Wednesday, December 18th

Goals: 

Announcements: 

• Quiz over sentence errors and FANBOYS on Friday
• 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 on Friday
• We are going to do a Gallery Walk on Friday to present ONE final draft piece of writing.  We will meet with Writing Groups on Wednesday for revision. 
• Skyline Book Club
  • Early Lunch, we will be reading The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. 
  • Late Lunch, you will be reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.
    • Book Club is on Tuesday, January 21, so you have plenty of time to read!

1. Reading

3. Grammar 

• FANBOYS or Not

4. Independent Workshop

• Finish Blog #3
• Pick a piece to revise for publication on Friday to bring to your Writing Group. 

5. Writing Groups

• Everybody share Docs with all group members. 
• Take turns reading your piece aloud. 
• After author reads, each group member: 
  • Praise:
    • ​Name the best, most vivid imagery
    • Use of another specific technique that really works. 
    • A line or detail that you could connect/relate to. 
  • Suggest/Question
    • One specific place that the piece could use more detail. 
    • One question you have about the piece
    • One word that could be replaced for a more powerful word. 
  • Give time for the author to write down the groups' feedback before they move on to the next author.