February 9th Middle School
Session Slides
MS Feb 9.pdfPre-Work
Please complete the following for your pre-work:
Please read "Freak the Geek" by John Green. You'll be looking at some sample writing that works with this short story. We are asking you to read this text to provide context for sample writing.
Please read "Shame" by Dick Gregory. Once you've finished reading the story, please compose a quick write in response to the following
What do you learn about Richard in this short memoir?
OPTIONAL READS
We've included two short pieces from the IFL newsletter that are relevant to the work we will be doing tonight. The first is "Teach Test Writing as a Genre," and the second is "Making Space for Student Choice in the Writing Process." While we will not have time to discuss either of these pieces, the information in both texts is relevant to the work we will be doing.
Grade 8_Text- Freak the Geek.pdf"Freak the Geek"
by John Green
Shame.pdf"Shame"
by Dick Gregory
Optional Reading
(Really! The info is good, but don't stress if you don't get to these)
"Teach Test Writing as a Genre"
by Sara DeMartino
"Making Space for Student Choice in the Writing Process"
by Sara DeMartino
Materials for our work together
Please post your responses to the questions about the writing samples in the linked slides.
Self-Assessment: Decision Tree
DDT Shame.pdfStudent Facing Process Task Sheets
Linked in each square is a sample student facing task sheet for each part of the process
Bridge to Practice
The purpose of this bridge to practice is for you to adapt the quick write to ECR process for your students. To complete this bridge to practice, consider doing the following:
Select the text you’d like students to work with for the ECR.
Craft a comprehension question to help students get the gist of the text.
Create a task that scaffolds students towards the work of the ECR. This might be a chart that asks them to capture themes in the story or looking at the claims an author makes in an argument and noting the evidence to support those claims.
Decide how you are going to help students to deepen their understanding of the features of an effective ECR.
Develop the ECR writing prompt.
Once you've used the process with students, reflect on how it went.
What worked well?
What might you change the next time you use a similar process with students?
Please let us know if you have any questions!