Argumentative Writing

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Overview:

This week we  are focusing on Argumentative writing through writer’s workshop. Students are supporting their claim with textual evidence and reasoning through a five paragraph essay.  We continue exploring texts under the umbrella of our unit essential question with focus on a variety of literary skills.

Reminder to students: 

  • Thanksgiving break begins Wednesday 11/22/2017
  • SSR+ conference continued
  • AOW+ Soapstone annotation continued
  • SSR+ – Goal setting reflection form, reading activity packet, and logs continued
  • Cell phone policy continued
  • planners and SSR books remain on desk at all times
  • PBIS continued

SSR resources for your accessibility and reference: 

Sum It Up!

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Overview:

  •  Students completed “The Most Dangerous Game” read/ unit. We concluded with a summative assessment summarizing everything we learned in relation to “The Most Dangerous Game”. Students focused on internal and external literary conflict- specifically three: Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, Man vs Self.
  • Students created a plot diagram analyzing how a our text unfolds throughout with focus on a variety of skills including but not limited to providing textual evidence, close reading/ analysis, building vocabulary, annotation, etc…
  • SSR+ conference: Students continued SSR activity packet, reading logs, and setting and reflecting weekly reading goals.
  • Students explore a new “Article of the Week” using a close reading annotation lens- SoapsTone + (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning writing response)

Reminder:

  • Please be sure to print this weeks SSR log and continue SSR+ reflect on reading goals
  • Planners and SSR book on desk everyday

SSR PRINTABLE RESOURCES: 

SSR reading log and checklist

SSR WEEKLY GOAL SETTING

SSR Reading Activities

 

This Week…

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Reminder/ Homework:

  • Please be sure to complete your plot diagram poster of “The Most Dangerous Game”- Due Monday 10/30/17

I welcome and look forward to meeting all parents this week!

  • Parent- Teacher conferences: Monday 10/30  and Wednesday 11/01 3:30-6:30 pm

Students will continue exploring “The Most Dangerous Game” through a variety of literary lenses (Conflict and Character– this week)

Silent Sustained Reading: 

  • Reading logs continued
  • Conferring continued
  • SSR goal setting continued
  • Reflective SSR activities/ writing continued

AOW:

  • Students will delve into a new “Article of the Week” with Soapstone annotation continued

 

Attached is the reading text and audio link – “The Most Dangerous Game” for your reference:

 

Quiz

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Reminder:

  • Please study for your quiz tomorrow!

It will focus on “The Most Dangerous Game” read to this point- comprehension and Inferences. Use your study guide notes, Inference diagram, bell work, notes, text, and audio for support. The text and audio is linked two posts down. Please study and come prepared for assessment!

  • Grades have been submitted today! – Everything we are doing this week will be counted for card marking 2.
  • Parent- teacher conferences next week (Monday and Wednesday)
  • SSR + conferencing continued (Please make sure to read everyday)

The Most Dangerous Game

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We started our new reading text:  “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. Students are reading, annotating, thinking critically, inferring, citing textual evidence, and identifying new terms to add to their tool kit. Students were able to connect to text and infer in writing about key events/ components through our “See-Think-Wonder” group activity. Attached is a copy of our class text and a link to an audio version for students to access at home to assist with reading.

Students are also working on “Article of the Week” annotation with Soapstone strategy continued

Reminder:

  • Remember that we moved to Room G106 starting Wednesday 10/18/2017 (Go there tomorrow for ELA)
  • SSR reading at home continued!
  • Planners and SSR book on your desk at all times

Text Attached and audio link:

The Most Dangerous Game – text

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5NqT78G3BI&t=1150s

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Terrific job today on your writing with connection with the photograph linked to our unit essential question!

 

Homework:

Annotate your article of the week with focus on the speaker component of soapstone for today. Fill out your identification and textual evidence diagram.

SSR reading continued

 

Imagery

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Overview:

This week we focused on Imagery. Students worked in small groups to create a circle thinking map about imagery and answering the Map Guided Question and Frame Question. Students collaboratively went up to the board to write down what their groups came up with on our class circle thinking map. We concluded with a class discussion and an exit slip using a sentence stem to provide the meaning and example of imagery.

Students explored a new “Article of the Week” and we read it together and walked through different components of Soapstone strategy while annotating and thinking critically in their notebooks. Students used different color highlighters to differentiate the various Soapstone components and we modeled this together.

Attached is the Soapstone strategy components sheet that I provided to you in class for your reference.

https://docs.google.com/a/dearbornschools.org/document/d/1dxcNfmqNQEZS8SbDc_Uu9KhuXl2lHWuR1_8V-o7cl78/edit?usp=sharing

Homework: 

SSR graphic reflection and response

Be ready to present orally!