GUEST QUESTIONS AND REVISIONS

QUESTIONS & REVISIONS

TURN IN YOUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SELF-EVALUATION WITH YOUR ESSAY AND YOUR ANNOTATION

TODAY you will:

1) PREPARE:

• at least one individual questions to ask our guest panellists during Friday morning’s discussion about government.  
• formulated the question using the RESEARCH QUESTION formula 
• of CLEAR, FOCUSED, AND COMPLEX
• no question should be answered with simply yes or no.
• consider the following when devising your questions:
• Many of you have lived in different countries with different governments – think about the people of those counties relationships with their government.
• Constitutions are written for a reason and can be effective or ineffective depending on the government in charge.
• Consider where you live
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• 2 REWRITE PROMPT # 1  DUE MONDAY OCTOBER 5
• Peer edit
• Check for 4 Sentence Types
• Check for exciting word usage

I WILL CONSULT WITH EACH OF YOU AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS

Today you will begin or continue to write your short piece based on the prompt:

Imagine you woke up one day to find everyone around you - your family, your neighbors - have disappeared. Imagine what that looks like and feels like.  Would you notice right away?  Would you be happy, afraid, confused - maybe all three during your story telling.  USE YOUR IMAGINATION and USE ALL FOUR SENTENCE TYPES to tell your story - you are working on SENTENCE FLUENCY to make your writing varied and interesting to read.

Today, you must also review your writing with the goal of finding opportunities to swap-out or add words from our Dystopian word wall.

Dystopia

1.

a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression,disease, and overcrowding.

Utopia

1.

an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) asenjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.

“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?”

― Thomas More, Utopia

2.

(usually lowercase) an ideal place or state.

3.

(usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or socialperfection.

We are working our way toward our DYSTOPIAN UNIT.

Today you will continue to write your short piece based on the prompt:

Imagine you woke up one day to find everyone around you - your family, your neighbors - have disappeared. Imagine what that looks like and feels like.  Would you notice right away?  Would you be happy, afraid, confused - maybe all three during your story telling.  USE YOUR IMAGINATION and USE ALL FOUR SENTENCE TYPES to tell your story - you are working on SENTENCE FLUENCY to make your writing varied and interesting to read.

Today, you must also review your writing with the goal of finding opportunities to swap-out or add words from our Dystopian word wall.

Dystopia

1.

a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression,disease, and overcrowding.

Utopia

1.

an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) asenjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.

“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?”

― Thomas More, Utopia

2.

(usually lowercase) an ideal place or state.

3.

(usually lowercase) any visionary system of political or socialperfection.

HAPPY AND SAFE PEACE DAY

Today is all about words - DYSTOPIAN WORDS, these are the words that will make your writing come alive.

Understanding Dramatic Arc: What do you know, what don't your know?  You'll need your notebooks for this.

CHALLENGE - How many words we come up with can you use in your writing?

Stories and Sentences

TGIF

GOAL:  

1. Brainstorm adjectives and verbs that might be awesome to use in a sci-fi, fantasy, creepy story.

- Catastrophe, Dark, Gloomy, Watchful, CCTV,Obscure

- Mischievious, Dismal, Fatal,Doom, Doomsday,Creepy,  Inanimate, Heart-stopping, Breath-taking, Lethal, Evil, Cold

-Mysterious,Gore, Distant, Immortal, Mortal,Exhasperating, treachery, Tyranny, Depressing, Back-stabbing,Disasterous

- Exotic, Flabbergasted, Gasp, Choked, Die, Run, Escape

- Dispatch, Imprisoned, Disappear,Vanish, Vanquish, Foe

- Hysterical, Struggle, Unjust, Injustice, Killer, Demoralizing

- Illness, Trap, Venomous, Outcast, Toxic, Doubtful, Thoughful

- Imbrued(bloody, stain), Bloodbath, Rage,Broken, Blood-curdling, Society, Surprise, Violent, Vicious, Blood-thirsty

- Terminator, Soul-sick, Shocking, Decieving, Odd, Virtuoso

- Fearful, Panic

1. Complete our short stories using the four sentence types, sensory details, and some of the new words we have discovered.
2. Peer edit stories.
3. Exit ticket: Write the four sentence structures you used in your story on an index card.

Continuing Writing Using the Four Sentence Structures

We have some organization to do today, before we continue writing our short stories using the prompt AND using the 4 sentence structures:

SENTENCE FLUENCY



C BLOCK
1) Turn in your reflections on your writing.
2) You will read THE COMMENTS I have made about the sentences you wrote on your exit tickets,       a.then you will revise the sentences
      b. then you will read your stories aloud for comments.
The GOAL is to "hear" your sentences and determine if you have SENTENCE FLUENCY.

D BLOCK - Today you will write a short story based on the following prompt:

Imagine you woke up one day to find everyone around you - your family, your neighbors - have disappeared. Imagine what that looks like and feels like.  Would you notice right away?  Would you be happy, afraid, confused - maybe all three during your story telling.  USE YOUR IMAGINATION and USE ALL FOUR SENTENCE TYPES to tell your story - you are working on SENTENCE FLUENCY to make your writing varied and interesting to read.

Clauses and Writing

Wednesday is always a good day for organizing and writing.

1.  Set up writing folders
2.  Review Independent and Dependent Clauses, make sure you have your practice sheet with you.

3.  Prompt driven writing

Independent and Dependent Clauses

Happy Tuesday!

C BLOCK - You will compose the four different kinds of sentence structures, writing a short story based on a prompt you will see on the white board.  You will peer edit each other's work, looking for the different types of sentences:

Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound/Complex


HOMEWORK:  Turn in writing reflection sheet on Thursday September 17.

D BLOCK - You will reflect on your WOD piece about Cecil the Lion.
You will write a response, using your annotated copy of the Declaration of Independence AND the graphic organizer.  20 minute time frame - use evidence directly from the DoI.

Together, we will practice writing the four different sentence structures using the practice sheet you were given last Friday.

Reflection, Write Response to DoI, Sentence Structures

It is important to reflect on your work, especially writing.  Today:

1. You will earnestly reflect upon AND set writing goals based on the rubric and the comments from the writing on demand piece you wrote last week.

2. Also, you will write a short essay (using evidence)based on the statement below, using your annotations for the Declaration of Indepence.

• Explain the meaning of the short experpt from the Declaration of Indepence, and its importance to the development of a new nation and its citizens. Use evidence from the text to support your theory.

3. If we have time, we will investigate independent and dependent clauses, which are the foundation of the four different sentence structures.

#HAVEAFABULOUSWEEK

Hurray it's Friday and you guys have a half a day! Woohoo!

Block D  
Today you will closely read and annotate a small section of the US Declaration of Independence

Your goal is to find evidence directly from the text that will support your short answer response to the following prompt: Explain the meaning of the text, and why it is important to the development of a country's new governement and people.

BLOCK C

Today you will investigate independent and dependent clause, two essential elements to the composition of a variety of sentence structures.  You'll find a You Tube video in the links section to help you understand the concept of clauses if you need more help after today.

BLOCKS H AND F

You must finish annotating the short section of the US Declaration of Independence in preparation for the short response writing on Monday September 14.

Subs & Preds, Annotation

 Review

A LITTLE MORE ABOUT ANNOTATION

A Conversation with Text

Goals: 
I can write sentences with subjects and predicates and explain why they are the "stars" in a sentence.

I can understand and explain the importance of annotating texts for academic purposes.

I can analyze an annotation model.

I can begin to formulate my own annotation style using the Declaration of Independence.

SPECIAL NOTE
Please look over your POS assessment to make sure 1)you understand where and why you may have miss identified a word and 2) I did not make a mistake in marking your work.

Write this blog address in your LA NOTEBOOKS and BOOKMARK it on your computers. This is the official blog we will use throughout the year - here you will find out what we will accomplish in class, links, resources, examples, and everything you need to be successful.  

http://moreaula8.blogspot.co.za/

Today we will review subjects and predicates 

and then dive into the awesome world of annotation by:
1. Understanding what it is and what it is not
2.  Looking a a few examples 
3.  Annotating an article together (Toxic slime, goo) and
3.  Practicing in groups using the US Declaration of 
     Independence


FIRST - have a look at these examples, what do you notice?