IEW U.S. History - Week Three

IEW Week 3

So, how are we surviving Essentials so far? Doing ok?

Did everyone turn in their writing assignments?

Read two poems.

Benjamin Franklin once said that he learned how to write well by taking notes off of other men’s writings. He then would reconstruct the writing from his notes, making improvements upon it, if possible. Ben Franklin was an amazing author and orator, but his writing didn’t come naturally. He had to work at it. He had to learn how to write well.

We are going to learn to write using this same method. We will learn how to write reports using key word outlines, or KWOs. We will write down three key words from each sentence in our source text. This will help us remember the details of the text. Then we will write a report, using those key words to write our own sentences. AND we will add in some quality adjectives and strong verbs (like you’ve been practicing) to make it more interesting. It will make more sense as we get into it.

Turn to p. 20, or to the sheet I gave you. We will write a KWO for you all to learn how this works. Will someone volunteer to read this paragraph?

Now we will re-read it. As we do, we will write three words from each sentence that will help us remember the main ideas of each sentence.

Along with your three words, you can also use symbols. Look on p. 93 from your student resource notebook. Here is a list of common abbreviations. These and numbers are freebies. You can use as many of them as you like, and they don’t count against your three words for each sentence.

(Read through first five sentences again and write KWO on board.)

(Moms: you have sample KWOs on p. 17 of the teacher’s guide.)

Now we will reconstruct those first five sentences. First, cover up the original, so that you can’t see it.

Work together to restate the first five sentences.

Now before you would write your report at home, you will need to figure out some dress ups to include. So, I’m going to help you with that by brainstorming together today. Let’s come up with some adjectives for: The gentlemen/Captain Smith, strong verbs for: came/made, -ly words for any of the verbs. Look at vocab words in back to include some of those.

Demonstrate how to include these in their sentences:

adjective verb vocab.

In 1607, an exhausted group of English gentlemen travelled to the New World, endeavoring to discover riches.

So, this week, rewrite this paragraph in your own words, using a keyword outline, making sure to include your dressups.

(Moms, there isn’t a final checklist in this week’s or next week’s lesson. There is a generic copy on page 95. I have customized it for this lesson. However, whenever there isn’t a checklist, you can use that one.)

Also, there will be a test next week on the first three weeks of vocabulary words. So, study them this week.