1. 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

2. 9/5/17 Writing Workshop: READ
Read the story, “Desiree’s Baby”
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3. 9/5/17 Choose Five Questions for Study and Discussion
From the handout, choose five ways to respond to the story.

4. 9/5/17 Writing Workshop: Examining Irony
Complete the handout IN YOUR NOTEBOOK

5. 9/6/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo
Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

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

7. 9/6 Writing Workshop: Read “On the Sidewalk Bleeding”
Read and Respond in your notebook.

8. 9/7/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo
Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

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

10. 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”

11. 9/8/17 Bear Time: Journal Prompt Bingo
Choose a prompt from your Personal Narrative bingo sheet and respond in your notebook.

12. 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…..

13. 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