Monday, December 2, 2013

Learning Objectives:
I can...

• review my personal strengths and weaknesses in the narrative mode
• understand organizational structures in informational texts
• consider expository writing

Hand in:

• Reader's Notebook with Reading Log #13 and Reading Log E.C.

Hand out:

• Reading Log #12
• Reading Log #14
• Article of the Week 1
• Folders
• Revised Personal Narratives

Opening:

1. Review some of the great work turned in before the break

• Reading Logs
• Article of the Week 1

2. Discuss Article of the Week #2 "India Launches First Mission to Mars"

• How do you know it is Informational?
• Fiction has Story Elements (characters, setting, problem/solution, plot)
• Nonfiction has a variety of organizational structures
• Cause and Effect
• Sequence
• Problem/Solution
• Description
• Compare and Contrast
• Proposition and Support 

• How do Signal Words Help?
• What is the topic?
• What do you predict will be the organizational structure?

Work Period:
3. Return to the Personal Narrative that I returned to you:

• What are your strengths and weaknesses in the personal narrative mode?
• Review my comments and the plan you laid out prior to revising the Personal Narrative:
• Use the handout to explore your areas of weakness and concern
• Write a Plan of Action for your STAAR Personal Narrative so that you improve as a writer in this mode.

4. In your journal, please respond to the following questions and prompts:

• What is the Expository Writing Mode?
• Describe how Expository Writing is different than Narrative Writing.
• Which is more difficult for you and WHY?

5. Review the Rubric in your Folder

6. Let's listen to some successful examples from last year...use the "Sample" handout for #1

• For each, respond in your journal about what made each essay strong.

Closing:

7. These three weeks:

• Informational Writing
• Reading Poetry Aloud with inflection
• Understanding Narrative Poetry and Literary Devices in Poetry

8. Preview the Unit on page 271-274