5th Six Weeks

Week 4

March 21-25, 2016

MONDAY, March 21

 * Review the expository strategies: introduction, body, conclusion.

 * Attention grabbers, controlling idea, point, example, explanation, link (PEEL)

 * Types of examples: history, entertainment, literature, personal experience (HELP)

 * Insight, rephrasing, summarizing, advise (IRSA)

 * Go over the weakest SE's on the revising and editing part of DBM#2

 * Use higher level questioning.

  

TUESDAY, March 22

 * Show a revised essay converted from a two (2) to a four (4)

 * Go over revising and editing questions from DBM #2

 * Use higher level questioning

 * Point out some writing techniques in the passages for students to adopt in their writing.

WEDNESDAY, March 23

 * Ask students their most difficult problems in writing and revising; address those.

 * More revising and editing questions analyzed answer choice by answer choice

 * Use higher DOK's for questioning.

 * "Read as WRITERS; write as READERS."

THURSDAY, March 24

 * Ask students their most difficult problems in writing and revising; address those.

 * Revising and editing questions analysis (continued)

 * Use DOK 1,2,3,4
 * "Read as WRITERS; write as READERS."

FRIDAY, March 25 GOOD FRIDAY