Eng.+10+Sept.


 * Sept. 1, 2013

Labor Day || Sept. 2

[|Syllabus]

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Alternate view of [|Literacy Stampede]

[|Initial Assessment]

Writer's Notebook: Membership Grid || Sept. 3
 * One Sentence Writing
 * Describe self as writer

WITD: [|Refusal to Accept Failure]

Membership Grid

Organization of Writer's Notebook

[|9 Rights of Every Writer]

Review [|rubric] for notebook

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Writing Territories--hand--create and write

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Assign" Personalization || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 4

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WITD: [|Life's Instructions]

<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;">Writer's Notebook


 * <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;">Grammar Primer

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bring photos, drawings, quotes tomorrow || <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:

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

[|Initial Reading and Writing Selections]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mentor text: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|"Where I am From"]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Scaffold for poem]

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grammar Primer, if time ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 8

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

<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. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mentor text: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|"Where I am From"]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> [|Scaffold for poem]

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bring photos, drawings, quotes. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 9

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

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

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

<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: <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

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion of Cisneros' poem, looking at craft.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[| Individual writing time--be prepared to share].

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pair-share <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Whole class discuss || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 12

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

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

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Continue with Cisneros' poem. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 15

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|"A Valentine for Ernest Mann"]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 1. Where could you find poems in your life–in the garage, your sock drawer, somewhere else?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2. In the first stanza the poet uses simile. What two very different things is she comparing? What is she saying about poems using this simile?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 3. In the second stanza the poet personifies poems. What human things does she say poems can do? What is she telling us about poems by using this figure of speech?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 4. The second stanza also includes a metaphor. What are poems compared to? What does this metaphor tell us about poems?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 5. Why does the speaker tell us about the man and skunks in the third stanza? (What do skunks have to do with poetry?)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 6. What final advice does the speaker give Ernest Mann? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Students write list of advice they'd give, like to receive, or have received.

[|"Mother to Son"]

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

VIew: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|“Lost Generation” Johnathan Reed --Youtube clip] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 16

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Lost Generation” Johnathan Reed --Youtube clip

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="23826720"

<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;">Show our drafts--suggestions

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Invitation to write || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 17

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

<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. 18

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students view [|Selection of Poetry], choose three to comment on and share with group.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work on grammar. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sept. 19

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students continue reading and commenting on mentor texts.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After group discussion, students select mentor texts to model their writing after. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students have individual writing time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students begin writing selections to share and submit to teacher next week. ||
 * Sept. 22

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work on drafts of 2 poems and 1 piece of prose

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meet with writing partner/group to make improvements/revisions to writing || Sept. 23

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work on drafts of 2 poems and 1 piece of prose

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meet with writing partner/group to make improvements/revisions to writing

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grammar primer--commas || Sept. 24

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

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work on grammar diagnostic || Sept. 25

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

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

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Work on grammar diagnostic

Slip or Trip Padlet [|3rd hour] [|4th hour] [|5th hour] [|7th hour]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Peacock's Poser Case] || Sept. 26

[|WITD] Review rules of persuasive writing Slip or Trip Padlet [|3rd hour] [|4th hour] [|5th hour] [|7th hour]

Looking at claims, warrants, and evidence <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Peacock's Poser Case]

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 * Sept. 30

[|WITD] Read mentor text and identify warrants, claims, and evidence

[|No Cell Phones]

[|Monitoring Online Activity] || * Read like a writer with[|"Proof We've Failed to Teach What Children Should Know"] [|Examine mentor text] [|Writing a Persuasive Paper from Prompts] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Complete [|Read Like a Writer]sheet
 * Value line and T-charts using[|persuasive topics]