September 3 Welcome Daily Objective: Today ALL students will learn…. the expectations for the...

September 3Welcome• Daily Objective:• Today ALL students will learn….

• the expectations for the school year

• Daily Agenda:• Today ALL students will do….

• Read the Syllabus, ask questions, and high light important parts

• Syllabus• Read• Ask questions• High light important parts

September 4• SRI

September 5• New Seats—Popsicle sticks• Pick up your composition book• Write your name on it• Oh-the Places You’ll Go• Reflection in comp. book

• Due: Signed Syllabus

September 8• CS: Get your journal and write three goals you have for this

year. Use complex sentence structure. For example: “One of my goals this year is _______ because _________.” Use three different sentence starters.

• Want Ads • Interview a student• Create your want ad

• Finish SRI testing (Library)• Fluency testing here.

Objectives and Agenda• Daily Objective:• Today ALL students will learn….

• Interviewing


• Create a Want Ad

September 9• CS: Get your journal, look at your goals…..• 1. Are they complete sentences?• 2. Are they complex sentences? (One of my goals is _____

because _____.) Do they all have different sentence starters?• 3. If none of the above, correct sentences.• 4. Choose one goal and write a plan to achieve that goal. Use at

least three complex sentences that outline how you will achieve that goal.

• Want Ads • Finish Want Ad

• Finish SRI testing (Library)• Fluency testing here.


• Write informational text


• Create a Want Ad

September 10• CS: • 1. Turn in Want Ads • 2. Get your Journal and have a seat

• A. Read your Goals and Plan—Finish your Goals and Plan as needed• B. Read your paragraph from “Oh-The Places You’ll Go” to yourself and then to a

friend (out loud)

• Paragraph writing and lecture• You will need highlighters today : Purple, Blue, Green, and Yellow (Use

Colored Pencils, Crayons, Markers if you do not have highlighters)

• We will be working with your paragraphs from Dr. Seuss. You will be revising and editing as needed. Please use a sticky note and turn your pages over so you can easily access the paragraph as you rewrite it on another page.

• Finish SRI testing (Library)?• Fluency testing here.?


• Learn paragraphing• Revision and Editing (writing process)


• Rewrite their paragraph reflection on “Oh-The Places You’ll Go”

September 11—Happy Patriot Day!!• CS: • 1. Get Journals • 2. Sit in seats quickly

• Watch video clip• Vocabulary• Read article • Take notes• Venn • Time line

• Discussion

• Essential Questions:• 1. How do the choices

an author makes create an effect that conveys the author’s purpose?• 2. What

considerations should a writer take in order to clearly convey his/her purpose and message?


• Author’s Purpose• Tone


• Close read of “A Warm, Clear Day in Dallas from John F. Kennedy” by Marta Randall p578

• Discussion of article and its purpose and tone

September 12• SSR

• Rubric ..\..\Strong Reading Behaviors (3).docx

September 15• CS: • 1. Get Journals • 2. Get a copy of article

from last week

• Read article together• Discussion• Answer questions• Describe the author’s

purpose. What specific words or phrases advanced the author’s purpose?

• Essential Questions for the unit:• 1. How do the choices

an author makes create an effect that conveys the author’s purpose?

• 2. What considerations should a writer take in order to clearly convey his/her purpose and message?


• Author’s Purpose• Tone• Take notes


• Close read of “A Warm, Clear Day in Dallas from John F. Kennedy” by Marta Randall p578

• Discussion of article and its purpose and tone• Answer questions


from last week

• Read article together• Close Read of article• Worksheet





• Author’s Purpose• Tone• Take notes


• Close read of “A Speech to Congress” Lyndon B Johnson• Discussion of article and its purpose and tone• Answer questions


• Answer questions from worksheet (yesterday) in your journals

• Summary Writing—handout





• Author’s Purpose• Tone• Take notes• Write summary—Prewrite


• Close read of “A Speech to Congress” Lyndon B Johnson• Write summary paragraph; complete handout

September 22• CS:

1. Sit in the same numbered seat2. Get Journals 3. Get a copy Helen on Eighty-Sixth

Street4. Begin reading

• Read story independently• When finished re-read story and

answer the following questions in your journal

1. Who is the author?2. What is the title?3. What is the author’s purpose?4. Who is the audience?5. What is the tone?6. Where is the story set?7. Write three details you found

interesting about the story.

• Essential Questions for the unit:• 1. How do the choices an

author makes create an effect that conveys the author’s purpose?


• Afterschool help this Wednesday at 2:45


• Author’s Purpose• Cite Textual evidence


• Close read of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”

September 23• CS: • Get…….Journals, copy of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Define or give an example of the following in your journal:

• Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Conjunction, Interjection, Preposition• Turn in assignments (before class begins)….Several of you have not turned in

your • 1. summary paragraph plan (pre-write)• 2. summary paragraph rough draft• 3. summary paragraph final draft

• “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Finish your partner reading• Finish answering questions from yesterday in your journal

• Whole class read…take notes in journal• Look for specific quotes you can use to help support our discussion and write them

down using quotation marks


• Author’s Purpose• Cite Textual evidence


• Close read of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Choose write quotes in their journals to support our discussion

September 24• CS: • Get…….Journals, copy of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”, and Clause

Handout• Complete Clause handout and turn in

• “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Whole class read…take notes in journal

• Look for specific quotes you can use to help support our discussion and write them down using quotation marks

• Finish answering questions in your journal1. Who is the author?2. What is the title?3. What is the author’s purpose?4. Who is the audience?5. What is the tone?6. Where is the story set?7. Write three details you found interesting about the story.


• The Clause (mini)• Author’s Purpose• Cite Textual evidence


• Close read of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Notes in journals

September 25• CS: • Get…….Journals, copy of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”, and Clause

Handout• Complete Adverb Clause handout

• “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Complete the second side. Due today!!!! Done or not. I want to see

you citing textual evidence using quotation marks either in journal or on the handout. This will be used for an extensive writing project.

• Finish answering questions in your journal1. Who is the author?2. What is the title?3. What is the author’s purpose?4. Who is the audience?5. What is the tone?6. Where is the story set?7. Write three details you found interesting about the story.


• The Adverb Clause (mini)• Author’s Purpose• Cite Textual evidence


• Close read of “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street”• Complete handout• Notes in journals

September 26—Happy birthday to me (& Mrs. Brooks)• SSR (Rubric ..\..\Strong Reading Behaviors (3).

docx)

• Finish summary paragraphs• Turn in Vocabulary • Correct Adverb Clause handout (ex D and E)

September 29• CS: Get Journal; Get our your TREEREEC paragraph instructions

from earlier this quarter• In journals: Write a complex sentence about this weekend.

• Use TREEREEC paragraph structure to analyze “Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street.”• Brainstorm in journal three ways Vita changed in the story• Write a thesis• Brainstorm details to support the three ways Vita changed in the

story• Write three body paragraphs of an essay • Highlight paragraphs

September 30• CS: Get Journal; Get your TREEREEC paragraph handout; Get your

outlines from yesterday

• You need: • Journal• TREEREEC paragraph handout• Outlines from yesterday• Notebook paper • Pen

• Prompt…..What are three changes that Vita goes through over the course of the story• 1. thesis statement• 2. 3 body paragraphs

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