WRITING

This week, we will take a final start our Personal Narrative Learning plan. Get ready to write! 

There will be two assignments that students will complete and turn in this week by the end of class on Friday, August 28: 1) Cursive Worksheet (letter a & words); 2) Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline. Though not due, students should have the goal of drafting the introduction paragraph and starting to draft the first body paragraph of their narrative by end of class Friday.

Below is our tentative agenda: 

Monday, August 24: 

• Introduce and practice lowercase cursive letter "a" and words

• Class Notes: Run-on Sentences

• Introduce Personal Narrative Learning Plan 

  • 1. Go over Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline (Due Friday)

    2. Go over the due dates for Rough and Final Drafts

    3. Go over rubrics for Rough and Final Drafts

    4. Go over Brain Pop Quizes to be completed during learning plan 

Tuesday, August 25: 

• Model completing Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline (Due Friday)

• Class work time: 

  1. 1. Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline - Due Friday

     2. Cursive Worksheet (a & words) - Due Friday

Wednesday, August 26: 

• Model Introduction Paragraph for Personal Narrative

• Class work time:

  1. 1. Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline - Due Friday

     2. Cursive Worksheet (a & words) - Due Friday

     3. Drafting Introduction Paragraph (in writing notebooks)

Thursday, August 27: 

• Small Groups (I will call small groups of students to check with their Personal Narrative Plan / Outline and Introduction Paragraph)

• Class work time:

  1. 1. Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline - Due Friday

     2. Cursive Worksheet (a & words) - Due Friday

     3. Drafting Introduction Paragraph (in writing notebooks)

Friday, August 28: 

• Model First Body Paragraph for Personal Narrative

• Class work time:

  1. 1. Personal Narrative Essay Plan / Outline - Due by end of class period

     2. Cursive Worksheet (a & words) - Due by end of class period

     3. Drafting Introduction and 1st Body Paragraphs (in writing notebooks) 

This week, we will continue to create a couple S.O.P.s, take our beginning of the year STAR Test as a school, start learning some lowercase cursive letters, take notes on parts of speech, and take a pretest on narrative writing. 

There will be two assignments that students will complete and turn in this week by the end of class on Friday, August 14: 1) Cursive Worksheet (letters l, h, k, t) - we will work on this throughout the week; 2) Narrative Pretest - students will complete this pretest in class on Friday. 

Below is our tentative agenda: 

Monday, August 10: First Day of STAR Testing (for all Red Team Students)

• Special STAR Testing Schedule for Red Team (Core classes are slightly shorter)

• Review Class Vision & Code

• Create S.O.P.s

• Introduce and practice lowercase cursive letter "l"

Tuesday, August 11: Second Day of STAR Testing (for all Red Team Students)

• Special STAR Testing Schedule for Red Team (Core classes are slightly shorter)

• Introduce and practice lowercase cursive letter "h"

• Class Notes on Parts of Speech: Nouns and Verbs

Wednesday, August 12: First Day of STAR Testing (for all Gold Team Students)

• Introduce and practice lowercase cursive letter "k"

• Class Notes on Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs

Thursday, August 13: Second Day of STAR Testing (for all Gold Team Students)

• Introduce and practice lowercase cursive letter "t"

• Class Notes on Parts of Speech: Prepositions and Conjunctions

Friday, August 14: 

• Complete and Turn in Cursive Worksheet (letters l, h, k, t) - Due by end of class period

• Complete and Submit Narrative Pretest (in Schoology) - Done in class & due by end of class period

Welcome to Falcon Middle School (FMS)! During this first week, we will get to know each other, co-create our class vision (why we come to writing), code of conduct (how we will treat each other, fellow students, and staff), and S.O.P.s (how we will do important tasks). In addition to all that, yes, we will WRITE! I look forward to meeting and learning with you all :) 

Below is our tentative agenda: 

Monday, August 3: First Day of 6th Grade!

• Special 6th Grade Orientation Schedule

  • Familiarize Students with FMS, their class schedules, and more.

Tuesday, August 4: First Day for All Grades

• Ice-Breaker

• Creating Class Vision 

• Collecting Materials

Wednesday, August 5:

• Ice-Breaker

• Creating Class Vision / Code

• Collecting Materials

Thursday, August 6:

• Ice-Breaker

• Creating Class Code and S.O.P.s

Friday, August 7: Assembly Schedule (school day will conclude with an assembly)

• Ice-Breaker

• Creating Class Code and S.O.P.s