Ms. Weems's Agendas

AGENDAS

HOMS 5.3 FRIDAY

HOMS 5.3 FRIDAY

Do Now: What would you like your peer editor to focus on in your vignette?

Objectives:

• give useful feedback for revision;

• use feedback to make good revision choices

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Vocab #5

3. ORB- 15 minutes

2. Peer Edit Vignettes: complete the “Vignette Peer Edit” handout for your partner

3. Revise Vignette

4. Summarizer: What is one area you need to focus on for your vignette?

HW: Revise Vignette- final draft due MONDAY

HOMS 5.2

HOMS 5.2

Do Now: In 2-3 sentences, describe a tree using a scary, ominous mood (socrative)

Objectives:

• explain the effect of figurative language & imagery
• select a good writing topic

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Review character webs

4. Mood words handout: highlight THREE mood words you could use to describe your experience

5. Senses handout: complete for the 5 senses

6. Plot graphic organizer: complete the SECOND graphic organizer in the “Vignette Graphic Organizer” PDF

7.Summarizer:

HW: rough draft of vignette due FRIDAY.  You will peer edit with a partner on FRIDAY.

HOMS 5.1 TUESDAY

Do now: Make sure your TWO paragraphs are in a GOOGLE DOC in your STUDENT FOLDER.  If the paragraph assignment is not in your student folder, you will not receive credit for it.

Objectives:

• explain the effect of figurative language & imagery
• select a good writing topic

Agenda:

1. Do Now

2. Freewrite: In notability, please write a brief description (4-5 sentences) of a favorite toy, item of clothing, or other object that is special to you in some way. First describe the item in as much detail as possible. Then strive to convey how you FEEL about that object by using figurative language.

3. Review vignette assignment- ask clarifying questions!

4. Select a topic/experience: brainstorm at least THREE experiences, then select one

4. Complete the FIRST graphic organizer in the “Vignette Graphic Organizer” PDF for ONE experience

5. Summarizer: What does it mean to show and not tell in descriptive writing?

HW: Create a list of the various “characters” in your vignette.  Draft two sentences for each character- one sentence describing them physically, one sentence describing their personality

HOMS 4.4 FRIDAY

HOMS 4.4 FRIDAY

Do now: What was the most challenging part of drafting the paragraph?  (opening sentence, finding evidence, explanation sentences, etc.)

Objectives:

• revise opening sentences based on peer feedback
• understand the requirements of an effective explanation sentence
• understand the importance of sequencing of evidence

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Vocab #4- define, create sentence, draw
3. ORB- 15 minutes
4. Peer Editing
5. Using the feedback from the peer editing sheet, revise your paragraph
6. Draft the second paragraph
7. Summarizer: what do you have left to finish? How comfortable do you feel about being able to complete both paragraphs for Tuesday?

HW: Finish both paragraphs for TUESDAY

HOMS 4.3 WEDNESDAY

HOMS 4.3 WEDNESDAY

Do now: share your opening sentences with a partner

Objectives:

• revise opening sentences based on peer feedback
• understand the requirements of an effective explanation sentence
• understand the importance of sequencing of evidence

Agenda:

1. do now
2. finish checking opening sentences with teacher
3. review explaining sentences for quotes
4. organize order of quotes
5. if time, start to draft paragraphs
6. Summarizer: Turn to a partner and tell them the order of your quotations and WHY you chose that order.

HW: finish draft of first prompt

HOMS 4.2 TUESDAY

HOMS 4.2 TUESDAY

Do Now: What does it mean to be empowered?  How does Esperanza turn discouragement into empowerment?

Objectives:

• select effective pieces of evidence to support a topic sentence
• draft effective explaining sentences for evidence

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) review expectations for Cinderella archetype paragraph

3) create google doc

4) Draft opening sentences

5) find 3 pieces of evidence for each prompt

6) summarizer: (In Socrative) Where did you look for evidence (quotes) for your paragraphs? Which vignettes?

HW: finish finding 3 pieces of evidence for each prompt

HOMS 4.1 MONDAY

Do Now: Define “discouragement” and “empower”

Objectives:

• identify the challenges facing women on Mango street
• identify the Cinderella archetype in the novel; and
• begin to brainstorm ways in which Ciseneros changes the archetype

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Individual or in pairs: complete the “Women on Mango Street” chart

3) Final stories- important points, etc.

4) Review Cinderella archetype-- discuss paragraph assignment, complete charts

5) Summarizer: (In Socrative) Which part of the Cinderella Archetype paragraph do you think will be the most difficult for you? What is going to be easy?

HW: In a new notability note, 2 examples of discouragement and 2 examples of empowerment from HOMS

HOMS 3.4 FRIDAY

HOMS 3.4 FRIDAY

Do Now: How does Esperanza cope with her fears or discouragement? How do other women on Mango Street cope with their fears and discouragement?

Objectives:

• to use the six habits to make inferences about life for women on Mango Street
• demonstrate mastery of vocabulary words
• read independently

Agenda:

1) Do Now

2) Vocab quiz

3) ORB- 15 minutes

4) Finish/share creative writing stories

5)In pairs, find one quote for each question

• In what ways does Esperanza seem to admire Sally?
• Esperanza says that people talk about Sally. What do you infer about the kinds of things they say?
• How are Sally and Esperanza both similar and different?

6) Class: Present answers to questions

7) Summarizer: How do you predict Sally’s life will end up? Why?

HW: Read and annotate “Bums in the Attic,” (94) “The Three Sisters,” (111) "Alicia & I Talking,” (114) “A House of My Own,” (116) “Mango says Goodbye Sometimes” (117)