9/5/17 Bear Time: Journal Bingo Glue in your Journal Prompt Bingo: Personal Narrative page. Choose one to respond to and mark it off. Write your response in your class notebook. 9/5/17 Bear Time: Journal Bingo

9/5/17 Writing Workshop: READ Read the story, “Desiree’s Baby” https://archive.org/details/JeanAppsRea dsDesireesBaby

9/5/17 Choose Five Questions for Study and Discussion From the handout, choose five ways to respond to the story.

9/5/17 Writing Workshop: Examining Irony Complete the handout IN YOUR NOTEBOOK

9/6/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

9/6/17 Mini-Lesson: Examining Irony Check your work on yesterday’s Irony handout.

9/6 Writing Workshop: Read “On the Sidewalk Bleeding” Read and Respond in your notebook.

9/7/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

9/7/17 Mini Lesson: How to write an alternate ending

Writing Workshop: Alternate Ending Write an alternate ending to one of the stories we read. You may use either “Desiree’s Baby” or “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”

9/8/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

9/8/17 Activator: Author’s Spotlight On a notecard, write the following: Your name and today’s date The topic and date of your writing What did you like about it? How would you improve it? Do NOT use: “Add details”, “Make it longer”, “Finish it”, or “Write More” Try: develop my ideas, increase my sentence variety, increase my formal vocabulary, use a formal style…..

9/8 Writing Workshop Notebook Test Prep: Glue in your Notebook Test Grading Sheet Make sure everything on the list is in the notebook Make sure everything is properly labeled