Strategic Writer AFGH

1. Strategic WriterAFGH Demos/Stein 2011-2012

2. Drill 3 9/6(AFH) 9/7 (G) • Take out binder, paper, dividers • Homework: Read for at least ten minutes. • Objective: TSWBAT organize binders in order to find materials as needed for assignments, class activities, and review. • Drill: Category Yellow (talk about the assignment). Answer in complete sentences. • Based on the opening week lesson, what does it mean to be accountable for your learning? • Include examples of being accountable.

3. Setting up your English binder As long as you are working, Category Green • Make sure your first and last name and block can be seen. • Label dividers: Drills, Literature, Grammar, Vocabulary, Writer’s Workshop • Put dividers in notebook. • Put paper in each section. • Grade Sheet • Partner Clock

4. Letter to yourself Category Red—Independent Work For the rest of class you will think about your goal and where you are. You will write a letter to yourself about 8th grade. • What do you see as happening? • What do you like to do? • Who are your friends? • What will you accomplish this year?

5. Drill 4 9/7 (AH) 9/8(FG) • Homework: Identify the parts of speech in the homework sentence. • Objective: TSWBAT identify parts of speech in sentences in order to understand how words function in sentences. • Drill: Category Yellow Identify the part of speech for each word in the following sentence. • Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. (Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game)

6. Drill 4 Answer • Sometimes (adverb) I (pronoun) think (verb) evil (noun) is (verb) a (article) tangible (adjective) thing (noun)—with (preposition) wave (adjective) lengths (noun), just (adjective) as (adverb) sound (noun) and (conjunction) light (noun) have (verb). (Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game)

7. Drill 5 9/8 (H) 9/9 (AFG) • Take out homework sentence. • Homework: Write five sentences. Each sentence will have one of the five phrases we reviewed. Underline and label the phrase. • Objective: TSWBAT recognize a phrase in order to support their writing and knowledge of parts of a sentence • Drill: Category Yellow Identify the underlined phrase and write a sentence that imitates the sentence. • Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier. • (Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game)

8. Drill 6 9/12 (AFH) 9/13 G • Take out sentences with phrases • Homework: Review for quiz on parts of speech and phrases (H 9/13) (FG 9/14)(A 9/15) • Objective: TSWBAT recognize a phrase in order to support their writing and knowledge of parts of a sentence. • Drill: Category Yellow • View the picture on the next slide. Write a sentence with an appositive phrase. • Write a sentence with a participial phrase.

9. Drill 6 Picture Ravens 35—Steelers 7 See you in November. Seven Turnovers

10. Drill 7 (9/13 H) (9/14 FG) • Homework: Preposition Handout • Objective: TSWBAT demonstrate their ability to identify the function of words and phrases in sentences. • Drill: Category Yellow • Take out your parts of speech flip book and phrases notes. Study for the quiz with your team. • Write “Study for quiz” on your drill sheet.

11. Drill 7 A 9/13 • Homework: Preposition Handout • Quiz 9/15 • Objective:TSWBAT recognize a phrase in order to support their writing and knowledge of parts of a sentence. • Drill: Category Yellow • Write the sentence. Identify the subject and predicate. Add a participial phrase to the sentence. Rewrite the revised sentence. • Students do well in school.

12. Drill 8 (9/14 H) (9/15 FG) • Homework: Hunter and Hunted BCR • Objective: TSWBAT annotate a text in order to create meaning and understanding when reading. • Drill: Category Yellow • View the painting “The Hungry Lion” by Henry Rousseau. • Describe the emotions of the hunter and of the hunted. • Write in complete sentences.

13. Drill 8 (9/15 A) • Homework: Hunter and Hunted BCR • Objective: TSWBAT demonstrate their ability to identify the function of words and phrases in sentences. • Drill: Category Yellow • View the painting “The Hungry Lion” by Henry Rousseau. • Describe the emotions of the hunter and of the hunted. • Write in complete sentences.

15. Drill 9 (9/16 AFH) (9/19 G) • Homework: Absolute Phrase Practice Objective: TSWBAT use writing-to-learn strategies such as dialectic journals, quickwrites, and mindmaps to make connections between learning and prior knowledge in order to develop strategies for writing. • Drill: Take out your Hunter/Hunted paragraph. Proof read it for conventions and organization. Did you follow ACECE? Ask a team mate to proof read your paragraph.

16. Drill 9 (9/19 G) • Homework: Absolute Phrase Practice Objective: TSWBAT analyze the events of the plot: exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution in order to understand and interpret the text. • Drill: Take out your Hunter/Hunted paragraph. Proof read it for conventions and organization. Did you follow ACECE? Ask a team mate to proof read your paragraph.

17. Drill 10 (9/19 AH) (9/20 FG) • Take out absolute phrase homework • Homework: Crossword puzzle • Quiz corrections due Friday 9/23 • Objective: TSWBAT analyze the events of the plot: exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution in order to understand and interpret the text. • Drill: Category Yellow • Based on prior knowledge define the following terms: Setting, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

18. Plot: • Setting: Time and place that a story occurs. Creates mood. Includes characters • Rising Action: Part of the plot that adds complications to the conflict. • Climax: Point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense. Turning point • Falling Action: Follows the climax Results • Resolution: Reveals or suggests the outcome of the conflict.

19. Drill 11(9/20 H)(9/21 AFG) • Take out crossword puzzle • Homework: MDG Vocabulary • Quiz corrections due 9/23 • Objective: TSWBAT analyze the events of the plot: exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution in order to understand and interpret the text. • Drill: Mood is the emotional response of the audience to a piece of art. View the picture on the next slide, identify the mood you feel and explain why the image conveys this mood. • Category Yellow

21. Drill 12 (9/22 AFH) (9/23 G) • Take out MDG Vocabulary • Homework: Study for quiz • (H 9/26) (AFG 9/27) • Quiz corrections due 9/23 • Objective: TSWBAT identify point of view in order to further understand the text. • Drill: What one word would you use to describe Sanger Rainsford? Explain your answer. (Refer to the book if you need to.) • Please turn in drills 9-12.

22. Point of View

23. Point of View • Point of View • First Person: The speaker is I. Told from the point of view of one person in the story. • Second Person: The speaker is you. • Third Person: The speaker or narrator tells the point of view of one character. • Third Person Omniscient: Speaker knows what all characters are thinking and feeling. • What is the point of view of the Most Dangerous Game--Support your answer with information from the text.

24. Exit Ticket • What point of view is “The Most Dangerous Game” told from? • Support your answer with evidence from the text.

25. Drill 13 (9/23 AH) (9/26 FG) • Homework: Study for Quiz • H (9/26) (AFG 9/27) • Objective: TSWBAT identify the main idea in a text in order to understand the text. • Drill: Copy down this information. Sentence fragmentsare groups of words that do not have both a subject and predicate or do not form a complete thought. Revise the following sentence fragments to make complete sentences.

26. Drill 13 Sentence Fragments • 1. A tough game. • 2. Maryland playing well in the second half. • 3. Because West Virginia is a fierce team.

27. Foil Character and Foreshadowing • Foil Character: provides a strong contrast to another character. A foil may emphasize another character’s distinctive traits or make a character look better by comparison. • Foreshadowing: An author’s use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot. Foreshadowing often helps to build suspense as well as prepare readers for what is to come.

28. Drill 14 (9/26 H) (9/27 AFG) • Homework: Irony Handout • Objective: TSWBAT analyze character traits based on what the character says, does, thinks and what other characters or the narrator says in order to understand the text. • Drill: (Write down this definition)Ironyis the contrast between what is said and what is meant or the contrast between what appears to be and what actually is. • With your team find an example of irony from “The Most Dangerous Game.”

29. Irony

30. Drill 15 (9/28 AFH) (9/30 G) • Take out Irony Homework • Homework: Parts of Speech Practice • Review for MDG Test • Objective: TSWBAT analyze universal themes in order to make connections between the literature and their lives. • Drill: (Copy the definition) A theme is a universal truth. The author’s message about a topic within a text. With your team, determine a theme of the “Most Dangerous Game”? Support your answer with information from the text.

31. Drill 16 (9/30 AH) (10/3 FG) • Homework: Complete Review Sheet and study • MDG Test 10/3 H 10/4 AFG • Objective: TSWBAT analyze setting in order to evaluate how setting affects mood. • Drill: How does the setting of “The Most Dangerous Game” affect the mood of the story? (What is the mood and why?)

32. Drill 17 (10/4 G) • Take out MDG Review Sheet • Homework: Review for the MDG Test • Objective: TSWBAT use RAFTS to read a prompt in order to express personal ideas. • Drill: Look at the following image and create a list of adjectives that you would use to describe the scene to a person who is deaf and dumb like Ivan, but also blind. • Consider all the sense that you need to stimulate.

33. Drill 17 (10/3 H) (10/4 AF) • Take out MDG Review Sheet • Homework: Complete draft copy of Letter Writing Assignment • Objective: TSWBAT use RAFTS to read a prompt in order to express personal ideas. • Drill: Look at the following image and create a list of adjectives that you would use to describe the scene to a person who is deaf and dumb like Ivan, but also blind. • Consider all the sense that you need to stimulate.

34. Drill 17 Imagery:

35. Drill 18 (10/5 AFH) (10/6 G) • Homework: Review for Characterization Quiz (10/6 AH) ((10/7 FG) • Objective: :TSWBAT analyze character traits based on what the character says, does, and thinks and what others say about the character in order to understand the text. • Drill: Pick a character trait for Rainsford or Zaroff and explain why the character has that trait. You may use your notes. • G Block Category Red

36. Drill 19 (10/6 AH) (10/7 FG) • Homework: MDG Projects due (10/11 AFH) (10/14 G) MDG papers(10/10 G) (10/13 H) (10/14 AF) • Objective: TSWBAT read critically in order to analyze plot, mood, and characters and how they are connected to theme. • Drill: Category Red • View the image on the next slide and create a list of modifiers (adjectives) that you would use to describe the scene to a blind person.

37. Create a list of modifiers (adjectives) that you would use to describe this scene to a blind person.

38. Drill 20 (10/7 H) (10/10 AFG) • Homework: MDG Projects due (10/14 FG) (10/12 AH) MDG papers(10/12 G) (10/13 H) (10/14 AF) • Objective: TSWBAT read critically in order to analyze plot, mood, and characters and how they are connected to theme • Drill: Revise the following sentence fragments to form three complete sentences. 1. Rainsford feeling intense fear. 2. Stabbed with a knife by Rainsford. 3. A most comfortable bed.

39. Drill 21 (10/11 FH) (10/12 AG) • Homework: MDG Projects due (10/14 FG) (10/12 AH) MDG papers(10/12 G) (10/13 H) (10/14 AF) Quiz 3 Figurative Language (H10/13) (AFG 10/14) • Objective: TSWBAT use RAFTS and prewriting strategies in order to express personal ideas. • Drill: Category Yellow • Define the following terms and give an example of each. • Characterization • Imagery

40. Rainsford Letter • Rubric • Outline • Final • Draft • Underline the simile once • Underline the five modifiers twice • Circle the participial phrases

41. definitions • Characterization: The techniques the author uses to develop a character. Readers learn about characters by what the character thinks, says, does and what others think and say about them. • Imagery: Words and phrases that appeal to the senses. Descriptive words—modifiers, adjectives and adverbs

42. Drill 22 (10/12 H) (10/13 FG) (10/14 A) • Homework Participial Phrase • Objective: TSWBAT read critically in order to understand plot, theme and mood. • Drill: Category Yellow • Define the following words. Give an example for each. • Metaphor, Simile, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Personification, Hyperbole

43. Drill 23 (10/13H)(10/14 FG) • Homework: Final Draft Due next class • Objective: TSWBAT use revising strategies in order to prepare a final written presentation. • Drill: Category Red • On your drill sheet make a proper heading for a paper.

44. Proper heading • Name • Date • Block • English • Title • Typed or blue or black ink • If typed 12 point font/Times New Roman • Double space

45. Drill 24 (10/17 FH) (10/18 AG) • Homework: Rainsford Dynamic/Static BCR • Objective: TSWBAT analyze characterization in order to determine the character’s personal growth and development. • Drill: Use context clues to define the underlined word in the following sentence. • The angry sharks churnthe water around the helpless swimmers. • Answer: churn: to shake or agitate with violence or continued motion: • Use the word in a sentence.

46. Drill 25 (10/18 H) (10/24AF)(10/25 G) • Take out Dynamic/Static BCR • Homework: Check the on-line grade book with your parents. All late and missing work is due 10/28. • Objective: TSWBAT compose and combine sentences in order to improve sentence fluency. • Drill: Category Red • Add the correct phrase to each sentence. Write the new sentence.

47. Add phrases where indicated. Write the new sentence. • 1. Rainsford, (appositive phrase), says the jaguar feels no pain. • 2. Rainsford, (participial phrase), says the jaguar feels no pain. • 3. (Absolute phrase), Rainsford says the jaguar feels no pain. (You can use your notes to help you)