Learning Target:
- Punctuate dialogue correctly.
- Write an effective narrative lead.
Work Collected:
- Mrs. Boyden checked for 6 squares of storyboarding
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Finish storyboarding (cut apart and reorder)--be ready to work on your rough draft tomorrow
- Handout: punctuating conversation
- Handout: narrative leads
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- If you timed a new rate today, enter that for week 4
- Dialogue review
- Look over the 4 rules on the "Punctuating Conversation" handout
- On the back: try correcting the errors (see answers below)
- Narrative leads
- Look over the 4 techniques and examples
- Try your own leads for your memoir on the back. Remember: try to start in the story to get your reader hooked (Not "When I was eight years old, my family and I...")
Learning Target:
- Use storyboarding to visualize your memoir and to plan time shifts
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Storyboard at least 6 squares
- Handouts: blank paper to use for storyboarding
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Introduction to storyboarding
- Goal #1: Visualize the important scenes--Where will you slow down and zoom in?
- Goal #2: Plan shifts in time (fast forward or flash back)--more on this tomorrow
- See example below
- Work time
- Finish yesterday's planning worksheet
- Begin storyboarding your memoir
Learning Target:
- Use a graphic organizer to plan out your memoir
Work Collected:
- Weekly reading check-in for week 3 (turn in spreadsheet via Google Classroom)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Handout: memoir planning worksheet
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Fill out the orange reflection box for week 3, then turn in your weekly reading via Google Classroom
- Memoir planning
- 4-minute free write: capture as much of your story as you can in the writing section of your notebook
- Review characteristics of effective memoirs (see notes from Friday's class)
- Memoir planning worksheet
- Front: top 3 are for the "what," bottom 3 are for the "So what?"
- Back: map out your memoir, especially the scenes you want to zoom in on
- See examples below
Learning Target:
- Identify possible "So what?" reflections for memoir topics
Work Collected:
- Note card: "what" and "So what?" (your memoir topic + your reflection about it)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins. (weekly reading due tomorrow)
Summary of Class:
- Library: Return/renew/browse/check out books, then read
- Brainstorm more topics for your memoir
- Think about the "So what?" reflections of each memory: Why is this memory important to you? How did it affect or change you? What did you learn from it? (See two examples below)
- On note card: write down the memory you want to write about for your story + your reflection/"So what?"
Learning Target:
- Identify characteristics of effective and ineffective memoirs
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 60 mins. this weekend
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Look at examples of effective and ineffective memoirs; list characteristics of each
Learning Target:
- List possible topics for writing a memoir
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Quick Google search: what is a memoir? (This will be our next writing assignment.)
- Brainstorming in the writing section of your notebook:
- Two hands (see pictures below--categories in fingers, ideas listed around each)
- Choose from prompts:
- Write about a person who you love.
- What was your favorite activity when you were a young child?
- Write about the time you made a new friend.
- Write about your favorite summer memory.
- Write about a scar or injury you suffered.
- Write about a school trip or camp you attended.
- Write about a contest or competition you participated in.
- What holiday traditions or family traditions do you have? Describe them.
- Write about the scariest thing that has happened to you.
- Write about the funniest thing that has happened to you?
- Write about one of your favorite childhood memories.
- Write about one of you favorite places. Why do you love it so much?
- Share out some ideas in small groups and whole class
