6 th Grade Lessons Week of November 7, 2011 Stacey Chavours Monday November 7, 2011 Room 212
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1 Stacey Chavours Monday November 7, 2011 Room th Grade Language Arts 5 th -6 th Periods Persuasive Unit Persuasion Standard: Set and maintain the purpose of the composition through a thematic introduction, specific preview, or a more sophisticated strategy Essential Question: Why do writers and speakers establish and maintain a position to convince or persuade the audience? I Can: I can identify persuasive writing and understand why writers establish and maintain a position to convince the audience Purpose for learning: Students will understand how to persuade others through writing. Relevancy: To become better writers in school and in life, students need to how to convince their audience. Bell ringer: 10 minutes 11:35-11:45 Silent read and make personal connections using the Text to Self Connections form. Complete summary and write down one higher level thinking question. Students need writing/reading notebooks. Read Aloud 10 minutes: 11:45-12:00 Make a vocabulary card that includes synonym, antonym, definition and illustration. Read aloud from chapter 8 in Touching Spirit Bear. Word Work 25 minutes 12:00-12:25 Pass out affix schedule. Have students paste it into their reader s notebook. Write down the definitions for the prefixes and roots. Start with the suffix er, - able and - ible. Have students write down the rule for ible or - able: If the root is not a complete word, add ible (visible, horrible, terrible, possible, edible, eligible, incredible, permissible, invisible and illegible). If the root is a complete word without a suffix, then add able (fashionable, laughable, suitable, dependable, comfortable). If the root is a complete word that ends in silent e, drop the silent e and then add able (excusable, advisable, desireable, valuable, debatable). Exceptions to the ible/- able rule occur when the final sound is the hard g or hard c sound; then the suffix is able (navigable, applicable). Other exceptions are digestible, contemptible, inevitable, flexible, responsible, and irritable. Introduce the alphabet book. Pass out instructions. Allow a pair to take pictures and the rest to work on creating a word tree. Go to literacy center. 12:25-12:40 Poetry: 15 minutes We ll round out this first grouping of poems free verse that shows some of the range of what poetry can do with a poem that might remind you of our first, Ronald Wallace s You can t write a poem about Mcdonald s. That poem read like a response to a challenge from a reader. This poem reads like a response to a demand from a reader. It seems that 1
2 someone named Ernest Mann- probably a kid- said to Naomi Shihab Nye, Okay so you re a poet. Here s my address. Write me a poem. As a writer who s serious about poetry, Nye knows it doesn t work that way. So, where do poems come from? Notice: The way the poem begins in the midst of its meaning, without an introduction or preamble The direct language and conversational tone: and I speaking to a you The poet s use of concrete objects to exemplify her meaning: the two skunks show how poems are hiding in our lives, if only we ll look for them, better than a wordy explanation ever could. The purposeful, effective repetition of the word serious Response: Underline the most important lines in this poem where the strongest meanings reside. Mark your favorite lines too. Benediction: Something else you can do as a poet is check your garage, the odd sock in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite as well as your closet, your kitchen table, the top of your bureau, your box of junk, your dog s mouth, your cat s eyes, your old toys, your everyday life and find your poems. Write a poem about an everyday item. Include at least two AAAWWUBBISS sentences. 12:40-1:00 Writing 20 minutes Read Thanksgiving Stop at 3 and discuss Story Grammar form they should be filling out as they listen. Take out computers. With your partner, go to google docs and write a persuasive letter to someone about something you want to change. Use scaffolding. Exit Pass: Write three opinions. What is the most important thing I learned? How can I use this in other classes? Summarize the events in class. Homework: Read 30 minutes and write down one unfamiliar word. 2
3 Stacey Chavours Tuesday November 8, 2011 Room th Grade Language Arts 5 th 6 th periods Persuasive Unit Persuasion Standard: Set and maintain the purpose of the composition through a thematic introduction, specific preview, or a more sophisticated strategy Essential Question: Why do writers and speakers establish and maintain a position to convince or persuade the audience? I Can: I can identify persuasive writing and understand why writers establish and maintain a position to convince the audience Purpose for learning: Students will understand how to persuade others through writing. Relevancy: To become better writers in school and in life, students need to how to convince their audience. Bell ringer: 10 minutes 11:35-11:45 Silent read and make personal connections using the Text to Self Connections form. Complete summary and write down one higher level thinking question. Students need writing/reading notebooks. Read Aloud 15 minutes: 11:45-12:00 Make a vocabulary card that includes synonym, antonym, definition and illustration. Read aloud chapter 11. Word Work 10 minutes 12:00-12:10 Suffix: ship and ful Allow a pair to take pictures and the rest to work on the CLOZE assignment tailored to each word list. Take out middle sounds instead of whole words. Go to literacy center. Poetry: 10 minutes 12:10-12:25 Defining the Magic Since we ve been considering and naming what a good poem does, I thought we should consult an expert. Charles Bukowski wrote forty books of good poems. He was famous for living on the edge and writing about it. In Bukowski s poems you ll meet gamblers, hoods, working- class people down on their luck, outright bums, prostitutes, and other Americans trying to survive life on the margins of America. Notice: The humor The similes, metaphors, and personifications, all framed in strong, simple direct language The nature of the comparisons: what they show or suggest about who the speaker is The way the repetition of the phrase a good poem creates a cadence How the title fits the poem without labeling it 3
4 The short, strong lines The lack of capital letters, except on proper nouns, and the single period after stop Response: Go back into the poem on your own and mark your three favorite comparisons. Then write a few words next to each about why this simile, metaphor or personification resonates for you. Benediction: Something else you might do as a poet is consider what a good poem represents for you or a good book, a good song, a good movie, good French fries, a good dog or cat, a good friend. What s it like for you? Write about what a good poem is like and include at least two AAAWWUBBISS sentences. Literacy 15 minutes 12:25-12:40 Reading Comprehension Write these questions on the chalkboard and ask students to discuss with partner for one minute: How do you know when you are confused? What do you do when you are confused? Share. Pass out the six signals to know when you are confused. 1) The inner voice inside the reader s head stops its conversation with the text, and the reader only hears his voice pronouncing the words. 2) The camera inside the reader s head shuts off, and the reader can no longer visualize what is happening as she reads. 3) The reader s mind begins to wander, and he catches himself thinking about something far removed from the text. 4) The reader cannot remember or retell what she has read. 5) The reader is not getting his clarifying questions answers. 6) Characters are reappearing in the text and the reader doesn t recall who they are. Go over these signals. Model how good readers stop and ask questions, highlight and use sticky notes. Do a think aloud with Shakespeare s sonnet. Shall I compare thee to a summers day Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Photocopy the first couple pages of a current events article and do a think aloud using these strategies together for the first page. Allow the student to work independently for the second page. Pass out the inner voice sheet to practice the above strategy while reading. Students should make note when they hear the inner voice. 4
5 Writing 20 minutes 12:40-1:00 Complete Your Turns up to 8 in Elements of Language chapter 3. Exit Pass: What is the difference between fact and opinion? What is the most important thing I learned? How can I use this in other classes? Summarize the events in class. Homework: Read 30 minutes and write down one unfamiliar word. 5
6 Stacey Chavours Wednesday November 9, 2011 Room th Grade Language Arts 5 th 6 th periods Persuasive Unit Persuasion Standard: Set and maintain the purpose of the composition through a thematic introduction, specific preview, or a more sophisticated strategy Essential Question: Why do writers and speakers establish and maintain a position to convince or persuade the audience? I Can: I can identify persuasive writing and understand why writers establish and maintain a position to convince the audience Purpose for learning: Students will understand how to persuade others through writing. Relevancy: To become better writers in school and in life, students need to how to convince their audience. Bell ringer: 10 minutes 11:35-11:45 Silent read and make personal connections using the Text to Self Connections form. Complete summary and write down one higher level thinking question. Students need writing/reading notebooks. Read Aloud 10 minutes: 11:45-12:00 Make a vocabulary card that includes synonym, antonym, definition and illustration. Read chapter 10. Word work 10 minutes 12:00-12:10 Suffix: er and est Go to spellingcity.com and put in spelling words. Go to literacy center. Poetry: 15 minutes 12:10-12:25 Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson There s a scene in the movie Good Will Hunting, set in a psychologist s office, in which the Matt Damon character is talking about the choices he made in his life and the outcomes that he is and isn t responsible for. On the wall behind him hangs a poster version of this poem. When I caught a glimpse of it, I thought, Smart set decoration not only did someone in Hollywood know this poem, they got the theme of this poem. Some features to notice: How the chapter headings on the stanzas separate them and give each the weight of a distinct episode in an autobiography or phase in a life. The use of repetition to create patterns, both in the structure of the poem and the actions of its speaker The sustained metaphor: engaging in a harmful behavior is encoded as walking down the same street The open- endedness of the imagery: the street can be interpreted in myriad ways 6
7 Response Stance: Please go back into the poem and mark what you think are its most important lines. Then, write a sentence or two: what, for you, is this poem about? Benediction: We ll never know exactly what the speaker s problem is in Autobiography in Five Short chapters. Nelson s sustained metaphor the same street, then another one- is generous: it accepts multiple interpretations. But we can be pretty sure there was a problem, something concrete from a real life that led to this coded imagery. As poets, consider what you might be able to do with a sustained metaphor. What if you wrote at length about something from your real life as if it were something else? Write about something in your life as if it were something else. Writing 35 minutes 12:25-1:00 Work on persuasive essay. Exit Pass: Write three opinions. What is the most important thing I learned? How can I use this in other classes? Summarize the events in class. Homework: Read 30 minutes and write down one unfamiliar word. 7
8 Stacey Chavours Thursday November 10, 2011 Room th Grade Language Arts 5 th 6 th periods Persuasive Unit Persuasion Standard: Set and maintain the purpose of the composition through a thematic introduction, specific preview, or a more sophisticated strategy Essential Question: Why do writers and speakers establish and maintain a position to convince or persuade the audience? I Can: I can identify persuasive writing and understand why writers establish and maintain a position to convince the audience Purpose for learning: Students will understand how to persuade others through writing. Relevancy: To become better writers in school and in life, students need to how to convince their audience. Bell ringer: 10 minutes 11:35-11:45 Silent read and make personal connections using the Text to Self Connections form. Complete summary and write down one higher level thinking question. Students need writing/reading notebooks. Read Aloud 10 minutes: 11:45-11:55 Make a vocabulary card that includes synonym, antonym, definition and illustration. Grammar 15 minutes: 11:55-12:10 Ask, Does anyone know how to make a compound sentence? Show students the ways to create a compound sentence by making a wall chart together. The wall chart should look like this: CHART 1 Coordinating Relationship Conjunctions Expressed (FANBOYS) for, so Shows a cause- effect relationship. And Joins things or ideas that are alike or similar, implies a continuation of thought. but, yet Shows a contrasting relationship. or Indicates a choice between things or ideas. Nor Continues a negative thought. CHART 2 for and Sentence, nor sentence. but or yet so 8
9 Then, show students two sentences from Flipped: I am still trying to break free, but the girl s got me in a death grip. (p. 3) Bryce s point of view I chased Bryce up the walkway, and that s when everything changed. (p. 13) Julianna s perspective Ask students what they notice about the sentences, pointing out the subjects and verbs on each side of each sentence as well as the commas and coordinating conjunctions. Then, compare the sentences to the compound sentence wall chart, and we discuss how each of these sentences needs a comma to complete the whole compound sentence mystique. We take some time to chant the FANBOYS: (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.) Then, write a new pair of sentences on the overhead: Mrs. Chavours, I got my report card signed. I didn t bring it. Explain that, when we have two ideas that are connected, as writers we may want to join them. Say, First, as a speaker how would you join the ideas? As a writer? Right, the revision would be: Mrs. Chavours, I got my report card signed, but I didn t bring it. Why didn t we use and or so? Put up the Flipped sentences again without the commas and have students mark where they belong, referring to the wall chart for the language and visual cues to discuss and conceptualize the pattern. After students practice writing a few sentences, they quickly reread a passage from the editorial and add the new concept into their writing. Go to literacy center. Poetry: 15 minutes 12:10-12:25 Fat Man by Niall Janney and New Eyes by Adrienne Jaeger In these poems, seventh graders Niall and Adrienne tell stories of chance encounters Niall s with, as he puts it, a fat man, and Adrienne s with someone who is homeless. A shift in their perspectives shifts their attitudes, and as Niall and Adrienne are surprised and changed, so are we. Some features to Notice Fat Man How the lead and conclusion echo one another, with an intentional shift in the verb tense from present to past and the addition of two lines at the end that imply Niall s shift in perspective How the repetition of fat man and fatter in the third stanza conveys Niall s initial impression of disgust How Niall doesn t need to describe his reaction, once he realizes the fat man s purpose and recognizes that the man isn t a stereotype; Niall lets the readers connect the dots or make an inference. Some Features to Notice New Eyes How the lead and conclusion echo one another, with the addition of two lines that imply Adrienne s shift in perspective The strength and specificity of the verbs, nouns, and adjectives we can see and feel what Adrienne saw and felt 9
10 How Adrienne doesn t need to spell out her reactions, once she recognizes that the young man isn t a stereotype how, like her, he is a reader and has a rich inner life; how Adrienne lets the reader connects the dots or make an inference Response Stance: Please go back into one of these two poems on your own your choice and mark the phrases and lines that struck you. Then, would you wrie a sentence or two about why you think Niall or Adrienne wrote it? Benediction: Something else your poems can do is help capture times when you discovered you were mistaken when you misjudged or stereotyped someone. These are poems that will help you grow up and help others, too. Literature Circle: 15 minutes 12:25-12:40 Discuss role. Assign chapters and next role. Writing 20 minutes 12:40-1:00 Work on persuasive essay. Exit Pass: Write a FANBOY sentence. What is the most important thing I learned? How can I use this in other classes? Summarize the events in class. Homework: Read 30 minutes and write down one unfamiliar word. Exit Pass: Write a FANBOY sentence. What is the most important thing I learned? How can I use this in other classes? Summarize the events in class. Homework: Read 30 minutes and write down one unfamiliar word. 10
11 6 th Grade Affixes 1 st Quarter ISAT Affixes Week Prefixes Roots Suffixes 1 de- opposite of, away bio life -er one who, that which from, undo dis- opposite bene good 2 anti- against, opposite, reverse duc/duct canal, pipe, conduit -able/-ible able to be, capable of being ex- out, beyond, away from, former 3 un- not cycle recurring -ship state or quality of being, condition, skill im- not; into 4 bi- two geo earth -ful full of super- over, above, beyond 5 com- together dic/dict to say, to speak, -er (comparative) to assert 6 di- two, twice, double port to carry, an -est (superlative) entrance non- not, opposite of 7 in- not, go into ject to throw -ous having, full of, characterized by ir- not 8 re- to do again vis/vid to see, look -less without tri- three 11
12 Prefixes Roots Suffixes De- = Bio = - er = Dis- = r- = Bene = - able/- ible = Re- = Anti- = Duc/duct = - ship = Ex- Tri- = Cycle = - ful = Un- = Geo = - er (comparative) = m- = Dic/dict = - est (superlative) = Bi- = Port = - ous = uper- = Ject = - less = Com- = Vis/vid = di- = Non- = n- = r- = 12
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14 Story Grammar Name of the story Author of the story Illustrator of the story Main characters Other characters Where does the story happen? When does the story happen? What is the story about? What is the problem in the story? How is it solved? Did you like the story? Yes No Would you tell others to read the story? Yes No 14
15 Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye You can't order a poem like you order a taco. Walk up to the counter, say, "I'll take two" and expect it to be handed back to you on a shiny plate. Still, I like your spirit. Anyone who says, "Here's my address, write me a poem," deserves something in reply. So I'll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Once I knew a man who gave his wife two skunks for a valentine. He couldn't understand why she was crying. "I thought they had such beautiful eyes." And he was serious. He was a serious man who lived in a serious way. Nothing was ugly just because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he re- invented them as valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him. And the poems that had been hiding in the eyes of skunks for centuries crawled out and curled up at his feet. Maybe if we re- invent whatever our lives give us we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite. And let me know. 15
16 Defining the Magic Charles Bukowski a good poem is like a cold beer when you need it, a good poem is a hot turkey sandwich when you re hungry, a good poem is a gun when the mob corners you, a good poem is something that allows you to walk through the streets of death, a good poem can make death melt like hot butter, a good poem can frame agony and hang it on a wall, a good poem can let your feet touch China, a good poem can make a broken mind fly, a good poem can let you shake hands with Mozart, a good poem can let you shoot craps with the devil and win, a good poem can do almost anything, and most important a good poem knows when to stop. 16
17 Autobiography In Five Short Chapters Chapter I I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am hopeless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter II I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again. I can't believe I am in this same place. But it isn't my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter III I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it there. I still fall in... it's a habit... but, my eyes are open. I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out immediately. Chapter IV I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. Chapter V I walk down another street. - Portia Nelson 17
18 Fat Man I catch sight of the man on route to the mountain's summit. He carries with him a recycled Coke bottle secured to a small pack. But the man also hefts his weight inside a sweat-stained XXXL red tee shirt. He's what I call a fat man a fat man who doesn't exercise, a fat man who engulfs food, a fat man who lives only to become fatter and fatter. He turns at my approach then drops his eyes as they meet the expression in mine. I pass the fat man swiftly, with disgust, wondering what could drive him to attempt the summit. When I glance back with this question in mind, my eyes drop to the legend on the red tee shirt: I'm hiking for the National Cancer Foundation. I caught sight of the man on route to the mountain's summit. He carried with him a recycled Coke bottle secured to a small pack. He was heading upward. He was on a mission. -Niall Janney 18
19 New Eyes Shuffling through the crowds a sea of shorts and tank tops hot sun beating down on a packed Madison Avenue, I tighten my grip on my sister's hand and push through the mob. From behind us stalks a young man, trailing in back of him a cart. He flips his head to wipe unkempt hair out of his face. Grubby, torn clothes swallow a frail body. He curses as he drops the remnants of a sandwich and, without a flinch, picks it up and stuffs his mouth. I look away in disgust. But as he passes us, I spy books scattered through his pile of belongings, each with a tattered binding or missing cover, but every page well loved. I watch him disappear into swarms of people, embarrassed that with one look, I knew everything. I trudge on through a sea of shorts and tank tops, hot sun beating down on a packed Madison Avenue, looking ahead with new eyes. -Adrienne Jaeger 19
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