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PLEASE FIND YOUR NEW SEAT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS…

DOOR

Shanks’ Desk

BOOKCASES & SCREEN

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I made a couple of changes.

DOOR

Shanks’ Desk

BOOKCASES & SCREEN

Per. 4

PLEASE FIND YOUR NEW SEAT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS…

DOOR

Shanks’ Desk

BOOKCASES & SCREEN

Per. 5

I made a couple of changes

DOOR

Shanks’ Desk

BOOKCASES & SCREEN

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PLEASE FIND YOUR NEW SEAT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS…

DOOR

Shanks’ Desk

BOOKCASES & SCREEN

MASTERY

1. Write In Your Agenda:

Topic: HEROESPractice: Animal Rescuers,

Homework: NONE

2. CSAP Scores DA

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LANGUAGE ARTS P. 2 AND 4

1. Write In Your Agenda:Topic: BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE

Practice: Hokusai Homework: R4

2. We will discuss the story and answer some questions.

DA

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AU

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The GhostBy

Hokusai

LANGUAGE ARTS P. 5 AND 7

1. Write In Your Agenda:Topic: Writing Week!

Practice: Writer’s WorkshopHomework: R4

3. I Will Be Giving You Lots of Info on Writer’s Workshop To Get You

Started This Week.

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Did You Think Of More Questions

About R4? About 20 Minutes A Night--140 Minutes Per Week. You Choose The Reading Material. One Written Response Per Week. Parent Signature On Log

Due DatesPer. 2 Mondays by 4Per. 4 Tuesdays by 4Per. 5 Wednesdays by 4Per. 7 Thursdays by 4

If we have a holiday, snow day, etc. your Reading Journal is due on the first day after we return.

Targets, Strategies & Practices

This week and next we will:

• Discuss Reading and Writing Benchmarks • Towre Testing (today and tomorrow)• MAPS (Sept.1-2), and other assessments to find out

where you stand now as a reader and a writer.• Use Study Island for Some Independent Study (Not sure

exactly when)• Today : Continue Writer’s Workshop in Periods 5 and 7*• Today: Continue Reading Week in Periods 2 and 4*• From Now Until October: Focus on Expository Reading

and Writing

*Reading and Writing classes will switch every week.

Mastery Votes- Heroes book 9 Flight 847 Steve Biko 2 Little Rock 9 8 Chris Reeve 1 Larry C 1 Frank S 1 Nellie B 11 Animals Florence N 1 Mother T 1 Hans/Sophie Scholl

3 Wilma R 1 Diana G 4 Jackie R Gladys A 1 Cesar C Miep G Mahatma G Matthew H Marina S Anne/Charles

Lindbergh

LET’S READ! THEN DO SELF-ASSESSMENT IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.

READING WEEK P. 2 AND 4WE WILL:

1. We’ll continue working on Hokusai together.2. We are not on the second story yet.

THIS WEEK WE ARE FOCUSING ON: 3. Author’s Purpose / Viewpoint4. Explaining / Informing5. Main Ideas6. Critical Thinking 7. Key Vocabulary

Literary Analysis: Biographical NarrativeA biographical narrative is a written account of a person’s life. Most biographies tell the stories of famous or admirable people. Although a biography is nonfiction, a good biography has the same elements as good narrative (storytelling) fiction:

• plot, or series of events• conflict, a struggle around which plot events center• setting, or time and place• characters, the people in the narrative• dialogue, the conversation of the characters• theme, or message about life

Keep this in mind for your

own WRITING.

READING WEEK P. 2 AND 4

WE WILL:

1. Hokusai on 6542. We’ll continue working on

Hokusai together.3. We are not on the second story

yet.THIS WEEK WE ARE FOCUSING ON: 4. Author’s Purpose / Viewpoint5. Explaining / Informing6. Main Ideas7. Critical Thinking 8. Key Vocabulary

READING WEEK P. 2 AND 4

WE WILL:

1. Hokusai on 6542. We’ll continue working on

Hokusai together.3. We are not on the second story

yet.THIS WEEK WE ARE FOCUSING ON: 4. Author’s Purpose / Viewpoint5. Explaining / Informing6. Main Ideas7. Critical Thinking 8. Key Vocabulary

DRAW THE STAIRS ON A PIECE OF

NOTEBOOK PAPER IN IN YOUR READING BINDER/FOLDER.

Fill in the author’s main points from

each paragraph and then the OVERALL

MAIN POINT.

He was a manic artist. Hokusai started his artist’s career who was undecided about his work and his name.

He left us 36 views of Fuji. Always tried new and different things.

John Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage.

Hersey is mostly famous because … he was one of the first western

journalists to arrive in Hiroshima after the atom bomb explosion on 6th August 1945. Commission by the New Yorker to write a series of articles on the effects of a nuclear explosion, he decided to focus on the experiences of six people who had been in the city: two doctors, a Protestant minister, a widowed seamstress, a young female factory worker and a German Catholic priest.

Keep this in mind for your own

writing.

Hokusai and Not To Go With The Others Vocabulary Mini-Quiz

1. contracted to learn a trade:_____________2. plunged into: __________________________3. overflowing and swallowing up:_________4. uncontrollable enthusiasm: ____________5. a false showing:________________________6. imitated; took on the role of: ___________7. put an end to: _________________________8. came afterward: _______________________

apprenticed engulfing mania feigned ensued dispatched

pretense immersed

Writer’s Workshop

How it’s done And

What you can expect

Thanks to Ms. McCue, Mrs.

Kanatzar, and Mr. Kulbacki for the

bulk of this PowerPoint!

What is Writer’s Workshop?

How to Use a Writer’s Notebook

Working in a Workshop Group

Conferencing

Pre-Submissions

Final Submissions

Questions?

What is Writer’s Workshop?Writer’s Workshop is a structured writing time for

students to create written works of their choosing. Students decide what they will be writing about. Students will work on their writing for a sustained

block of time. Students will receive teaching that supports their

writing in the form of whole class and small group focus lessons.

Writers need to talk about their writing. Writing workshops operate with the expectation

that students are working toward publication. The writing workshop is a highly structured

environment with high expectations and an assurance of safety.

Principles Behind Writer’s Workshop

Choosing what you write helps you care more about how it turns out.

Although CSAP gives you a topic, you can apply the writing techniques you learn in workshop to what you write for CSAP

Writers need to talk about their writing.

Writers get ideas for writing from the world around them– hence, the NOTEBOOK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSfPcRmJEI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRM2ZXyrS0&feature=related

What’s Writing Workshop Like?

Using a Writer’s NotebookYour Writer’s Notebook will be a place for you to record ideas that you may want to write about at a later time. We will do some idea generating activities in the writer’s notebook, but this is also the place to jot down thoughts and ideasthat you might want to use to create a piece.

Always bring your notebook to class and carry it with you often. You never know where a good idea might come

from.

Workshop Groups Need to Have Productive Discussions and Safe Exchanges!

Here’s What We Need

Here’s What We Don’t Need

Open sharing of written work

Focused questions Constructive

feedback Expectation of

confidentiality Support

Feeling uncomfortable about sharing

Lack of focused inquiry

Criticism Unauthorized sharing Lack of support

Productive Conferences

Here are some guidelines for conferencing with the teacher:

Be Prepared! These conferences will be student led. You should come prepared with specific questions or areas of concern.

Narrow Your Focus Decide on one or two specific areas that can be addressed effectively in a 5-10 minute conversation.

Be Ready to Lead the Discussion You will be guiding the discussion and providing all of the answers. I just ask questions to help to put you on the right track.

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Submitting a Piece for Review

Submitting a piece for review is a lot like having a conference.

You still need to make sure that you have clearly expressed what it is you want the reader to be looking at in a specific, clearly stated way.

Make sure you attach a completed submission form to each piece you submit for review.

Submitting a Polished Piece

There are no final drafts (although there are final grades)!

You can always improve on a piece, so try to reach a point where you can be proud of

your piece and satisfied that it is ready to be shared with others.

What Questions Do You Have?

Reflection:

In Your Writer’s Notebook, write about what you are thinking /feeling /concerned about so far about Writing Workshop. Include DATE!

5-Minute Write

What is your History as a Writer?

Stones In A River Draw a river that crosses both pages. Put some rocks, stones, or boulders in your river. Color the river and the landscape. Label your stones with the places you have lived. Put important people around the stones for each

place where you have lived. (P7 Stopped Here) For each place, mark something you remember

about your sense of TOUCH, SMELLS, SIGHTS TASTES SOUNDS