Thursday, April 27th

Agenda

Review essay directions
Work on essays
Conference with Ms. Smith or Mrs. Karney as needed.  We want to help you!

TO DO 

Read chapter 11

Wednesday, April 26th

AGENDA

Read chapter 9 in book

LINK to spreadsheet with your thesis statements, topic sentences, and counterarguments-I may have revised your sentence or asked you a question/made a suggestion.  Make sure you click on each box.  This will allow you to see everything typed in the box.


Work on argumentative essay

TO DO 

Read chapter 10

Tuesday, April 25th

AGENDA

Annotate the articles you brought

OPTIONAL template to help you organize 

Fill in THIS Google Form

Monday, April 24th

Happy Monday!


Goals:To continue to prepare for our argumentative essays.

Agenda

New Seats
Review THIS presentation on Dos and Don'ts of Formal Writing

Finish Newsela Evidence Activities

To DO

Read Chapter 8
Print TWO or more articles and bring TOMORROW
NO AOW this week

Friday, April 21st

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

Agenda

Fill in the Google form below if you have a seating request. I will do my best to accommodate you but no guarantees.

SEATING REQUEST

Thursday, April 20th

Concluding Paragraph

Wednesday, April 19th

AGENDA

Hooks-Please take notes on this presentation

Arguments and Counter arguments

TO DO

Read Chapter 4
AOW-just read Newsela article and take quiz...that's it!

Tuesday, April 18th

AGENDA

Hooks (to prepare for our argumentative essays)
Civil Debate on arranged marriage (more practice for our essay)
We will use this article




TO DO

Please fill out this form to check out your Giver book
Read chapter 3
Newsela quiz by Friday (no personal response this week)

Friday, April 7th

HAPPY FRIDAY!

AGENDA

Collect AOW
Chapter 2 and questions


TO DO

AOW due Friday we get back

Thursday, April 6th

AGENDA


Publish your argumentative paragraph to Kidblog if you didn't already. 

Comment on your assigned paragraphs/

Read chapter 1 of Giver.

TO DO

AOW due tomorrow

Wednesday, April 5th

GOALS: To practice writing argumentative paragraphs with an argument and a rebuttal and to begin thinking about controversial issues in The Giver.

AGENDA

Review counterargument and rebuttal. Write a detailed paragraph about one of the ten topics from yesterday's handout. You must use make a claim and support your claim with evidence. You will also have a counterargument and rebuttal.

Your paragraph will be published to Kidblog and posted in the Argumentative section.

If time, you will be assigned two other students' work to comment on. We will provide the questions to answer.

TO DO

AOW due on FRIDAY

Tuesday, April 4th

AGENDA

WHAT DO YOU THINK?  Answer all questions

Pick one of the topics to write a paragraph about. You must have reasons for, as well as a counterargument and rebuttal. Publish to Kidblog.

Comment on your assigned classmates' writing.  Do they have good reasons for their argument? Do they have a counterargument? A rebuttal?  Suggestions? Comments?

TO DO

AOW due on Friday