- Do Now - Get ready for your vocabulary test. You will have 5 minutes to review, so use your time wisely!
- Take vocabulary quiz.
- Correct quiz if time permits.
TUESDAY - DOUBLE Period
- Learning Target: I can identify the four basic characteristics of a personal narrative.
- Mini-Lesson:
- 1. Review the four basic characteristics of a personal narrative.
- 2. Read "Watch Out for Your Little Sister" and model identifying the four basic characteristics of a personal narrative.
- Guided Practice: Alone or with a partner, read pages 15-17 of Breaking Night and complete the graphic organizer titled Elements of a Personal Narrative Practice Activity for Breaking Night. This is due at the end of the period.
- Assessment: When you write your personal narrative, you will be expected to include these four characteristics in it.
- Period 8
- Do Now: Think and Respond
- Entry Title: Brainstorming
- Answer the following question in your composition book:
- What are some situations you might need to brainstorm for ideas?
- Learning Target: I can use brainstorming to come up with an awesome story idea for my personal narrative.
- Mini-Lesson:
- 1. Define brainstorming and discuss how it can help you generate ideas.
- 2. Explain how to use the Personal Narrative Idea List.
- 3. Model how to complete it.
- Practice: Using the Personal Narrative Idea List, fill in each of the squares with at least two possible story ideas for your personal narrative. Switch papers with a partner and share your story ideas with each other.
- You will receive a classwork grade worth 45 points for completing this activity successfully.
- Assessment: On a half sheet of paper, write down the story idea you have chosen to write about and hand it in as your ticket out the door.
WEDNESDAY - SINGLE Period
- Learning Target: Writing workshop. Begin the rough draft of your personal narrative.
- Mini-lesson...
- 1. Read over the sample personal narrative.
- 2. Review the Personal Narrative Rubric
- 3. Review your Personal Narrative Idea List
- 4. Begin writing your story.
- Writer's Workshop: You must have at least half of your story completed by the end of the period.
- Assessment: This is a classwork grade worth 50 points. I will be coming around to do a progress check and grade your effort ten minutes before the end of the period.
THURSDAY - DOUBLE Period
- Learning Target: Writing workshop. Finish the rough draft of your personal narrative.
- Mini-lesson...
- 1. Read over the sample personal narrative.
- 2. Review the Personal Narrative Rubric
- 3. Review your Personal Narrative Idea List
- 4. Begin writing your story.
- Writer's Workshop: You must have your story completed by the end of the period and hand it in after it is peer edited by 2 other people! Use the rubric to keep track of your points.
- Assessment: Today is a classwork grade worth 50 points. I will be coming around to do a progress check and grade your effort ten minutes before the end of period 8.
FRIDAY - SINGLE Period
- Do Now:
- Get out your Personal Narrative and have it ready to hand in. I will be collecting them while you complete the Word Study below.
- Word Study - Start a new entry titled: Vocabulary List VIII
- 1. Ritual (ritualistically, ritualistic) Always done in a particular situation and in the same way each time.
- 2. Stipend - a fixed, regular sum of money paid as a salary or allowance.
- 3. Retrieve - (retrieval, irretrievable) to get or bring something back.
- 4. Abash - (unabashedly, unabashed) to cause embarrassment.
- Learning Target: I can synthesize information in order to draw a logical conclusion to what I read.
- Have you ever had to do something you felt was embarrassing?
- Read Aloud / Think Aloud - Read pages 19-22 "Furniture Garbage Day"
- Class Discussion
- 1. What are some of this section's most important facts?
- 2. How might you describe the way Liz feels as her father is rummaging through garbage in Manhattan?
- 3. How might you describe the way Liz's father feels about picking through garbage?
- 4. How does Liz react to the gift her father gives her?
- 5. Compare how Liz feels about Garbage Day with her sister's reaction.
- New Entry: Synthesizing (Putting it all together)
- With a partner, compare Liz's experiences on Check Cashing Day with her mother and Furniture Garbage Day with her father. Consider what motivates Liz as she interacts with her parents.
- What might be the most important thing to Liz at this point in her childhood? Find proof in the story that supports your opinion and write your answer in your composition book.
- Mix it Up: Now, take your response and read it with at least three other people in class. Edit your response by adding additional information with whom you shared.
- Share Out: Be prepared to read your response to the class for a ticket and a class participation grade.
