Week at a glance October 31 - November 4, 2011

Curriculum focus: determines meaning of words through knowledge of word structure (11.1.3.K3), generating writing based on personal experience (11.7.1.1), organizing and planning a written piece (11.7.1.3), shares a draft with others to elicit feedback (11.7.1.5), revises the draft (11.7.1.6), edits the draft (11.7.1.7), composes persuasive writing (11.7.2.1c), adapts writing by identifying, analyzing, and understanding audience (11.7.2.2), writes using one or more text structures when appropriate to a achieve a specific purpose or to address a specific audience: problem/solution (11.7.2.4d), develops clear and purposeful ideas with sufficient evidence and/or relevant detail to satisfy purpose using sufficient evidence, examples, anecdotes, quotations, expert opinions, and/or statistics (11.7.2.1d), organizes ideas in a logical structure (11.7.3.2), writes with energy and enthusiasm (11.7.3.3), selects and employs words to convey message in an interesting, precise, and natural way (11.7.3.4), creates text that flows easily with a variety of sentence structures (11.7.3.5), uses standard writing conventions effectively to enhance readability (11.7.3.6)

No root words activity this week because we are spending much of the week in the computer lab doing research.

This week we begin research for the Junior Research Essay with the Annotated Bibliography.  The purpose of this assignment is to allow students to gather their citations and facts for their topics.  This process will make it easier when students move on to outlining the Junior Research Essay in class next week.  We'll start with a discussion of the assignment and expectations at the beginning of the week.  The Annotated Bibliography will be due at the end of the week.

• Mon: Debrief from Wed-Fri last week.  Pass back papers and current grades.  Discuss potential research topics.  Junior Research Essay - The Annotated Bibliography: assignment, purpose, and expectations.
• Tues: Meet in the computer lab.  Begin working on the Annotated Bibliography.
• Wed: Meet in the computer lab.  Continue working on the Annotated Bibliography.
• Thurs: Meet in the computer lab.  Continue working on the Annotated Bibliography.
• Fri: Meet in the computer lab.  Annotated Bibliography due by the end of the hour.