Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday/Wednesday, February 5/6, 2019:
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Targets for Today:
I can write parts A and B of my chapter and put them together using transitions.
Later: I can explain what a transition is. |
Today’s Agenda for Tuesday/Wednesday, February 5/6, 2019:
A2 did a writing prompt
WN: Watch "Book Report" from "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" at
B6 and B8 took a pretest -- answering questions about a short story.
Write about your writing process. What do you do when you need to write?
A2 and B2 did the following. B5 and B8 will work on these next time. B5, please make sure you have finished your research questions, title page, and introduction before you come next time. Welcome to class!
As you come in, pick up a copy of the Cleopatra chapter, 4 pieces of loose-leaf paper, and 3 sticky notes from the front.”
Last class, we created the title page and introduction for our chapters in the computer lab. Today, we are going to start working on the body of our chapter by writing parts A and B.
Using a paper copy of the Cleopatra chapter , open it to page 20. With your partner, find 3 sentences on page 20 that talk about Cleopatra’s death.
After you have found those three sentences:
As a class, we noted the three sentences—
“Like Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra were secretly married—but their love affair lasted for years, until the day they died,”
“They split up to better their chances for survival,”
and “It was only a matter of time before the Romans would catch her, kill her, and take over her beloved Egypt.”
The author slipped in a few sentences about her death in a section that was mostly about her life and importance. Today we are looking a little deeper into how to put the pieces together.
Using your Research Questions paper, write about your person’s life and importance.
Try to get at least a page and a half.
This is very important—DO NOT WRITE ON THE BACK OF THE PAPER.
If, as you write, you realize you need to learn more about your person, write what you need to learn on a sticky note.
So if I was writing about J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, and I realized that I needed to know how long it took her to write her first book, I would write on my sticky note the question, “How long did it take her to write Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?”
Draw a line horizontally across your sticky notes so that there is space for two questions on each sticky note.
Use your first two pieces of paper and start writing part A.
Part A: 1 and a half pages about your person’s life and importance. Use sticky notes to note questions to research.”
If you finish early, read silently.
Now we’re going to start writing part B—the story of how your person died.
However, different people have different amounts of information about their death.
If your person has a real and interesting death story, like Abraham Lincoln’s assassination or Sharon Christa McAuliffe’s death in the Challenger explosion, go ahead and write.
Use your third page to write a paragraph about their death. Then, on the rest of the page, brainstorm hints you could give your reader throughout your chapter. One example of a hint is the two sentences in the Napoleon chapter: “What killed him was growing right under his hand” (91). Try to come up with at least three hints.
If your person’s death is quieter and very little led up to it, such as if your person died from heart failure or a stroke, see Mrs. Hilton.
You are going to use your third piece of paper to write the story of how your person died. Try to get between a half a page and a whole page.
DO NOT WRITE ON THE BACK OF THE PAPER.
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If You Were Absent:
See above.
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Vocabulary:
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Help and Enrichment
Coming: Transition Words I Transitions for Informational Writing Transition Words for Comparison/Contrast Paragraphs
“Transitions”
To move from one part of their writing to another, authors use transitions.
Please get out your notebook and write the notes I put on the board. Some transitions are only one word. What are some examples? [Next, Then, Finally, Meanwhile, etc. Write these in a column on the board.] Other transitions are phrases. Can you tell me an example of a phrase that is a transition? [While ___, In addition, During ___, After ___, etc. Write these in another column along the board.]
Skim through your Cleopatra chapter for 5 transitions. |
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