Wednesday, September 1st

Objectives:

• TO discuss some essential questions about American life.
• TO orient students to discussion practices and questioning technique.

Freewrite: None
Lessons:
Graffiti: Write 4 questions on 4 pieces of butcher paper and hang around the room
Give each student a marker and instruct the students to move from poster to poster answering the questions
Bring the posters to the front of the room and analyze what the students have done aloud to the class. Look for patterns and discuss the “American Way of Life.”
Ask the students to respond to why you might have them do this activity.

Tuesday, August 31

Objectives:         

•       To practice writing with brevity and showing not telling.
•           To learn about Memoir and genre writing.
•       To practice Illustrating writing to enhance the message.

Freewrite: Obama embarrassed sign: Free speech or Hate speech?  Billboard-buyer-shares-why-he-brought-Vote-Obama-sign-to-the-Ozarks-

Lesson:
Guiding questions: 
            What is a Memoir?

What makes a Memoir special?

2 qualities of good writing are

• Brevity—saying what you need to say in the fewest, most concise words possible.
• Showing not telling—making your readers see without telling them what to see.

Discuss what these things mean.

In order to practice this we’re going to write a 6-word memoir and illustrate it.
          I’ll show you a few to give you some ideas.

6-Word Memoirs from NPR

Discuss each memoir and talk about the illustration.

Then ask the students to write the memoir and think about how to illustrate it. The project is due Friday.

We will post via Flowr on Friday as part of our Google Docs instruction.

Friday, September 3

Book talks in the library with Mrs. Wooldridge.

Thursday, September 2

Read page 788-790 in the textbook.
Discuss strategies for reading poetry and apply to the Wordsworth poem on pages 789 and 790.

Wednesday, September 1st

Read the poem, “Women’s Work” in the textbook on page 806.

Talk about the imagery.

                What does imagery do?  Paints the picture.

Complete imagery worksheet and write a paragraph with imagery.

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