Warm Up: Questions (5 minutes)

1. What is a memoir?

Hint: Look inside the word for a root word and think about the kind of stories we have been reading as a class.

Agenda

Warm Up Read Like a Writer Model

Read Aloud Complete Craft and Style Analysis Chart

Complete 3 Column Notes

Reading Like a Writer

What do you notice about how this text was written? (Underline these techniques in the text.) How it begins? How it ends? Internal dialogue Character actions Descriptive Language Comparisons Narrative Voice

Underline repeating ideas or images. Where does the writer show not tell? What did you notice that you might try in your writing?

AnswersAdd to your warm up as we discuss.

1. The root word of “memoir” is……

memory

So, a “memoir” is a piece of writing in which the author reflects on a memory.

What memories did the authors that we read reflect on?........... Raise your hand to answer.

AnswersAdd to your warm up as we discuss.House on Mango Street? Memories of her homes

(including her new house) and how none of them were what her father had promised

The Follower? Memories of his unapproved

friendship with the Pagoda brothers and the crazy stunts they pulled

The Bike? Memories of disobeying his

mother by riding his bike on Sarah Street and the consequences that followed

Eleven? Memories of being

humiliated by her teacher and how this ruined her eleventh birthday

Warm Up 9/30/10

Explain what it means to read as a writer? How is this different than reading for just comprehension (understanding)?

AnswersAdd to your warm up as we discuss.2. To read as a writer means…..

…..reading something in order to use it as an example for your own writing. It means taking the next step as a reader and a writer moving from comprehending the story to analyzing the story.

To do this, you have to analyze parts of the story, such as: how the author begins and ends the story what images and similes the author uses: “It (my arm) hung

limply by my side like an elephant’s trunk.” how the author uses dialogue

That’s why you filled out the analysis chart, to get you thinking like a WRITER. What memory might you write about?

Read Like A Writer Chart

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Agenda

Warm Up Discussion of Reading Like a Writer 15 minutes of independent reading – highlight

anything you notice as you read. 15 minutes of partner work – analyze the 6

traits of each memoir Submit COMPLETED chart at the end of the

bell If you finish early, study literary terms or

complete reading log

REMINDER

5th and Final Reading Log is Due TOMORROW!

Literary Terms Quiz on first 10 terms is next Friday, October 8.

Agenda

Warm Up – Poem Response Memoir List Partner Discussion Memoir Planning Chart Explain/Discuss Response to Literature

Essay

Response to Literature Essay

Due Friday, October 8 This essay should be written about the book

you read for 1st Quarter Focus on writing one paragraph of your essay

a night The essay you submit on Friday should be a

clean copy on loose leaf or typed You must follow the required format or you

will receive a 50% and re do the essay.

Memoir Prewriting

Make a list of 5 possible memories that you could write a memoir about. Write these in your notebook. (3 minutes)

Share your list with a partner. You’ll have to explain what each one means. (10 minutes)

Now, think hard about which memory to write about. Ask yourself: Which memory has the most details and imagery? Which memory has a lesson that I learned (or didn’t learn)? Which memory is the most entertaining and original?

Finally, put a star * next to the memory that you want to write about.

Warm Up 10/5/10 (8 minutes)

Review your list of possible memoir topics. Make a list of possible sensory details that

you could use in your memoir using the web below.

Setting of my memoir

Sight

Sound

Smell

Touch

Taste

Agenda

Warm Up – Sensory Details Review Model of Memoir Planning Sheet memoir planning model.doc Complete Memoir planning sheet – 15

minutes independently 15 minutes partner work Exit Ticket

Exit Ticket

Explain what you accomplished today.

Memoir Planning

Now that you know what you’re going to write about, you need to plan your story. Sitting down and just writing isn’t an option. On your planning chart, answer the following questions:

A memory; a description of an event from the past:

What specific memory will your memoir be about?

Why is the memory significant?

Memoir Planning

Generally written in the first person; told from one person’s point of view:

What background information (if any) will you have to provide at the beginning of the piece

How will convey your personality in the piece?

Memoir Planning

Based on truth:

What are details that you remember about the memory?

Who was involved?

Where did it occur?

Memoir Planning

Reveals the feelings of the writer:

What mood/tone do your what to convey in your memoir?

How will you convey this mood tone? (figurative language, dialogue, etc)

Memoir Planning

Has meaning; shows what the author learned from the experience:

Why is this memory significant? How did/has affected you? What did you learn from this experience?

Memoir Planning

Focused on one event; about one point in the author’s life:

What is the specific day/s or experience that you are writing about?

Memoir Planning

About the author’s experience more that the event itself:

What were you thinking as this event was happening?

How will you convey this thinking in your piece?

Warm Up 10/6/10

Write two techniques used in the memoirs read in class that you would like to try to use in your memoir.

See reading like a writer chart or notes on the front wall.

Story Map Directions

Review/Discuss Examples story map.tif Complete memoir planning sheet before you

begin your story map Partner Work

Choose a memoir topic from your planning sheet.

Complete the story map for your memoir using the model discussed in class.

Mood/Tone Words Afraid Angry Comic Confused Curious Dreamy Forgiving Gloomy Happy Hopeful Horrific Joyful Optimistic Pitiful Proud Sad

Sarcastic Silly Dark Haunting Lonely Serene Suspenseful Tense Peaceful Remorseful Wary Uplifting Calm Playful Puzzled mournful

Warm Up 10/7/10 (3 minutes)

Explain how your memoir planning is going so far.

What is going well? What are you struggling with?

Agenda

Warm Up Review Requirements for 1st Draft Complete story map Compose 1st Draft

Independent Writing Period – 30 minutes Students will:

Think and write silently. Compose the 1st draft of their memoir on

according to the expectations and requirements

Ask questions quietly Work through challenges

REMINDER

QUIZ TOMORROW – FIRST SET OF LITERARY TERMS – PROTAGONIST THROUGH ANTAGONIST

YOUR 1ST QUARTER RESPONSE TO LITERATURE IS DUE TOMORROW!

Memoir 1st Draft Requirements

Expectations – separate paragraphs

Must demonstrate the qualities of a memoir (See your memoir planning sheet)

Write your memoir legibly. If your handwriting is difficult to read, please type your memoir at home or at help session.

4 page minimum – write on front only and skip lines (50 points)

Dialogue with correct punctuation (50 points)

Use complete sentences – avoid run on sentences and fragments (50 points)

Strong verbs and nouns – (25 points)

5 examples of figurative language (25 points)

Literary Terms Quiz

You have 5 minutes to review before your quiz

When you finish…

Complete the 1st draft of your memoir independently.

Make sure that you complete all of the expectations and requirements on the checklist.

Submit your 1st draft of your memoir at the end of class.

Organize your notebook – notebooks will be collected at the end of class on Monday.

Ms. Posta’s Feedback

Circle a specific part of your memoir that you would like feedback about.

Exit Ticket – Copy the following and then respond: The Best Part of My First Draft is…

Warm Up –. This will be collected. (4 minutes) Rate your self on a scale of 1 – 5 based on

your knowledge in the following areas Writing dialogue Writing sentences correctly Parts of speech – You can identify the nouns

and verbs in your own writing Writing figurative language Using sensory details in your writing

Agenda

Warm Up Complete 1st draft of

memoir Complete ALL ITEMS

ON YOUR CHECKLIST FOR YOUR MEMOIR!

Revise your memoir Complete notebook

checklist Notebooks will be

collected at the end of the bell.

Students will: Think and write

silently. Compose the 1st draft

of their memoir on according to the expectations and requirements

Ask questions quietly Work through

challenges Make required

revisions

Codes for Feedback

RO = run on sentence FRAG = fragment; incomplete sentences SVA = Incorrect subject verb agreement WW = wrong word VT = change in verb tense SP = spelling error ? = confusing sentence; revise SS = revise sentence ID = internal dialogue

Agenda -

Strategies for correcting run ons and comma splices

Revise run on sentences in your memoir Models of Snapshots and thoughtshots Revise your memoir

Correcting Run On Sentences – DO NOT COPY THIS!!! SIT DOWN AND TRACK MS. POSTA! THAT IS YOUR WARM UP.

Run on sentence – Then we looked down the street then we started to run quickly because we saw the deserted campsite.

Strategy 1: Correct as two separate sentences Then we looked down the street. Then we started

to run quickly because we saw the deserted campsite.

Strategy 2: Correct as a compound sentence: Then we looked down the street and started to run

quickly because we saw the deserted campsite.

Correcting Comma Splices

Comma splice – I woke up that day thinking heavy, my mind was racing that entire day.

Strategy 1 – Correct as two sentences I woke up that day thinking heavy. My mind

was racing that entire day Strategy 2 – Correct as a compound

sentence I woke up that day thinking heavy, and my

mind was racing that entire day.

Partner Revision – 10 minutes

Revise run ons in your memoir Highlight the sentences you are revising Write your revised sentences underneath

your original sentences.

Conjunction junction what’s your function – hooking up clauses, phrases, and sentences!

And But Or Nor Yet So Because

Thoughtshot #1

Not mine, not mine, but Mrs Price is already turning to page thirty-two, and math problem number four. I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’m feeling sick inside, like the part of me that’s three want to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bit down on my teeth really hard and try to remember I am eleven, eleven.

Thoughtshot #2

I pedaled my squeaky bike around the curve onto Sarah Street, but returned immediately. I braked and looked back at where I had gone. My face was hot, my hair sweaty, but nothing scary seemed to happen. I started again, and again I rode the curve, my eyes open as wide as they could go. After a few circle eights I returned to our street. There ain’t no dogs, I told myself.

Snapshot #1

But the house on Mango Street is not the way they told at all. It’s small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath. Bricks crumbing in places and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in. There is no front yard, only four little elms the city planted by the curb.

Snapshot #2

The street had looked like our street: parked cars, tall trees, a sprinkler hissing on a lawn, and old woman bending over her garden.

My ankle was purple, large, and hot, and the skin was flaked like wood shavings.

Partner Revision – 20 minutes

Highlight the sentences or paragraph that you are revising

Write your revised sentences on the back pages of your memoir.

Exit Ticket

What did you learn about revision in class today.

Warm Up 10/13/10 – Write this on the back of your draft. Explain the steps that you need to follow in

order to write dialogue. What is the purpose of using dialogue in your

memoir?

Revise dialogue in your memoir (20 minutes) Choose a section of your memoir where you

should add dialogue. If you already have dialogue, go that part of

your memoir. Reread your writing and revise to add

correctly written dialogue. Write your revisions on the back side of your

1st draft.

Steps for writing dialogue – Use the model from the “The Follower” on the plastic sheet. See Write Source p. 120 for steps Indent each time a new person speaks Use a comma to set off a speaker’s exact words from the rest of

the sentence Place periods and commas inside quotation marks. Place an exclamation point or question mark outside the

quotation marks when it punctuates the main sentence, and inside when in punctuates the quotation.

Identify who is speaking using sentence tags. Ex: He said, she yelled, Bob declared

Warm Up 10/14/10

Identify the strong nouns and verbs in the following sentences:

He winched the tip of the tree all the way down so it made a big spring and then Frankie held on like a Kolala bear while Gary cut the rope with a machete. Frankie was launched like the stones the Romans flung at the Vandals.

Agenda

Warm Up Review word bank Partner Revision Study Guide – Due Monday, October 18 –

The day of your quiz

Required Revisions – You will earn 20 points per revision toward your 1st quarter grade

One Thoughtshot One Snapshot Correct Run-ons Add/Revise dialogue Improve 10 nouns and verbs using word bank

Work you can still turn in:

Notebook Memoir Response to Literature for 1st quarter

independent reading Film Extra Credit 1st Quarter Assessment Study Guide

Activity Schedule

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1st Quarter Assessment

You have 10 minutes to review your study guide.

REMINDER

You have a 1st quarter assessment today! Bring your study guide to class – no hall

passes!