Monday, March 18th

Goals

• Write nuanced claims
• Use the evidence to back up a claim 
• Use mentor texts to generate ideas for writing

Announcements: 

• Homework: Read for 15 minutes tonight every day of the weekend! 
• Homework:  Read, annotate and write a paragraph long response to the article of the week.  Due before class on Friday.  
• Blog Post #2 is due on Friday to Google Classroom.  

1. Reading & Book Talk

• Read for 10 minutes.  
• How many pages can you comfortably read in 10 minutes? 
• Multiply that number by 12.  That is your reading goal each week for this book. 
• Write down your goal in your Writer's Notebook next to your other goals. 

2. Notebook: Low Battery

• Write next to this text.
  • ​Respond to the overall message. OR
  • Write down and respond to one line. OR
  • Write your own poem. 

3. Writing a nuanced claim: NOTES ​

• Go back to your claim from Friday.  Is it compelling, debatable & defensible? Is it nuanced?  
  • ​Revise it! 
  • Share examples on a continuum.  
  • How could we find the best evidence for a claim?  Do one together. 
• Now, write a paragraph (with evidence from one of the sources that we read this week) that argues your claim. Turn these in to Ms. Feliks