r11-25-08

= November 25, 2008 =

Directions:

 * 1) Get your notebook.
 * 2) Copy today's learning objectives.

__Learning Objectives__

 * Learn to add sensory details and dialogue to paragraphs.
 * Learn to use adjectives to create paragraphs with good sensory details.
 * Improve upon last week’s narrative assessment score.

1. Review assignments from yesterday. 2. Chart Learning Progress on Narrative Formative Assessment. 3. Student groups view narrative key and correct tests.

4. If time permits, pass out an “Incident Map” to each student. Explain to students (some students can translate for others) that this graphic organizer is a pre-writing activity to help them develop a good story with lots of sensory details and dialogue. Tell students to pick an incident (an event) that happened to them. It could be a time they were injured, their first date, getting in to a fight, dancing at a party, going to a wedding, etc. Have the students fill in the incident map to prepare to write a story about their incident.