Today we will begin working on your first MAJOR writing assignment for the year. Our first step is...

Today we will begin working on your first MAJOR writing assignment for the year.

Our first step is to brainstorm about our selves.

Complete the handout given about yourself and you life. This will help you as we continue to the writing process.

We will use this handout in the next step of the brainstorming process.

A2 Brainstorming

On your handout, make a list of all the people, places, things, or ideas that matter to you. You do not need to organize this list. Just write down anything you can think of to add.

Bell Ringer

Warm-UpPrewriting

Categorizing BrainstormingConnecting to a Prompt

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By the end of class, we will prewrite to generate ideas for a personal essay.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

Create the following chart and place your brainstormed ideas into the proper categories:

Categorizing Brainstorming

People Places Things Ideas

Write a personal essay to your peers to share how you define your American identity. Choose one person, place, thing, or idea to describe or tell the story of in order to provide an example of an American cultural value that helps create your American identity.

Writing Prompt

Now, next to each one, jot down how it relates to your American identity. You will have to think about what we, as an American culture, value.

Connecting Brainstorming to a Prompt

People Places Things Ideas

Bell RingerReview your chart. Which contribution shows

the best connection to your identity as an American? Circle it.

Now free write about that one idea for 10 minutes. You want to write down everything you know, can remember, like, or love about that one person, place, thing, or idea.

Carefully read and review the rubric.

Bell Ringer

Bell RingerBeginning a Personal Essay: Assessing Peer

SamplesExit Slip

By the end of class, we will evaluate student work based on a scoring rubric.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

“I DO”: Watch as I use the rubric and additional handout to assess student sample #1. Copy what I do.

“WE DO”: Now, work with the group at your table to assess student sample #2.

“YOU DO”: Lastly, assess student sample #3 on your own.

Assessing Student Samples

Review the rubric and answer the following questions on the back of your handout:1) In which category will you score the

highest? Why?2) In which category will you score the lowest?

Why?3) What person, place, thing, or idea will you

use for your essay? How does he/she/it relate to your American identity?

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Begin thinking about how you want to describe or tell a story about your topic: person, place, thing, or idea that matters to our American culture and your American identity

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Warm-UpPrewriting for a Personal Essay

Handout #1Handout #2

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By the end of class, we will prewrite for a personal essay by focusing on a specific topic and planning a draft.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

Complete the handout for your specific topic.

Please ask me to check this work then I will give you the next prewriting handout to complete.

Prewriting Handout #1

Complete the handout for your specific topic.

We will begin drafting our blog entries next class.

Prewriting Handout #2

Make sure you submit both completed handouts to the tray.

Next class . . .

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Log on to your assigned laptop.

Warm-Up

Warm-UpReviewing Computer Expectations and

ProceduresDrafting a Personal EssayExit Slip

By the end of class, we will draft a personal essay.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

You may open a browser to listen to music, if you have headphones.

Open Microsoft Word.Type a draft of your personal essay, using

your prewriting handouts.If I see you using the computer for anything

other than music or word processing, I will take your computer, and you will handwrite your draft.

Computer Expectations and Procedures

Save your document to your student account or flash drive.

Log off your computer and return it to the cart in the proper space. Make sure you plug in your computer to charge.

Exit Slip

Log on to your assigned laptop.

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Warm-UpRevising and Editing a Personal EssayPublishing a Personal Essay as a Blog EntryExit Slip

By the end of class, we will publish a blog entry.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

You may open a browser to listen to music, if you have headphones.

Open your saved draft. Read through your work as you review the rubric. Make sure to revise and edit you draft.

Remember: If I see you using the computer for anything other than music or word processing, I will take your computer, and you will handwrite your draft.

Revising and Editing a Personal Essay

Publishing a Personal Essay as a Blog Entry

Go to kidblog.org.Enter your class

code:_______________

Publishing a Personal Essay as a Blog Entry

Enter your first and last name: (e.g., Catherine Vannatter)

Password: your choice

Publishing a Personal Essay as a Blog Entry

Click on your class name.

Publishing a Personal Essay as a Blog Entry

Click on “New Post.”

Publishing a Personal Essay as a Blog Entry

Give your blog entry a title in the “Post Title” box.

Copy and paste the paragraphs from your Word document into the body of the post.

Add images as you like. When you finish, click

“Publish.”

Log off your computer and return it to the cart in the proper space. Make sure you plug in your computer to charge.

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Extra Work Day:Drafting a Personal EssayRevising and Editing a Personal EssayPublishing a Personal Essay as a Blog Entry

By the end of class, we will publish a blog entry.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

Log on to your assigned laptop.

Warm-Up

Warm-UpAnnotating Personal EssaysAnnotating a Peer’s Personal EssayExit Slip

By the end of class, we will annotate personal essays published online as blog entries.

Today’s Agenda and Learning Target

On a piece of paper, answer the journalist’s questions and parts of speech annotations about your blog entry:Who? AUTHOR and AUDIENCEWhat? SUBJECT/TOPICWhen and Where? CONTEXT/SITUATION/SETTINGWhy? PURPOSEHow?

3 NOUNS3 ADJECTIVES3 VERBSMOOD

Next, offer a PRAISE.Lastly, offer a POLISH.

Annotating Your Personal Essay

On a piece of paper, answer the journalist’s questions and parts of speech annotations about a peer’s blog entry:Who? AUTHOR and AUDIENCEWhat? SUBJECT/TOPICWhen and Where? CONTEXT/SITUATION/SETTINGWhy? PURPOSEHow?

3 NOUNS3 ADJECTIVES3 VERBSMOOD

Next, offer a PRAISE.Lastly, offer a POLISH.

Annotating a Peer’s Personal Essay

Log off your computer and return it to the cart in the proper space. Make sure you plug in your computer to charge.

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