IEW - U.S. History - Week Twenty-one

IEW – Week Twenty-One

Put away your white boards and get out a pen or pencil. It is time for a vocab quiz. 10 minutes/grade.

Now pull out U.S. History Student book and SRN. Turn to page 13 in your SRN and page 170 in your U.S. History book.

Last week you wrote a report using information already stored in your brain. This week will be similar in t hat sense. However, this week you’ll be writing a story. Instead of a prompt statement, you’ll be writing from pictures.

Notice that this model outlines a three paragraph composition. Looking at page 170, you’ll notice three pictures. This means that each paragraph will describe one of the pictures.

Level A students, this will be a three-week assignment for you. I want you to put a lot of effort into making this your best paper yet. You will write one paragraph each week.

Level B students, this is a one-week assignment for you. Again, this should still be challenging, but I think it’s important to practice writing these longer papers in one week.

1. Let’s look at the picture at the top of page 170. On the top line of the blank outline, you write a topic sentence that tells what you see in the picture, the central theme. This sentence should be written in the past tense. Let’s come up with some examples of what the topic sentence may be here. (remember past tense) ex. Pa was ready to head for Oregon and the rest of the family was climbing aboard the wagon.-on board

2. Now, we’ll need to fill in some details. – on board- You can refer to page 13 of the SRN for ideas.

(use teacher’s book p. 81)

You will also need to fill in some background information in this first paragraph. What happened before this picture? What led up to this picture? When including background information, make sure that you use “had” to form the perfect past tense. This indicates that it happened before the events that are already in the past tense.

3. You’ll end the paragraph with a return to the central theme of the picture. This will be your clincher. You could say something like: Pa was ready. –on board

4. Level B students, you’ll be continuing to outline the other two pictures and writing your second two paragraphs. If you need help with outlining, your mom can give you ideas from the teacher’s guide.

5. Finally, after writing your outline, you’ll write your rough draft. You will be using the checklist on page 171. Level A students, you’ll be working on the first paragraph this week. This should be a fairly simple paragraph to write, so I want you to spend extra time working on the openers and dress-ups.

(If time)

Turn to page 177 and read “The Assignment” #3. Turn to SRN page 48 and do Personification worksheet.

You may want to add personification to your papers. If so, work through page 178 with your moms or dads for ideas.

Please read page 152 before next week’s class. It will help save time when we brainstorm together.