Happenings in Bradnerville...
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  • U.S. History 2019-2020
  • U.S. History 2018-2019
  • Instructional Goals (by unit)

Thursday, January 25

  • Finish movie, Monsters, Inc.
  • Writing Challenge #7 -- movie review

Wednesday, January 24

  • Continue movie, Monsters, Inc.  ***To be used for Writing Challenge #7 -- movie review

Tuesday, January 23

  • Begin movie, Monsters, Inc.  ***To be used for Writing Challenge #7 -- movie review

Monday, January 22

  • SSR (10 min)
  • Writer's Studio Scavenger Hunt Grammar Review
writers_studio_--_scavenger_hunt_grammar_review.docx
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Friday, January 19

  • Finish Writing Challenge #6   ***Due TODAY (1/19) at the end of class***

Thursday, January 18

  • Continue Writing Challenge #6   ***Due TOMORROW (1/19) at the end of class***

Wednesday, January 17

  • Finish Commercial Analysis (activity)
  • Writing Challenge #6 -- Design Your Own Food Advertisement ***Due Friday (1/19) at the end of class***
writers_studio_--_writing_challenge_6__design_your_own_food_adv_.docx
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Tuesday, January 16

  • Advertising Strategies
  • Response Question   ***After reading through the Advertising Strategies, which three (3) strategies do you believe are the most successful in selling a company's product?  Explain Why.  1/2 pg minimum.
  • Commercial Analysis (activity)
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Monday, January 15

***NO SCHOOL*** (Martin Luther King Day)

Friday, January 12

***NO SCHOOL*** (snow day)

Thursday, January 11

  • Sentence-building
  • Finish Channel One News

Wednesday, January 10

  • Warm-up:  Subject and Predicate
  • Channel One News
channel_one_news_--_review.docx
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Tuesday, January 9

  • Verbs:  "Regularly Irregular" (using regular/irregular verbs)

Monday, January 8

  • Warm-up:  Verb and pronoun agreement
  • Finish Writing Challenge #5 -- Found Poetry 
  • Type and e-mail to Mr. B

Friday, January 5

***No school today***  (it's 23 below zero outside...)

Thursday, January 4

​Writing Challenge #5 -- Found Poetry
  • "Windigo"
  • "Food Fight Fiasco"

Wednesday, January 3

  • Spelling Challenge N-Z

Thursday, December 21

​​***Holiday Break Begins***

Wednesday, December 20

  • Scrabble Sprint

Tuesday, December 19

  • Finish Writing Challenge #4 -- Restaurant Menu  ***Due TODAY (12/19) at end of hour

Monday, December 18

  • Continue working on Writing Challenge #4 -- Restaurant Menu  ***Due on Tuesday (12/19) at end of hour

Friday, December 15

  • Work on Writing Challenge #4 -- Restaurant Menu  ***Due on Tuesday (12/19) at end of hour

Thursday, December 14
​​​***No School (snow day)***

Wednesday, December 13
​​***No School (snow day)***

Tuesday, December 12

  • Descriptive Writing (menus)  *examples, rules, etc.
  • Writing Challenge #4 -- Restaurant Menu  ***See assignment requirements and rubric (attached below)
write-on_--_menu_writing.docx
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writers_studio_--_writing_challenge_4__menu_samples_.docx
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writers_studio_--_writing_challenge_4__menu__grading_rubric.docx
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Monday, December 11

  • Warm-up: "Periods and Commas"
  • Finish Writing with Voice (practice) *from last Thursday

Friday, December 8

***Today is a 1/2 day for students -- I won't see my Writer's Studio kids***

Thursday, December 7

  • Warm-up:  "A Capital Idea" (practice with proper capitalization)
  • Debrief Star-Spangled Banner activity
  • Writing with Voice (practice)
writers_studio_--_writing_with_voice__practice_.docx
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Wednesday, December 6

  • Finish Star-Spangled Banner Activity
  • Discuss

Tuesday, December 5

  • Voice -- definition and examples
  • Star-Spangled Banner Activity   ***Watch each of the attached examples of performances of our national anthem.  For each example, complete the following prompts:  (1) The performer or performers "make it their own" by ...  (2) The overall tone of this performance is _____ because...​

Monday, December 4

  • Response Questions   ***Each response should be a 1/2 page minimum
writers_studio_--_response_questions__sub_day_.docx
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Friday, December 1

***Flex Day***
  • ​Time for students to complete any missing work and get it submitted

Thursday, November 30

  • Warm-up: "A Plethora of Plurals"
  • Spelling Challenge A-M

Wednesday, November 29

  • Finish Writing Challenge #3 -- Writing Dialogue *** Due Tomorrow (11/30) at the beginning of class

Tuesday, November 28

  • Continue Writing Challenge #3 -- Writing Dialogue  ***Due this Thursday (11/30) at the beginning of class

Monday, November 27

  • Warm-up:  "Pesky Apostrophes"
  • Writing Challenge #3 -- Writing Dialogue   ***Due this Thursday (11/30) at the beginning of class
writing_dialogue_--_assignment.docx
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Tuesday, November 19

  • Genius Competition

Monday, November 18

  • Warm-up:  Using Vivid and Specific Language
  • discuss/revise
  • Response Question:  Which is more important, grades or learning?  ***1/2 pg minimum
writers_studio_--_vivid_and_specific_language__warm-up_.pdf
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Friday, November 17

  • Extra time for those who didn't finish Writing Challenge #2 to get it done
  • Word Twist competition

Thursday, November 16

  • Finish Writing Challenge #2 -- "The Car Crash Incident" (writing with different tones)
            ***Of your five (5) examples, choose your best example of writing with specific tone, type it, and in one paragraph, 
                  explain:  What tone does your writing have, why you chose it, and what makes it your best.  Be specific!

Wednesday, November 15

  • Writing Challenge #2 -- "The Car Crash Incident" (writing with different tones)

Tuesday, November 14

  • Check-in rough drafts
  • Peer review/editing 
  • Revisions   ***Your paper should walk me through (with no understanding of anything but vocabulary) tying my shoe -- assume nothing!!!
  • Type final drafts

Monday, November 13

  • Read article, "Ghastly Games"
  • 3-column notes  ***10 notes per column = 30 total notes

Friday, November 10

  • Read articles, "Cruel Construction" and "Cussin' Cowboys"
  • 3-column notes  ***10 notes per column = 30 total notes

Thursday, November 9

  • Warm-up: proofreader's symbols
  • Debrief Writing Inventory Data
  • Writing Challenge #1 -- writing directions (how to tie a shoe)  *rough draft due on Monday (11/13) at beginning of class

Wednesday, November 8

  • Finish "Let Me Introduce Myself" project  ***due TOMORROW (11/9) at beginning of class

Tuesday, November 7

  • Discuss response questions from yesterday
  • Writing Inventory
  • "Let Me Introduce Myself"  ***due Thursday (11/9) at beginning of class
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Monday, November 6

  • Intro to Class
  • Response Questions  ***all questions can be found in attached PowerPoint (below)
  • Discuss
writer’s_studio_--_1st_day_of_class.pptx
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