Tuesday, September 24th

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
 
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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.