2014-15+Eng.+10+Sept.


 * Sept. 1, 2014

Labor Day || Sept. 2

[|Syllabus]

Alternate view of [|Literacy Stampede]

[|Initial Assessment]

Writer's Notebook:
 * One Sentence Writing
 * Describe self as writer

Membership Grid || Sept. 3

WITD: [|Life's Instructions]

Membership Grid

Organization of Writer's Notebook

[|9 Rights of Every Writer]

Review [|rubric] for notebook

Con't. One Sentence Writing--STAR Revision

Writing Territories- and write


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing Territories--neighborhood
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Choose territory from neighborhood or hand and write || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 4

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WITD: territories and write

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Membership Grid

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Con't. One Sentence

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing--STAR Revision

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students write in Writer's Notebook.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examine craft in mentor poetry.

[|G. Brooks' "We Real Cool"]

G. Brooks' [|"The Bean Eaters"]

"[|Read Like a Writer" form]

[|Poems for Annotation] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 5

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WITD: Choose best phrases from earlier writings--list

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Membership Grid

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writer's Notebook: [|Initial Reading and Writing Selections]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read Like a Writer: Excerpt of //The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading Strategies ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 8

[|WITD]

Discuss Reading Strategies used with <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">excerpt of //The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid//

Document reading strategies for fiction in Binder

Reading strategies for informational text--practice with "Rats" Document in binder

View: <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|“Lost Generation” Johnathan Reed --Youtube clip]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do we approach poetry? Is it different than other genres? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 9

[|WITD]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examine craft in mentor poetry

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Show two mentor texts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Example 1]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|J. Reed's Poem]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Examine for patterns/how to attack/sentence starters which allow us to reverse/transitions

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Invitation to write || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 10

[|WITD]

[|R. Coffin's "Forgive My Guilt"]

J Croce's [|"I Got a Name"]

[|"My Favorite Things"]

Invitation to Write

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Sandra Cisneros' Poem "Abuelito Who"]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Instructions] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 11

[|WITD]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students examine mentor texts and respond with what they notice.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Langston Hughes and others)]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Mary Oliver poetry]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Individual writing time--autobiographical poem or advice poem || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 12

[|WITD]

One poem is due. Students share at tables using P-Q-S and document ideas for revision. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 15

<span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|WITD]

Review rules of persuasive writing

Slip or Trip

[|Padlet] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 16

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">[|WITD]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grammar

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Peacock's Poser Case] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 17

<span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">[|WITD]/warm-up

<span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Discuss the importance of the Constitution. Students complete a <span style="display: block; font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1b63aa; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt] using <span style="color: #1b63aa; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">[|Constitution Center Website]

Go to [|Wikipedia] and read about each of the ten amendments which make up the Bill of Rights. After reading the Bill of Rights, consider the following:
 * What one amendment from the Bill of Rights do you hold most dear? Why?
 * How does the Bill of Rights shape our beliefs and who we are as Americans?
 * Explain what that might tell about your values and your beliefs.
 * Does the amendment (or the Bill of Rights) fit with your idea of the American Dream?

Write a response and be prepared to share at your table and with the class. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 18

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">[|WITD]

Continue looking at claims, evidence, and warrants in <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Peacock's Poser Case]

Homework: Write argument (last page of above case) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 19

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px;">[|WITD]

Turn in persuasive paragraph from crime scene activity

[|Writing a Persuasive Paper from Prompts] ||
 * Sept. 22

Warm-up: Read pg. Ixv in Pearson text. What do you notice? What is important to you?

Continue [|Writing a Persuasive Paper from Prompts]

Terms to know: Warrants, claims, and evidence || Sept. 23

Warm-up: Read [|No Cell Phones] and write a persuasive paragraph about the policy.

Read mentor text and identify warrants, claims, and evidence

See pg. Ixv in Pearson text.

Read like a writer with[|"Proof We've Failed to Teach What Children Should Know"]
 * Complete [|Read Like a Writer] sheet || Sept. 24

Grammar Warm-up: [|Independent/Dependent Clauses]

[|Examine mentor text]
 * Complete [|Read Like a Writer] sheet

Begin reading from Pearson text || Sept. 25

NWEA TESTING || Sept. 26

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Begin reading from Unit 1--Can progress be made without conflict?

Look at Reading Strategies with model: Langston Hughes "Early Autumn" p. 5-6

Read: "The Leap" by Louise Erdich p. 9-14

Ernest Hemingway once described courage as "grace under pressure." Do you agree or disagree with his definition based on an analysis of the narrator's mother?

Text Analysis: Craft and Structure ||
 * Sept. 29

[|Vocabulary]

Read: "The Leap" by Louise Erdich p. 9-14

Text Analysis: Examine Craft and Structure

Ernest Hemingway once described courage as "grace under pressure." Do you agree or disagree with his definition based on an analysis of the narrator's mother? || Sept. 30 NWEA TESTING ||