1. Warm-Up: Understanding Sentences WS Complete the WS INDEPENDENTLY and WITHOUT your notes from last night. We will then partner-grade the questions as a review.

2. Personal Memoir Writer’s Workshop Day 12 2 nd Draft Writing: Proper Sentences

3. Learning Targets I can rewrite a weak simple sentence in my 1 st draft to have a stronger verb. I can correct an incomplete sentence in my draft to make it simple, compound, or complex. I can take out irrelevant information in my 1 st draft

4. Monday: Tuesday: I skated over to my teammates. Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:

5. Writer’s Workshop Goal Carefully and slowly check all of your sentences for a subject and a verb and the correct use of commas. Continue to substitute weak words and take out unnecessary items from your 1 st draft memoir.

6. Closure Fill in one box on the Independent Correction Sheet based on your revision work today

7. Substitute: Choose one color to highlight these types of revisions Replace Overused words Weak verbs with strong verbs Weak adjectives with strong adjectives Common nouns with proper nouns “Dead” words

8. Take Things Out: Choose one color to highlight these types of revisions Take out Unnecessary repetitions Unimportant or irrelevant information Parts that might belong in another piece