ABC Book Report Preparation, Pt. 3/Library Check-Out: Fiction

Objective: SWBAT compose a text with relevant and specific details.

• I can compose a text (write) using relevant (important) and specific details.
• I can manage time.
• I can publish/produce an error-free document.

Writing Response: N/A

To Do:
1) Meet in computer lab
2) Finish typing the ABC Book Report

• This includes a cover page
• 1 word for each letter of the alphabet
• the word should be important to the story in some way
• 3-5 sentence description for each word
• each word needs to be presented in alphabetical order

3) Print and turn in the ABC Book Report (present information Monday, October 23rd)
4) Go to library
5) Check out a grade-level appropriate fiction book

ABC Book Report Preparation, Pt. 2

Objective: SWBAT compose a text with relevant and specific details.

• I can compose a text (write) using relevant (important) and specific details.
• I can manage time.
• I can publish/produce an error-free document.

Writing Response: N/A

To Do:
1) Meet in computer lab
2) Finish typing the ABC Book Report

• This includes a cover page
• 1 word for each letter of the alphabet
• the word should be important to the story in some way
• 3-5 sentence description for each word
• each word needs to be presented in alphabetical order

ABC Book Report Preparation, Pt. 1

Objective: SWBAT compose a text with relevant and specific details.

• I can create a visual representation.
• I can compose a text with relevant and specific details.
• I can read grade-level text.

Writing Response: Name a contemporary example of Gothic literature.

To Do:
1) Independent Reading
2) Reading Journal
3) Students will be taken to the computer lab to begin typing their ABC Book Report (due October 18th)
    - We will return on October 17th

Reading Journal:
1) Title and Author
2) Pg. Start - Pg. End
3) Quote from your text a passage that shows how we find out about your protagonist.  This can be through his/her actions, dialogue, what other people say about him/her, etc.  Then explain what this tells about him/her.

Book Report Project #1: Cereal Box

Objective: SWBAT -

1. compose a text with relevant and specific details.
2. compose a text showing awareness of audience.

• I can write using important and specific details.
• I can write for a specific audience.
• I can create a visual representation of key ideas.
• I can read grade-level material.

Writing Response: What do you have left to do on your book report project?

To Do:
1) Independent Reading
2) Reading Journal
3) Allowed students time to put the finishing touches on their Cereal Box Book Report (due tomorrow)
4) Will do a student grade check while they work individually

Stages of Plot

Objective: SWBAT compose a text with relevant and specific details.

• I can identify plot.
• I can identify the stages of plot.
• I can differentiate between the stages of plot.
• I can compose (write) a text with relevant and specific details.

Writing Response: What are the differences between the falling action and resolution stages of plot?

To Do:
1) Independent Reading
2) Reading Journal
3) Review Falling Action and Resolution illustrating these concepts using the end of The Lion King

• Discuss that resolution is also known as denouement in French, and it means to untie or unravel
• This also helps show the different stages of plot vary in length and can be very short at times

4) Finish the Cliffhanger Short Story
5) Add Falling Action and Resolution to the story (this is especially funny for those who make a ridiculous cliffhanger)

• Paragraph Four: Falling Action
• Paragraph Five: Resolution

Plot & Cliffhangers

Objective: SWBAT compose a text with relevant and specific details.

• I can compose (write) a text with relevant and specific details.
• I can identify plot.
• I can identify the stages of plot.
• I can differentiate between the stages of plot.

Writing Response: What do you think happened to Martin at the end of "The Elevator"?

To Do:
1) Independent Reading
2) Reading Journal
3) Discuss the events of "The Elevator"
4) Discuss the concept of cliffhanger
    - Why would an author end their story with a cliffhanger?
    - What affect does a cliffhanger have on its audience? On you?
5) Provide an example of a cliffhanger using the last page of a Spider-Man comic
6) In small groups, students will brainstorm and compose a short (3-paragraph) cliffhanger story
    - Paragraph 1: Exposition
    - Paragraph 2: Rising Action
    - Paragraph 3: Climax