Announcements
- Check Your Gmail NOW Please!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Did you TURN IN your Mentor Data Sheet? Don't have a mentor yet? See Mr. DeGrandis!
- Period 1: Bring in canned or dry goods! We have permission for a pizza party. Let's do this!
- If you did a Just Law Thank You Letter, please see me!
DO Now - Copy: The Writing Process
Entry Title: The Writing Process
Learning Target(s)
- I can identify the parts of the the writing process in order to prepare to write my Who is Ha? essay.
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Mini-Lesson: What is the Writing Process
- Watch this video about The Writing Process
- What is Whole Brain Learning and how does it work?
- Sit next to a partner.
- Class - Yeah!
- Mirror Me!
- Teach - OK
The repetitive steps an author goes through to create a text. (Pre-writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Publishing)
- Pre-writing - Time to Think
Brainstorming, free writing, outlines, mind maps... - Drafting - Time to Write it Down
Don't worry about grammar, spelling, punctuation... YET! - Revising - Time to Improve Ideas
Big changes. Everything makes sense. Grammar, spelling and punctuation is perfect! - Editing - Time to Make it Correct (Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar) Smaller changes. Turn on suggestions in Google Docs!
- Publishing - Time to Share It with Others!
Teacher, Friends, Family, Blogs, Google, Websites...
Work Time
- Three Column Chart Activity
- Open The Writing Process Chart in Google Classroom.
- Fill it out with a partner or on your own.
Assessment / Homework
- Go to www.quizzizz.com and take the Writing Process Challenge!
TUESDAY 11-6-18 X-Day: No Classes - Superintendent's Conference Day
WEDNESDAY 11-7-18 C-Day: Pre-Writing the Who is Ha? essay.
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail NOW Please!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Did you TURN IN your Mentor Data Sheet? Don't have a mentor yet? See Mr. DeGrandis!
- Period 1: Bring in canned or dry goods! We have permission for a pizza party. Let's do this!
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DO Now - Visual Synectics: Making Comparisons
Entry Title: Visual Synectics
DIRECTIONS
- Select a single image from the choices below.
- Then complete this sentence....Pre-writing is like _______ because ________ .
- The first blank is the image you selected. The second is how you connect the the image with pre-writing.
- Example:
Pre-writing is like a launchpad because it sends your writing into orbit.
Learning Target(s)
- I can use a mind-map as a way to begin the pre-writing for my Who is Ha? essay.
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Mini-Lesson: Mind-Mapping: A Pre-writing Tool
- Reviewing The Writing Process
- Open The Writing Process Chart in Google Classroom.
- Fill it out with a partner or on your own. Then take the quiz below...
- Go to www.quizzizz.com and take the Writing Process Challenge!
Mind-Mapping: A Pre-Writing Strategy - What is a mind map?
- Why are they useful?
- How do you use a mind map for pre-writing?
- Who is DeGrandis? Sample Mind-map.
- Create your own using MindMup!
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Work Time
- Open Assignment 30.0 in Google Classroom.
- Fill out the Mind-map
- Share it with two other students.
- Add three (one for each category) characteristics to your graphic organizer.
- Have a friend share their graphic organizer with you.
- Make three comments about the the information on their organizer.
- You will receive pints for each comment when you turn it in.
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on Assignment 30.0.
THURSDAY 11-8 D-Day: Refresh: Single and Multi-paragraph Essays
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail NOW Please!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Did you TURN IN your Mentor Data Sheet? Don't have a mentor yet? See Mr. DeGrandis!
- Period 1: Last Chance! Bring in canned or dry goods! We have permission for a pizza party. Let's do this!
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DO Now - Copy
Copy these two new words into Vocabulary List II
7. contagion n. (contagions) - the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contactOnce the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.
8. pestilence n. (pestilences) - a fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague
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Learning Target(s)
- I can recall the proper structure of either a single or multi-paragraph essay.
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Mini-Lesson: Refresh: Single and Multi-Paragraph Essays
- Review of TREES (Periods 4 and 6)
- Watch this first: What's Opera Doc?
- Example of a well done Multi-paragraph Essay based on the cartoon, What's Opera Doc? (Periods 1, 2 and 4)
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Work Time
- Open Assignment 31.0.
- Periods 1, 2, 4 Only: Complete the outline (multi-paragraph essays only)
- Start your rough draft.
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Assessment / Homework
- Complete Assignment 31.0 by Monday
FRIDAY 11-9-18 A-Day: Finish Rough Draft
Announcements
- Final grades for MP1 are posted!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Did you TURN IN your Mentor Data Sheet? Don't have a mentor yet? See Mr. DeGrandis!
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Work Time
- Work on Assignments 28.0 & 31.0 - Due Sunday 11:59 PM. Do not start Assignment 32.0!
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Assessment / Homework
- Complete Assignments 28.0 & 31.0 by Sunday evening.
