Tuesday 05/29 Writing - Poetry Collection Celebration

Purpose: I can read, enjoy, analyze, and discuss my peers' poetry.

1. Read your classmates' Poetry Collections: WE WILL START WITH PARTNER #1 AND WORK THROUGH THEM IN ORDER, ONE BY ONE.
2. Analyze their use of different poetry styles and concepts:
• I like your use of ______ in...
• The way you _____ reminds me of...
• I think you could add more _____ in...
• Your _____ poem made me feel...
• Maybe you could try...
• I like the part of ____ where...
• I was wondering...
• _____ stuck with me because...
3. Share and discuss with your partner: CELEBRATE AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK

Tuesday 05/29 Leadership - Advice For a 2nd Grader

As nearly-done 5th graders, you each have important knowledge--and it must be passed on!

As a leader, write a letter to a 2nd grader in Mrs. Rohlf's classroom:

• Give positive advice and guidance to help a younger student succeed in elementary school.
• Detail the upcoming activities (both in the classroom and out) they will participate in.
• Be sure to thank them for being our buddy, especially the May Day baskets.
• Use your best writing skills, your letter should be around 1/2 a page long.

Have your letter ready to deliver at 10:00.

Tuesday 05/29 Morning Warm-Up

***Upcoming Events***

Summer Book Giveaway then
Game Time with Buddy Class TODAY @ 10:00

1. Review your place in our 5th Grade Celebration Arrangement:
• Practice from 8:05 - 8:30
• Dress Rehearsal for 2nd Graders
2. FINISH your end-of-year projects
• BioPoem: Geda
• Self Portrait: Emily
• Selfie Slide: Allen and Geda
3. Search for an inspirational quote to help a younger student then free read or write quietly

***Be on the look-out for classroom books & materials you may have stashed away***

Friday 05/25 Writing - Publish Poetry

Purpose: I can edit, revise, improve, and publish my poetry to show different styles and concepts.

1. Connection: What do you have left to do to finish publishing your poetry collection?
2. Application: Be sure to have atleast one poem that represents each concept/tool.
• Metaphor and/or Simile 
• Personification 
• Alliteration and/or Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 
• Concrete/Shape
• Acrostic 
• Haiku 
• Ode
• BioPoem
• CHALLENGE! Limerick: How-To and Examples
3. Create your front cover, back cover, and illustrate your poems.

Thursday 05/24 Writing - Finish Publishing Poetry

Purpose: I can edit, revise, improve, and publish my poetry to show different styles and concepts.

1. Connection: Poets and authors often imitate others as they develop their own skills; how can you borrow metaphors as you create your own poems?
2. Application: Publish your poetry into a collection that includes a variety of styles and concepts.  Be sure to have atleast one poem that represents each concept/tool.
• Metaphor and/or Simile 
• Personification 
• Alliteration and/or Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 
• Concrete/Shape
• Acrostic 
• Haiku 
• Ode
• BioPoem
• CHALLENGE! Limerick: How-To and Examples
3. Create your front cover, back cover, and illustrate your poems.

Tuesday 05/22 Writing - Publish Poetry

Purpose: I can edit, revise, improve, and publish my poetry to show different styles and concepts.

1. Connection: Visual Elements of Poetry
2. Application: Publish your poetry into a collection that includes a variety of styles and concepts.  Be sure to have atleast one poem that represents each concept/tool.
• Metaphor and/or Simile 
• Personification 
• Alliteration and/or Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 
• Concrete/Shape
• Acrostic 
• Haiku 
• Ode
• BioPoem
• CHALLENGE! Limerick: How-To and Examples
3. Create your front cover, back cover, and illustrate your poems.

Monday 05/21 Writing - Publish Poetry

Purpose: I can edit, revise, improve, and publish my poetry to show different styles and concepts.

1. Connection: What Makes a Poem a Poem?
2. Application: Publish your poetry into a collection that includes a variety of styles and concepts.  Be sure to have atleast one poem that represents each concept/tool.
• Metaphor and/or Simile 
• Personification 
• Alliteration and/or Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 
• Concrete/Shape
• Acrostic 
• Haiku 
• Ode
• BioPoem
• CHALLENGE: Limerick! How-To and Examples
3. Create your front cover, back cover, and illustrate your poems.

Friday 05/18 Writing - Poetry Publishing

Purpose: I can edit, revise, improve, and publish my poetry to show different styles and concepts.

1. Connection: Review Literary Concepts and Poetry Tools
2. Application: Publish your poetry into a collection that includes a variety of styles and concepts.  Be sure to have atleast one poem that represents each concept/tool.
• Metaphor and/or Simile 
• Personification 
• Alliteration and/or Onomatopoeia 
• Repetition 
• Shape/Stanzas 
• Acrostic 
• Haiku 
• Ode

Thursday 05/17 Writing - Odes

Purpose: I can write poetry that celebrates ordinary things as quite extraordinary.

1. Connection: The BEST gift
2. Teaching Point: Today I want to teach you that an ode is a type of poem that celebrates something ordinary as quite extraordinary.
• Mr. Erickson's Ode to the Cyclones
• An Ode to Blueberries
• An Ode to Stinky Breath
3. Engagement: Use this procedure when working on your odes
1. Pick an ordinary place or thing.
2. Give your subject praise or thanks. (Oh, _____________!)
3. Speak directly to the object.
4. Use adjectives to describe it.
5. Use verbs to bring that object to life. (Personification)
6. Use repeated lines.
4. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Write haiku following the traditional structure
• Write acrostic poems about people, places, things, and ideas you know well (Acrostic Poem Interactive)
• Write poems about things that move or make noise.
• Continue using structure to communicate your content.
• Continue using sensory words to describe weather.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for times of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Friday 05/11 Writing - Haiku

Purpose: I can write haiku about people, places, things, and ideas.

1. Connection: Haiku Interactive
2. Teaching Point: Today I want to teach you that Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry.  Traditional haiku are about nature--but can be about any topic--and have a very specific syllable structure.  The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the last line has 5 syllables.
3. Engagement: Write haiku following the traditional structure
4. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Write acrostic poems about people, places, things, and ideas you know well (Acrostic Poem Interactive)
• Write poems about things that move or make noise.
• Continue using structure to communicate your content.
• Continue using sensory words to describe weather.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for times of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Thursday 05/10 Writing - Acrostic Poems

Purpose: I can write acrostic poems about people, places, things, and ideas.

1. Connection: How do these poetry structures connect?
2. Teaching Point: Today I want to teach you that acrostic poems use letters to shape their stanzas and help us understand the subject and use sensory details to help their audience see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what's happening.
3. Engagement:  YOUR Acrostic Poem
4. Link: Independent Writing Time:
• Write acrostic poems about people, places, things, and ideas you know well (Acrostic Poem Interactive)
• Write poems about things that move or make noise.
• Continue using structure to communicate your content.
• Continue using sensory words to describe weather.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for times of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Tuesday 05/08 Writing - Repetition

Purpose: I can use repetition in my poems to help the reader imagine something.

1. Connection: Poetry Tools
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you that poets shape their stanzas and use repetition to help the audience understand the subject while using sensory details to help their audience see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what's happening.
3. Engagement: "windshield wiper"
4. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Write poems about things that move or make noise.
• Continue using structure to communicate your content.
• Continue using sensory words to describe weather.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for times of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Monday 05/07 Writing - Shape Poems to Help Readers Visualize Topic

Purpose: I can shape my poems so the structure communicates the content.

1. Word Work: Vocabulary Surge Lesson 11 Day 1
2. Connection:  fireworks
3. Teaching:  Today I want to teach you that concrete poetry—sometimes also called ‘shape poetry’—is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem. The words form shapes which illustrate the poem’s subject as a picture, as well as through their literal meaning: structure = content
4. Engagement: "flamingo" and "crickets"
5. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Write concrete/shape poems about ordinary things so that your structure communicates your content.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for times of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Friday 05/04 Writing - Stanzas to Structure Poems

Purpose: I can structure my poems using poetry tools to help my writing look like poetry.

1. Connection: Poetry Tools
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you how to use stanzas, line breaks, repetition, and shape to structure my poetry.  Poems should not only sound like poetry, but look like poetry, too!
3. Engagement: "fireworks"
4. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Use sensory words to describe weather.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for months of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Thursday 05/03 Writing - Weather Onomatopoeia

Purpose: I can use onomatopoeia as I write about weather.

1. Connection: Onomatopoeia
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you how poets use onomatopoeia to help an audience hear (and feel) what they are writing about.
3. Engagement: "Child Frightened by a Thunderstorm"
4. Application: If you were going to write a poem like "Child Frightened by a Thunderstorm," only about another kind of weather, what kind of weather might you write about?
5. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Use sensory words to describe weather.
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for months/times of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Tuesday 05/01 Writing - Using Sensory Details and Images to Personify an Object

Purpose: I can use sensory details and images to personify an object.

1. Connection: Sensory Details
2. Teaching: Poets use sensory details to help their audience see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what's happening.  You can personify, and bring to life, an object by writing about an object from its perspective.
3. Engagement: "umbrella" and "safety pin"
4. Link: Independent Writing Time:
• Continue personifying objects.
• Continue to write words and images for months of the year.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topic.

Monday 04/30 Writing - Using Sensory Details and Images to Describe a Month

Purpose: I can use sensory details and images to describe a month.

1. Connection:  "September" ReadWorksDigital Article
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you that poets use sensory details to help their audience see, hear, smell, taste, and feel what's happening.  This can be done as you write about concrete or abstract things.
3. Engagement: "September"
4. Link: Independent Writing Time
• Add to the list you started in the quick-write.
• Write words and images for a different month.
• Use sensory details to describe any other topics.

Friday 04/27 Writing - Argument Writing Celebration

Purpose: I can share my argument writing and reflect on my knowledge of argument.

1. Connection:   Remember, that as research-based argument writers, you have made remarkable strides.  But you aren't done growing!  By sharing your writing and reflecting on your knowledge of argument, you will be able to maintain an attitude of continuous striving and empowerment.  YOU can make the world a better place through your writing.
2. Engagement:  Argument Essay Celebration
• Share your argument writing with your group as if you were giving a speech: make eye contact, emphasize your points, and engage your audience.
• As an audience member, respectfully evaluate each of your peer's research-based argument essay.
3. Application:  Argument Flash Draft

Thursday 04/26 Writing - Argument Essay Celebrations

Purpose: I can share my argument writing and reflect on my knowledge of argument.

1. Connection:  The Great Debaters Final Debate
2. Teaching:   Today I want to teach you that as research-based argument writers, you have made remarkable strides.  But you aren't done growing!  By sharing your writing and reflecting on your knowledge of argument, you will be able to maintain an attitude of continuous striving and empowerment.  YOU can make the world a better place through your writing.
3. Engagement:  Argument Essay Celebration
• Finish your argument essay OR practice reading your writing aloud using Vocaroo
• Share your argument writing with your group as if you were giving a speech: make eye contact, emphasize your points, and engage your audience.
• As an audience member, respectfully evaluate each of your peer's research-based argument essay.

Tuesday 04/24 Writing - Writers Add Detailed Explanations to Defend Their Position

Purpose: As an argument writer, I can add detailed explanations to defend my position.

1. Connection:  Altering Language and Tone
2. Teaching:   Today I want to teach you that writers sometimes have to reconsider a part of their argument where a generalized, blanket statement was made.  Developing a detailed explanation to sharpen their position and explain their thinking is a way increase the validity of the argument.
3. Engagement:  Writers Add Detailed Explanations to Defend Their Position
4. Next Steps: Finish reworking your argument draft.
• Increase the validity of your argument by altering your language and tone OR by adding detailed explanations.
• Add powerful quotes to strengthen your argument.
• Gather and rewrite evidence in your own words.
• Explicitly connect your reasons to your evidence: don't make your readers infer!
• Continually ask yourself, "What are you trying to teach/show/make your reader believe?"