November 29
2017
Wednesday 11/29/17 – Language Arts
Good Morning, Class!
Please take out:
- independent reading book
- Chromebook
Per. 2 (8:15-9:29)
Learning Target: Students will be able to sustain attention and focus on independent reading the entire time.
- Independent Reading
- Fluency group 16a
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Learning Target: Students will be able to identify and practice concrete strategies for writing a strong thesis statement.
Extended Writing Project – Thesis Statement
- Define: Video and paragraph
- What are the most important elements of a thesis statement?
- What is the purpose of the thesis statement in an informative essay?
- Why should a thesis statement express the writer’s main or central idea?
- Model: Read and annotate
- Does this thesis statement effectively answer the prompt? Why or why not?
- What would your group add, change or edit to improve this thesis statement?
- Your Turn
- Discuss the question choices with your partner
- Make your best choices and click “save and continue”
- Write: Create the thesis statement for your three-person essay
- What is the central idea that you are going to try to get across in your informative essay?
Homework:
- Read 25+ pages and log on Biblionasium:
- Title
- p. ____ to p. ____
- Big Thing that Happened (1-2 sentences: Who? What? When? Where?) + 1 question, prediction, inference, connection, visualization, or new word and how you guessed its meaning
Advisory (9:33-10:21)
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Team Huddle in Auditorium