Tuesday, March 29, 2016

March 29 LA

Tuesday, March 29

Learning Objective:  Students will demonstrate learning in elements of argumentative writing W8.1
Teaching Objective:  Students will complete the handout by researching and documenting information that will then be used to format an argumentative essay.

Starter:  none
Journal:  none

Summative:  Vocabulary/Spelling 2 (Verb tense, verbal, active voice, passive voice) this was taken on Friday.  Students who did not pass should come in to retake before two weeks are up. 

Assignment:  Argumentative Writing – Utah Compose writing prompt “Wolves:  Friend or Foe?”
                        Use your white handout from the previous “Club” assignment to formulate notes from the articles provided.  Follow the yellow handout, from the previous “Club” assignment, to format your essay.

Utah Compose
Title
Wolves: Friend or Foe?

Description
After reviewing the stimulus material, what do you think about the reintroduction of gray wolves? Is this a good idea or a bad one? Support your position with facts and specific details from the video and the article as well as information from your study of ecosystems.
Genre
Argumentative

Upcoming:  Argumentative Summative Writing Essay beginning Wed and ending on Friday.   


Thursday, March 24, 2016

LA March 24

Thursday, March 24

Learning Objective:  Students will demonstrate learning in elements of argumentative writing  W8.1
Teaching Objective:  Students will complete the handout by researching and documenting information, that will then be used to format an argumentative essay.


Starter:  none
Journal:  none

Assignment:  Argumentative Writing – Utah Compose writing prompt “Wolves:  Friend or Foe?”
                        Use your white handout from the previous “Club” assignment to formulate notes
                        from the articles provided.  Follow the yellow handout, from the previous “Club”
                        assignment, to format your essay.

Utah Compose
Title
Wolves: Friend or Foe?
Description
After reviewing the stimulus material, what do you think about the reintroduction of gray wolves? Is this a good idea or a bad one? Support your position with facts and specific details from the video and the article as well as information from your study of ecosystems.
Genre

Argumentative

Friday, March 18, 2016

LA Monday

Monday, March 21, 2016

Learning Objective:  Students will demonstrate knowledge of argumentative vocabulary and spelling words.
Teaching Objective:  Students will spell the assigned word and write the definition with a minimum of 70% proficiency.

Correct starter from Thursday
I hope that we can eat soon because I am hungry.

Starter:  Diagram the sentence.

Journal:  Write the vocabulary word three times.  Write the definition once. 
Summative:  Vocabulary/Spelling Summative



Assignment:  Complete Argumentative Club Essay (Refer to blog on Thursday, March 17 for handout).  When finished, go into Utah Compose.  Copy and paste your essay into the writing prompt Argumentative Practice Club.  Once you receive your score, click on the red notes, under each category, and follow the tutorials to revise your essay and improve your score.  

Friday 3/18/2016 LA

Friday, March 18, 2016

Learning Objective:  Students will demonstrate how to properly format an argumentative essay (W8.1)
Teaching Objective:  Students will complete this handout by using the information documented in the previous “Club Name” handout.

Correct Starter from Wednesday 
           n dep cl inside ind cl                      adv dep cl
(I hope (that we can eat soon) (because I am hungry)     cx/dec

Starter:  Write out the sentence.  diagramming sentence 

Assignment:  Follow the directions to complete the handout - W 8.1 Argumentative Format in Google Docs.  Share with a partner when finished.  Revise then share with merlene.ewell@besd.net

W 8.1 Argumentative Format

Learning Objective:  Students will demonstrate how to properly format an argumentative essay (W8.1)
Teaching Objective:  Students will complete this handout by using the information documented in the previous “Club Name” handout.
Directions:  Go to Google Docs.  Put your name, hour and date in the upper right hand corner.  Double space/enter and center your title.  Double space/enter, indent your paragraph and begin.  You will type the information provided, and use the information from your Club Handout to write your argumentative essay.     
                                             ______________________
(Title)
             _________________________________________.   The issue
                                         (Lead , Quote or Interesting  Fact)
being faced is___________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
(State your claim)________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
Three reasons are 1) ___________, 2)___________,  and 3)____________ .
           An important reason is,___________________________________. In the article(s),___________________________________________________, it states;    Evidence 1) First, _______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Evidence (2)   Second,____________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence 3) Third, _______________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Others may say,  (Counterclaim)____________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
An additional reason is ____________________________________.   
In the article(s),_________________________________________________, it states;    Evidence 1)____________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence 2) Next,________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence 3)Then,________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
On the other hand,  (Counterclaim)_________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The final reason is ,_______________________________________.   
In the article(s),________________________________________________, it states;    Evidence 1), ____________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence (2)   In addition,_________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Evidence 3) Furthermore,________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
It is often argued, (counterclaim)___________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
This is a common issue of ___________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
(Restate your claim)_________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________


Thursday, March 3, 2016

March 3-4

All project from Art will need to be in by Friday.  Anything no turned in will be final.

LA we are doing journals to go along with the movie and book with comparing and contrasting the two together. We will have the final check with journals on Friday. The summatives for informational writing will be in no later than Thursday to fix this will need to be done on Friday.