Monday, Feb. 1 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes

}Share Poems

}How to: AoW: What it is and how to do a close read

◦Close Read due Wednesday

}Discuss with your neighbor your ideas about “Sound of Thunder” esp. the end: What could the end mean? (safety off, sound of thunder) How else could it have ended?

}THIRD BLOCK ONLY: In your editing section, answer this question: What should we all know and do while writing? Sentence or list format: brainstorm as many ideas as possible.

•Discussion and creation of baseline writing expectations.

•As a group, create a document on Google Drive and share it with me.

Friday, Jan. 29 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Independent Clauses(in editing section)

}Short Stories: Focus #1: Plot and Sequencing

}Short Story Words: report to group, write down details of terms as peers talk

}“Sound of Thunder” pg 34

◦Fill out plot chart while reading and after reading 

◦Finish reading and filling out plot chart on own (when done, turn it in to the 1st block folder in the green crate). 

◦Either read your book/write your SSR letter (SSR letter due on MONDAY!) or work on your poem (creative presentation due Mon) until the end of the block.

Thursday, Jan. 28 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Go to your Writer’s Notebook 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

•Rubric

•All poems will be read aloud Monday

}What is “the human experience”? Brainstorm in glossary (‘H’ page)

}Add to glossary.  Define Inference, Explicit, Analysis/Analyze, Close Read, Textual Evidence

}Intro first unit: Short Stories

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

}Work Time when you have your terms defined

◦Reminders:

•Creatively ‘presented’ poem due Monday

•Show who you are with what your poem looks like

◦You can continue working 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

◦Or you can read your book for your SSR letter (reminder, letter due Monday)

Wednesday, Jan. 27 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes – take out a blank sheet of paper, write the phrase Prefix/Suffix/Root Section in top margin

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

}Writer’s Notebook- divide into sections

}SSR Letter how-to and questions

}I Am From Poem

oExample

oPutting your info into poem format

oWriter’s Workshop (check brainstorming)

oWork time

oWrite your first draft: show to me as soon as you are finished: ROUGH DRAFT DUE TOMORROW!!!

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

}Word Choice and Sensory Images

◦Notes in the Craft Lesson section

Tuesday, Jan. 26 Agenda

}Find Seat (chart on stool) –A little bit about Mrs. Johnson…

}Expectations and Procedures

}Practice Bell Ringer:  Journal- What are your worries of this semester in general and English specifically? What are things you are confident about?

üWrite in your writer’s notebook for the entire time you are given (about 5 minutes)

üI will be walking around checking for length and effort

üWe may share after the 5 minutes

}Finish up Expectations/Procedures

}Syllabus

•Bring the bottom part signed ASAP!

}Library- 10 min- You NEED a book by Thursday at the latest!

}SSR Letter expectations and set up (SSR LETTER DUE Monday)

◦SSR Letter Example and beginning

}I Am From Poem –brainstorm due tomorrow (three in each section)

o  Brainstorm

oIf you finish, read your book for a bit

Epic Characteristics Assignment

Your first step in the cyclops assignment can be completed through this form.  Once you have submitted the form, decide if you want to complete the second step on your own or with a partner.

Wednesday, January 20 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: 5-7 minutes study time for word parts test (Fri)

}Finish Posters

}Writer’s Workshop Time

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

◦Intro Examples (shared with you)

◦Works Cited page reminder (only one entry –the book)

◦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.

}Posters will be presented tomorrow (in case you didn’t get the chance to finish)…

}Paper needs to be printed out, DOUBLE-SPACED, rubric paper clipped to front, work cited page is last page (when you walk in on FRIDAY)

Tuesday, Jan. 19 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Find your Epic Notes from Friday

}Epic Poster Creation

}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.

Monday, Jan. 18 Agenda

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

}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 last week (Thursday) 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

Friday, Jan. 15 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: List of roots

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Summary vs. Analysis reminder

◦Work time on Paper: first thing, write your thesis (revise it if necessary) as the first sentence on your draft

◦**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 Monday

◦Intro notes –rough drafts of intro due Monday end of time and the body paras are due at the end of work time today/ASAP for me to read over the weekend

}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

}Based on the information you have written on your web, brainstorm any stories, movies, books, etc that you know of that could fit into this definition (write these down on the same notes sheet)