Exploring Pronouns and Fiction Writing

1. Monday Unit 4 Week 2 Day 1

2. Grammar-10 minutes •Today we will practice recognizing and using pronouns, or words that take the place of nouns. •Using pronouns correctly helps writers compose smooth, clear sentences.

4. The pronoun it refers to a thing, so it replaces the new song. • The pronoun them refers to more than one person, so them replaces Liz, Josh, and Jake. • The pronoun him refers to “one male,” so him replaces Mr. Hendrick. • The pronoun us refers to one or more people plus the speaker, so us replaces Liz, the twins, and me

5. This Week's Writing Focus: • Hear, discuss, and draft fiction writing • Explore characters, setting, and plot • Explore how setting is developed in stories • Cultivate and develop creativity in writing • Extension: During bellwork or independent writing, consider using photos as prompts for fiction stories.

6. Focus Discussion • What do you remember from our discussion of fiction writing from last week? (T-P-S) • NOTES ABOUT FICTION chart: Let's review! • In fiction stories.... something happens to someone, somewhere in time... • NOTES ABOUT FICTION chart: Let's add! • something happens (plot) • to someone (character) • somewhere in time (setting) Today, let's search for these fiction elements when we read! ~ about 5 mins.

7. Read: Owl Moon

8. Discuss: SETTING(T-P-S) ~ 5 mins.

9. IDW Independent Writing Time • Write about an outdoor place • Work on a story you started earlier • Start a new story - be creative! * I will be having individual conferences. Please show respect. ~ about 15 mins.

10. Share • What ideas came out of your imagination in your writing today? > 5 mins.

11. Reflect Reflect on your attitude today during writing • How did you feel as you wrote today? • If you got stuck, what happened? • What do you want to try tomorrow to help you in your writing? Tomorrow, we will continue to hear, discuss, and draft fiction! ☺ > 5 mins.

12. Survey • Grandma surveys the black clouds, or looks over or inspects them carefully, to figure out how far away the storm is. • What clues help you figure out what survey means?

13. Survey- look over or inspect something carefully Why might a gardener survey their crop?

14. Bellow CRACKLE, CRACKLE, BOOOM, KA-BOOOM, the thunder bellowed. It was dark and I was scared. What clues help you figure out what bellow means? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuKBqpF7HQ

15. Bellow- shout or roar loudly • Would you bellow if: • You reach into your lunch bag, and a big, hairy spider crawls into your hand? • You walk into the library and bang your knee painfully against a table?

16. Luscious • The little girl picked three ripe luscious tomatoes. • What clues helped you know what luscious means?

17. Luscious- delicious • What is a synonym for luscious?

18. This Week's Reading Focus: • To explore elements of narrative text structure in a fiction story, including character, setting, plot, point of view, and conflict • Read Independently • Work in a responsible way • build on one another's thinking during class discussions

19. Reading Meeting We have been focusing on four important story elements • character • setting • plot • point of view The purpose is to help you learn to recognize and think about these elements so you understand stories at a deeper level. 1 min

20. Reading • It’s important to know who is telling the story because it helps the reader know what to take away and helps you understand better!

21. If it’s in “dialogue” It doesn’t count. Point of view only Counts towards what is Outside of the “dialogue”.

22. Introducing: Chicken Sunday • In Chicken Sunday three children are accused of doing something they did not do. Q: Have you ever been accused of doing something you did not do? What happened? -Turn and Talk (1 min) -Share (1 min)

23. Chicken Sunday Read Aloud

24. DISCUSS Who are the characters in the story? Tell me about them. -Turn and Talk (1 min) - Share (1 min)

25. DISCUSS Who is telling the story? What in the story makes you think so? (this is text-based evidence) -Turn and Talk (1 min) -Share (1 min)

26. DISCUSS In a few sentences, what is the plot of Chicken Sunday? What happens in the story? -Turn in Talk (1 min) -Share (1 min)

27. IDR Think as you read about what you notice about he story's setting, plot, and point of view. *I will be conferencing with individual students 25 MIN

28. SHARE TIME!! Q: Who is telling the story? What in the story makes you think so? Q: What is the setting of your story? How do you know that? Q: What is the plot of your story? What happens to the characters? 5 MIN.

29. tuesday Unit 4 Week 2 Day 2

31. Writing Focus ~ 5 mins. • Review our discussion from yesterday. • What have you learned about fiction so far? ~ 2 min. (T-P-S) • It's important to be CREATIVE when we write fiction. Why? What is creativity?

32. Getting Ready to Write In Owl Moon, the author, Jane Yolen, describes a favorite outdoor place... • Notes about Fiction: Let's add! ~ Can be about an outdoor place • Author Jane Yolen describes the setting usingSENSORY DETAILS. • Remind your partner: What are sensory details? 1. What happens in the story? 2. What do you imagine from this passage? What does this place.... Look like? Sound like? Feel like? * The author includes many details to help the reader IMAGINE the setting.

33. Visualization Think of a place you like to be! • Open your journal to the next clean page. Write down the name of the place you're thinking of. NOW CLOSE YOUR EYES and think... Imagine looking around your favorite place. • What do you see? What's in front of you, behind you, above and below you? Notice the colors, shapes, and sizes of what you see in your mind. • What do you hear in your favorite place? Are the sounds loud or quiet? Is it exciting and crazy, or is it peaceful and relaxing? • Is it outside or inside? How does your body feel in this place? Is it cold? Warm? Hot? • What does it smell like in this place? Do the smells remind you of anything? 2 mins.

34. Quick- Write OPEN YOUR EYES! Write what you imagined as you listened to my questions. Write silently. 4 mins.

35. Share • Pencils down. • Let's hear some of your ideas. Any volunteers? ☺ 2 mins.

36. IDW Independent Writing Time • Work on the story you just began during the Quick-Write today • Work on a story you started earlier • Start a new fiction story * Try to include SENSORY DETAILS to help your readers imagine the SETTING... ~ 15 - 20 mins.

37. Share Tap into.... your CREATIVITY! Use your imagination to create something new or re-create something in your own way! • Review what you wrote today. Choose 1 sentence you loved in your writing to share with the class. • Underline your favorite sentence. • When it's your turn, read your sentence nice & loud for us! > 10 mins.

38. Reflect Focus: CREATIVITY • What sentence did you hear that got you interested in someone's writing? • What questions do you want to ask a classmate about his or her writing? > 5 mins.

39. Vocabulary • Use these words in a paragraph: • Luscious • Survey • bellow

40. Reading Workshop- Focus • Hear Chicken Sunday again • Discuss character change and conflict • Use discussion prompts to build one on another's thinking

41. Story Elements: • Character • Setting • Plot • Point of View • Who are the important, or main, characters in Chicken Sunday? • What do we know about these characters? What in the story tells us that? **Characters change often in stories as a result of what happens to them in a story. You can most likely expect the main character to be different at the end of a story from the way they were in the beginning of the story. Sometimes, the changes are easy to see, sometimes they are harder.

42. Chicken Sunday • Listen as I read the story again to how the characters in the story change. After I am done reading, you and your partner will share your ideas.

43. Discussion of Character Change • Who changes in the story? Why do you think so? Turn and share with your partner. (2 minutes) • What are the children thinking about or hoping for at the beginning of the story? What are they thinking about later? How do their attitudes change? • How do Miss Eula's feelings change during the story? Why do they change? • What is Mr. Kodinski like when we first meet him? What is he like at the end? Why does his attitude change?

44. Discussion of Story, Conflict or Problem • I asked you and your partner to talk about who changes in this story. What did you and your partner say about this? (1 min.) • How does that character change? What do you think causes the change? **A lot of times in stories that main character or characters must deal with a conflict or problem and find a way to end the conflict or solve the problem and this causes the character to change and grow.

45. Important Elements of Stories: • character: person in a story • setting: where and when a story takes place • plot: what happens to the characters in a story(the events that make up the story) • point of view: who is telling the story • conflict or problem

46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVK9ZV-AinA • Book Club

47. IDR ~ 25 minutes

48. Wednesday Unit 4 Week 2 Day 3

49. Grammar-Day 3

50. What do you notice? “Did everybody remember to bring a headband?” Asked Mrs. Morita. She was our first-grade teacher. Eagerly we showed her. The older children waved flags and headbands and shouted at the top of their lungs until the mountain echoed the noise like rumbling thunder.