Sept. 22-26, 2014.



Learning Goals
Learning Tasks
Resources

Monday
Revising writing to increase clarity and impact.

Writing in a specific style
(WRV.02)

DEAR & Silent reading (20 minutes)

E6 Lab.  Students Word Process Essay (revise while typing & add a working title)

Submit New Draft to course Dropbox by end of the period

Hmk: Biography Finished and Quotes due Friday
         Ongoing: Action Project (due end of October)
Tuesday
Writing in a specific style
(WRV.02)
Minds-on: Writing a News Report

Create and Anchor Chart

Writer’s Notebook: News Report on one Youth Hero

Unit 1 Test tomorrow

Hmk: Biography Finished and Quotes due Friday
         Ongoing: Action Project (due end of October)
         Study for Test
Assorted Newspapers
Wednesday
Reading any text so that I get it.
(RLV.01)
Active Reading Unit Test

Hmk: Biography Finished and Quotes due Friday
         Ongoing: Action Project (due end of October)
Handout
Thursday
Reading any text so that I get it.
(RLV.01)
Minds-On: Zimbardo and the Heroic Imagination

Writer’s Notebook: What is a Hero?

Active Reading: Zimbardo Article & annotating

Hmk: Biography Finished and Quotes due tomorrow
         Ongoing: Action Project (due end of October)

Ted Talk: Heroic Imagination Project




Friday
Figuring out what to write, getting it organized and writing about it.
(WRV.01)

Minds-On: Research Skills & Active Reading online

Writer’s Notebook: Heroes in my world

Choose Original Topic & Complete Research Report Planner

Begin Annotated Bibliography

Hmk: Ongoing: Action Project (due end of October)
New book for Monday
Netbooks