Tuesday, November 13

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 7

Mini-lesson: Literature Devices: Imagery

Writing time: 60 minutes
Rubrics: Structure & Development & Conventions

* Also, we complete the Friday, nanowrimo group work survey

* Binder clean out

*PSAT prep:  Convention work

The students continued to complete a Level 1 examination of the "parts" of the US Constitution in order to transfer their understanding to a level 2 metaphor project that supports a higher level understanding through comparison work. 

Homework/Due Dates

Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 19: Stems List 34 assessment

November 16, Nanowrimo group work survey

November 8, Thursday

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 6

Mini-lesson: Literature Devices: Symbolism, Metaphors, personification, and foreshadowing

Writing time: 60 minutes
Rubrics: Structure & Development & Conventions

PSAT prep:  Convention work

The students continued to complete a Level 1 examination of the "parts" of the US Constitution in order to transfer their understanding to a level 2 metaphor project that supports a higher level understanding through comparison work. 

Homework/Due Dates
Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 19: Stems List 34 assessment

November 13: Argument-->Final Copy: Introduction, Rebuttal & Conclusion

November 7, Wednesday

Short Day Wednesday

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 

Mini-lesson: Literature devices review & Writers' Workshop Spiral work

Writing time: 60 minutes

PSAT prep:  Convention & Mechanics work

Scored Preamble summaries were passed back and we examined a highly proficient anchor/mentor text summary's parts. 

Homework/Due Dates

Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 19: Stems List 34 assessment

November 13: Argument-->Final Copy: Introduction, Rebuttal & Conclusion
November 8: Stems List 33- Re-assessment 

Tuesday, November 6

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 4

Mini-lesson: Point of View and Changes within the text

Writing time: 55 minutes

PSAT prep:  Convention work

Writers Workshop

Mini-lesson: Peer conferring

Work time: conferring time

Mode: Argument: Structure & Development Rubrics

Homework/Due Dates
Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 19: Stems List 34 assessment

November 13: Argument-->Final Copy: Introduction, Rebuttal & Conclusion
November 8: Stems List 33- Re-assessment 

Monday, November 5

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 3

Mini-lesson: dialogue tags and inner dialogue

Writing time: 55 minutes
PSAT prep:  Convention work

The students continued working on their US Constitution Level 1 information gathering work in order to show their understanding of how the US Constitution can be compared to an object with metaphors (Level 2 work). 

* Passed back Stems List 33 & re-assessment expectations
* Passed out Stems List 34

Homework/Due Dates
Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 16: Stems List 34 assessment

Friday, November 2

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 2
No mini-lesson

PSAT prep:  Convention work

The students continued working on their US Constitution Level 1 information gathering work in order to show their understanding of how the US Constitution can be compared to an object with metaphors (Level 2 work). 


Stems List 33 Assessment: The students were able to show their higher-level understanding of Stems List 33 vocabulary words.

Preamble Summary Support-->  body content (Cornell notes), review your notes

Writers' Workshop
Mode: Argument/position
Mini-lesson: Clean up Thesis/ sentence strips
Work time: Group work: Thesis 
Rubrics: Structure & Development & Conventions

Was the American Revolution inevitable?

Homework/Due Dates
Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 5- Preamble Summary
November 5- Ms. Sander's Revision

Thursday, November 1

Reading Prompt-

Nanowrimo (National November Writing Month) Day 1 
No mini-lesson

PSAT prep:  Convention work

The students began working on their US Constitution Level 1 information gathering work in order to show their understanding of how the US Constitution can be compared to an object with metaphors (Level 2 work). 
Writers' Workshop
Mode: Argument/position
Mini-lesson: Ms. Sander's Revision
Work time: Revision work on the first draft
Rubrics: Structure & Development & Conventions

Was the American Revolution inevitable?

Homework/Due Dates
Jan 22- 12 Bookmarks
November 2- Stems List 33
November 5- Preamble Summary
November 5- Ms. Sander's Revision