11/18/09

11/17A-11/18 B

CREATIVE WRITING
J#24 "Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?" -George Wallace

Think, Pair, Share and Discuss

Exit Slip 5: What is a counter-argument? What was/will be your counter-argument for today's essay topic on censorship?

Mini-Lesson: Review parts of the persuasive essay and W7 Notes
1) w8-My Improvements: Choose an assignment based on your area of need. Make sure you read the lesson before the exercises, because ANY wrong items will be corrected by you.
2) Write W9-persuasive essay: due today in basket
Prompt: Should television be censored for youth? Write to convince your reader whether youth should have censored TV

Assessment: Exit Slip/Persuasive Essay/W8

YB/6th
J#27

Reminder: Faculty contacts due 11/20; Ads or call slips due 11/24 (reminder of each and importance and impact on grade)

Reference section of manual reviewed in detail

Class Duties performed

Marketing Project:
-Detailed Plan with group returned with my notes (5)
-Implementation- You performing your plan and putting it into action in stages 1,2,3 (20 points)

YB/7th

Both days: Groups split up articles from copy section and list all of the questions the reporter had to ask to write the story. They are to label each set of questions with a title.

Creative Writing/Yearbook 11/13 A-11/16 B

CREATIVE WRITING

J#23 "Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in the best light." Jennie Jerome Churchill

Think, pair, share and discuss

Portfolio check (10 points)

Exit Slip 4- What is the main difference between persuasive and expository writing? What items must be in persuasive writing that you don't have to have in expository? (Due before end of class)

Mini-Lesson Discussion of the differences between expository verses persuasive writing. Counter arguement discussed and examples given.


Work Period
Vocabulary Word Wall- Choose a word from the word wall, write the name at the top of your paper. Define the word with your group in student friendly language and put the part of speech. Draw a picture which illustrates the meaning of the word, then write a sentence, using context clues, that uses the word.

Read Expository/Persuasive Essays in class (6.0 congress essay, If You Assign My Book Don't Censor It). Parts of the persuasive essay discussed in detail and counter-arguement discussed again

W7-Persuasive/Expository- take notes from board-with Writer's Choice book
If time, start W8- My Improvements
Choose one of the assignments below, based on your area of need.
-Sentence Combining: p 360-366
-Fragments 557-558 Do Excer 23, 24
-Run-ons: 559-561 Do Excer 25,26
-Tense: 589-591 Do Excer 3,4,5
-Usage: 691-695 Do Excer 1,2
-S/v Disagree: pg 613-615, Do Excer 1,2,3
-Transitions: pg 74, Do: Choose 3 groups of transitions and write 3 paragraphs, using one group of transitions per paragraph-see Ms. Batten for further instructions
-Spelling: pg 828-834 Do Excer 1,2
OR Choose your own assignment with Ms. Batten's approval

Assessment: Exit slip due

YB/6th- J#26
Staff Organization section reviewed in class. Ladder assignment given to groups and checked off as a grade.

Reminder: Faculty contacts due 11/20; Ads or 10 call slips due 11/24

Journals checked the last class; turn in if not graded

Marketing Plans returned to groups to start implementing plans.

7th- Interviews past due-revise if needed. Copy section reviewed of manual