English 10 Week 32 April 25, 2011-April 29, 2011 Creative Writing Week!

Monday 4/25/11 Learning Goals: SWBAT 1. Summarize at least three rules for using commas. 2. Use commas correctly in a variety of sentences. 3. Identify comma usage errors in their own Unit Five essays. Do Now: Review: Use each of the following words/terns in a sentence: 1.Interpretation 2.Acculturation 3.Characterization 4.Climax 5.Resolution 6.Exposition 7.Resonate 8.Theme 9.Plot 10.Internal Conflict 11.External Conflict Agenda: 1.Do Now 2.Mini-lesson on rules for using commas 3.Whole class practice with comma usage 4.Partner work practice with comma usage. 5.On Your Own: Looking at comma usage in your own essay. Homework: 1.Last chance to edit your essay for correct comma usage! You will lose one point off of your final essay grade for every comma error! 2.Unit Test tomorrow!

What are Commas Used For? Separating items on a list. Example: I went to the store and bought tomatoes, parsley, avocado, cucumber and bread. Separating a list of adjectives that precede a noun. Example: She was an old, sick, grumpy, dirty cat. Separating cities and states in an address: Example: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Connecting phrases and clauses so that we may write longer sentences. Example: She asked for a bedtime story, but I told her it was too late. Place a comma before a coordinating conjunction (and, but, or, not, for, so, yet) that joins two main clauses: Example: Lindy wanted her own guitar, so she started saving all of her money. Creating pauses, or pacing in our writing to separate or emphasize important words, ideas or transitions. Example: Finally, she fell asleep. Use commas to set off nonessential words in a sentence. Example: She watched, puzzled, as the man in the yellow convertible drove away. A customer, complaining loudly, stepped up to the counter. Use commas to set apart introductory words and phrases. Example: Hopefully, the weather this summer will be pleasant. Finally, he told her to leave his room. Learning Goals: SWBAT 1. Summarize at least three rules for using commas. 2. Use commas correctly in a variety of sentences. 3. Identify comma usage errors in their own Unit Five essays.

Notes on Commas Rules for using commasExamples Learning Goals: SWBAT 1. Summarize at least three rules for using commas. 2. Use commas correctly in a variety of sentences. 3. Identify comma usage errors in their own Unit Five essays.

Exit Ticket 1.Summarize at least three rules for using commas. 2.What kinds of comma errors did you notice in your own writing? 3. Were you able to fix your comma mistakes in your own writing? Learning Goals: SWBAT 1. Summarize at least three rules for using commas. 2. Use commas correctly in a variety of sentences. 3. Identify comma usage errors in their own Unit Five essays.

Comma Practice Directions: We will practice identifying and following these rules for using commas correctly by looking at some sample sentences that need commas in order to make sense. We’ll do the first three together, then you’ll work with a partner to finish editing these sentences by placing commas in the correct places. Finally, you’ll re-read your own essay one more time and look for opportunities to use commas correctly or fix any comma errors you may have made. 1.Bicycles unlike cars produce no pollution. 2.Well we’d better hit the road. 3.Atlanta which is the capital of Georgia is the transportation center of the Southeast. 4.Tom was a triumphant happy jolly man. 5.Joe Kathy and Suzie went to the kitchen to make tuna salad ham and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. 6.I have no idea to be honest what you would like for a birthday present. 7.I would have finished my homework but American Idol was on tv. 8.Therefore the most important part of the story was when he discovered his father’s body. 9.In conclusion this proves that the main theme of the story revolves around the struggle to assimilate into American culture. 10.Ralindu the main character and narrator of the story is a young girl who desperately wants to be thought of as American by her peers. Learning Goals: SWBAT 1. Summarize at least three rules for using commas. 2. Use commas correctly in a variety of sentences. 3. Identify comma usage errors in their own Unit Five essays.

Unit Test Overview Multiple Choice and Short Answer: Describe and identify the following vocabulary and elements of fiction— 1.Interpretation 2.Acculturation 3.Characterization 4.Climax 5.Resolution 6.Exposition 7.Resonate 8.Theme 9.Plot 10.Internal Conflict 11.External Conflict Open Response: You will choose one of the short stories from the unit and use the story during the test to write an ORQ that includes a topic sentence (mini-thesis), contextualization, evidence and analysis.

Tuesday 4/26/11 Learning Goals: SWBAT Demonstrate their understanding of the unit five terms and skills by taking a unit test. Do Now: Complete the exit ticket from your packet yesterday. Agenda: 1.Do Now 2.Unit Test!! RETURN YOUR TEMPEST BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday 4/27/11 Learning Goals: SWBAT Take the Gates test! Finish the unit five unit test! Do Now: Brainstorm: If you were to write a short story about a child that revolved around one of the themes from the unit five short stories, what would your story be about? What might the characters in your story be like? Agenda: 1.Do Now 2.Gates testing 3.Finish unit five test when finished. Homework: Complete at least three rows of the “Essential Themes” chart.

Thursday 4/28/11 Learning Goals: SWBAT Generate a list of themes from all six short stories from unit five. Summarize and explain the guidelines for the short story writing assignment. Do Now:Agenda: 1.Do Now 2.Review: Theme 3.Partner work: Identify the essential theme in at least two stories. 4.Whole Class: Identify six themes. 5.Introduce short story guidelines Homework: Complete Parts one and two of the short story project by Friday!

Essential Themes in All Unit Five Stories: Learning Goals: SWBAT Generate a list of themes from all six short stories from unit five. StoriesEssential Themes 1.“My Mother the Crazy African” 2. “Ysrael” 3. “Homeless” 4. “In the Shadow of War” 5. “Rich People’s School” 6. “The Way of the Machete”

Guidelines for Unit Five Short Story Project Overview: For this project you will write your own short story that revolves around one of the essential themes from one of the stories we read earlier in the unit. This theme must be apparent to the reader of your story and must be connected to the plot, characters and central conflict of your story. To complete this project you must: 1.Create an outline that includes all of the story elements you learned about in this unit: o Setting o plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution) o characterization (direct and indirect) o point-of-view (first person, third limited or omniscient narrator). 2. Apply mini-lessons on descriptive language, comma usage, and dialogue to your writing. 3. Write a story that is organized: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution and includes clear and distinct paragraphs. 4. Write at least two pages typed! 5. Meet all deadlines– outline due Thursday 4/28/11 and final draft due Monday 5/2/11. Learning Goals: SWBAT Generate a list of themes from all six short stories from unit five. Summarize and explain the guidelines for the short story writing assignment.

Short Story Outline Characters:Description of each character and relationship to other characters Narrator: Who is it? What kind of narrator will you use and why? First person, third person limited, third person omniscient? Characterization: What method (direct or indirect) will you use to create interesting characters for your reader? Characterization and POV

Setting Where will your story take place? Why did you choose this place? How will you connect the setting of your story to your theme? How are your characters going to interact with this setting? Is this place realistic or is it fantastical? When does your story take place? How does the time period of your story connect to your theme? To your characters? Short Story Outline

Plot Short Story Outline Exposition: the beginning of your story where characters and setting are introduced What will happen? How will your story begin? Rising Action: Conflicts are introduced that build up to the main conflict/climax. What will happen? How will you build the tension and action of your story and make the readers interested? Climax: a confrontation or big blow up that connects to the rising action. What will happen during the climax? Falling Action: The action of the story after the climax What will happen? How will your story begin to move toward resolution? Resolution:How will your story end?

Outline Con’t How does the plot of your story connect to the theme of your story? How do the conflicts and the climax connect to the theme of your story? Short Story Outline