Thursday, January 16th, 2014

I can...

• learn the five basic brush strokes
• understand what a "Core Sentence" is
• begin finding Core Sentences in my own writing
• start the process of "Noticing"

Opening:

1. LAST CALL for missing/late work and make-up assignments.

2. Final Grades will be posted outside my classroom tomorrow afternoon at 3:00pm.  Please feel free to stop by.  If you have anything that needs to be turned in, drop it at the main office.

3. Handout "Article of the Week"

• Predict
• Read Aloud
• Due Thursday, January 23rd.

4. Handouts:

• Work Folders w/ "Choice" Circle Map
• "Writing" Folders
• Harry Noden's "Brush Strokes" Packet

5. Quick Clean up and Organization (5 minutes!)

• Remove all essays (Personal Narratives and Expository Essays) and place in your new "WRITING" Folder
• Name your Writing Folder on the Tab
• Place all of your essays, your Class Notebook and the Brush Strokes Packet in your Writing Folder
• Locate all Classwork from the 1st Semester in your bag, binder, etc. and place in "WORK" Folder.
• Anyone need a new Work Folder?
• Return Work Folder to the Computer Table
• Determine if you need a new Class Notebook or Reader's Notebook...get a new one this weekend.

Work Period:

6. "The Five Basic Brush Strokes"

• Put your name on the packet...many grades will emerge from this packet.

7. Page 6: Read Aloud.  

• Noticing (Define): 
• What is an absolute?  Define it in your own handwriting next to the Heading
• What do you notice about the Core Sentence?
• What do you notice about the sentence with Absolute Brush Strokes?
• what are the nouns?
• what are the -ing words?
• What do you notice about writing with Absolutes?  
• write your response at the bottom of page 6.
• Which kind(s) of writing can you use Absolutes in?
• Expository?
• Narrative?

Closing:

8. On page 4 of the packet, locate the CORE SENTENCE.

• Read #1 and determine why the following sentence is considered a Core Sentence: "The elephant charged the lions."
• What are the characteristics of a core sentence?

9. In your essays, find two or three core sentences.

• Copy each core sentence down at the top of a CLEAN sheet.  So, on the upper line of each "right" page in your notebook, copy down a core sentence.