Monday, November 9, 2015 DO NOW: Voice level 1 1.Get your binder 2.Complete planner (leave open to today) 3.Read silently. Planners: EQ: How can I show my learning about narrative writing? HW: Homework packet. Agenda: Final drafts of personal narratives.

Homework packets

Take out: Narrative Rough draft & mini lesson drafts 6 Blank lined Paper

Personal Narrative Writing Prompt—Final Draft Today, write the best personal narrative that you can write. Make this about a small memory moment from your life, a scene or two. Use your rough draft and the work from our mini-lessons (leads, slowing down, endings). Write in a way that allows you to show off all you learned about narrative writing. You are writing a completed, neat, final draft. Make Sure You: Focus on a small memory moment, rather than summarizing or listing a series of events. Write a beginning(lead) for your story that hooks the reader. Write with some sort of tension, conflict, or problem in your story. Use dialogue and internal thinking Use transition words to tell what happened in order Use details, precise descriptions or similes/metaphors to help readers picture your story Write an ending for your story that teaches a lesson or moral Follow the rules of capitalization, usage, punctuation and spelling. Write 6 pages (skip lines—one side of the paper).

Plickers How many pages did you write so far? A.1-2 pages B.3-4 pages C.5-6 pages D.More than 6

Vocabulary Using context clues (Plickers)

They published an abridged edition of the popular three-volume set, although the author did not want to take any of the text out. What is a synonym for “abridged”? a. longer than all previous editions b. shortened c. illustrated d. unusual

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 DO NOW: Voice level 1 1.Get your binder 2.Complete planner (leave open to today) 3.Read silently. Planners: EQ: How can I set a purpose before reading to help determine important facts? HW: Homework packet. Agenda: Grammar Inquiry Finish Final Narratives Finish SS CH 3.

Grammar Inquiry During the Paleolithic Age, people obtained food by hunting animals and gathering plants.

Grammar Inquiry During the Paleolithic Age. People obtained food by hunting animals and gathering plants.

Grammar Inquiry Houses gave people protection from harsh weather and wild animals. They made life more comfortable. They allowed new ways of cooking food.

Grammar Inquiry Houses gave people protection from harsh weather and wild animals they made life more comfortable they allowed new ways of cooking food.

Houses gave people protection from harsh weather and wild animals they made life more comfortable

Grammar Inquiry The Neolithic Age began around 8000 B.C.E. and lasted until around 3000 B.C.E., when people learned to make tools out of metal instead of stone.

The Neolithic Age began around 8000 B.C.E. and lasted until around 3000 B.C.E.. When people learned to make tools out of metal instead of stone.

Social Studies Setting Purpose: How did people’s lives change from the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age?

Writing Workshop Rules 1. Save everything 2. Date and label everything 3. Write on one side of the paper only, always skip lines to leave room for editing. 4. Punctuate and spell as best you can WHILE writing. 5. Begin each workshop by rereading what you have already written 6. Writing is thinking. Do nothing to distract me or other writers. Don’t put words into other’s brains as we are struggling to find our own. 7. When you confer with me, use as soft a voice as I use to you. 8. Self-edit in a color different from your original writing. 9. Refer to your materials and proofreading list while you write. 10. Write as well and as much as you can.

Weekly Word Study Copy no more than 5 words into your list in the first column. Make sure you have the CORRECT spelling Read the first word, look at it and say it. Spell the word to yourself: touch each letter with your pencil and say each letter to yourself. Close your eyes. See the word in your mind. Say each of the individual letters to yourself again. Now, cover the correct spelling and print the word in the second column. If you spelled the word correctly, put a star in the 3 rd column and go onto the next word. If you misspelled it, repeat the process again, this time printing the word in the 3 rd column.

Thursday, November 12, 2015 DO NOW: Voice level 1 1.Get your binder 2.Complete planner (leave open to today) 3.Take out your HW 4.Read silently. Planners: EQ: How can I use a rubric to self-evaluate my writing? HW: HW packet Read 20 mins. Agenda: Editing Final draft Self-Eval final draft Inferences practice

Writing—Editing C.U.P.S. C-Capitalization (am I following the rules of capitalization?) U-Usage (am I using the correct form of the word? Their, there, they’re) P-Punctuation (am I using correct punctuation?—quotation marks, commas, periods, etc.) S-Spelling (am I using correct spelling?)

Writing Rubric and Self-Evaluation

Using Clues Defective Detective…

Inferences practice Read and annotate: You need at least 5 different types of annotations (clinks & clunks) With your partner, complete BOTH sides (All sections EXCEPT the writing one). We will go over the answers together soon.

Finish Social Studies

Friday, November 13, 2015 DO NOW: Voice level 1 1.Get your binder 2.Complete planner (leave open to today) 3.Read silently. Planners: EQ: How can I determine the most important information? HW: Write down a vocabulary word. Finish Google Classroom SS Ch. 3 Agenda: Hand back Book blurbs Finish SS Ch 3 Dependent &indepent. clauses practice

Raffle and Candy and a Compliment

Debrief Book Blurbs Goosebumps

Finish Social Studies Chapter 3 IF you finish AND have done quality work. Options: – Check Skyward for missing assignments for THIS class. – Newsela – Quizlet (play scatter with Subordinating conjunctions) – Silent reading

Clauses Practice

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