Monday Sept. 17, 2018 Welcome!

• Tape your gray Course of Study sheets into your Reading Notebooks. You should be reading these books this week.
• Write down homework in your planner. Be sure to have your yellow sheet ready Wednesday. Share with a partner how you are collecting/keeping track of how many pages you read each week.
• Turn in your yellow multiple plot sheet from Friday so I can check it off . We will be using it today in class for writing workshop.
• Look at the board for our week overview. Note there is a reading assessment on Friday.

Writing Workshop

Today we go from 2-D to 3-D in our writing and start drafting our stories.

First, however, let’s review what we have done so far in this unit.

Then, share a one sentence summary of your story idea with a partner next to you.

Listen as I read how 1 sentence summaries can turn into showing detailed sentences for your stories.

Write for 20 minutes: this is creating time so try to just write what comes next in your mind as you are writing and not think or judge at this point.

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Speeches and WWW Study Time

• Final speeches; turn in posters if you haven’t yet, I am posting these grades today on synergy.
• WWW review time; find a partner and quiz one another on all the roots from weeks 1-3. 10 minutes.

Reading Workshop: Lifting the level of your writing about reading

• Share your homework--the most important trait for your character and 3 pieces of evidence--with a partner. I will come around and check off.
• Now we will turn that into a paragraph about the character.
• For instance, Will--Persistent--
• he looks for a clover for 6 months,
• stands outside the circle,
• waits for his moment tp be funny, jumps on it and achieves his goal.

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From theory charts to paragraphs

The character of Will in “Popular” by Adam Bagdasarian is persistent. In the beginning of the story he has been looking for four leaf clovers with the two Alens for six months. He then sets his sights on the popular group of boys. He stands just outside their circle studying their behavior and figures out a way to get in. He decides he can be funny and if given the chance, it will be his way in. Finally the moment comes and he jumps on it. When he is made fun of regarding his pants he turns on his attacker and makes a joke about the yellow outfit he is wearing, and when the most popular boy laughs, that is it. Will achieves his goal and is now, suddenly, popular.

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Writing to capture our best thinking, not our first

• Jot down your most interesting thinking about your reading
• Jot down ideas you are investigating, not details you can remember
• Don’t record your first thoughts, instead focus on your most interesting thoughts, observations and questions about the book and character
• Decide what kind of writing best suits your thinking. Free or fastwrite after you finish reading? Sticky notes as you read? A graphic organizer--web, t-chart, venn diagram?
• Also, another purpose for writing about your reading is to hold onto ideas you want to share with a partner and that will help you have better conversations about your book.
• Set a goal for your reading time today. What type of writing will you do for it? We will have 5 minutes after reading to write down our ideas about the book after we read for 20 minutes.