What+is+a+'Middle-Schooler'?

BU: Personality Cube Daybook Unit 1-Building Your Repertoire: critical strategies for reading and writing Unit 2-Interacting with the Test: strategic reading Unit 3-Making Connections: story elements Assessment 1

Forms of Fiction Short Story-"Priscilla and the Wimps" Novel-//The Revealers// //Movie-Diary of a Wimpy Kid// Independent Reading Challenge-Forms of Fiction

Writing Fall Writing Prompt Literature Responses Compare/Contrast Paragraph/essay #1-guided lessons in class each day highlighting each step of the writing process 1. Pre-writing: Brainstorming-Venn diagram, Organizational Outline-'Whole-to-Whole', 'Point-to-Point', or 'Similarities-to-Differences' 2. Drafting 3. Revising 4. Proofreading and Editing 5. Publishing Flight Diary Entries-narrative and descriptive writing Compare/Contrast Paragraph #2 Independent writing using the writing process as modeled in paragraph #1