1. Community Builder Activity 3 min-2 min
Directions: On your post-it, answer the following questions. When prompted, find your colleague that has the same colored note and discuss your responses.
Regarding writing,
1.) Why is it difficult for students?
2.) What do my students struggle with the most?
3.) Richard Peck, a famous novelist, once said, “Nobody but a reader ever became a writer.” What are your thoughts?

2. Development of Norms
NORMS

3. Objectives After participating in this professional development session, you will be able to:
Explain why writing is important
Understand why writing may be difficult for students with and without disabilities
Note how the common core standards address writing at each grade level
Integrate the 5 step writing protocol into your curriculum and teaching practices

4. Essential Questions
How will the implementation of the 5-step writing protocol improve student achievement across all content and grade levels? How can RACE be used in association with the 5- step writing protocol?

5. Elements of the Standard
Introduce a topic; organize complex ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience’s knowledge of the topic.
c. Use appropriate and varied transitions to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and concepts. d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic.
e. Establish and maintain an appropriate style and objective tone.
f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).

6. 2 min. With a partner, discuss the following: What makes an essay structurally sound? In essence, what is the criteria of a good essay?

7. Opening Activity: Reverse Mapping-10 min Texts: “Take One, Return One” and “A New Twist on Libraries”
Directions: Using the flee map and your essay, you will “reverse map” your essay by plugging in the following:
Hook
Thesis statement
1st topic
Supporting detail (a)
Supporting detail (b)
Supporting detail (c)
2nd topic
3rd topic
Concluding statement

8. 5-Step Extended Response Protocol
Brainstorm
Develop Topics
Add supporting details
Circle map
T-chart
3 or more
3 or more
Write
introduction and conclusion
Add transitions

9. DOK Level: 4 9th Grade Literature and Composition
Standard: ELACC9-10W2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
You will write an informational essay in your own words explaining some ways in which libraries are adapting and changing in the 21st century. Before you begin planning and writing, you will read two texts.
These are the titles of the texts you will read:
1. A New Twist on Libraries
2. Take One, Return One
As you read the texts, think about what details from the texts you might use in your informational essay.
Go to chart paper

10. 15 min
Using the 5-step protocol along with your thinking maps/graphic organizers, plan your response to the writing prompt:
You will write an informational essay in your own words explaining some ways in which libraries are adapting and changing in the 21st century.
*See rubric for scoring details

11. Directions from the 9th Grade Study Guide located on Georgia Department of Education website…
Now write your informational essay. Be sure to:
• Use information from the two texts so that your essay includes important details.
• Introduce the topic clearly, provide a focus, and organize information in a way that makes sense.
• Develop the topic with facts, definitions, details, quotations, or other information and examples related to the topic.
• Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion.
• Clarify the relationship among ideas and concepts.
• Use clear language and vocabulary to inform about the topic.
• Provide a conclusion that follows the information presented.
• Check your work for correct grammar, usage, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation.

12. Closing Activity
Thinking about RACE and the 5 step protocol, how can these writing tools be used to compliment each other?
In what ways or with what activities can you implement this training?

13. Next Steps Implementation Timeline Evidence of implementation
Student Samples

14. QR code for survey

15. Math Writing Prompts
What were the key points discussed in class today?
Write your mathography?
Study of radicals