1. Learning Target
I can identify the purpose and key details in a writing prompt.
To be able to interpret a prompt accurately during a timed writing test.
By knowing the steps of dissecting a prompt.

2. Language Arts: Monday 4-8 I.N. 25
Create a list of “timed writing” situations you may be in during your life. Try to think of as many as possible.
Create a Venn Diagram (with enough room to write in) on your I.N. 25.
On one side, describe the characteristics of timed writing. On the other, describe the characteristics of simply writing an essay for class.
In the middle, write the similarities in both.

3. Language Arts: Monday 4-8 I.N. 25
(Take Notes in your I.N. 25)
How to Dissect a Writing Prompt:
Underline/ Circle key words and phrases
Rewrite the prompt in your own words. State it as a question if possible.
Draw an organizer to show how the key words/ ideas are related to one another.

4. Language Arts: Monday 4-8 I. N
Language Arts: Monday 4-8 I.N. 25 Work as a group to dissect the writing prompt below.
Everyone performs tasks every day whether they are as simple as making breakfast or as difficult as repairing a bicycle. To complete these tasks, there is a process that must be done to do it successfully. Think of a task you do well. Write an essay in which you explain the process it takes to complete the task successfully. Imagine that the reader of your essay has never done this task before and needs to know each step of the process.

5. Language Arts: Monday 4-8 I.N. 25
We will work as groups to practice these steps on various writing prompts. Continue to record your steps in your I.N. 25
Answer the following question after you followed the steps:
What kind of essay would you say this prompt is asking for? (example: persuasive, process, narrative/story, pro/con, report, etc.)
What words in the prompt show you that?

6. Language Arts: Tuesday 4-9 I.N. 26
Write your own definition of the following words. Pretend you are teaching someone who has no idea what these words mean. Give examples when necessary.
Brainstorm
Pre-writing
Planning
- When everyone is finished at your table, draw pictures of every kind of pre-writing map/ style you know. Draw your examples on the construction paper you’ve been given.

7. Language Arts: Tuesday 4-9 I.N. 26
After you have (Step 1) dissected the prompt, you are ready to…
BRAINSTORM and CHOOSE A TOPIC
List or cluster ideas for the essay
Select a Topic
How much time do you think should be spent on dissecting a prompt and brainstorming if you had a 60 minute timed writing section? (Decide an exact amount as a group.)

8. Language Arts: Tuesday 4-9 I.N. 26
(Take Notes… SKIP A LINE IN BETWEEN EACH FOR MORE NOTES LATER)
TYPES OF ESSAYS:
Narrative: used to tell a story or a sequence of events.
Descriptive: used to describe a scene or an object
Expository: used to provide information, including facts, instructions, and definitions
Persuasive: used to share opinions and convince others to agree or take action

9. Language Arts: Tuesday 4-9 I.N. 26
The best way to pre-write for… Narrative: timeline, order of events, flow chart, 5 W’s Descriptive: web/bubble map, list, 5W’s Expository: Fishbone (pro/cons), Outline, Boxes Persuasive: Boxes chart/ outline, places for Thesis, Reasons and Evidence, and Conclusion

10. Language Arts: Tuesday 4-9 I.N. 26 (Take Notes…)
When to start a new paragraph
Start a new/ different idea
Begin a new explanation/ another step in the process
Provide another support/ evidence for your opinion
The setting (time or location) changes
A different person/ character is speaking

11. Language Arts: Tuesday 4-9 I.N. 26
Read Exercise 12 on page 310 (Green Txtb.)
With the person sitting next to you (or independently), read through the long paragraph and decide where to begin and end new paragraphs inside it.
Write the paragraph # and the word that starts and ends it in your I.N. 26
Raise your hand when you are finished, and you can get the homework for this week.

12. Language Arts: Wednesday 4-10 I.N. 27
Today, we will be practicing completing writing in a given amount of time. Before we begin, review your notes from this week so far.
- Open your green textbook to page
Read one of the Reviews (A, B, C, or D) and follow the three step process for dissecting a prompt. You may need to look back on your notes from Monday. (I.N. 25)
Write steps 1-3 in your I.N. 27.
When you finish, read through the other prompts and sit quietly.

13. Language Arts: Wednesday 4-10 I.N. 27
You will have 40 minutes to complete Reviews A-D on pages
Give yourself 10 minutes for each prompt.
Use a prewriting strategy for each paragraph.
Label your paragraph and write neatly. (We will edit tomorrow)
Be sure to stay on FOCUS. Finishing all four will be a grade.**extra credit: use vocabulary words and underline them.

14. Language Arts: Thursday 4-11 I.N. 28
What makes someone’s writing boring to read? What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who simply has boring writing?
Have your green textbook open to page 304.

15. Language Arts: Thursday 4-11 I.N. 28
Elaborate: expand on ideas using details, facts, or examples.
Complete Exercise 10 on page 305.
Be sure to label in the margin where you added a detail, fact, or example.
When you finish you may study for the Vocabulary Test tomorrow or work on your homework packet.

16. Language Arts: Thursday 4-11 I.N. 28
Share elaborations
With your table, make a list in your I.N. of good editing strategies. What can you do to edit someone’s paper?

17. Language Arts: Thursday 4-11 I.N. 28
Draw a box around your best paragraph from yesterday.
Trade I.N.s with someone at your table.
Practice editing their paragraph.
When you finish, you may study for the vocabulary test or work on homework.

18. Language Arts: Friday 4-12
You have three minutes to study for the vocabulary test. I will collect your vocabulary packet before the test, so have it out to study.
When you finish, turn it in at THE HUB.
Take a Practice AIMS test.
Begin the practice AIMS test by reading and following directions.
When you finish, read silently or work on other homework.