Name:________________________

Homework: Week of September 19, 2016

All work is due the next day, unless otherwise noted. Questions? Ask a friend, or
teacher! Email your teachers at hboucher@ps139.org or kwok@ps139.org
Mon
9/19
Teacher
News

Please return all

forms, blue
cards, and
parent HW!

Math

Finish Work
Book Daily
Practice pg. 32
and homework
pg. 33

Reading
All work

Writing

Tues
9/20

Wed
9/21

Thur
9/22

Fri
9/23

Curriculum night!
Please join us
between 4:30 and
7:30pm in room
5-312 to learn all
about this year!

Students: carefully
select a classroom
job, applications
due Monday 9/26

Finish Work Book

Daily Practice pg.
37 and homework
pg. 38

Finish Work Book

Daily Practice pg.
39 and 40

Finish Work Book

Daily Practice pg.
47 and homework
pg. 48

Finish Work Book

Daily Practice pg.
51 and homework
pg. 52

READ
for 30 min
Record in reading
log

READ
for 30 min
Record in reading
log

READ
for 30 min
Record in reading
log

READ
for 30 min
Record in reading
log

Reflect on your
reading log...am
I reading
enough? What
books do I like?

2-3 jots in your

notebook, read
your book with an
idea in mind...how
does this idea fit
with your book,
characters, series?

2-3 jots in your

notebook

2-3 jots in your

notebook

2-3 jots in your

notebook

Practice using
Turning Point
Ideas, Important
places, collect
small moment
stories, and
strong feelings
to keep
gathering seed
ideas for your
narrative
writing.

Think about your

favorite
author...what
about their
writing do you
admire? Try out
some of that
authors writing
craft in your own
narrative entry!

Edit an entry in
your notebook
and ask, Have I
used everything
I know about
spelling,
punctuation, and
grammar to
make my writing
clear?

READ
for 30 min
Record in
reading log

Pick one jot and

write long and
strong, push
yourself to go back
into your text and
support thinking
with text evidence.

Ask a friend,
sibling, or adult
at home to listen
to your story...see
if this person
feels like they are
inside they story.
Put a star by
parts that were
really juicy,
where your
audience was
inside the story.

Reflect on your
narrative writing
from this past
week...are you
meeting or even
passing your
goals for writing
workshop? Set a
new goal for
yourself and write
it in the back of
your notebook.

HELPImstaringatmywritingnotebookandIdontknowwhattodo!

r Generating Personal Narrative Writing

u, list Small Moment stories connected to him/her and write

s you realized something, list stories you could tell about

mall moments that occurred in that place and write one.

articular times you felt it and write one.
Notice small moments and capture them in entries.

o Ask Yourself as You Edit

ds or parts missing?
e I checked for run-ons and fragments?
r names and the beginning of sentences)?
marks for dialogue?
s and subjects agree? Are my verbs in the

ht? Do they look right? Have I checked any

words (to, too, two; there, their)?

TechniquesforRaisingtheLevelofNarrativeWriting
Dreamthedreamofthestoryandthenwriteinawaythatallowsreaderstoexperiencethe
momentalongwithyou.

Reviseusingallyouknowaboutstorytelling,notsummarizing.

Useallyouknowaboutgrammar,spelling,andpunctuationtoeditasyouwrite.

Tellthestoryfrominsideit.

Usedetailsthataretruetotheeventandthatringtrue