Monday, January 23, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:       Sit at  your assigned seat. Were you able to bring a composition book?  If not, bring one as soon as you can. Use a piece of lined paper cut to fit into your composition book.  I will be checking for them by  January 25.  Your disclosure documents are due by. . . . January 27.    Sooner is better!    Remember that your collages -- the pictures/words/etc.-- were due last time.    Your bio-poems are due Friday. We will use the computer lab next time to edit and finish My Writing Process and Bio-Poems.

Targets for Today: Write a variety of things!

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Scribbles:  Brady Pryor and Christina McMurray       Brady's Prompt:       Appointment Clock Pairs January 23       Christina's Prompt:  Christina, bring it next time, please.        Appointment Clock Pairs Next time:  January 27 -- Tristan Diamond and Ella Smith                    January 31:  Lilly Spencer and Jayden Fitzgarrald 2. Conventions lesson -- Revising and Editing                Make needed corrections on the Splash Mountain Essay. the time we went two splash mountain             We drove to california and went to disneyland  we got  our tickets and went in.  We got on splash mountain  I felt  nervous. When the ride started up  I got really nervous.  I could  here people screaming.   I was really really really scared, but  soon it was over.   i felt closer to my dad because of that.     After that we went and ate hamburgers.   I ate alot of fries to.    I will never forget that trip!!!!!!!                Compare.                Discuss.  Corrections for "Splash Mountain" Then ---                Look at Revision and Editing:     Taking Notes:  Copy these into your composition book                         under "Editing Reminders for Me."  ARMS  [Use your ARMS to Revise] Add Remove Move around Substitute    A.R.M.S. Revision Strategy Why Proofread and Edit?  It makes reading possible. What are "conventions"?     Conventions are agreed-upon rules and forms. When your reading a novel and come upon a typo, what do you do?  Research shows that it takes as few as five or six misspellings in a three-hundred-word text for readers to say, "I can't read this." Readers need all the help they can get.  As writers we follow the rules and observe the forms so. .             -- our writing will be read.           -- we'll be taken seriously.           -- we won't appear ignorant or arrogant. SMILES [Use your SMILES to Edit Your Work.] Sentences -- Make sure each sentence has a subject and an action -- a verb. Marks -- End each sentence with a punctuation mark. Indents -- Indent each new paragraph. Letters -- Start each sentence with a capital letter. Editor -- Use any editing program available, and check your own spelling, etc. (Spelling -- Double-check for the words you tend to misspell.) In your composition book  under "Editing Reminders for Me" take notes on this discussion:                      Creating your own proofreading list in your composition book                         under "Editing Reminders for Me."  Use a clean, complete page.

______________'s Proofreading List Obvious stuff Circle and look up every word I'm not 100% certain of. Capitalize first, last, and important words in a title. _____________________ ______________________  _____________________  ______________________

More notes:  
Titles:  
Capitalize the first, last, and important words in a title.

Don't capitalize articles (a, an, the), conjunctions (and, so, but. . . .), or prepositions (of, in, with, to. . . .) unless they come at the end or beginning of the title.

The important words carry meaning: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjective. 

Titles:   Try correctly capitalizing these titles before you check them. 

1.  between a rock and a hard place









Between a Rock and a Hard Place





2.  tomorrow when the war began







Tomorrow When the War Began






3.  the one I've been waiting for






The One I've Been Waiting For



Now make up one of your own and write it out without capital letters. 
Trade with another student to correct it. 

If You Were Absent: See above for what we did.  Set up your composition book if you haven't. Write to the Scribble prompt.  That goes in your composition book under Scribbles. Edit the "Splash Mountain" piece. Take notes as directed above. Keep working on your assignments for   About Me - Collage.doc.

Vocabulary: Prewriting:  The things you do to get ready to write:  gathering ideas, selecting what you will write about, selecting details, organizing. Drafting:  The drafting phase of the writing process entails the actual composing/writing of the text.