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Second Semester

Second Semester . Publishing Project and SO much more!!!. Date: Monday, January 6, 2014.

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Second Semester

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  1. Second Semester Publishing Project and SO much more!!!

  2. Date: Monday, January 6, 2014 • DO NOW: Answer the following questions in your Writer’s Notebook: 1) What two things should you always do at the beginning of class? 2) Write the three words that explain what you should do when you finish something early. Then, explain what they mean. 3) What three things must you do when you need to use the bathroom? • Vocab Cartoon • New Reading Logs passed out • Mac Lab: Research Time • HOMEWORK: Research Project due Thursday • Reading Log Week 1 due Monday Outcomes: We will use proper research techniques. We will remember how to be great in A138! Essential Questions: How do we find credible research sources and avoid plagiarism? What procedures are we (still) expected to follow in Mr. Butler’s classroom?

  3. Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 • DO NOW: Write the definitions of simile and metaphor. Then, write at least one example of each one that describes your winter break. • Poetry Lesson: Calvin & Hobbes! • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Mac Lab: Research Time • HOMEWORK: Research Project due Thursday • Reading Log Week 1 due Monday Outcomes: We will use proper research techniques. We will remember how to be great in A138! Essential Questions: How do we find credible research sources and avoid plagiarism? What procedures are we (still) expected to follow in Mr. Butler’s classroom?

  4. Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014 • DO NOW: Share your poetry with a neighbor. It will be checked for a grade. • IMC / Mac Lab: Finish Research Projects & Presentations • HOMEWORK: Research Project due tomorrow • Reading Log Week 1 due Monday Outcomes: We will use proper research techniques. We will remember how to be great in A138! Essential Questions: How do we find credible research sources and avoid plagiarism? What procedures are we (still) expected to follow in Mr. Butler’s classroom?

  5. Date: Thursday, January 9, 2014 • DO NOW: Meet me in the IMC • IMC: Finish Research Projects & Practice Presentations • HOMEWORK: Research Project due tomorrow • Reading Log Week 1 due Monday Outcomes: We will use proper research techniques. We will remember how to be great in A138! Essential Questions: How do we find credible research sources and avoid plagiarism? What procedures are we (still) expected to follow in Mr. Butler’s classroom?

  6. Date: Friday, January 10, 2014 • DO NOW: Meet me in the IMC • IMC: Research Presentations • HOMEWORK: • Share / send your presentations and submit your printed rubrics by Monday • Reading Log Week 1 due Monday Outcomes: We will use proper research techniques. We will remember how to be great in A138! Essential Questions: How do we find credible research sources and avoid plagiarism? What procedures are we (still) expected to follow in Mr. Butler’s classroom?

  7. Date: Monday, January 13, 2014 • DO NOW: Get out your reading log and your research rubric. Then, write a four-line poem in which each line ends with a “-tion” word. • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Online Textbook: Get logged in, explore, and begin reading Unit 3 “anchor text” about canoe trip • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 2 due 1/20 Outcomes: We will become familiar with our Google Chromebooks and our new online textbook We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  8. Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 • DO NOW: Volunteer to grab Chromebooks for two or three neighbors and get logged on to my.hrw.com. • Online Textbook: Read and discuss memoir “Mississippi Solo” • Vocab Cartoon • HOMEWORK: • Parent Conferences are tonight! Make sure your parents do not get any unpleasant surprises! • Reading Log Week 2 due 1/21 • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will become familiar with our Google Chromebooks and our new online textbook We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  9. Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 • DO NOW: Volunteer to grab Chromebooks for two or three neighbors, get logged on to my.hrw.com, and open “Mississippi Solo.” Then, highlight one example of personification in pink and one simile in blue. • Online Textbook: Follow-Up activities for memoir “Mississippi Solo” • Vocab Cartoon • More cool Chromebook tricks and/or comic strip language lesson? • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 2 due 1/21 • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  10. Date: Thursday, January 16, 2014 • DO NOW: Log onto a Chromebook. Then, in your Writer’s Notebook, describe either a memory OR a dream for the future involving the outdoors. • Chromebook Shortcuts: Explore!! • Vocab Cartoon • Online Textbook: Follow-Up activities for memoir “Mississippi Solo” • Start “Mississippi Solo” Quiz • HOMEWORK: Quiz due tomorrow (online at my.hrw.com) • Reading Log Week 2 due 1/21 • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  11. Date: Friday, January 17, 2014 • DO NOW: Writing Invitation: Write a letter to an animal and create a very clear tone (serious, silly, etc.) • Vocab Cartoon • Online Textbook: Finish “Mississippi Solo” Quiz?? (if we can avoid technical difficulties) and start “Polar Dream” • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 2 due Tuesday • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  12. Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 • DO NOW: Volunteer to retrieve Chromebooks for your neighbors. Be sure to grab the same numbers that you had last time! Then log in. • Mini-Lesson: Follett E-Book Shelf • IMC: Book check-out, finish “Polar Dream”, free read (Reading Log Week 2 checked) • Vocab Cartoon • Writer’s Voice: Week 1, Day 1 • HOMEWORK: Voice Week 1, Day 1 sheet due tomorrow • Take at least one AR Quiz by Fri • Reading Log Week 3 due Monday • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  13. Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 • DO NOW: First, retrieve your Chromebooks and log in. Then, share & compare Voice Day 1 answers. Finally, read Day 2, but do NOT start working on it yet. • ChromebookQuiz: Mississippi Solo • Vocab Cartoon • Writer’s Voice, Week 1: Go over Day 1, Start Day 2 • HOMEWORK: Voice Week 1, Day 2 sheet due tomorrow • Take at least one AR Quiz by Fri • Reading Log Week 3 due Monday • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  14. Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014 • DO NOW: Prepare for vocab quiz • Vocab Quiz • Three-Minute Writing: Write an essay or memoir about a favorite place, a place you’d like to visit, or a favorite animal / pet, and use the techniques we’ve practiced to make your Writer’s Voice clear. Use your Voice sheet for help. • Voice sheets collected at end of class period • HOMEWORK: Take at least one AR Quiz by Fri • Reading Log Week 3 due Monday • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  15. Date: Friday, January 24, 2014 • DO NOW: Copy down the info on the screen about spicy leads • Revision Mini-Lesson: Spicy Leads! • Vocab Cartoon • Chrome Books: Read “Big Rocks’ Balancing Act” and write a one-sentence summary of each section • HOMEWORK: • “Finish Big Rocks’ Balancing Act” OR “Names / Nombres” (whichever one you read in class today) by Monday • Reading Log Week 3 due Monday • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  16. Date: Monday, January 27, 2014 • DO NOW: In your Writer’s Notebook OR in your Chromebook, list 5-10 topics that you might focus on for your Publishing Project. You may refer to your Writing Possibilities List for help if you want. Then, work on a draft for one of these ideas. (Reading logs are checked) • Vocab Cartoon • Chromebooks: Go over / discuss “Polar Dream” activity • REMINDER: You will be in HWC tomorrow if you have not passed at least one AR quiz. • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 4 due Monday • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Fri 1/31 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  17. Date: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 • DO NOW: Vocab Cartoon notes • Read-Aloud / Writing Invitation: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick • Hand out & Discuss Internet Safety Plan • Writing Invitation: Create an Island • REMINDER: “Big Rocks” (via Google Docs) & “Names/Nombres” activities were due yesterday. If you haven’t already, you need to submit those today to receive 60% credit. • HOMEWORK: • Return Internet Plan w/ Parent Signature by tomorrow to gain access to Chromebook • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Friday • Reading Log Week 4 due Monday • Publishing Project due Friday 2/28 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  18. Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 • DO NOW: First get out your Internet Contract. Then, rewrite a few sentences of yesterday’s “Harris Burdick” piece (or a different piece, if you were absent yesterday) in a different POV (First Person “I”, “my” vs. Third Person “He”, “she”, “they”. • Chromebooks: Poems about nature (If you “share” your “Big Rocks” spreadsheet or “Names” chart with me TODAY IN CLASS, I will still give you 60%). • Vocab Cartoon • Voice: Week 1, Day 3 • HOMEWORK: • Return Internet Plan w/ Parent Signature by tomorrow to earn a 60% and gain access to Chromebook • Voice Day 3 due tomorrow • AR Mid-Term Deadline = Friday • Reading Log Week 4 due Monday • Publishing Project due Friday 2/28 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  19. Date: Thursday, January 30, 2014 • DO NOW: First, get out your Chromebook and, if necessary, your Internet Contract. Then, share your mysterious ending with a neighbor, and talk about how you made it mysterious. Finally, get started on Voice Day 4. • Explain Publishing Project Plan: “I am writing a (voice) (genre) about (topic). The theme is ___. • Intro & Complete Nature Poetry Google Form • Free Read (AR) or Write (Publishing Project) • HOMEWORK: • Return Internet Plan w/ Parent Signature ASAP to gain access to Chromebook • Voice Day 4 due tomorrow • AR Mid-Term Deadline = TOMORROW!! • Publishing Project Plan due Monday • Reading Log Week 4 due Monday • Publishing Project due Friday 2/28 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  20. Date: Friday, January 31, 2014 • DO NOW: Friday Free Write! Be ready to describe the voice and theme of your piece. • Whole Group Share Time • Homonym Riddle • Go over / Discuss Nature Poetry Google Form activity • Begin Voice Day 4 Draft: Underline words and phrases that show your voice. (Group brainstorm on Google Spreadsheet) • HOMEWORK: • Voice Day 4 draft due Monday • Reading Log Week 4 due Monday • Publishing Project Plan due Tuesday • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Friday 2/28 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  21. Date: Monday, February 3, 2014 • DO NOW: First, get out your reading logs. Then, finish your Day 4 Draft and underline all words and phrases that show your voice. Finally, open your Publishing Project draft and underline voice-related words and phrases. • Hand in Day 4 Draft • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Mini-Lesson: Finding your personal writer’s voice • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project Plan due tomorrow • Reading Log Week 5 due Monday 2/10 • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Thursday 2/27 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  22. Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Log onto your Chromebook, find “Allied with Green”, and read page 153. • Return of the AR rubrics • Publishing Project Q & A: Instructions, Rubric, Deadlines, etc. • Vocab Cartoon • Explore Your Voice! (Publishing Plans checked) • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project Planning Page due Monday (Print it from Classes by Thurs) • Reading Log Week 5 due Monday 2/10 • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Thursday 2/27 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  23. Date: WEB Wednesday, February 5, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Pick a new seat. You cannot have any of the same people directly adjacent to you, and you must have at least one neighbor of the opposite gender. • DO AFTER THAT: Share your favorite book, interesting article, and 5-6 pieces of writing w/ 1 or 2 neighbors. Compare the inferences you make about Writer’s Voice, both yours and theirs. • Publishing LEARN & GROW time: Rubrics, example books, author’s packets, planning pages!! • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project Planning Page due Monday (Print it from Classes by tomorrow) • Reading Log Week 5 due Monday 2/10 • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Thursday 2/27 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  24. Date: Thursday, February 6, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: First, get out your Planning Page. Then, log onto your Chromebook and read “Allied with Green”. Highlight parts that help you infer what the theme might be. • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Mini-Lesson: Found Poetry • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project Plan Page due Monday • Reading Log Week 5 due Monday • Story Board Summary due Thursday 2/13 • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Thurs 2/27 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  25. Date: Friday, February 7, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Get out your Found Poetry Planning. Then, type your poem on Google Docs. • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Read “The Hidden Southwest: The Arch Hunters” and highlight parts that help you infer the theme(Hint: central idea = theme) • LEARN & GROW • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project Plan Page due Monday • Reading Log Week 5 due Monday • Found Poem due Monday • Arch Hunters highlighting due Tuesday • Story Board Summary due Thursday 2/13 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  26. Magical Monday, February 10, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Write a paragraph that explains the theme (central idea) of “Arch Hunters”, with supporting examples from the text. • Found Poetry Assessment Intro: Instructions & rubric handed out • Vocab Cartoon • Work on Publishing Story Board • HOMEWORK: • Arch Hunters questions due tomorrow • Story Board Summary due Thursday • Reading Log Week 6 due Tuesday 2/18 • Found Poetry Assessment due 2/18 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  27. Terrific Tuesday, February 11, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Write a paragraph that explains the main conflict and resolution of your publishing project • Found Poetry: Spreadsheet Intro • Discussion about Dreading Deadlines • Vocab Cartoon / Return Day 4 Drafts • LEARN & GROW: Story Boards & Spreadsheets • HOMEWORK: • Conflict & Resolution paragraph due tomorrow • Story Board Summary due Thursday • Found Poetry Spreadsheet due Friday • Reading Log Week 6 due Tuesday • Found Poetry Assessment due Wed 2/19 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  28. Wacky Wednesday, February 12, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Write three sentences that use the words there, their, and they’re • Homonyms Cheat Sheet Intro • Voice: Week 3, Day 1 (due tomorrow) • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • LEARN & GROW • HOMEWORK: • Conflict & Resolution paragraph due tomorrow • Story Board Summary due tomorrow • Found Poetry Spreadsheet due Friday • Reading Log Week 6 due Tuesday • Found Poetry Assessment due Wed 2/19 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  29. Thrilling Thursday, February 13, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Meet me in the Mac Lab! • LEARN & GROW (Storyboards checked) • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Voice: Week 3, Day 2 (due tomorrow) (Day 1 checked) • ANNOUNCEMENT: If you were absent yesterday, spend 5 minutes reading the Homonyms Cheat Sheet on Classes! • LEARN & GROW • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 6 due Tuesday • Not-So-Rough Draft due Thurs 2/20!!  Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  30. Friday Fun Day, February 14, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Write a Valentine poem or letter from the POV of a character in your Publishing Project. Who (or what) does (s)he care about most? • Share/check Pirate Jack Robin poems • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Work on Publishing Projects/Arch Hunters check • ANNOUNCEMENTS: There have been lots of absent peeps lately. Be sure to check Classes and get caught up on your work!! • Infinite Campus is updated. Check and see if you need to QCC me before I post Progress Reports! • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 6 due Tuesday • Not-So-Rough Draft due Thursday • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Feb 27th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  31. Tremendous Tuesday, February 18, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Log on. Writing Invitation – What does your main character want or need most? What is standing in their way? How have you made this clear to the reader? (Reading Log Week 6 checked) • Mini-Lesson: Establishing conflict & theme • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Work on Publishing Projects • ANNOUNCEMENTS: There have been lots of absent peeps lately. Be sure to check Classes and get caught up on your work!! • HOMEWORK: • Not-So-Rough Draft due Thursday • Reading Log Week 7 due Monday • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Feb 27th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  32. Wacky Wednesday, February 19, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Find and highlight as many examples of figurative language as you can in your not-so-rough draft (similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration) • Work on Publishing Project Not-So-Rough Drafts • HOMEWORK: • Not-So-Rough Draft due tomorrow • Reading Log Week 7 due Monday • Found Poetry Spreadsheet due Tuesday • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Feb 27th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  33. Thrilling Thursday, February 20, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Grab a peer revision sheet from the Author’s Chair. Read it, and think about how you would answer those questions about your own project. (Also, log in). • Vocab Cartoon & Homonym Riddle • Peer Revision: Phase One • Announcement: Did you use a book called “Cloning and Genetic Engineering” or “The Constitution” for your Research Project? If yes or maybe, please QCC me! • HOMEWORK: • Bring 2 bucks for S&H by 2/27 • Reading Log Week 7 due Monday • Found Poetry Spreadsheet due Tuesday • AR Deadline = February 26th • Publishing Project due Feb 27th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  34. Funky Friday, February 21, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Read over your feedback from yesterday, both on your peer revision sheet and your Google Doc. Do you notice anything confusing or surprising? • Discuss Deadlines & Due Dates • Vocab Cartoon (P4 only) • Continue Peer Revision / L & G • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log Week 7 due Monday • Found Poetry Spreadsheet due Tuesday • AR Deadline = Wednesday • Bring 2 bucks for S&H by Thursday • Publishing Project due Wednesday, 3/5 • Found Poetry due Monday, March 10th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  35. Magical Monday, February 24, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Get our your reading log. Then, you have 5 minutes to prepare your mind and your paper for today’s vocab quiz. • Vocab Quiz (L & G when done) • Mini-Lesson: Dialogue Rules Reminder • LEARN & GROW (Share your Publishing drafts with me so I can give you feedback • HOMEWORK • Found Poetry Spreadsheet due tomorrow • AR Deadline = Wednesday • Bring 2 bucks for S&H by Thursday • Reading Log Week 8 due Monday 3/3 • Publishing Project due Wednesday, 3/5 • Found Poetry due Monday, March 10th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  36. Terrific Tuesday, February 25, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: W.I. – Who is the intended audience of your project? What is the purpose of you sharing it with them? • Online Textbook: Analyze audience and purpose of JFK speech • Hand out Order Forms / reveal riddle • LEARN & GROW (Share your Found Poetry Spreadsheet with me if you haven’t already done so) • HOMEWORK: • AR Deadline = TOMORROW!!  • Bring 2 bucks for S&H by Thursday • Reading Log Week 8 due Monday 3/3 • Publishing Project due Wednesday, 3/5 • Found Poetry due Monday, March 10th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  37. Wonderful Wednesday, February 26, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: DOL • Hand out Author’s Packets / riddle • Q & A: Printing & Publishing • LEARN & GROW • HOMEWORK: • AR Deadline = TODAY !!  • Finish Peer Revision by tomorrow • Bring 2 bucks for S&H by tomorrow • Reading Log Week 8 due Monday • Publishing Project due Wednesday, 3/5 • Found Poetry due Monday, 3/10 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  38. Thursday, February 27, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: DOL • Check Peer Revision sheets • Q & A: Printing & Publishing • LEARN & GROW/Google Drive feedback time!! • HOMEWORK: • Bring 2 bucks on Mon for 60% • Reading Log Week 8 due Monday • Publishing Project due Wed, 3/5 • Found Poetry due Monday, 3/10 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  39. Magical Monday, March 3, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Meet me in the 8th grade computer lab • Finish & Print Projects (then L&G) • Analyze main claim of JFK speech • Brainstorm persuasive essay topics • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project due Wednesday • Found Poetry due Monday, 3/10 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  40. Terrific Tuesday, March 4, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Log in and L&G • Clarification of Publication Expectations in Butler Nation! • LEARN & GROW: Publishing, Found Poetry, Persuasive Essay brainstorming, etc. • 6th grade Lab: Finish & Print Projects (then L&G) • HOMEWORK: • Publishing Project due TOMORROW WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DOOR (NO PRINTING) • Decide on persuasive essay topic by Thursday • Found Poetry due Monday, 3/10 Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  41. WEB Wednesday, March 5, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Have your publishing packet out and ready, but do not seal or tape anything shut yet. • Double-Check & Collect Projects • 5-Paragraph Persuasive Essay Instructions & Rubric: Intro, Q&A • Mini-Lesson: Possible Objections • HOMEWORK: • Decide on persuasive essay topic by tomorrow • Persuasive Essay color-coded organizer/outline due Monday • Found Poetry due Monday • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due Friday, March 14th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  42. Thriving Thursday, March 6, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: DOL • 5-Paragraph Persuasive Essay Instructions & Rubric: Intro, Q&A • Mini-Lesson: Possible Objections • LEARN & GROW (Mr. B checks reading logs, essay topics, and book order numbers) • HOMEWORK: • Persuasive Essay color-coded organizer/outline due Monday • Found Poetry due Monday • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due Friday, March 14th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  43. Finally Friday!!!! March 7, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: DOL • New reading logs handed out • Found Poetry Q & A • JFK speech: Analyze key reasons and supporting details • LEARN & GROW • HOMEWORK: • Persuasive Essay color-coded organizer/outline due Monday • Found Poetry due Monday • Reading Log # 1 (Q4) due Friday, 3/14 • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due Friday, March 14th Outcomes: We will recognize various types of figurative language and use them in our own writing. We will understand how a writer’s voice / style affects the text, and develop our own Essential Questions: How do we navigate our new online textbook? How do authors develop different writer’s voices or styles?

  44. Magical Monday, March 10, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: First, get out your Found Poetry rubric. Next, share & compare your Found Poetry with a neighbor, and see if they have any last-minute feedback for you. Finally, re-share the document with me if necessary. • Discuss color-coded outlines • Language Arts Bingo: Intro, Clue Creation, and Q&A • HOMEWORK: • Persuasive Essay color-coded organizer/outline due tomorrow • Reading Log # 1 (Q4) due Friday • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due Friday Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will review important concepts to prepare for TCAP. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? What have we already learned this year that will help us succeed on TCAP?

  45. Tubular Tuesday, March 11, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: DOL • Quick Write: Compose an introductory paragraph for your persuasive essay, with all the parts. LEARN & GROW when done. • Share / check color-coded outlines for persuasive essays • Tricky TCAP Terms: Translated!! • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log # 1 (Q4) due Friday • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due Friday Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will review important concepts to prepare for TCAP. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? What have we already learned this year that will help us succeed on TCAP?

  46. Wicked Wednesday, March 12, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Writing Invitation: Construct / revise your first two body paragraphs for your persuasive essay, using your rubric. Make sure you have two separate supporting details (examples or pieces of evidence) for each key reason. LEARN & GROW when done. • Language Arts Bingo!! • Tricky TCAP Posters: Translated!! • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log # 1 (Q4) due Friday • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due Friday Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will review important concepts to prepare for TCAP. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? What have we already learned this year that will help us succeed on TCAP?

  47. Thrilling Thursday, March 13, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Writing Invitation: Write / revise your LAST body paragraph (the one with the possible objection and the response(s) to it. LEARN & GROW when done. • Check Q3 IC & QCC me if need be • Inferences: Deck O’ Cards review • Tricky TCAP Posters: Translated!! • HOMEWORK: • Reading Log # 1 (Q4) due tomorrow • Persuasive Essay Rough Draft due tomorrow Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will review important concepts to prepare for TCAP. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? What have we already learned this year that will help us succeed on TCAP?

  48. Phenomenal Friday, March 14, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Writing Invitation: Write / revise your Concluding Paragraph. On your rubric, cross out “leaves ‘em thinking” and write “calls them to action”. (Rough Drafts & Reading Logs are checked right away, so get ‘em out!) • Final TCAP Q&A / Pep Talk • Read-Aloud: Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!!  • HOMEWORK: • NONE – HAPPY TCAP!!!  Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will review important concepts to prepare for TCAP. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? What have we already learned this year that will help us succeed on TCAP?

  49. Mystical Monday, March 24, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Select a new seat. Make good choices, so I don’t have to move anybody! Then, retrieve your Interactive Readers. • Interactive Readers: Eleanor Roosevelt • Prejudice Project: Novel Preview Time! • HOMEWORK: • Peer Revision due Wednesday • Final Drafts due Thursday • Reading Log Week 2 due Thursday Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will compare & contrast two texts on the same topic. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? How do authors of historical writing convey their feelings about the topic?

  50. Tremendous Tuesday, March 25, 2014 ACTIVITIES • DO NOW: Log on, go to our Classes page, click on the Online Textbook Feedback Survey, and complete the survey. • Five-Paragraph Essays: Peer Revision • Prejudice Project: Novel Preview • Super Duper Special Surprise!!!  • HOMEWORK: • Novel Preview Sheets due tomorrow • Peer Revision due tomorrow • Final Drafts due Thursday • Reading Log Week 2 due Thursday Outcomes: We will organize our writing with spicy leads, topic statements, key ideas/reasons, & supporting details. We will compare & contrast two texts on the same topic. Essential Questions: How can we effectively communicate our ideas to readers? How do authors of historical writing convey their feelings about the topic?

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