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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