Descriptive Beginnings...

0.  Essays stuff.  Essay Checks.  Essay Read Aloud.  Essay Format.

1.  Journal-  Let's be reporters, and report on what we see.

2.  Descriptive Notes.

3.  HW-  Reading, Chapter 3 in On Course.

Workshop, cont. + Grammar!

1. Journal-  

However you can, using whatever resources you can, define:  Cliche,  Dead Metaphor, Concrete Word, Abstract Word.

2. Quick Descriptive Chat....  Some notes and to dos and don'ts.

2.5  No Way Errors...   Brief intro and discussion.

1.  Fragment.
2.  Comma Splice
3.  Run on
4.  Tense shift.
5.  Verb tense agreement.
6.  Parallelism.
7.  Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
8.  Comma after introductory elements-
 



3.  Groups and Editing.  Questions for readers to answer, below.


1.  Does the essay begin in the middle of the story?

2.  Does the essay seem to have a beginning, middle, and end?

3.  Would the essay be interesting to some people?

4.  Does the writer have a voice?  Do they sound unique?

5.  Would you tell this story to another person?

6.  Was anything left out of the story?

7.  What's the topic of the story?

8.  What's the purpose of this narrative?

9.  Write a compliment...


4.  Closing and what's up-

Your final draft is due for submission on Friday.

Draft Revision Day!

1.  Welcome to class...

2.  Journal- 

We're moving into discussing description, so let's practice!  Describe a familiar object without saying its name or function.

3.  Groups and Narrative Workshop-  Fish Bowl.

4.  What type of comments are okay?  How do I comment? 

5.  Groups and editing.

6.  Closing and HW-

7.  HW-  Bring your revised draft to class on Thursday.

Inventing Ideas

1.  Welcome to class!   


                                                                                Happy Valentine's Day! 


2.  Extended invention journal-


Grab one or two objects that are calling your name. 

Pick up the ones that make you feel, the ones that make you smile. 

Return to your seat with the object and really, really, intensely observe it. 

Read it if it has words, smell it if you dare. 

Don't taste it, unless you choose the candy hearts, then share with others. 

Close your eyes and just turn it in your hands. 

What memories or stories does this object return to you? 

Think about and access those stories and be ready to share the story about the object with another person.
 

3.  Pair and Share.


4.  Invention time: pre-writing.



5.  The BIG WHY!  Why did we do this?  (Check for understanding)  



Exeunt all!

Moving the Narrative...

0.   Pre Journal- 

Look up… What’s a Creator Mindset?  What’s a Victim Mindset?

Marcus Smart-  Basketball story…

1.    Journal- 

It’s a long one.  First, draw the layout of your last school, or the school you spent the most high school time in.  Then, using the map, highlight events you remember.  In one of these events, you were either a “creator” or “victim.”  Choose one and summarize what happened.

2.     GPS-  Share your story with a group member….

3.     Planning a narrative Story-  Notes!

4.     HW-  Read Chapter two-  Pages, in my book, 41-67.

5.     HW-  Plan out the narrative story, about you as a student, that you’ll write for the class.  The assignment is to tell a story with a  beginning, middle and end that highlights the choices you made as a student.  It could be the creator, victim story from before…

HW-  Typed Draft of Narrative Essay Due Tuesday.

1.  Journal-  Tell a story that shows what you are like as a student...

2.  6 Traits review... quick and group grading...  Read "Mother Nature"

3.  Use this rubric to grade...

4.  HW-  Bring your book, On Course, on THURSDAY!

Traits Practice-

1.  Journal- 

Take out your TS definitions list.  Which thinking skills do you use to complete origami?  Why?

2. Sentence Fluency work…

I went to the park.

I saw a dog.

He was brown and black.

He barked.

He started to run towards me.

I panicked.

He ran faster.

I ran faster.

He caught me by the leg.

He pulled me down.

I fell.

He jumped on my face.

He opened his mouth.

I saw his teeth.

He licked me.

He wagged his tail.

2.  Voice Practice...

3.  HW-  Complete this worksheet related to sentence types...

Final Thinking Skill Project-

1.  Journal-  Write directions explaining to someone how to do a complex task like tying a shoe, or making salsa, or fixing a flat tire.

2.  Thinking Skills final project...

3.  HW-   Follow these directions to complete your Origami Crane!