Name: ______Week of ______

English Language Arts ______: Daily 5

*As always, there are five activities to be completed this week (2 Reading/Viewing, 2 Writing/Representing, 1 Speaking and Listening). All five assignments are due at the beginning of class next Monday.

Task
If you sleep too much, you may miss much of the day. On the other hand, if you sleep too little, you are likely to become tense and cranky. Balance is the key. Writing is like that, too. Of course, to know when you’ve hit that balance point, you need to think like a reader. Readers come to your text looking for ideas and information. Give them too little, and they leave feeling cheated. Overload them with more information than they can handle, and they’re likely to doze off, missing the point you were hoping to make!
In this unit, you will practice achieving balance in your writing, so that your readers will get the most out of your message. You will learn these key ideas:
  1. Asking questions to narrow a topic.
  2. Using a pre-writing strategy to collect ideas.
  3. Adding details to write clear, informative text.
  4. Cutting filler.
/ Day(s) / Formative (R,Y,G) / Summative
Mark
A)Work on Reading (WR):
  1. Read the attached Ideas Samples titled, If I Were Stranded and Energy, a Problem.
  2. Use the rubric to give it a mark out of 6.
  3. Identify 3 key strategies to developing good ideas based on ideas writing samples and the rubric.
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B)
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B)Work on Writing (WW):
  1. Read lesson 2, Setting the T-Table.
  2. Complete the T-Table after reading Sharing and Example: Men of Stone.
  3. Continue on to A Non-fiction Example: Undaunted Courage and complete the T-Table.

C)Writer’s Notebook (WN):
1. Read lesson 3, “No Doubt About It.” Complete the chart under Stand-Alone Writing.
2. Continue with the lesson and complete “Break It Down” and “Leave No Doubt in Your Readers’ Minds!”
3. Take the foggy piece of writing from before to after and re-write on loose-leaf to make it more focused, strong, and able to stand alone.
D)Read to Self (RS):
  1. Read lesson 4, Just Right, and complete chart after reading Artemis Fowl.

E)Speaking and Listening (SL):
  1. Look and complete the example given under, “What If.”
  2. Read “Crossing out Filler: A War Zone.” Use a pen or pencil to cross out information that is just taking up space. When you spot it, draw a line through it and cut out the filler from the paragraph.
  3. Meet with a partner and share your revised versions. Did you cross out the same parts? Discuss why you decided to remove the lines you did, especially if there are any differences of opinion.
  4. Answer “A Writer’s Question.”

Look back through the work you completed this week and the list of theEnglish Language Arts curriculum outcomes posted on the wall…

What are 2 outcomes that were covered this week?

#______and #______.

Extension Activities: If you finish all of your work before the end of the week, you can:

a)Peer edit with a classmate.

b)Continue reading your independent novel.

c)Write in your writer’s notebook.

*Days absent this week: ______

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