1.25 Writing Process Letter

Friday October 11

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Write a 6 paragraph evidence-based essay explaining your writing process. 

• Write using appropriate capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

Agenda Items

• NoRedInk Practice: Essay Revision: Word Choice, Claims, Evidence & Transitions

• Checklist for Revising, Editing & Typing Your Essay

• Adding Author's Commentary

Assignments

• 1.22 Writing Process Letter - Review the rubric to ensure that your essay meets the criteria for a passing grade. Turn in your completed draft on Google Classroom - due Monday October 7 by 11:59pm

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2.X In Conversation: Literary Inspiration Podcast

Monday October 14 - Friday October 18

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Write at least one paragraph of author’s commentary explaining the elements of the rhetorical situation—author, purpose, audience, exigence, and context—and the thinking behind your draft.

• Collaborate to design the basic layout of our literary magazine.

Agenda Items

Assignments

• Practice: 1.17 Literary Inspiration Prewriting

• 1.X Author's Commentary - Write at least one paragraph of author’s commentary describing the rhetorical situation and the thinking behind your piece - due Friday 8/23 - submit in Google Classroom

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4.1 Transition Words & Phrases

Monday December 2

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Select appropriate transition words and phrases to express relationships between ideas

Agenda Items

• Transition Words & Phrases practice on NoRedInk

• Instructions for choosing transition words:

  • Read and paraphrase each part of the sentence or paragraph

  • Determine the relationship between the parts

  • Choose the appropriate transition word 

• Individual writing conferences

Assignments

• Transition Words & Phrases Quiz

• Practice: Revise your essay to add appropriate transition words & phrases

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4.1 Pronoun Usage

Monday December 2

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Select appropriate pronoun

Agenda Items

• Pronoun Usage practice on NoRedInk

• Individual writing conferences

Assignments

• Transition Words & Phrases Quiz

• Practice: Revise your essay to add appropriate transition words & phrases

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4.1 Introducing Quotes: Comma vs. Colon

Monday December 2

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Determine whether to use a colon or comma when introducing a quote within a sentence.

Agenda Items

• Introducing Quotes: Comma vs Colon practice on NoRedInk

Assignments

• Practice: Revise your essay to add appropriate transition words & phrases

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4.3 Comma Usage

Thursday December 5

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Apply comma usage rules in order to correctly punctuate sentences.

Agenda Items

• 8 Comma Usage Rules

Assignments

• Practice: Revise your essay to add appropriate transition words & phrases

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4.2 Line of Reasoning in Essay Revision

Wednesday November 15 & Thursday November 16

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Revise your essay to correct errors in

  • thesis statement

  • text evidence from the texts you studied

  • structure / line of reasoning

  • analysis body paragraphs: claim, evidence, commentary

  • embedding quotes using signal phrases to cite sources of information (title and author)

  • transition phrases

  • capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.

Agenda Items

• Use feedback to help you revise your essay

• Individual writing conferences

Assignments

• 4.2 Line of Reasoning in Essay Revision due Thursday November 16

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4.3 The Other Wes Moore Part 3 - Guided Notes

Monday November 27

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Draw conclusions from a text using observations, inference and deduction.

• Write a one-paragraph short answer response that includes a claim, text evidence, and explanation/reasoning.

Agenda Items

• Silent Reading / Audiobook

• Guided Notes - Main Ideas 

  • Observation

  • Inference

  • Deduction

Assignments

• Practice: Guided Notes for The Other Wes Moore Part 3

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4.4 The Other Wes Moore Part 3 - Discussion

Wednesday November 29

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Justify and explain your inferences with a claim, text evidence, and reasoning.

Agenda Items

• Guided Notes - Observation, Inference, Deduction, Chronology, Point of View, Flashback

• Choose one of the following passages to analyze.

  • Observe: What details do you notice? What sentences stand out to you?

  • Author’s Purpose: Why does the author include 

  • Infer: 

  • Deduce:

• Small Group Discussion

Assignments

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4.5 The Other Wes Moore Part 3 Exam

Thursday November 30

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Draw conclusions from a text using observations and inferencing.

• Write one-paragraph short answer responses that includes a claim, text evidence, and explanation/reasoning.

Agenda Items

• The Other Wes Moore Part 3 Exam

Assignments

• 4.5 The Other Wes Moore Part 3 Exam

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4.6 Grammar Review & Practice

Monday December 4

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

• Apply comma usage rules in order to correctly punctuate sentences.

• Evaluate sentences for appropriate usage of coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) and commas.

• Evaluate sentences for appropriate usage of subordinating conjunctions and commas.

• Identify the antecedent of an appositive or appositive phrase.

• Correctly punctuate essential and nonessential appositives and appositive phrases.

Agenda Items

• Comma Usage - 8 Rules

• Edpuzzle: Comma Usage - Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS) & Subordinating Conjunctions (5 minute video)

• NoRedInk Practice Modules:

  • Compound Sentences (FANBOYS)

  • Complex Sentences (SWABIs & THAMOs)

  • Appositives Practice

  • Parallel Structure Practice

  • Punctuating Quotes Practice

  • Pronoun Usage Practice

Assignments

• Practice: NoRedInk Grammar Practice Modules

• Practice: Proofread & edit your essay to correct errors in comma usage

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4.7 Creative Writing Workshop: Photo Essays

Wednesday December 6

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

Agenda Items

• Foreshadowing, Suspense, Chronology, Point of View

• Photo Essays

• Sharing & Feedback

Assignments

• 100 Word Essay, Poem or Story

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4.8 Grammar Corrections & Revision

Thursday December 7

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

Agenda Items

• Grammar Corrections and Revision Practice

• Grammar Corrections and Revision Quiz - Google Form

Assignments

• 4.8 Grammar Corrections & Revision Quiz

• Practice: Proofread & correct errors in the passage; revise to improve sentences & flow

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4.9 Literary Magazine: Preparing for Publication

Friday December 8

• Prepare writing submissions for publication in our class literary magazine.

• Collaborate with your production team to review, typeset, or edit writing submissions or design webpages for the literary magazine.

Agenda Items

• Preparing your work for submission

• Independent Conferences

• Literary Magazine Submission Form

Assignments

• Literary Magazine Submission

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Midterm Exam Part 1

Monday December 11

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

Agenda Items

• Grammar & Short Answer Responses

Assignments

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4.10 Literary Magazine: Production

Wednesday December 13

• Prepare writing submissions for publication in our class literary magazine.

• Collaborate with your production team to review, typeset, or edit writing submissions or design webpages for the literary magazine.

Agenda Items

• Literary Magazine Production

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Assignments

• Literary Magazine Production

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4.11 Portfolio Review & Reflection

Thursday December 14 & Friday December 15

• Add items to your portfolio that represent what you have learned and accomplished so far in English class.

• Organize your files by ensuring that the file name reflects the title and/or type of piece.

• Reflect on the writing process and the experience of publishing our writing. 

• Reflect on your learning and experience in English class this semester, noting successes, skills and knowledge gained, favorite activities and assignments, challenges, themes, questions, growth, and future opportunities.

• Write using appropriate capitalization, punctuation, spelling, grammar, and transition phrases.

Agenda Items

• Portfolio Organization

• Portfolio Reflection

Assignments

• Portfolio Checklist

• Portfolio Reflection Essay

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Midterm Exam Part 1

Monday December 18

Welcome back! My plan for today is to guide you to:

Agenda Items

Assignments

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