Wednesday, April 26 and Thursday, April 27, 2017

Content Objective: I can integrate multimedia to write about real or imagined experiences or events. 
Language Objective: I will write a narrative essay about a mistake I have made and reflect on how it shaped me into who I am today. 

Agenda: 
1. Bell Work: Read your Quarter 4 Book Club Books  for 15 minutes. 

2. Reading Journal: Look back at the opening of your book: 

• What is the moment of action with which your main character is introduced? 
• What is their most distinguishing physical feature? 
• List three details that you learn about this character explicitly and three that you learn implicitly.

3. Writing Prompt: Piano Tree. Write for 10 minutes.

​4. Reflection: How are you the sum of your influences? How are you not? 
Write for 5 minutes. 

5. Think of a mistake you made in your life that you have learned from. What was it? What did you learn? 

6. Copy into your document and cold read Jessane Collins' A Mistake That Should Last a Lifetime.

7. Spend 10 minutes talking to the text. Comment and highlight to create at least two of the following:

• comments
• connections
• questions

Be prepared to share your annotations in your group and with the rest of the class. 

8. Write a rough draft of the mistake you learned from. Aim for 200-300 words for your rough draft. 

Assignments:

• Reading Journal
• Writing Prompt
• Reflection on Influences 
• Mistake brainstorming question
• "A Mistake That Should Last a Lifetime" annotations
• Mistake rough draft