Week at a glance November 7 - 11, 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)

Root Words - No new roots this week as we work on the Junior Research Essay.

This week is dedicated to our work over the Junior Research Essay.  We spent last week in the computer lab doing research and gathering information to help shape our ideas.  We'll start the week with a shaping packet that will help students generate an outline for their work.  Once the shaping packet is done, students will type their rough drafts in class for the rest of the week.  An electronic copy of the Junior Research Essay rough draft is due by the end of the hour on Friday.

• Mon: Junior Research Essay - Continue working on the shaping packet.
• Tues: Junior Research Essay - Shaping packet due by the end of the hour.  Begin typing the rough draft.
• Wed: Junior Research Essay - Discuss expectations for the Rough Draft Checklist.  Continue typing the rough draft.
• Thurs: Junior Research Essay - continue typing the rough draft.  
• Fri: Junior Research Essay - electronic rough draft, including Works Cited, due by the end of the hour.  Check out Huck Finn books.  For Wednesday, 11/16: read Ch 1 - 4, pages 1 - 18.