Thursday’s Warm-up

Please write and correct the following sentence.

In the Country of Bangladesh, many people lives to be only about 61 years old

Thursday’s Warm-up Correction

Please write and correct the following sentence.

In the country of Bangladesh, many people live to be only about 61 years old!/ .

Today’s Skills: Capitalization, Subject-Verb Agreement, End Punctuation

Today’s Agenda

• You will be completing your Writing Pretest.

• When finished, you will place your answers into the mimio vote.

• Record your score on your paper and place into your notebook.

• Read silently

Please write and correct the following sentence.

My grandmother in California made jewelry and she tells me, pure Gold, like clay, is so soft that it can be molded with your hands and it is mixed with harder metals to make jewelry and other items.

Friday’s Warm-up

Please write and correct the following sentence.

My grandmother in California makes jewelry. She tells me, “Pure gold, like clay, is so soft that it can be molded with your hands. It is mixed with harder metals to make jewelry and other items.”

Delete: And (twice)

Today’s Skills: Capitalization, Verb Tense, Rambling Sentence, Quotation Marks

Friday’s Warm-up Correction

The Writing Process

1. Brainstorming 2. Prewriting 3. Rough Draft 4. Revising 5. Final Draft 6. Rubric

1. Brainstorming

1. Brainstorming

Coming up with lots of ideas to write about.

2. Prewriting

2. Prewriting Organizing your information before you start writing.

Ex: Graphic organizerMemories

First day of school Making Friends Teachers

3. Rough Draft

3. Rough Draft Sloppy Copy! Turning your prewriting into the 1st draft (or version) of your paper using complete sentences and paragraphs.

4. Revising

4. Revising Check your G.U.M.! (Grammar, Usage, Mechanics)

Making changes and corrections to your rough draft to make it better.

5. Final Draft

Final Draft

• With the final draft, is rewriting your rough draft sufficient?

Final Draft

• With the final draft, is rewriting your rough draft sufficient?

• NO! Be sure to use ALL revisions and even double check spelling with your thesaurus and dictionary.

5. Final Draft Rewriting the rough draft using the revisions you made.

6. Rubric

6. Rubric Using a checklist to evaluate what you have written.

Ex: Notebook Check

For your exam, make sure you the writing process

Mnemonic Technique

• Brainstorm

• Prewriting

• Rough Draft

• Revising

• Final Draft

• Rubric

• Blood

• Pressure

• Really

• Rises

• For

• Rollercoasters

Time to Play Battle!

• Each student should have a DIFFERENT colored packet of eight (8) cards.

• Flip cards face down where you cannot see the words.

• When you place your card face up, the person with highest card takes both.

• Person with the ALL of the cards win!

• Quiz one another when finished.

How to Write an Informal Letter

• How do you speak to a friend in a letter versus in person?

• Discussion

Parts of A Letter

• Heading

• Greeting

• Body

• Closing

• Signature

Heading

• The heading of a letter includes your address in the corner of your paper. You should also include the date beneath it.

• 1205 Courtney Lane

• Copperas Cove, TX 76522

November 15, 2013

Greeting

• The greeting begins your letter and you address the person to whom you are writing.

• Example:

Dear Macy,

Body

• The body of your letter should include paragraphs and transitions. It is filled with a topic sentence and supporting details.

• The last paragraph is your conclusion paragraph and it wraps up your letter.

Closing

• Closing is a tag that signifies an ending to your letter.

• Ex:

Love Your friend

Yours truly

Sincerely

Signature

• Your signature is your name signed onto the letter. It is usually in cursive.

• Ex:

Macy Smith

Today’s Agenda

Brainstorm, Prewrite, and begin Rough Draft

Who are you writing

What are writing about

Where you are giving directions to visit

Extension

• We are now going to use the writing process to perform one of our performance indicators from our unpacking.

Two Options

• Explain dirt-biking safety rules. Write instructions about what to do and what not to do. Be sure to include what kind of safety equipment people should wear.

• The water park is lots of fun, but only if you stay safe. Write an informal letter to a friend telling kids what rules to follow in order to have a safe day at the facility.

Remember…

• To begin with a topic, prewrite, begin a rough draft, revise and edit with a peer, then publish a final draft in pen.