Shhhh….
It’s SILENT
reading time! The
best 10 minutes of
the day.
Get out your:
•Silent Reading Books
•Writing Comp book
Homework
 Read 20 minutes Monday-Thursday and get signature
 Monday after reading:
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Find 4 lines of dialogue in your choice book and copy it down. If your
author doesn’t use dialogue, find it in a different book.
 Tues-Wed as you’re reading :
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Take notice all week as you read (or look at other sources) and study
what rules the author(s) followed in regards to punctuation and
format.
 Thursday after reading :
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After you read tonight and you’ve spent time looking at dialogue all
week, make a list of what you think the rules are for punctuating
dialogue and formatting dialogue.
Make this chart in your
WRITING COMP BK—RESPONSE SECTION
Date
TITLE
Page #s
12/12
12/13
12/14
12/15
Copy 4 or more lines of dialogue:
Make a list of punctuation and formatting rules:
Total Time
Read
Adult
Signature
In your WRITING COMP BOOK--LESSON Section….
 Go to the first available page and use the following
heading…
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Date
Bedroom Anecdote
Rough Draft
Write an ANECDOTE
(In your LESSON section)
 Write for 4-5 minutes describing a memory from
your bedroom. Put yourself in this anecdote
(meaning use FIRST PERSON narrator----I
pronoun). PLEASE DOUBLE SPACE!!
Example: (just a start…)
I was sitting in a chair in my bedroom looking
around I remembered the time when…….
WRITING WITH
ELABORATION
HOW DO WE USE AN ELABORATED
ANECDOTE
IN OUR WRITING?
In your WRITING COMP BOOK--LESSON Section….
 Go to the first available page and use the following
heading…
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Anecdote Notes
Date
Do YOU have STDs?
Snapshot
Thoughtshots
Dialogue
Take a look at the STD handout
Snapshot
 Remember…we worked on snapshots with
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our nature write/field trip
In Steinbeck’s writing
In our choice books
 Let’s read the definition
 Let’s read the example
 Underline the snapshot details in the example
 In the LESSON section of your writing comp books answer the
question:
In your own words write the definition of SNAPSHOT details
and explain why writers use them?
Now it’s your turn…
Write a snapshot for the picture
in the space provided on the
back side of your handout.
Take a look at the STD handout
Thoughtshots
 Let’s read the definition
 Let’s read the example
 Underline the thoughtshot details in the example
 In the LESSON section of your writing comp
books answer the question:
In your own words write the definition of THOUGHTSHOT
details and explain why writers use them?
Now it’s your turn…
Write a thoughtshot for the
picture in the space provided on
the back side of your handout.
Take a look at the STD handout
Dialogue
 You already know something about dialogue…Steinbeck uses
a great deal of dialogue in Of Mice and Men.
 Let’s read the definition
 Let’s read the example
 Circle the dialogue in the example
 In the LESSON section of your writing comp books
answer the question:
In your own words write the definition of DIALOGUE and
explain why writers use it ?
Now it’s your turn…
Write dialogue for the picture in
the space provided on the back
side of your handout.
Model Paragraph
 Let’s look at how Steinbeck wrote the bunk house
scene….did he have STDs? (see handout)
Read the text and….
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Label any snapshot details (imagery) with a
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Label any thoughtshot details with a
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Label any dialogue with a
S in the margin
T in the margin
D in the margin
It’s time to REVISE your bedroom anecdote…
 This is practice before you do your Elaboration-STD
assessment on your own…so ask questions along the
way
Revision Step 1: Snapshot Details
 Reread your bedroom anecdote
 If you have any snapshot details (imagery)…..label
them
 Do you have at least one snapshot detail for each of
the five senses? If not, NOW YOU KNOW WHAT
YOU NEED TO ADD TO YOUR PARAGRAPH TO
CREATE A SNAPSHOT.
Revision Step 1: Snapshot Details
 Add SNAPSHOT details in your bedroom
anecdote using imagery (all five senses). Be sure you
have at least one snapshot detail for each of the five
senses.
(You may add them in the margins with arrows
and/or write them in-between lines).
Revision Step 2: Thoughshot Details
 Reread your anecdote
 If you have any thoughtshot details …label them
 DO YOU HAVE AT LEAST THREE THOUGHTSHOTS? IF
NOT, NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO ADD TO YOUR
PARAGRAPH TO LET YOUR READER IN ON YOUR
THOUGHTS.
Revision Step 2: Thoughtshot Details
 Add THOUGHTSHOT details in your bedroom
anecdote. Be sure to include at least three
thoughtshots for you, or another person, in the
anecdote.
(You may add them in the margins with arrows
and/or write them in-between lines).
Revision Step 3: Dialogue
 Reread your bedroom anecdote
 If you have any Dialogue…label it
 DO YOU HAVE AT LEAST THREE LINES OF DIALOGUE? IF
NOT, NOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO ADD TO YOUR
PARAGRAPH TO LET YOUR READER HEAR YOUR VOICE.
Revision Step 3: Dialogue
 Add DIALOGUE in your bedroom anecdote. Be
sure to include at least three lines of dialogue.
(You may add them in the margins with arrows
and/or write them in-between lines).
Final Draft of Anecdote
 Put a heading on the next available page in your
writing comp book---LESSON section
Date
 Bedroom Anecdote Final
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Rewrite your Final Draft of Your Anecdote
 Using your additions of STDs, rewrite your anecdote
into your comp book
 We will be using each other’s final draft as learning
models by
Peer Scoring
 Using some of them on doc camera
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Do these student examples of the bedroom
anecdote have STDs?
 Let’s look at the rubric first (pass it out)
 Now let’s look at a few student examples of the final
draft
Peer Score
 Now it’s time to have our peers help us and give us
feedback.
 This step is important. It will help us prepare for the
assessment.
Assessment
 Show a model essay
 Show a model anecdote
 The assessment IS NOT writing an entire essay with
an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion.
You’re ONLY writing one body paragraph.
Anecdote w/STDs
Assessment Prompt
We can all relate to the character Lennie, in
the book Of Mice and Men. Write an
anecdote (approx. 1 page) about a memory
when you’ve been like Lennie.
(Choose one or think of your own way you’ve
had a time like Lennie: confused, hopeful,
scared, overjoyed, rejected, dependent)
**After you’re done label your STDs by
circling/highlighting and drawing a line out
to the margin..labeling S or T or D.