EQ: How can I improve the ending of my journal writing?
Agenda:
Print and assemble your Immigration Journal
Homework
No homework
Monday, December 12, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
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)
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:
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #3 (Ellis Island experience), please complete it for homework.
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!
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #3 (Ellis Island experience), please complete it for homework.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
November 28/29
November 28/29
EQ: How can I add more descriptive language to my writing?
Agenda:
Exercise on descriptive writing - Show Not Tell.
Homework
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #2 (boat ride), please complete it for homework.
EQ: How can I add more descriptive language to my writing?
Agenda:
Exercise on descriptive writing - Show Not Tell.
- Similes
- Metaphors
- Sensory language
- Ba Da Bing!
Homework
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #2 (boat ride), please complete it for homework.
November 22/23
November 22/23
EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on Ellis Island?
Agenda:
Exercise on avoiding run-on sentences.
Continue journal entry 3
Homework
Check over reading packet for completion and quality and turn in Monday
(White Day will turn in reading packet on Thursday (not Tuesday) because we missed a class period due to Immigration Simulation)
EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on Ellis Island?
Agenda:
Exercise on avoiding run-on sentences.
Continue journal entry 3
Homework
Check over reading packet for completion and quality and turn in Monday
(White Day will turn in reading packet on Thursday (not Tuesday) because we missed a class period due to Immigration Simulation)
November 18/21
November 18/21
EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on Ellis Island?Agenda:
Complete journal entry #2
Begin journal entry 3
Homework
Read Letters From Rifka - complete the book and reading packet
Friday, November 18, 2016
November 16/17
November 16/17
EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on the ship to America?Agenda:
Vocabulary
Continue journal entry #2
Homework
Read Letters From Rifka pages 89-110
Answer questions 7-11 in packet #2
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