Week of December 8, 2008
Monday, December 8th
Bell Work: Elaboration (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Mini Lesson: “Pushing Our Thinking”
2. Share Time: Elaboration conversation
3. Quiet Writing: Practice using the thinking (and writing) tool of elaboration.
a. Take an idea you have in your mind and write it in your notebook.
b. Use the elaboration/pushing our thinking prompts (such as, for example…this is important because…this might be true, but could it be that…) as ways to develop your thinking and strengthen your ideas. Try to write as much as you can about your idea.
4. Reflection: Explain how hard or easy was it to use the elaboration prompts?
Tuesday, December 9th
Bell Work: Outline (define in own words, draw a picture, and rate understanding)
1. Mini Lesson: “Identifying the Parts of an Essay”
2. With a partner, read through “Parent Pressure” and label the parts of the essay.
3. Share Time
Homework: Outline the “Parent Pressure” essay
Wednesday, December 10th
Bell Work: Thesis Statement (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Mini Lesson: “Finding & Crafting Thesis Statements ”
2. Quiet Writing: Reread your essay entries and underline the most significant ideas that you might want to use for your essay paper this marking period. Then write down your top two and revise them. Each thesis should be written in at least three different ways, for a total of six version of your thesis. Put a star next to your top two choices.
3. Share Time: Read your top two theses picks to your partner and have him/her decide which one they think will be most interesting/effective.
Homework: Questions Writers Ask of Theses
Thursday, December 11th
Bell Work: Transportation Technologies (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Students will begin an Alternative Fuels WebQuest found using the following Internet address: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/Tech_Ed/altfuels.shtml#top
2. Class will wrap up with the completion of “Exit” slips.
Friday, December 12th
Bell Work: Ethanol (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Students will complete the Alternative Fuels WebQuest found using the following Internet address: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/Tech_Ed/altfuels.shtml#top
2. Class will wrap up with a word or phrase identifying what has been learned so far using the “Whip Around” strategy.
Monday, December 8th
Bell Work: Elaboration (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Mini Lesson: “Pushing Our Thinking”
2. Share Time: Elaboration conversation
3. Quiet Writing: Practice using the thinking (and writing) tool of elaboration.
a. Take an idea you have in your mind and write it in your notebook.
b. Use the elaboration/pushing our thinking prompts (such as, for example…this is important because…this might be true, but could it be that…) as ways to develop your thinking and strengthen your ideas. Try to write as much as you can about your idea.
4. Reflection: Explain how hard or easy was it to use the elaboration prompts?
Tuesday, December 9th
Bell Work: Outline (define in own words, draw a picture, and rate understanding)
1. Mini Lesson: “Identifying the Parts of an Essay”
2. With a partner, read through “Parent Pressure” and label the parts of the essay.
3. Share Time
Homework: Outline the “Parent Pressure” essay
Wednesday, December 10th
Bell Work: Thesis Statement (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Mini Lesson: “Finding & Crafting Thesis Statements ”
2. Quiet Writing: Reread your essay entries and underline the most significant ideas that you might want to use for your essay paper this marking period. Then write down your top two and revise them. Each thesis should be written in at least three different ways, for a total of six version of your thesis. Put a star next to your top two choices.
3. Share Time: Read your top two theses picks to your partner and have him/her decide which one they think will be most interesting/effective.
Homework: Questions Writers Ask of Theses
Thursday, December 11th
Bell Work: Transportation Technologies (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Students will begin an Alternative Fuels WebQuest found using the following Internet address: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/Tech_Ed/altfuels.shtml#top
2. Class will wrap up with the completion of “Exit” slips.
Friday, December 12th
Bell Work: Ethanol (define in own words, draw a picture, rate understanding)
1. Students will complete the Alternative Fuels WebQuest found using the following Internet address: http://www.glencoe.com/sec/Tech_Ed/altfuels.shtml#top
2. Class will wrap up with a word or phrase identifying what has been learned so far using the “Whip Around” strategy.
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