E. Quinson

D-201

8R, periods 2 and 3

 

Monday, October 20, 2008

SWBAT:  examine and edit the paragraphs of their memoirs in the computer lab.

DO NOW:  Log on.  Open up your draft.

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Mini lesson about paragraphs and verb tenses!
  2. Students write.  I confer.
  3. Wrap up.  Tonight work for at least 30 minutes at home on your memoir.  Find quiet time on the computer.  If you have no access to a computer, by all means handwrite and you can type it in tomorrow in class.  But be sure you devote 30 minutes to your work!

H.W.:  1.  30 minutes on memoir.  2.  Independent reading.

 

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 – finish working on our rough drafts!  Tomorrow editing!

H.W.:  1.  30 minutes on memoir.  2.  YOU MUST BRING IN A CLEAN, LATEST, GREATEST PRINTED OUT DRAFT, DOUBLE-SPACED FOR EDITING TOMORROW.  It is vital for tomorrow’s class period!  If you have no printer at home, see me at lunch time today or before school tomorrow.  3.  Independent reading.

 

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

SWBAT:          Edit each other's memoirs.

DO NOW:       In the writing section of your binder:  Define editing.

DEVELOPMENT: 

1.      Review H.W. and DO NOW. 

2.      Today's class will be devoted to editing.  Brainstorm a list of things we need to check for editing.  Check for previous knowledge of peer-editing process.  Review procedure.

3.      Distribute Editing Check sheets to each student.

4.      Students work with clock buddies to edit memoirs.

5.      Group share.  What were common problems with editing?

6.      Review H.W., and Memoir Portfolio Checklist

H.W.:    1.  Make changes to your draft as you see fit, based on your in class editing session and your own decisions.  2.  Make sure you have everything saved on your computer at home and put it in your weblocker!    2.  Independent Reading.

 

Thursday, October 23, 2008

SWBAT:  finish our memoirs and turn them in electronically

DO NOW: Pull up your latest, greatest, final draft.

DEVELOPMENT:

  1. Allow students to make any last minute changes.
  2. Explain that today they will be doing four things:
    1. Completing a Self-Evaluation
    2. Turning in the “grading” draft and self-evaluation (staple the self-evaluation to the front of your grading draft.
    3. Saving all your drafts in a folder with your name to my Quinson folder on the s-common drive.
    4. Uploading your finished memoir to our blog.
  3. Make sure all students have a double-spaced version to print out.
  4. All students should print out.
  5. Greg or I will give a little lesson on how to save all their work to my folder.
  6. Greg or I will remind students how to upload to our blog.
  7. If time allows, students will respond to each others memoirs on the blog.

H.W.:  1.  Independent reading. J   2.  Write at least one page in your writer’s notebook:  Evaluate our whole memoir genre study. Give me constructive criticism.  Tell me what I did well and what I can do to make our next genre study better for you and other students.  (This is a very important homework.  I really need your input.)

 

Friday, October 24, 2008

SWBAT:  read and respond to each other’s memoirs on our blog.

DO NOW:  log onto the blog.

DEVELOPMENT:

1.      Review proper procedure for responding respectfully and fully to another students memoir. 

2.      You must read and respond to each and every memoir in the class. 

3.      Students read and respond.

4.      Teacher confers and approves comments as they come it.

H.W.:  Independent reading.  At least 45 minutes per night.  J

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