Term 1: Inquiry Question: What can we learn from the stories of our lives? And the lives of others?
Compulsory Reading:
Talk:
Pair/group discussion (analysis of texts, sharing of work)
Book conferences
Writing conferences: pitching for best work, overcoming challenges
Where I’m From: Recitation and Photo Representation
Production:
Reader’s Writer’s Notebook: (tracking of reading, reading reflections, all writing mini lessons, quick writes)
Where I’m From Poem (OCT 7th)
Vignette (200-300 words)—(OCT 23rd)
Memoir: several scenes (400-500 words)—(NOV 4th)
Reading:
Informal response reflections (independent reading)
Class discussions/pair work (mentor texts/independent reading)
Book conferences
Mentor Texts: (Excerpts)
Cisneros, Sandra. The House of Mango Street. New York: Vintage, 1984. Print.
Dahl, Roald. Boy. New York: Puffin Books, 1984. Print.
Fuller, Alexandra. Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001.
King, Stephen. On Writing. New York: Scribner, 2000. Print.
Krouse Rosenthal, Amy. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005. Print.
Lyon, George Ella. Many-Storied House. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes. New York: Touchstone, 1996. Print.
Walls, Jeanette. The Glass Castle. New York: Scribner, 2005. Print.
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
- Ghost of Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
- Two books of students' choice in any genre for independent reading
Talk:
Pair/group discussion (analysis of texts, sharing of work)
Book conferences
Writing conferences: pitching for best work, overcoming challenges
Where I’m From: Recitation and Photo Representation
Production:
Reader’s Writer’s Notebook: (tracking of reading, reading reflections, all writing mini lessons, quick writes)
Where I’m From Poem (OCT 7th)
Vignette (200-300 words)—(OCT 23rd)
Memoir: several scenes (400-500 words)—(NOV 4th)
Reading:
Informal response reflections (independent reading)
Class discussions/pair work (mentor texts/independent reading)
Book conferences
Mentor Texts: (Excerpts)
Cisneros, Sandra. The House of Mango Street. New York: Vintage, 1984. Print.
Dahl, Roald. Boy. New York: Puffin Books, 1984. Print.
Fuller, Alexandra. Don’t Let’s go to the Dogs Tonight. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2001.
King, Stephen. On Writing. New York: Scribner, 2000. Print.
Krouse Rosenthal, Amy. Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005. Print.
Lyon, George Ella. Many-Storied House. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
McCourt, Frank. Angela’s Ashes. New York: Touchstone, 1996. Print.
Walls, Jeanette. The Glass Castle. New York: Scribner, 2005. Print.