1. How & Why Do We Tell Stories?
A Storytelling Unit
Day 14

2. STORYTELLING UNIT: DAY 14
Instructions: Correct the following sentence in the Bell Ringer section of your notebook. Draw a line separating the subject part of the sentence from the predicate. Hint: The predicate contains the verb!
Bell Ringer:
Holistic medicine which includes treatments such as acupuncture and aromatherapy focuses on treating the hole person body and mind rather then just the effected part.
REVIEW OF BELL RINGER 2 MINUTES AFTER THE BELL RINGS!

3. Daily agenda Attendance/Roll Call
Review Bell Ringer: Clauses, Commas, Dashes
Vocabulary Spotlight: Review
Reading Comprehension Formative Assessment ‘A’ (minor grade)
Writer’s Studio: Love Haiku

4. GOALS:
Correctly uses commas and dashes in a complex sentence
Complete a reading comprehension assessment, providing evidence and explanations for answers selected
Write two ‘love’ haiku poems between characters in the story that you are writing.

5. Review Bell Ringer 5 minutes
Holistic medicine which includes treatments such as acupuncture and aromatherapy focuses on treating the hole person body and mind rather then just the effected part.
BE PREPARED TO SHARE ONE CORRECTION WHEN CALLED UPON!

6. VOCABULARY SPOTLIGHT 5 minutes
The _____________ of three years of research and testing was the development of a new drug to treat heart disease.
Aesthetic
Benevolent
Culmination
Inevitable

7. Turn-off your phone and place in the Cell Hotel.
60 Minutes
Turn-off your phone and place in the Cell Hotel.
Turn your seat so that you are facing the front of the class.
Put everything away except a pencil/pen.

8. Love Haiku
Haiku: A poem consisting of three lines with a total of 17 syllables divided among the lines as follows:
15 minutes
Instructions: Using two characters from your group’s story, write two love haiku as though the characters were writing them to each other. These will be collected!

9. Clean-up & Announcements 5 minutes
Clean-up your work area:
Dispose of garbage
Return pencils & makers
Homework:
Complete love haiku (due 2/14) and work on Free-Read Project (due 2/28).