6-12+writing

NOTE: All **Writing rubrics** and **genre documents** are located in the **'Common' folder** in your server, __as well as on this wiki home page__ at the bottom__.__ To __access__ your 'Common' folders, use the following __steps__:
 * ===‍My Computer ===
 * click on Vol. 1 on "MS gen-0l" or "HS gen-01"
 * click "Teachers" folder"
 * click on "Common" folder
 * click the "English" folder
 * click either "HS" or "MS"
 * click 'Writing' folder

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Agenda and Intent for May 21, 2012

 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">WITD (Writing Into the Day) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing Workshop and Assessed Writing discussion on wikispace **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Scoring Clinic with 3 previously assessed papers **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Results of Spring Assessment **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Time to Record Scores **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">discuss changes/successes/areas to revisit with vigor **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">reflection and goals **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ideas for Parents/ Summer **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Summer Literacy Ideas **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parent and After School Ideas for all ages **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Evaluation **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Agenda and Intent for March 19, 2012

 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">WITD (Writing Into the Day) Who? What? Where? **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writer's Workshop **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">revisit **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">show-and-tell **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">going digital **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Parent Guide to Common Core State Standards **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Narrative and the Digital Story **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Because Digital Writing Matters **
 * **The Digital Writing Workshop**
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tips for Using Movie Maker at readwritethink.org **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Intro to Digital Writing **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">****Evaluation****
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Remember to assign district-wide prompt and score papers, bringing with you a few sample papers to cross-check scoring as a group to our May 21st meeting. More to follow on the specific prompt for MS/HS.**

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Agenda and Intent for January 12, 2012 **
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 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">WITD (Writing Into the Day) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Revisit November work **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">begin or add to grade level page a synopsis of what you do with mentor texts and informational writing **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">add list of mentor texts you currently use on the page below **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">BREAK **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing to Inform and Make Arguments video **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Common Core Exploration **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">argument **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">informational/explanatory writing **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">narrative writing **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Using Appendices to Understand and Guide Planning **
 * Common Core State Standards
 * Common Core Appendix A Glossary of Terms
 * Common Core Appendix B Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks
 * Common Core Appendix C Student Samples with Commentary
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Article of the Week (demo) **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How to produce an [[file:annotated bibliography.doc]] **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Works Cited page examples for [[file:Citations Page 2012.doc]] **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Work time **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">ReadWriteThink **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Northern Nevada Writing Project WritingFIX**
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Evaluation ===

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Agenda and Intent for November 9, 2011 **
<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Mentor texts:Using and Finding**
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">WITD ( **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing Into the Day)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing Workshop and Assessed Writing **discussion**
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Scoring Clinic **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> with 3 previously assessed papers
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Results of Fall Assessment **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">CCSS **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">and **Informational Writing**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cross Walk document
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Our rubrics
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Creating a __lesson plan__ using **CCSS and mentor texts** to teach informational writing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Linking to wiki (see TechTips from CRWP SI)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Examples** from Northern Nevada Writing Project
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**ReadWriteThink lesson** in Finding History in Historical Fiction
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Non-fiction Mentor Texts: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children's Literature, K-8
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">List of non-fiction mentor texts for __teaching informational reading__ and writing from __google__ search
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Worth a Thousand Words: An Annotated Guide to Picture Books for Older Readers
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Just a Slice of Mentor Text for Historical Fiction
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writer's Workshop and Mentor Text at Busyteacherscafe.com
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teacher 2 Teacher Website for Writer's Workshop and Mentor Text
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">List of Mentor Text - //The Book Whisperer// by Donalyn Miller - Appendix B pgs.194-200
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Exploration **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Log of Christopher Columbus by Christopher Columbus
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Colonization **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Revolutionary War **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Civil War **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Civil Rights **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Maritcha: A Nineteenth Century American Girl by Tonya Bolden
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">World Wars **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Presidents **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Geography **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mathematics **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">G is for Googol by David M. Schwartz
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Scientists **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Science **
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Art **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Adventures in Cartooning by James Sturm, et al
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Artists **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Music**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Reading**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Whole Story series
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Call of the Wild by Jack London
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Tom Sawyer
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Genres
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Myth
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Lightning Thief// by Rick Riordan
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Memoir
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Science fiction
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Fantasy
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Writing**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Graphic Novels**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Romeo and Juliet
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Evaluation ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Agenda and Intent for August 31, 2011

 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|WITD](Writing Into the Day)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Plan for 2011-12
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">CRWP and[| Summer Institute]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">navigating OUR wiki!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">review of past documents (see home page)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Common Core State Standards [|Cross-Walk documents]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">BREAK
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Implementing Writing Workshop
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">turn and talk--what you already do
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">guidelines [[file:set up for writier's workshop.odt]]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">text suggestions
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Launching the Writing Workshop] by Denise Leograndis
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Write Beside Them]by Penny Kittle
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Launching the Writing Workshop]by Lucy Calkins
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">post your plan for this year (Day 1? Week 1?) on your page (above)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mini-lesson
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Details and Description.pdf]- Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street by Roni Schotter
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mentor texts
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Non-Fiction Mentor Texts]by Lynne R. Dorfman & Rose Cappelli
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits MS] by Ruth Culham, James Blasingame, and Raymond Coutu
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|WritingFix Mentor Text Lessons Northern Nevada Writing Project]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Write!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">post mentor texts currently used in your classroom, as well as its purpose, on your page (above).
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