Tuesday, Sept. 8 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Collect SSR Letter

}Close Reading reminder and AoW (close read due Thursday)

}Writer’s Workshop Time

•Creatively ‘presented’ poem due Friday

•Show who you are with what your poem looks like

◦Work on adding sensory images to your draft, organizing your stanzas, giving your poem a title, coming up with how to make it LOOK good as well as sound good: today is last class time to work on it

◦If your final is done, you can read your AoW and don’t forget to MARK UP THE TEXT!

}What is “the human experience”? Brainstorm in writer’s notebook/glossary

}Add to glossary.  Define Inference, Explicit, Analysis/Analyze

}Intro first unit: Short Stories

◦Orange book, pg 24 as well as maroon glossary in back of book: take notes

Friday, Sept. 4 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: SSR Letter reminder and questions

}I Am From Poem

oExample

oPutting your info into poem format

oWork time

oWrite your first draft: show to me as soon as you are finished

}In your craft lesson section, list the five senses.

}Word Choice and Sensory Images

◦Notes in the Craft Lesson section

}Writer’s Workshop

•Editing the I Am From Poem

–Add descriptions or words that make readers hear/see/feel/smell/taste what you are writing about (SENSORY IMAGES!)

–Line breaks

–Work Time

Thursday, Sept. 3 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes –go to your prefix/roots/suffix section (if you don’t have sections yet, take out a blank sheet of paper)

}What are word parts? Why study/memorize them?

}Close Reading Definition and Example

}Textual Evidence Definition

•Integrating Ideas Pre-test –when done, turn it in to the fourth block folder in the green crate on the table and read your book

}SSR Letter Example and beginning (remember, letter due Tuesday): click the link for the example I showed in class today!

}Writer’s Workshop (check brainstorming)

Wednesday, Sept. 2 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: What are your worries of this semester/English? What are things you are confident about?

üWrite in paragraph format on a piece paper for the entire time you are given (about 7 minutes)

üWe may share after the 7 minutes

•Expectations and Procedures- English Binder Set Up (start)

•Put writing from earlier into writer’s notebook section

•Library- 10 min- You NEED a book by Thursday! (at the latest) If you have a book, read for a bit

•SSR Letter expectations and set up (SSR LETTER DUE Tuesday)

•Syllabus

•Bring the bottom part signed ASAP! DUE Next Thursday!

•Brainstorming about self… at least three in each category due tomorrow

By tomorrow, make sure you have read some of your book so that you can begin your SSR letter tomorrow.

Monday, June 8

}Bell Ringer: 10 minutes study time for word parts test (Tuesday)

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦You need to aim for 30% summary/textual evidence and 70% analysis and original opinion/thought

◦Intro Examples

◦Works Cited page reminder

◦Editing body paragraphs as a class

◦Conferring –if you need to confer with me and already have, we can. If you haven’t met with me about summary vs analysis, you MUST

◦Self-edit

◦Peer-edit with someone you trust

◦Use the rubric to see if you have all of the necessary information

◦Revising Ideas:

–Print out your draft, read the last sentence first, then the second to last, and so on.  This allows you to focus on the structure of the sentence rather than the content of information.

–Share your document with a peer you trust, have them comment on it.

–Write your thesis next to each chunk of analysis, helping you make sure that the analysis is directly related to your thesis.

}Paper needs to be printed out, DOUBLE-SPACED, rubric paper clipped to front, work cited page is last page

Friday, June 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Part Study Time

}Epic Examples

}Final Reading Comprehension Assessment

}All the time left can be used for the paper

◦Works Cited page reminder

◦Conferring –if you need to confer with me and already have, we can. If you haven’t met with me about summary vs analysis, you MUST

◦If your intro and conclusion aren’t done, finish them so you have a complete paper to edit/revise

◦Self-edit

◦Peer-edit with someone you trust

◦Use the rubric to see if you have all of the necessary information

◦Revising Ideas:

–Print out your draft, read the last sentence first, then the second to last, and so on.  This allows you to focus on the structure of the sentence rather than the content of information.

–Share your document with a peer you trust, have them comment on it.

–Write your thesis next to each chunk of analysis, helping you make sure that the analysis is directly related to your thesis.

Thursday, June 4 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Study Word Parts (prefix/suffix list): Test on Tuesday!

}Writer’s Workshop

◦In-text citations and introductions

–Intro and Conclusion Reminders: Document shared with you

◦Conferences on summary vs. analysis: Highlighting for summary and analysis: print out body paragraphs and highlight for your conference with me (use 2 different color highlighters, one for summary and one for analysis, use the sheet you got Tuesday to help you determine the difference)

◦If your body paragraphs aren’t done, you need to work on them

◦If your intro isn’t done, you need to work on it

◦Work on your conclusion (rough draft should be done by tomorrow)

◦SELF-EDIT!!!!!

◦Peer edit with someone you trust when it comes to writing

}MLA format –you have a handout on this, make sure your paper follows it

}Rubric –worth 95 points, make sure you’ve done/are doing what it’s looking for

Wednesday, June 3 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: List of roots

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Summary vs. Analysis reminder

◦Work time on Paper

◦**If you have a first draft (at least all three body paragraphs) done, bring it to me (share it with me on GD and print it out) for a meeting during class today or tomorrow

◦Intro notes –rough drafts of intro due tomorrow end of time and the body paras are due at the end of work time today/beginning of class tomorrow

}Epics: A long narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes (write definition in glossary)

◦In Reader’s Notebook section or just notes section, take notes from the chart on page 1094 –make a web if that helps you organize thoughts best.  Answer the question “What is an Epic Poem and what are its characteristics?”

}Epic Notes: Web on board

Tuesday, June 2 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots (the last slide…)

}Summary vs. Analysis

}Writer’s Workshop time: topic sentence and body paragraph practice

◦Outline check

◦Topic Sentences and body paragraphs-LOOK AT THE DOCUMENT SHARED WITH YOU (analysis step by step)!

◦In-text Citations: after every quote, no comma, period AFTER the citation NOT BEFORE!

◦Body paragraphs rough draft due Thursday (beginning of hour)

–Whenever you are done, share it with me and tell me it is complete so I can read through and comment ASAP

Monday, June 1 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Finish large group discussion

}Outlining Review

   Look at the outline template (or click on this link for an outline with the body completed)

}Writer’s Workshop time

◦Textual Evidence: 3-6 final, find as many as possible at first, then narrow down to develop your main idea/topic sentences

◦On Outline: Need thesis and three main ideas/topic sentences with three quotes (minimum) by tomorrow

◦By tomorrow, you should be done with your outline (or at least body paragraph portion) and starting to write your body paragraphs.  If you are at this point earlier, start the paragraphs (rough drafts)