Week at a glance Nov 1 - 5, 2010

Curriculum focus: determines meaning of words through knowledge of word structure (11.1.3.K3), generating writing based on personal experience (11.7.1.1), organizing and planning a written piece (11.7.1.3), shares a draft with others to elicit feedback (11.7.1.5), revises the draft (11.7.1.6), edits the draft (11.7.1.7), composes persuasive writing (11.7.2.1c), adapts writing by identifying, analyzing, and understanding audience (11.7.2.2), writes using one or more text structures when appropriate to a achieve a specific purpose or to address a specific audience: problem/solution (11.7.2.4d), develops clear and purposeful ideas with sufficient evidence and/or relevant detail to satisfy purpose using sufficient evidence, examples, anecdotes, quotations, expert opinions, and/or statistics (11.7.2.1d), organizes ideas in a logical structure (11.7.3.2), writes with energy and enthusiasm (11.7.3.3), selects and employs words to convey message in an interesting, precise, and natural way (11.7.3.4), creates text that flows easily with a variety of sentence structures (11.7.3.5), uses standard writing conventions effectively to enhance readability (11.7.3.6)

Root words for this week (root - definition - examples):

1. anthrop - people,human - anthropology, philanthropist, misanthrope
   
2. ego - I or self - egotistical, egomaniac, egotheistic
   
3. humus - of the earth - human, humble, exhume
   
4. mater/matr - mother - maternal, matron, matriarch
   
5. pater/patr - father - paternal, patron, patriot
   
6. vir - man or manly - virtue, virile, triumvirate
   

We will spend the entire week this week working on creating the Problem/Solution Research Essay. Each day will require students to move along a new step of the writing process. Students will have plenty of time to complete each step. As long as students are using their time in class wisely, students should not have any homework and should have a completed rough draft of their essay by the end of the week.

• Mon: New root words. Problem/Solution Research Essay: pass back Annotated Bibliography. Begin working on Informal Outline.
  
• Tues: Problem/Solution Research Essay: Informal Outline due by the end of the hour.
  
• Wed: Problem/Solution Research Essay: Citing sources in the essay. Practice citations. Create the first paragraph of the essay.
  
• Thurs: Problem/Solution Research Essay: Rough draft checklist. Write the rough draft.
  
• Fri: Root Words quiz. Problem/Solution Research Essay: handwritten rough draft due by the end of the hour.