1. Monday, August 25th
Dean Library

2. Draw a heart in your writer’s notebook. It should fill the entire page
Draw a heart in your writer’s notebook. It should fill the entire page. Write words or phrases inside the heart – a list of who or what has stayed in your heart (people, places, things, memories, emotions, dreams…)

3. SALVADOR – TAPE INTO YOUR JOURNAL

4. Your Writer’s Notebooks
 (Start one minute in & play until the end)

5. Think about your favorite place
Think about your favorite place. Think about a place that is special to you. It can be a place you’ve visited once, a place from your past, or a place you spend time in each day. Think about why you love this place. Think about the memories or comforts there. What do/did you see, hear, taste, smell or feel there? Our best writing examples come from good literature. Listen and imagine each setting as I read aloud paragraphs rich in sensory language.
Read p. 60 of Number the Stars for sense of sight.
Read p. 3 of Owl Moon for sense of hearing.
Read p. 13 of Charlotte’s Web for sense of smell.
Read p. 19 of The Snowy Day for sense of touch
Read p. 152 of Little House in the Big Woods for sense of taste
Think about what you see, hear, smell, taste and feel at your own favorite place, and take a few minutes to describe that place. Write it in your composition book.
Give the kids 5 to 7 minutes to write about that place. Then let those who wish to do so share what they have written.
Talk with the kids about the fact that for the past week they have been mining their hearts and minds for stories. They have been listening to each other tell stories. Ask how many have heard a good story from one of their classmates that they would like to keep.
I like to remember things I hear and ideas I come up with.

6. Today you are going to create a place to put all these stories
Today you are going to create a place to put all these stories. It will be your writer’s notebook.
Your notebook and the writing you put into it, will help you grow into a stronger writer. Let’s read a poem about the writer’s notebook, written by a student.
Show TP of “It’s a Place.” Afterwards, ask kids which line of the poem struck them the most. Share student responses.
John ends his poem: “All in all it’s a place for me.” Your notebook is exactly that, a place for you.
I want your writer’s notebook to feel special and personal. Many of you brought in photographs or artifacts to decorate the cover or the first page of your notebook. Now we’ll take some time to make a cover that reflects you, your life, your interests. Look at the cover of mine. Show how it reflects me and my life.
Let kids decorate their notebooks for the remainder of the period.

7. Tuesday, August 26th
Young Library

8. QW: Who are you? Are you a leader or a follower? Explain. Clip
Tuesday, August 26th
QW: Who are you? Are you a leader or a follower? Explain.
Clip
How does this relate to any experiences or situations in your life?

9. Book Expectations Book card for ELA PAP – A Separate Peace Questioning
Summaries/Personal Connections
Graphic Organizers
Decorate Journals

10. Wednesday, August 27th
Watson/Striegler Library

11. Thursday, August 28th
Thomas Library

12. Thursday, August 28th
Pick up a copy of the definition for epidemic for your Writer’s Notebooks. (Tape in)
QW: Read and respond - How can an epidemic be a positive epidemic?
CLIP - While watching, try to connect the clip about Suzuki to our discussions of positive epidemics.
After the clip, write these connections and your personal reflections in your Writer’s Notebook.

13. Thursday - continued Create a T chart……
LIST TRAITS – SIMILAR? DIFFERENT?
Create a T chart……
SUZUKI
YOUR CHOICE
EXIT TICKET

14. Continued
EXIT TICKET
VIDEO AS TIME ALLOWS 

15. Friday, August 29th
QW - Pick up one of yesterday’s exit tickets from the box and tape it into your journal. Read the ticket and determine if you agree or disagree. Why? Explain. 
1st run through of “The Young Can’t Wait”
Annotation example/model
Students will read “The Young Can’t Wait” and focus annotation on their assigned section. Share out.
PARCC Practice 

17. With Partner

18. Independently

21. With Partner

23. Independently