Monday 9/16:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Reader's Notebook #4 "Prediction": Based on what you have read thus far, make a prediction about things to come in your story and support your prediction with evidence from the text (10 sentences minimum)
-Discuss "Yamhill Street" and examples of "Show not Tell"
-Writer's Notebook #4 "Dialogue":
-->Part 1: Describe a conversation that you have had with someone that you can remember (-3 min.) Now rewrite the same conversation using dialogue.
-Dialogue notes (see below)
-Dialogue rules (see below)
-->Part 2: Read the memoir "My Dad Tried to Kill me with an Alligator" and assess the ways in which dialogue is used (7-10 sentences)
*HW: Finish Reader's and Writer's Notebook #4/ Read
Tuesday 9/17:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "Dear John"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Discuss dialogue in "My Dad Tried to Kill me with an Alligator"
-Tone:
-->Group Example (table cards)
-->Look over tone words/handout
-->Mary Poppins Example
-->Notes
-Writer's Notebook #5 "Tone": Take a look at either of the two memoirs that we have read thus far and locate THREE tones present within the story. Name the different tones and support each example with at least one line from the text.
*HW: Finish Writer's Notebook #5/ Read/ Head's up there will be a notebook check early next week!
Wednesday 9/18:
1/2 Day --> Academic Review Day
Thursday 9/19:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "In Order to Live"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Discuss "Significance"
-->What is it? (look back at two example memoirs)
-Writer's Notebook #6 "Memoir Group Work" (see pdf below)
*HW: See above/ Read
Friday 9/20:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Reader's Notebook #5 "Letter": Write a letter from one character in your novel to someone that they treasure. Be sure to stay true to the text in your response. (no less than 10 sentences)
-Grammar Lesson #2: "A Few Simple Rules On Punctuation" (1-7)
-->Notes
-->Exercise
-Finish Writer's Notebook #6 "Memoir Group Work"
*HW: See above/ Read
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Reader's Notebook #4 "Prediction": Based on what you have read thus far, make a prediction about things to come in your story and support your prediction with evidence from the text (10 sentences minimum)
-Discuss "Yamhill Street" and examples of "Show not Tell"
-Writer's Notebook #4 "Dialogue":
-->Part 1: Describe a conversation that you have had with someone that you can remember (-3 min.) Now rewrite the same conversation using dialogue.
-Dialogue notes (see below)
-Dialogue rules (see below)
-->Part 2: Read the memoir "My Dad Tried to Kill me with an Alligator" and assess the ways in which dialogue is used (7-10 sentences)
*HW: Finish Reader's and Writer's Notebook #4/ Read
Tuesday 9/17:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "Dear John"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Discuss dialogue in "My Dad Tried to Kill me with an Alligator"
-Tone:
-->Group Example (table cards)
-->Look over tone words/handout
-->Mary Poppins Example
-->Notes
-Writer's Notebook #5 "Tone": Take a look at either of the two memoirs that we have read thus far and locate THREE tones present within the story. Name the different tones and support each example with at least one line from the text.
*HW: Finish Writer's Notebook #5/ Read/ Head's up there will be a notebook check early next week!
Wednesday 9/18:
1/2 Day --> Academic Review Day
Thursday 9/19:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "In Order to Live"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Discuss "Significance"
-->What is it? (look back at two example memoirs)
-Writer's Notebook #6 "Memoir Group Work" (see pdf below)
*HW: See above/ Read
Friday 9/20:
-Good Things?
-Book Talk "They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky"
-Silent Read 10 Minutes
-Reader's Notebook #5 "Letter": Write a letter from one character in your novel to someone that they treasure. Be sure to stay true to the text in your response. (no less than 10 sentences)
-Grammar Lesson #2: "A Few Simple Rules On Punctuation" (1-7)
-->Notes
-->Exercise
-Finish Writer's Notebook #6 "Memoir Group Work"
*HW: See above/ Read
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