Monday, January 25:
Kick-Off: Using Quotation Marks for Dialogue
Practicing Adjectives/Adverbs
Complete Writing Notes on Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Descriptive Writing
Prompt Practice: Determining Mode, Topic, and Audience
Notes on Organizing an Essay: Hamburger Diagram
Homework: Vocabulary Ex 1
Tuesday, January 26:
Kick-Off: Using Quotation Marks for Dialogue
Practicing Adjectives/Adverbs
Review Vocabulary Ex 1. Answers
Unfinished Notes
Transition Words
Essay Organizing Practice as a class
Wednesday, January 27:
Review Essay Organizational Plan
Give In-Class Essay Topic
Review Essay Rubric
Plan Hamburger for In-Class Expository essay (finish at home to use during in-class timed writing)
Thursday, January 28:
Timed In-Class Expository Essay
Homework: study writing notes-- Be able to name four modes and two aspects of each (Narrative, expository, persuasive and descriptive). Be able to name two things that apply to all four modes of writing.
Friday, January 29:
Quiz on Writing Notes:
Using Quotation Marks for Dialogue
Using Commas to set off introductory phrases and appositives
Simple and Compound Sentences
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
This Week: January 11-15
Monday, January 11:
Kick-Off: Adverbs
Life Map Project and Personal Narrative
Homework: None
Tuesday, January 12:
Kick-Off: Adverbs
Life Map Project and Personal Narrative
Homework: None
Wednesday, January 13:
Kick-Off: Adverbs
Life Map Project and Personal Narrative
Homework: None
Thursday, January 14:
Kick-Off: adverbs Notes: 4 modes of writing
Writing an organized essay
Essay outline visuals
Homework: Adverb Worksheet
Friday, January 15:
Adverb Quiz
Notes: 4 modes of writing
Writing an organized essay
Kick-Off: Adverbs
Life Map Project and Personal Narrative
Homework: None
Tuesday, January 12:
Kick-Off: Adverbs
Life Map Project and Personal Narrative
Homework: None
Wednesday, January 13:
Kick-Off: Adverbs
Life Map Project and Personal Narrative
Homework: None
Thursday, January 14:
Kick-Off: adverbs Notes: 4 modes of writing
Writing an organized essay
Essay outline visuals
Homework: Adverb Worksheet
Friday, January 15:
Adverb Quiz
Notes: 4 modes of writing
Writing an organized essay
Monday, January 4, 2010
Welcome Back!
Mrs. Skelton
3rd Nine Weeks Skills Agenda
Parents and Students,
Welcome back to school! My plan is for us to survive the cold by working hard to become better writers! We will begin the third nine-week grading period with a writing unit. During this unit, students will complete smaller writing assignments meant to hone their writing skills in specific areas and allow opportunities for creativity. Students will also complete more involved essay assignments. We will focus on organization, grammar, and sentence structure, as well as on sentence variety and creativity. Students will read examples of excellent writing and then have the opportunity to create their own examples of excellent writing. The unit will culminate in a Writer’s Portfolio that will display student progress and talent.
After our writing unit, we will complete a study of the genres of literature and their defining characteristics.
Throughout the nine weeks, we will work to expand vocabulary and improve grammar, writing, and reading comprehension.
We will work to master the following Alabama Course of Study Standards:
3. Distinguish among the major genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, plays, biographies, and
autobiographies, and subgenres, such as folktales, myths, parables, fables, and science fiction, based
on their characteristics.
4. Apply strategies that include setting purposes for reading, distinguishing fact from opinion, making generalizations, and reviewing to comprehend informational and functional reading materials.
• Determining sequence of events to enhance text
understanding
• Using specific context clues to determine
meaning of unfamiliar words
• Applying self-monitoring strategies for text
understanding
• Drawing conclusions to determine unstated intent
5. Recognize the use of textual elements, including main idea and supporting details, to gain information from various text formats, including graphs.
9. Compose in descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive modes with a thesis sentence and
introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs when appropriate.
• Using transitional words and phrases for coherence
• Using figurative language when writing in various genres
10. Apply mechanics in writing, including commas to set off nouns of address and following introductory
phrases and clauses.
• Using semicolons, conjunctive adverbs, and commas to join two independent clauses or to correct run-on sentences
• Demonstrating correct sentence structure by avoiding comma splices
• Using commas to set off nonessential clauses and appositives
11. Apply grammar conventions in writing to pronoun-antecedent agreement and to subject-verb
agreement with inverted word order and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.
• Identifying gerunds, infinitives, and participles in writing
• Identifying sentence patterns in writing
• Using compound and complex sentences in writing
15. Demonstrate listening skills, including identifying the main idea, detail, purpose, and bias in group discussions, public speeches, and media messages.
3rd Nine Weeks Skills Agenda
Parents and Students,
Welcome back to school! My plan is for us to survive the cold by working hard to become better writers! We will begin the third nine-week grading period with a writing unit. During this unit, students will complete smaller writing assignments meant to hone their writing skills in specific areas and allow opportunities for creativity. Students will also complete more involved essay assignments. We will focus on organization, grammar, and sentence structure, as well as on sentence variety and creativity. Students will read examples of excellent writing and then have the opportunity to create their own examples of excellent writing. The unit will culminate in a Writer’s Portfolio that will display student progress and talent.
After our writing unit, we will complete a study of the genres of literature and their defining characteristics.
Throughout the nine weeks, we will work to expand vocabulary and improve grammar, writing, and reading comprehension.
We will work to master the following Alabama Course of Study Standards:
3. Distinguish among the major genres, including poetry, short stories, novels, plays, biographies, and
autobiographies, and subgenres, such as folktales, myths, parables, fables, and science fiction, based
on their characteristics.
4. Apply strategies that include setting purposes for reading, distinguishing fact from opinion, making generalizations, and reviewing to comprehend informational and functional reading materials.
• Determining sequence of events to enhance text
understanding
• Using specific context clues to determine
meaning of unfamiliar words
• Applying self-monitoring strategies for text
understanding
• Drawing conclusions to determine unstated intent
5. Recognize the use of textual elements, including main idea and supporting details, to gain information from various text formats, including graphs.
9. Compose in descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive modes with a thesis sentence and
introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs when appropriate.
• Using transitional words and phrases for coherence
• Using figurative language when writing in various genres
10. Apply mechanics in writing, including commas to set off nouns of address and following introductory
phrases and clauses.
• Using semicolons, conjunctive adverbs, and commas to join two independent clauses or to correct run-on sentences
• Demonstrating correct sentence structure by avoiding comma splices
• Using commas to set off nonessential clauses and appositives
11. Apply grammar conventions in writing to pronoun-antecedent agreement and to subject-verb
agreement with inverted word order and with indefinite pronouns as subjects.
• Identifying gerunds, infinitives, and participles in writing
• Identifying sentence patterns in writing
• Using compound and complex sentences in writing
15. Demonstrate listening skills, including identifying the main idea, detail, purpose, and bias in group discussions, public speeches, and media messages.
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