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Monday, September 30th

9/30/2019

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Goals:

I can notice and name the writing moves in a vignette.
I can use those effective writing moves to create my own vignette.

Announcements:

Read your choice book to your reading goal by next Monday
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.
For Friday, read and annotate the Article of the Week
Friday, we will take a quiz on participles & out-of-order adjectives (plus FANBOYS and sentence errors)

1. Reading & Book Talk

2. Participles

3. Mini-Lesson: Imagery

Pick a picture and describe it using lots of detail and imagery.
Underline what you consider to be effective imagery. See if you can find the original picture.

4. Writing Workshop time

Type up your vignette/connected vignette into a new draft.
Highlight one place where you used imagery effectively. Why do you think it was effective.
Meet with writing groups tomorrow.

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Friday, September 27th

9/27/2019

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Goals:

I can notice and name the writing moves in a vignette.
I can use those effective writing moves to create my own vignette.

Announcements:

Read your choice book to your reading goal by next Monday
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Reading & Book Talk

2. Article of the Week Discussion

3. (4th) Connected Vignette

My Life in 27 albums

4. Writing Workshop time

We will meet with writing groups on Monday. Have a finished draft of a vignette/connected vignette by then.

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Thursday, Sept. 26th

9/26/2019

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Goals:

I can notice and name the writing moves in a vignette.
I can use those effective writing moves to create my own vignette.

Announcements:

Read your choice book to your reading goal by next Monday
Article of the Week due tomorrow (annotated and a 1-2 paragraph written response.)
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Writer's Notebooks--4th hour

2. Reading & Book Talk

3. Participles

4. (4th) Writer's Notebook #8: "One Liar's Beginning"

Try one out in your Writer's Notebook (write for 10 minutes)
Review it--change a line, a word. Add a new description.
Share!

5. Connected Vignette

"Indian Education"--Sherman Alexie

5. Writing Workshop time

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Wednesday, September 25th

9/25/2019

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Goals:

I can work with a group to use the technique of show/not tell to describe a place.
I can use the show/not tell technique in my poem.

Announcements:

Read your choice book to your reading goal by next Monday
Article of the Week due on Friday (annotated and a 1-2 paragraph written response.
Turn in notebooks today
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Reading & Book Talk

2. Go over FANBOYS quiz

3. Writer's Notebook #8: "One Liar's Beginning"

Try one out in your Writer's Notebook (write for 10 minutes)
Review it--change a line, a word. Add a new description.
Share!

4. Add to Writing Territories

In 1 -2 write two things you did yesterday
3 – 4 write two things you like that others might not
5 - 6 write two conversations you have had recently
7 -8 write two things you don’t like that others do
9 – 10 write two things you don’t think you could live without

After creating this list we jump to a writing sprint, asking students to choose one topic at time to write about quickly.

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Tuesday, September 24th

9/24/2019

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Goals:

I can work with a group to use the technique of show/not tell to describe a place.
I can use the show/not tell technique in my poem.

Announcements:

Read your choice book to your reading goal by next Monday
FANBOYS quiz tomorrow
Article of the Week due on Friday (annotated and a 1-2 paragraph written response.
Turn in notebooks today
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. FANBOYS Quiz

2. Reading & Book Talk

3. (4th) Writer's Notebook # 7: 1001 Awesome Things by Neil Pasricha (Vignette)

What are the characteristics of this genre?
What are some good topics for this genre?
Try one out in your Writer's Notebook (Write for 10 minutes)
Review it--change a line, a word. Add a new description.
Share!

4. (5th) Writer's Notebook #8: "One Liar's Beginning" What are the characteristics that we can add to our genre list?

What are some good topics for this genre? Look to Writing Territories.
Try one out in your Writer's Notebook (write for 10 minutes)
Review it--change a line, a word. Add a new description.
Share!

5. (5th) Add to Writing Territories

In 1 -2 write two things you did yesterday
3 – 4 write two things you like that others might not
5 - 6 write two conversations you have had recently
7 -8 write two things you don’t like that others do
9 – 10 write two things you don’t think you could live without

After creating this list we jump to a writing sprint, asking students to choose one topic at time to write about quickly.

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Monday, September 23rd

9/23/2019

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Goals:

I can work with a group to use the technique of show/not tell to describe a place.
I can use the show/not tell technique in my poem.

Announcements:

Read your choice book to your reading goal by next Monday
FANBOYS quiz tomorrow
Article of the Week due on Friday (annotated and a 1-2 paragraph written response.
Turn in notebooks tomorrow
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Reading & Book Talk

2. (4th) Poem presentations

Silent gallery walk
- Give specific, positive feedback to the poem in front of you on a sticky note.

3. FANBOYS practice

4. Writer's Notebook # 7: 1001 Awesome Things by Neil Pasricha (Vignette)

What are the characteristics of this genre?
What are some good topics for this genre?
Try one out in your Writer's Notebook (Write for 10 minutes)
Review it--change a line, a word. Add a new description.
Share!

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Friday, September 20th

9/20/2019

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Goals:

I can work with a group to use the technique of show/not tell to describe a place.
I can use the show/not tell technique in my poem.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
FANBOYS--Monday or Tuesday?
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Reading & Book Talk

2. Article of the Week Discussion
With your small group, come up with 1 question or topic that you think would be interesting to talk about with the class.

3. Poem presentations

Silent gallery walk
- Give specific, positive feedback to the poem in front of you on a sticky note.

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Thursday, September 19th

9/19/2019

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Goals:

I can work with a group to use the technique of show/not tell to describe a place.
I can use the show/not tell technique in my poem.

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
Read, annotate and write a response to the Article of the Week
Have at least one more final draft poem finished by Friday.
FANBOYS quiz tomorrow
Join the Skyline bookclub! We will be reading Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia. The first meeting is Tuesday, October 8th during both lunches in the main office conference room.

1. Reading & Book Talk

2. Mini-Lesson: Show/Not Tell

With your group, describe the bolded adjective on your paper without ever saying the word. Use descriptions from the 5 senses as well as a FANBOYS sentence to show/not tell the word.

3. Writing Workshop Time

Revise your poem from last week
Work on a new poem idea
Include at least one moment in your poem of show/not tell. Mark that section or line with a comment and explain WHY you thought that was an important detail to show.
- Print out the final draft of your poem without your name on it. We will share them tomorrow anonymously.

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Wednesday, September 18th

9/18/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect examples of FANBOYS sentences

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
Read, annotate and write a response to the Article of the Week
Have at least one more final draft poem finished by Friday.

1. Reading

2. Grammar: FANBOYS review
FANBOYS words
FANBOYS rule
Write a FANBOYS sentence

3. Writer's Notebook #6: "Annabel Lee"--Edgar Allen Poe

What techniques do we notice the author using?

4. Writing Workshop Time

Revise your poem from last week
Work on a new poem idea

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Tuesday, September 17th

9/17/2019

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Goals:

I can explain what I notice about how a poem is written and develop some logical theories for WHY it is written that way.
I can identify correct and incorrect examples of FANBOYS sentences

Announcements:

Read your book everyday this week for at least 15 minutes.
Read, annotate and write a response to the Article of the Week
Have at least one more final draft poem finished by Friday.

1. Reading

2. Grammar: FANBOYS or Not?

3. Writer's Notebook #6: A Moment

Listen
What stories do you have that could be told as a poem?

4. Mini-Lesson: How to write a poem without a model

Ms. Feliks demo using Writing Territories and Writing off the page.

5. Writing Workshop Time

Revise your poem from last week
Work on a new poem idea

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