format, etc.

Monday, Oct. 14 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Book Handout continued IF letter turned in
• 10 Minutes Reading Time (choices: read what is assigned for Thursday, read your choice book if you don’t have yours yet)
• Prep for Meeting 1 (Thursday): put all of these handouts in your book club binder section
• Writer’s Workshop
• Goal on Post It from feedback on your first story for your second
• Overall issue I noticed: many stories seem like they could just have a few words changed and have an experience that happened here in WI…that’s not our goal…
• The HUMAN EXPERIENCE of an individual in a different country (some things are universal, but many things are dependent on the place you live…SHOW THIS in your story)
• Start fixing your story from an editing perspective as well.  I will be reading through tonight for that, and you want me to get as far as possible when I hit six highlighted errors. You need to copy your draft into the editing draft assignment in Classroom for me to do it.  Also, Upload your draft to Turnitin, and title it: Title Editing Draft
• If your story is in the Editing Draft Assignment in Classroom, I will read