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title: "11.06.06"
date: 2006-11-06
url: https://learningischange.com/2006/11/06/110606/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Lesson Plans", "Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# 11.06.06

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.](//coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/11/blogging-is-like-football-what.html)
- 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](//yongesonne.edublogs.org/2006/11/06/should-students-have-grades/)).

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.](//coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2006/11/blogging-is-like-football-what.html)
- 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.