Core 1:
- Go over Choosing the Right word for Unit 8 vocabulary book.
- Write-On: Write a simile/metaphor that compares blogging to an event, action, or idea. (“Blogging is like football, putting out a fire, fishing, etc.”)
- Read Blogging is like Football.
- What is your personal purpose for blogging, for writing your own ideas down every week.
Core 2:
- Write out an analogy question based upon Unit 32 or The Nerd Herd Big Word Books.
- Try to stump the teacher and all other students with your question.
- Explore the relationships between the words of the hardest questions on the smart board.
- Write-On: Write a simile/metaphor that compares blogging to an event, action, or idea. (“Blogging is like football, putting out a fire, fishing, etc.”)
Core 3:
- Look at all student generated essay writing options:
- What makes school meaningful?
- Why do you get up in the morning?
- Should kids have their own room?
- Should there be ZAP?
- Should teachers allow kids with after school programs more time for homework?
- Should I wait for my cousins’ plane or do something to ensure that he gets here?
- Should the school have open campus?
- Should touchdown celebrations be banned?
- Should kids have to be 16 or older to get their license?
- Why was the internet invented?
- Should kids have report cards?
- Should 6th grade be in middle school in all middle schools?
- Should abortion be allowed?
- Should gay marriage be legal?
- Do you think that there should be money?
- Should homework exist?
- Why does TV exist?
- Should books only be printed in black and white?
- What was the person who invented the yo-yo thinking?
- Why do kids need grades?
- Refine thesis statements for chosen topics.
- Write introductory paragraph for essay making sure that it has a start-me-up sentence, packing the bags sentences, and a thesis statement (See mine for an example).
Core 4:
- Write-On: Write a simile/metaphor that compares blogging to an event, action, or idea. (“Blogging is like football, putting out a fire, fishing, etc.”)
- Read Blogging is like Football.
- What is your personal purpose for blogging, for writing your own ideas down every week.
- Work on your weekly authentic because tomorrow you will be doing the vision and hearing testing.
