1. SoW ( Sentence of the Week) Our weekly grammar, Conventions, and Style exploration Writing Observing how professional writers use grammar so that we can imitate it in our own writing and be more attuned to it in our writing.

2. Setting up your Writer’s Notebook date SOW WEEK #1- ____________ (Skill) NOTICE: 1. 2. 3. OBSERVATION NOTES: 1. 2. 3. IMITATE: 1. 2. 3. (REMEMBER: Start from the front of your WN and work forward) NOTICE the pattern of the model sentences, considering what they have in common. (glue in the sample mentor sentences and then annotate.) OBSERVE the rules associated with the concept illustrated by the model sentences. IMITATE the model sentences by writing your own using the conventions you just recorded.

3. Subject and Predicate Review

4. SoW Week #1- Simple Sentences (Subject and Predicate)

5. Silent Sentence Gallery Walk Directions: Take your WNB and pencil along with you as you walk silently around the room reading the examples of simple sentences. Jot down your observations about the nature of simple sentences: what do you notice about their structure? Purpose? What characteristics do all of these sentences have in common?

6.  “I am fast. You are slow. I win. You lose.”  Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli  “My heart began to ache.”  Tangerine, Edward Bloor  “I closed my eyes in despair.”  Tangerine, Edward Bloor  “He watched her on the sly.”  “Seventh Grade,” Gary Soto NOTICE

7.  “I am fast. You are slow. I win. You lose.”  Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli  “My heart began to ache.”  Tangerine, Edward Bloor  “I closed my eyes in despair.”  Tangerine, Edward Bloor  “He watched her on the sly.”  “Seventh Grade,” Gary Soto NOTICE

8. 1. 2. 3. 4. OBSERVE

9. 1. 2. 3. 4. OBSERVE

10. 1.1. All complete sentences have a subject and a predicate. 2.The simple subject is a noun that tells whom or what the sentence is about (the topic). (ie: the house, the car, the teacher) 3.The simple predicate is a verb that tells what the subject is or does. 4.A simple sentence has only one independent clause. (An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone because it has a subject and predicate). 5.A simple sentence can, however, have a compound subject or a compound verb. (Susan and John went to the supermarket on Sunday) or (Olivia hopped and skipped to the bus stop). OBSERVE

11. Subject and Predicate

12. IMITATE

13. Teacher’s IMITATATION

14. Directions: Underline the subject once and the simple predicate twice.  Mr. Rush speaks a little Spanish.  My friend and I went on vacation this summer.  Our school soccer team won their first game of the season.  On Saturdays I never rise before 9 o’clock.  We walked to Rita’s last night for ice cream. EXTRA PRACTICE

15. “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?” By Neil Gaiman Reading skill: Annotation/Annotating Text Homework: finish reading and annotating the text, and then answer the 4 questions at the end.