Rubrics
Rubric for Readers Notebook-Close and Critical Reading Critical Reading Rubric.doc
Rubric for Readers Notebook (See sample in notebook)
Rubric for Personal Narrative Personal Narrative Writing Rubric.xls or NarrativeRubric.pdf
Comparison/Contrast Essay Rubric compcon_rubric.pdf
Literary Analysis Rubric (See sample in notebook)
Advertisement (See sample in notebook)
Comprehension_Bookmarks_6-7-8[1].pdf
Reading Comprehension Bookmarks
Journal Entries
Informational Text
Compare how the human emotions exhibited by characters in the three short stories are also used to market products; use a Venn diagram or comparison matrix. http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/venn.pdf
Reflect on your analysis of teen ads. What is your personal opinion of teen advertising?
Teen Advertisements
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=Teen+advertisements&btnG=Search+Images
Content Area Reading
Selections from 9th grade
English language arts, science, social studies, and mathematics textbooks
Cornell Notes
. Cornell Notes
Tools/Note Taking for Analyzing Text
http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
http://www.englishcompanion.com/Tools/notemaking.html
Textbook
Jim Burkes Illuminating
Text Chapter 3
How to Read a Textbook
http://www.englishcompanion.com/room82/readtextbooks.html
How to Read a Textbook Chapter
http://www.dvc.edu/english/Learning_Resources/how_to_read_textbook_chapter.htm
How to Read a Textbook Page
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/toolannotatedtextbook.pdf
Textbook Evaluation
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/tooltextbookeval.pdf
Textbook Feature Analysis
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/textbookanalysis.pdf
Paraphrase-Write it in Your Own Words
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/01/
Writing a Summary
"Summarize and Paraphrase," Ch. 84, p. 262-266
Reading Reminders
Jim Burke
"Summarize," Lesson 22
50 Essential Lessons
Jim Burke
Summary Notes
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/summarynotesbl.pdf
"Seven Steps to Writing a Summary"
http://cwl.oregonstate.edu/h-sum.html`
Writing to Learn
· Create a class generated rubric for journal entries, quick writes, graphic organizers, annotations, note taking.
· Use writing to clarify thinking before, during and after reading (journals, notes, annotations, letters, literary analysis, summaries)
Blog http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial037print.shtml
Six Word Stories/Memoirs
Develop a six word memoir of your life so far and post it in your Writers Notebook
· We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
James Patrick Kelly
· Epitaph: He shouldnt have fed it. Richard K. Morgan
· Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket. William Shatner
· We went solar; sun went nova. Ken MacLeod
· Automobile warranty expires. So does engine. Stan Lee
· Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
Steven Meretzky
· TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! nobody there …
Harry Harrison
· Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back. David Brin
· He read his obituary with confusion. Steven Meretzky
· Three to Iraq. One came back. Graeme Gibson
"Six Word Stories Can Say Lots" Daniel Pink
http://www.danpink.com/archives/2008/05/six-word-stories-can-say-lots
Vocabulary Squares
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/vocabsquares.pdf
Double Entry Journal
http://www.turningpts.org/pdf/Double_Entry_Journal.doc
Background information on "Very Short Story" authors