Date

Activities

March 31/April 1

Stem 10 Assigned

      Activity: design a game to study 10 stems with a partner.

Nonfiction notes

Reading: "Terri Tobin" excerpt from Women at Ground Zero and skunk excerpt from Gary Paulsen's Winterdance.

Fill in reading log.

April 2/3

Personal Narrative Assigned

Writing Territory Prompts

Reading Selections

Fill in reading log
Outline due next class period

April 4/7

Stem 10 Activity

Nonfiction Reading Selections

Examples of narratives in need of improvement.

Rough Draft Work for Personal Narrative

Homework: Rough Draft of Personal Narrative.  Reading Log Due

April 8/9

Punctuation: Colon and semicolon worksheets. 

Editing of Personal Narrative

Homework: Second draft of personal narrative; stem test.

April 10/11

Stem Test 10

Writer's workshop for narratives

Homework: Final draft of narratives

April 14/15

Narratives due.

Stem list 11 assigned.

Shakespeare Notes and Lecture.