GO BISON!!!!
Kris Gore Lesson
Plans
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8th English Sept.2-5
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No School—Labor Day.
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Take their Dr. Seuss Rhyme Tyme poems and copy them on
their kid blogs.
Do a 3-2-1 over a Flikr video off of Apple TV. Hand-in for grade.
Pass out Vocab wksheets from workbook. Explain how to do. Less. #1 due Friday.
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List different animals from the rain forest (nouns as
stuff) and then list creative action verbs ( what stuff does). Then develop a paragraph from one of the
rain forest animals. (We do)
Next have students come up with 2 nouns from their world
and create action verbs, then develop a paragraph over one.
Challenge students to find active verbs.Nancy Lilly, co-director of
the Greater New
Orleans Writing Project, wanted her fourth and fifth grade
students to breathe life into their nonfiction writing. She thought the
student who wrote this paragraph could do better:
The jaguar is the biggest and strongest cat in the
rainforest. The jaguar's jaw is strong enough to crush a turtle's shell.
Jaguars also have very powerful legs for leaping from branch to branch to
chase prey.
In a brainstorming session related to the students'
study of the rain forest, the class supplied the following assistance to the
writer:
Stuff/Nouns : What Stuff Does/Verbs
jaguar : leaps, pounces jaguar's : legs pump jaguar's : teeth crush jaguar's : mouth devours
This was just the help the writer needed to create the following revised
paragraph:
As the sundisappears from the heart of the forest, the
jaguar leaps through the underbrush, pumping its powerful legs. It spies a
gharial gliding down the river. The jungle cat pounces, crushing the turtle
with his teeth, devouring the reptile with pleasure.
Students para due Thurs.
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Read aloud some of the paragraphs.
Teach interesting words and
use them in a different way.Encourage descriptive writing by focusing on the
sounds of words.
Begin to train their ears by asking them to make lists
of wonderful sounding words. This is strictly a listening game. Students shouldn't write lunch just
because they're hungry. When the collective
list is assembled, asks students to make sentences from some of the words
they've collected. They may use their own words, borrow from other
contributors, add other words as necessary, and change word forms.
Among the words on one student's list: tumble,
detergent, sift, bubble, syllable, creep, erupt, and volcano. The student
writes:
A man loads his laundry into the tumbling washer, the
detergent sifting through the bubbling water.
The syllables creep through her teeth.
The fog erupts like a volcano in the dust.
Unexpected words can go together, creating amazing
images.
Have students write 5 sentences with unexpected, wonderful
sounding words.
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Grade Vocab wb. Less. #1
Give them a quiz over the words. Make them write a paragraph using 5-10 list
words.
3-2-1 over magazine article.
Due Monday.
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