January 12/13

EQ: How can I use parts of speech to vary my sentences?

Agenda:
Parts of speech quiz
Expanding sentences using adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjuntions

Homework
Yellow handout -- Making sentences

January 11 - Red Day

EQ: What makes a complete sentence?

Agenda:
The 5 requirements of a complete sentence - notes
Parts of Speech review

Homework
Study for Parts of Speech Quiz

January 10 - White Day

EQ: What are the parts of speech?

Agenda:
Review sentence fragments vs. complete sentences.
Parts of speech handout

Homework
Study for parts of speech quiz

January 7 - White Day

January 7

EQ: What makes a complete sentence?

Agenda:
The 5 requirements of a complete sentence - notes
Practice identifying sentence fragments and complete sentences

Homework
Blue sheet - Sentence Fragments (Front side only)

December 9/12

EQ: How can I improve the ending of my journal writing?

Agenda:
Print and assemble your Immigration Journal

Homework
No homework

December 6/7

EQ: How can I improve the ending of my journal writing?

Agenda:
Review of symbols and themes that ran through Letters from Rifka.
What ideas/objects/symbols did you include at the start of your character's journey?
Incorporate one of those ideas into your story ending.

Homework
Run-on sentence pre-assessment (blue sheet)

November 30/December 1

EQ: How can I add edit my writing?

Agenda:

• Incorporate feedback into your rough drafts.   
• Apply feedback to all your writing.  (Ex. If feedback says capitalize A in America, look for ALL instances of proper nouns that are not capitalized.)
• Continue to incorporate descriptive language into your writing:

• Similes
• Metaphors
• Sensory language
• Ba Da Bing!

Homework
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #3 (Ellis Island experience), please complete it for homework.