Shhhh….It’s SILENT reading time! The best 10 minutes of the day.

Get out your:•Silent Reading Books•Writing Comp book

Homework

Read 20 minutes Monday-Thursday and get signature

Monday after reading: Find 4 lines of dialogue in your choice book and copy it down.

If your author doesn’t use dialogue, find it in a different book.Tues-Wed as you’re reading :

Take notice all week as you read (or look at other sources) and study what rules the author(s) followed in regards to punctuation and format.

Thursday after reading : After you read tonight and you’ve spent time looking at

dialogue all week, make a list of what you think the rules are for punctuating dialogue and formatting dialogue.

Make this chart in your WRITING COMP BK—RESPONSE SECTION

Date TITLE Page #s Total Time Read

Adult Signature

12/12

12/13

12/14

12/15

Copy 4 or more lines of dialogue:

Make a list of punctuation and formatting rules:

In your WRITING COMP BOOK---LESSON Section….

Go to the first available page and use the following heading… Date Bedroom Anecdote Rough Draft

Write an ANECDOTE(In your LESSON section)

Write for 4-5 minutes describing a memory from your bedroom. Put yourself in this anecdote (meaning use FIRST PERSON narrator----I pronoun). PLEASE DOUBLE SPACE!!

Example: (just a start…)I was sitting in a chair in my bedroom looking around I remembered the time when…….

HOW DO WE USE AN ELABORATED

ANECDOTE IN OUR WRITING?

WRITING WITH

ELABORATION

In your WRITING COMP BOOK---LESSON Section….

Go to the first available page and use the following heading… Anecdote Notes Date

Do YOU have STDs?

Snapshot

Thoughtshots

Dialogue

Take a look at the STD handout

Snapshot

Remember…we worked on snapshots with our nature write/field trip In Steinbeck’s writing In our choice books

Let’s read the definition

Let’s read the example

Underline the snapshot details in the example

In the LESSON section of your writing comp books answer the question:

In your own words write the definition of SNAPSHOT details and explain why writers use them?

Now it’s your turn…Write a snapshot for the picture in the space provided on the back side of your handout.

Take a look at the STD handout

Thoughtshots

Let’s read the definition

Let’s read the example

Underline the thoughtshot details in the example

In the LESSON section of your writing comp books answer the question:

In your own words write the definition of THOUGHTSHOT details and explain why writers use them?

Now it’s your turn…Write a thoughtshot for the picture in the space provided on the back side of your handout.

Take a look at the STD handout

Dialogue

You already know something about dialogue…Steinbeck uses a great deal of dialogue in Of Mice and Men.

Let’s read the definition

Let’s read the example

Circle the dialogue in the example

In the LESSON section of your writing comp books answer the question:

In your own words write the definition of DIALOGUE and explain why writers use it ?

Now it’s your turn…Write dialogue for the picture in the space provided on the back side of your handout.

Model Paragraph

Let’s look at how Steinbeck wrote the bunk house scene….did he have STDs? (see handout)

Read the text and….

Label any snapshot details (imagery) with a S in the margin

Label any thoughtshot details with a T in the margin

Label any dialogue with a D in the margin

It’s time to REVISE your bedroom anecdote…

This is practice before you do your Elaboration-STD assessment on your own…so ask questions along the way

Revision Step 1: Snapshot Details

Reread your bedroom anecdote

If you have any snapshot details (imagery)…..label them

Do you have at least one snapshot detail for each of the five senses? If not, NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO ADD TO YOUR PARAGRAPH TO CREATE A SNAPSHOT.

Revision Step 1: Snapshot Details

Add SNAPSHOT details in your bedroom anecdote using imagery (all five senses). Be sure you have at least one snapshot detail for each of the five senses.

(You may add them in the margins with arrows and/or write them in-between lines).

Revision Step 2: Thoughshot Details

Reread your anecdote

If you have any thoughtshot details …label them

DO YOU HAVE AT LEAST THREE THOUGHTSHOTS? IF NOT, NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO ADD TO YOUR PARAGRAPH TO LET YOUR READER IN ON YOUR THOUGHTS.

Revision Step 2: Thoughtshot Details

Add THOUGHTSHOT details in your bedroom anecdote. Be sure to include at least three thoughtshots for you, or another person, in the anecdote.

(You may add them in the margins with arrows and/or write them in-between lines).

Revision Step 3: Dialogue

Reread your bedroom anecdote

If you have any Dialogue…label it

DO YOU HAVE AT LEAST THREE LINES OF DIALOGUE? IF NOT, NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO ADD TO YOUR PARAGRAPH TO LET YOUR READER HEAR YOUR VOICE.

Revision Step 3: Dialogue

Add DIALOGUE in your bedroom anecdote. Be sure to include at least three lines of dialogue.

(You may add them in the margins with arrows and/or write them in-between lines).

Final Draft of Anecdote

Put a heading on the next available page in your writing comp book---LESSON section

Date Bedroom Anecdote Final

Rewrite your Final Draft of Your Anecdote

Using your additions of STDs, rewrite your anecdote into your comp book

We will be using each other’s final draft as learning models by

Peer Scoring Using some of them on doc camera

Do these student examples of the bedroom anecdote have STDs?

Let’s look at the rubric first (pass it out)

Now let’s look at a few student examples of the final draft

Peer Score

Now it’s time to have our peers help us and give us feedback.

This step is important. It will help us prepare for the assessment.

Assessment

Show a model essayShow a model anecdote The assessment IS NOT writing an entire

essay with an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion. You’re ONLY writing one body paragraph.

Anecdote w/STDs Assessment Prompt

We can all relate to the character Lennie, in the book Of Mice and Men. Write an

anecdote (approx. 1 page) about a memory when you’ve been like Lennie.

(Choose one or think of your own way you’ve had a time like Lennie: confused, hopeful,

scared, overjoyed, rejected, dependent)

**After you’re done label your STDs by circling/highlighting and drawing a line out to the margin..labeling S or T or D.