Room 7 Edublog

Practice LA test using KITE portal
(In preparation for testing in April)

OBJECTIVES
To create a persuasive composition
To devise a composition with tone
To construct sentences using varied sentence openers
To analyze persuasive strategies

BELLRINGER
M: Get into pairs and act out different persuasive strategies for your partner to guess
T: Review time given before test

AGENDA
Practice sentence openers
Continue hat persuasion draft & edits
T: Persuasive Test

HOMEWORK
Reading Log
Prepare for test on persuasion

OBJECTIVES
To create a persuasive composition
To devise a composition with tone
To construct sentences using varied sentence openers

BELLRINGER
Analyze an ad or commercial for persuasive strategies

AGENDA
Practice sentence openers
Continue hat persuasion drafts

HOMEWORK
Reading Log
Prepare for test on persuasion

OBJECTIVES
To create a persuasive composition
To devise a composition with tone
To construct sentences using varied sentence openers

BELLRINGER
Analyze an ad or commercial for persuasive strategies

AGENDA
Practice sentence openers
Evaluate and re-create “Booklice” and “The Sea Wasp”
Begin hat persuasion
Work on pet peeve drafts

HOMEWORK
Reading Log

OBJECTIVES
To read and analyze persuasive strategies
To discern strategies to apply to their own writing
To apply varied sentence openers

BELLRINGER
W: MLK crossword: famous persuasive activist for Civil Rights
Th: Analyze an ad

AGENDA
Read and analyze “Darkness at Noon”
Evaluate “Pet Peeve” ideas and assess ways to rewrite persuasively
Use “Darkness at Noon” as an example
Review and use varied sentence openers in writing to add interest

HOMEWORK
Reading Log

OBJECTIVES
To analyze point of view and purpose behind rhetoric
To evaluate ads and assess persuasive strategies

BELLRINGER
M: Unicorn Meat
T: Animal hybrid

AGENDA
12 Types of Persuasion: handout and discussion
Students must create posters with examples of the 12 types of persuasion that they cut out from junk mail

HOMEWORK
Reading Log

OBJECTIVES
Students will use oral sharing to generate topics about
which they have opinions and will use this list to begin a
persuasive piece of writing.

AGENDA
Ticked Off activity

HOMEWORK
Reading Log

OBJECTIVES
To analyze point of view and purpose behind rhetoric
To use rhetoric to “sell” an idea
To work as a group towards a common goal, utilizing roles

BELLRINGER
List 3-4 things that “tick you off”

AGENDA
12 Types of Persuasion: handout and discussion
Clown Activity: Practice roles in group work
Group must work together to come up with an advertisement for their clown using 4 persuasive techniques and act it live!

HOMEWORK
Reading Log
Collect junk mail

OBJECTIVES
To introduce a new quarter and its focus: persuasive
To review genre
To determine meanings of words as they are used in text
To analyze and respond to reading literature

BELLRINGER
Introduction to quarter

AGENDA
Library Day: check out a new book report book from the library and begin reading logs.

HOMEWORK
Reading Log

OBJECTIVES
To utilize class time to focus on independent reading
To analyze grammatical structure in sentences
To know unfamiliar terms and how to use them in a sentence
To recognize and understand ways the author uses words to create meaning
To demonstrate willingness to take risks in analyzing themes and characters

BELLRINGER
5 minute silent reading and reading logs

AGENDA
Novel: The Giver
Continue reading, utilizing class discussion
Keep track of characterization
Review for final

HOMEWORK
Reading Logs