Monday, Oct. 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Take out computer, get onto your potential sources document. You must be at this point when the bell rings to be on time.

}Individual Checks: bring computer with potential sources document open up to me when called

}How to take notes

}Research Time:

◦Step one: finish finding potential sources

◦Step two: weed out your sources and start taking notes on articles

◦Step three: Start taking notes on pictures/slide shows and videos

}By the end, you need to have a start on notes on at least five different articles with different information to help you understand your topic

◦Your goal is to have notes on more than just five (end goal 9-12) and to fully understand the group, situation and place that your question surrounds

}HWK: AoW Close Read. Make sure you are done with notes for at least five sources (or around half of the articles you have)

Friday, Oct. 2 Agenda: Homecoming!

}Bell Ringer: Suffixes

}Rubric, final, SPQ: paper clipped together in that order

}Research Time

◦Today I need to see:

–Topic written out in sentence/question form (what guides your research) What is it like to be        in          dealing with               ?

–At least 7 key terms/words/phrases you will use for researching

–Around 15 (the more you have the better) articles. On Monday we will begin taking notes the articles (unless you get to 15 by the end of class, then talk to me)

}How to take notes from potential sources

◦Own words, copy and highlight, copy only important info

Thursday, Oct. 1 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes

}Final Writer’s Workshop Time (30 min)

–Due TOMORROW!

–Printed out when you walk in the door!

–12 pt font

–Readable font

–1.5 spaced at least

–SPQ and Rubric with the final copy

}Human Experience Internationally

}Researching Informational Texts

◦How to research

}start browsing news websites (www.bbc.com/news or www.reuters.com/news) for research ideas

}News stories vs. Personal Testimonies

}Research Time

◦Today I need to see:

–Topic written out in sentence/question form (what guides your research) What is it like to be        in               dealing with               ?

–Research Document started

Tuesday, Sept. 29 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Verb Tense

}Correct Verb Tense half sheet

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Revising  and Editing to next draft

◦Yellow= Fragment, Sentence Structure Issues, Fluency, Comma Issues

◦Pink= Dialogue Format, Verb Tense, Other Basic Convention Issues

◦Six Errors Highlighted: if you want me to keep going, mark where I left off, and then ask me if I have a chance to continue reading for editing issues

}Comma Reminders

}Writer’s Workshop

◦SPQ

◦Work on step 5 (revise/edit, work on new draft, revise/edit/peer edit, work on draft, etc)

◦What is the theme of your story? How to reinforce?

◦How to revise for a final –first look through whole paper for anything that is marked or could have been marked dialogue or sentence structure, then think of your theme and other aspects of short stories

}Final Draft due FRIDAY: we’ll have some workshop time tomorrow and Thursday

}Read your book if you have time left

SPQ Directions:

}SPQ Groups:

}You need a sheet of paper with your name on the top and then the letters S, P, and Q with space next to them for your editor to write comments while reading

–Summarize what the story is about (also identify the conflict, climax)

–Point to sections that worked well –quote the phrases or thoughts (textual evidence)

–Question anything you didn’t understand; what things does it seem like they are missing? Anything you want to say to the author goes here (questions, comments, critiques)

◦If you were given a paper copy and are sure of a mistake, make a correction on the story itself.  If it’s on Google docs, write your suggestion on the SPQ sheet

◦When you get your SPQ sheet back, read it and start making changes (deleting things that don’t work is NEVER a bad thing when working on second or third drafts)

Monday, Sept. 28 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Dialogue format mini-lesson

}Writer’s Workshop Time

◦What my comments mean

–Dialogue (natural), Show don’t Tell/more showing, aspects of a short story (exposition, rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution), character details (backstory)

–First Draft Evaluation: Exemplary, Accomplished, Promising, Developing, Beginning

◦Work Time Choices:

–Finish first draft

–Answer: How does your story demonstrate/reflect the human experience? What aspects? In what way? (if you didn’t on Friday)

–Meet with me (if your draft has comments on it, and you have written how it demonstrates the human experience)

–Revise from first draft to second if you have Comments from me and have met with me

–Revising: working to make the ideas of your story stronger, adding more showing/details, removing parts that don’t work, adding more character detail, move ideas and sentences around, substitute words (stronger descriptions, details, etc)

}Hwk: Reading for SSR letter

Friday, Sept. 25 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Fragments

Collect AoW Reflection

}Writer’s Workshop Time:

◦–first draft needed by end of class tomorrow (shared with me), typed, double spaced

}You must share your draft with me on Google Docs or email it to me

◦I will be checking in on your progress throughout class

}If you do need a break, read your book rather than cause a distraction (also, don’t go to sites other than those being used for music or research for your story)

}Human Experience: how does/will your story show the human experience?

◦It needs to be written in a sentence or two on the top of the document that you shared with me (draft)

If your story is not finished, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP WORKING ON IT TO FINISH ASAP!!!  I will be reading the stories this weekend, but the story needs to be complete for me to comment on it.

Thursday, Sept. 24 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: AoW Discussion

}Theme of “The Sniper” Small Group Discussion

  Share your individual themes

 Come up with a group theme and identify three pieces of textual evidence that show the group theme

  Turn in your individual paragraph and group answer when complete

}**Mrs. J theme: War causes people to do things they think are right but that they regret in the end: “cold gleam of the fanatic” “the lust of battle died in him” “bitten by remorse”

Story Map needs to be checked before you begin your first draft

}**Drafting Time –first draft needed by end of class tomorrow (shared with me), typed, double spaced

}You must share your draft with me on Google Docs or email it to me

◦I will be checking in on your progress throughout class

}If you do need a break, read your book rather than cause a distraction (also, don’t go to sites other than those being used for music or research for your story)

Wednesday, Sept. 23 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Complex Sentences: definition in glossary

}Theme: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231270331821/

}“The Sniper”

◦What is the theme of this story? While reading, close read the story for details that show theme.  Write a TIQA paragraph where you explain what the theme is and the textual evidence that builds that theme. Due Tomorrow.

}Writing your own Short Story

◦Story map/Plot chart due tomorrow, half-way through work time

}Writer’s Workshop

}Your short story: story map/plot chart outline

◦Get it checked before beginning First Draft

}POV –first, third limited, third omniscient

}Dialogue –make it sound natural

}Starting out the story –make sure you have all aspects you need to have when you write: this means you need all of the ideas we’ve looked at while reading short stories this year

}**Drafting Time –first draft needed by Friday, end of work time {Shared with me, typed, double spaced }, Second draft due Tuesday

}Google Docs is best choice

Tuesday, Sept. 22 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Dependent Clauses

}“Cask of Amontillado” pg 344

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

◦Questions “What is the mood and what 2-3 details of setting most help establish that mood?” and 8 on pg 353

}Read “Behind the Cask”

◦Answer question 10 pg 353 about “Behind the Cask” on same sheet

◦Turn Sheet in to folder and read AoW (on stool)

◦https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528258231266349049/

}Brainstorm for tomorrow in Writer’s Notebook: We will start planning your short story tomorrow.  Start thinking of what you could write about: characters, settings, conflicts, ideas, etc.

}Check your WN for entries: WN check tomorrow or Thursday

}Definition of Theme, pg 402 –notes in glossary (T page), definition of Symbol on S page

}AoW: Close Read Wed, Reflection Fri

Friday, Sept. 18 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Turn in SSR letter to the green crate, 4th block folder

}In Glossary section: point of view (from literature glossary section), Setting, and Mood (pg 302 and 304 in Lit Book): takes notes based on what you read and what you feel is important to get an understanding of these terms.

◦What is setting? How does setting influence: characters, conflicts and symbolism?

◦What is mood? How is it established?

What is Point of View? What are the three types found in fiction?

}Finish Human Experience paragraph(s) from yesterday: read your book if and when you finish

}Character Description Illustration

}In Writer’s Notebook/Discussion: Is revenge ever justified? Is revenge necessary at times to right a wrong? Can acts of revenge resolve conflicts? If you think no, write why people still commit acts of revenge.  If you think yes, explain how or why.

}“Cask of Amontillado” pg 344-344 (first three paragraphs)

◦While reading, take notes in reader’s notebook of details that identify and describe setting and mood (sensory details, repetition, descriptions)

◦Questions “What is the mood and what 2-3 details of setting most help establish that mood?” and 8 on pg 353