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7 Write Lessons
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Lessons for Writing Grade 7
10/17 Compound/complex sentences
- Spelling words checked
- Define and practice compound/complex sentences
- Review paragraph writing from calico cat prompt; continue as homework due Friday
10/16 Prompt & Essay Work
- Prewrite/draft/revise/edit: Explain what would happen if a calico cat dipped its paw into a goldfish bowl on the end table.
- Discuss the revisions of the essay "A Gift from My Uncle"
10/13 Continue Model Analysis
- Analyze Essay with rubric and a different checklist to further clarify each trait of good writing
- Read final draft; underline changes
- Discuss changes in groups--did the author add, rewrite, or cut for each change?
10/12 Analyze Essay
- Spelling Tests
- Analyze Essay independently; discuss with team using evidence from the essay to explain your score; mark essay with your evidence of the six traits of good writing (ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions)
10/11 Analysis & Revision
- Read to connect reading to writing: “How My Uncle Helped Me”
- Underline the best parts --those with excellent word choice (nifty nouns and vivid verbs) and details (ideas).
- Choose two sentences in the essay from the essay "A Job I Like."
- Revise the each sentence for excellent word choice.
- Be prepared to share--can you revise as well as the author?
Reading EALR/GLE 2.4.7 Make judgments about how effectively an author has supported his/her belief and/or assumptions, citing text-based evidence. |
Writing EALR 4.1 Component 4.1: Analyzes and evaluates others’ and own writing. |
10/10 Revision
- Reread the essay "How my Uncle Helped Me"
- Choose two sentences in the essay from the essay "A Job I Like."
- Revise the each sentence for excellent word choice.
- Be prepared to share
- Choose five spelling words for me to check.
10/06 Analyze Writing
- Read to connect reading to writing: “How My Uncle Helped Me”
- Analyze effectiveness of writing with "A Job I Like" using Six Traits of Writing
Reading EALR/GLE 2.4.7 Make judgments about how effectively an author has supported his/her belief and/or assumptions, citing text-based evidence. |
Writing EALR 4.1 Component 4.1: Analyzes and evaluates others’ and own writing. |
10/05 Prep for LC Project
- Spelling Test
- Review writing process.
- Review Six Traits
Writing GLE: 2.2.1 Demonstrates understanding of different purposes for writing. Writes to analyze informational and literary texts. Writes to learn (e.g., KWL Plus; summary; double-entry notes). |
- Notes: In your notes, include: the trait, its explanation, a symbol that represents it
- Class Work: The remaining four traits completed
- Jigsaw: Share your group's knowledge with another group.
- Pantomime: Create a pantomime on a selected writing trait. (Two minutes)
10/04 Parent-Student-Teacher Conferences
- Arrive with your guardian, explain class procedures, your work, your WASL pretest, your grades.
- Guardians write two compliments and one goal for you.
- Teachers answer any questions
10/03 WASL Scoring; Conference Prep
- Spelling check
- Practice Spelling Homework Procedures
- Prewrite to prompt:
- Write a letter to your family explaining what is important about writing class. Include at least three important activities.
- Conference Prep: WASL tests/scores review
10/02 Procedures and Conference Work
- Spelling: find 30 words for your personal spelling list; choose 5 for Tuesday
- Procedures: Hallway, Enter Class, Class Work (independent, partner, group), Leave Class
- Review School and Class Rules
- Sign Contracts
- Practice procedures
- Conference Preparation and practice--Skills /Conference sheet
9/29 Comma Usage (Substitute)
9/28 Prep for LC Project
- Review writing process.
- Intro/review Six Traits
- Handbook 19/20
- Notes: In your notes, include: the trait, its explanation, a symbol that represents it
- Class Work: 2 traits completed
9/27 Prewriting Strategy Review
- In notes on LC, add 4th column: goal--what do you hope to achieve?
- Review our prewriting strategies used in our LC discussions:
- Gathering Ideas: Text pages:
- 54: Gathering Information with freewriting, lists, analyzing (parts, senses, comparisons) 5Ws (who, what, when, where, why)
- 56 : Graphic Organizers--columns and charts
- 60: organization patterns--choose and explain to class your LC pattern
9/26 LC Prewriting
- I learned statements, continued
- Share, listen, take notes as prewriting to gather information
- Four columns:
- Presenter/activity
- Slogan
- I learned that...
- How I will use this (goal) (tomorrow)
- __Homework__:
- Note: This was due 9/21
- Write 3 descriptive paragraphs using sensory imagery and similes to describe three different events at LC
9/25 Teacher Inservice (No School)
9/22 Native American Day
9/21 LC Prewriting
- I learned statements
- Share, listen, take notes as prewriting to gather information
- Share descriptions of LC
9/20 Descriptions
- Think of one incident at LC
- Zoom in, like a camera
- Describe the incident in detail
- Include senses: sights, sounds, textures, smells, feelings
- Include similes (comparisons)
- Use strong verbs and nifty nouns
- Example: The dark blue water welcomed us with its calm, glassy surface, reflecting the clouds like a mirror. However, Jan dipped her toes into water on silky shore, shivered, and exclaimed, "I'm not e diving into that iceberg!"
- Student samples:
- Speakers spoke wisely and proudly while kids sat staring at their food, mouth watering.
- I crept through the cabin frequently, wondering of there were something dangerous outside.
- I dove like a dolphin learning to swim.
- Our beds were hard as rocks.
- __Homework__ due tomorrow:
- Write 3 descriptive paragraphs using sensory imagery and similes to describe three different events at LC.
9/19 Prewriting Prep for LC Writing
- Three columns:
- Presenter/activity
- Slogan
- I learned (9/21)
- Share, listen, take notes as prewriting to gather information for project writing
- Project Goal: Leadership Camp Goal letters with poem explaining LC.
9/18 WASL pretest (Substitute)
9/15 Reflect on Team Projects & Leadership
- What did you learn from the Tower and Stretch projects?
- What events/activities/presenters occured at Leadership Camp?
- What were your thoughts, feelings, concerns, surprises, etc.?
- Why did the presenters share what they did? What were you to learn?
- Be thinking: What do you hope to achieve with your training?
- Turn in notes.
9/14 Thinking/Problem-solving
9/13 WASL and Thinking
- WASL test
- Thinking Problem: Tower
9/12 WASL Pretest
- WASL Pretest Writing (Girls)
9/11 Prompt and Content Writing
- I found a magic ring that...
- Read and write in content area
9/8 Writing Riddle; Cooperative Thinking
- Riddle: Who am I?
- Use strategies for project: Create a long"stretch" with minimal resources
9/7 Pretest, Thinking Skills, Teamwork
- Work again on writing test
- Learn brainstorming and thinking strategies (fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration)
- Use strategies for project: Build a tower with minimal resources
9/6 WASL Writing Pretest
9/5: Writing Survey/Leadership
*Complete a survey on what you know about writing
*Predict and discuss about Leadership Camp
*What will happen?
*What do you plan to achieve?
*Introductions to Beth and Nancy
9/1: Scavenger Hunt
*Discover your English textbook by completing Scavenger Hunt # 1
8/31: Share and assess poems
- Student Poems: "I am": Review and assess partner poems using "Record Sheets for Writing Samples" and criteria established yesterday.
- Share with partners and whole class.
8/30: Generate idea; Follow a pattern
- Poem "I am": Read poem; find patterns and line break suggestions
- Poem characteristices: facts, fun, dreams, a worry, a sadness,
- Poem pattern: I + verb; Repeating line: I am a _________ boy/girl who loves ______________.
- Assignment: Create a poem following the pattern and including the poem characteristics. Bring Neat Sheet to class tomorrow.
8/29: Writing & Thinking, Planners, Set Rules
- The first day of school: take notes, underline in texts--part of reading process for making a mind movie
- Review Barbecue Welcome and Think Different inspiration. "How are you smart?" homework.
- Planners: What's in them?
- Why are we here?: How will we act to achieve our goals? Create a class contract for our goals and behavior.
8/28 : Barbecue & Welcome
- Think Different, Change the World, Inpire: Each of us can make a difference in the world, either close at home, or on a larger scale, such as taking a trip to Washington, DC to lobby for our schools.
- How are you smart? Take the survey on multiple intelligences and see where your talents shine. Bring the paper back tomorrow to share.
If paper is due, use this line:
Final Paper Due: Submit here
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