Sixth Week

September 28-October 2, 2015

THE WEEK AHEAD:

MONDAY, September 28

   * Revising and editing review (continued)

   * BOOK REPORT DUE

    * Work on late assignments.

TUESDAY, September 29

   * Review continues.

   * Students work on late assignments.

   * TELESCOPE PROJECT DUE

WEDNESDAY, September 30

   * Students go over personal narrative strategies.

   * Adjectival clause and complex sentences are revisited.

THURSDAY, October 1

    * 1ST 6 WEEKS COMMOM ASSESSMENT, revising and editing

FRIDAY, October 2

   * Personal  narrative essay

            

CREATIVE WRITING

Veterans Poem



Fifth Week

September 21-25, 2015

The Week Ahead:

MONDAY: September 21

 * Personal narrative

    - Students read and analyze a 4 essay and learn from the style of the student author.

    - Students continue writing their personal narrative.

    - This will be turned in as a final draft on Wednesday, Sept. 23.

  * Revising and editing review will continue 

  * Touch up on complex sentences: students write and analyze some examples.

TUESDAY: September 22

  * Revising and editing review continues.

  * Touch up on subject-verb-agreement: emphasize the rule - When the subject is singular, the verb must be singular; when the subject is plural, the verb must be plural.

  * All present tense verbs that are in third person singular always end in S.

  * All present tense verbs that are in third person plural DO NOT end in S.

WEDNESDAY: September 23

  * Revising and editing review continues.

     EARLY RELEASE

THURSDAY: September 24

  * Revising and editing review continues.

  * Personal narrative essay format of STAAR test is introduced to students.

FRIDAY: September 25

  * Revising and editing review continues.

CREATIVE WRITING

BIRDING Essay Contest

VETERANS POETRY Contest

Fourth Week

September 14-18, 2015

The Week Ahead:

MONDAY: 9/14

   * Students are given a specific prompt.

   *Students pick a specific topic from ideas generated in brainstorming.

   *Teacher models the process of outlining as an organizational tool.

   *Students outline their own topics as teacher monitors.
   *(Teacher may insert COMPLEX sentence here and the subordinating conjunctions AAAWWWUUBBIS.)

   *A short exposure to a STAAR formatted question with in-depth analysis.

TUESDAY: 9/15
   *(Teacher may insert here the common mistakes from compound and complex sentences written as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.)

   * LINEAR and STARRED writing are introduced with a power point and kinesthetic activity.

   * DEPTH CHARGING is another term for STARRED writing.

   *Discussion is coupled with thinking map: compare and contrast.

   *Students practice writing linear as well as starred writing.

    *A short exposure to a STAAR formatted question with in-depth analysis.

WEDNESDAY: 9/16
   * (Teacher may insert here the SUBJECT-VERB-AGREEMENT skill.)

   * TELESCOPING as a writing strategy is introduced.

   * It is FOCUS in a composition, or staying on topic.

   * A sample essay is read just demonstrating the skill.

   * A telescope project is assigned with a deadline on September 29 with these criteria:

           - colorful

           - neat

           - artistically decorated

           - handmade, not store bought

           - Name, Date, Period, Campus

   *A short exposure to a STAAR formatted question with in-depth analysis.

THURSDAY: 9/17

   *Students start writing their composition.

   * If not finished, they take this for HOMEWORK due the following day.

   *A short exposure to a STAAR formatted question with in-depth analysis.

FRIDAY: 9/18

   * Teacher and student model for the class the way a feedback loop works.

   * Students read to each other their draft to see if  there is FOCUS.

   

     *A short exposure to a STAAR formatted question with in-depth analysis.

    

CREATIVE WRITING

September 14-18, 2015

                     Students will continue writing their Patriot's Pen Essay for a contest.

Third Week

September 7-11,2015

The Week Ahead:

MONDAY:

   * Review compound sentence and coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet,so

   * Differentiate coordinating conjunctions with other similar words but are used differently like for as preposition,etc.

   * Review clauses and phrases with examples and practice.

   * Touch on the writing process.

TUESDAY

   * Continue on the writing process.

   * Do an activity with laminated tag boards or the Battle of the Process

   * Start MAGNIFYING ( zooming on a specific topic) with power point.

WEDNESDAY

    * Review some sample questions for the test.

    * Practice converting inverted sentences into natural sentences.

    * Introduce RUN-ONS, COMMA SPLICES,and FRAGMENTS.

THURSDAY

    * TEST: 3rd Week Common Assessment

FRIDAY

   * Introduce LINEAR (surface) and STARRED (depth) writing

   * Start TELESCOPING ( staying on one topic) with a full blown draft

                                  

   

CREATIVE WRITING

                                 Presentations of autobiographical incident