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Unit 2: Week 1 November 4 th – 8th

Unit 2: Week 1 November 4 th – 8th. Ms. Redeemer 6 th Grade Language Arts. Agenda – November 4th. Do Now (5 minutes) Writing Prompt (10 minutes) Exploring Mentor Author (10 minutes) Exploring Mentor Text (10 minutes) Vocabulary (5 minutes)

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Unit 2: Week 1 November 4 th – 8th

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  1. Unit 2: Week 1November 4th – 8th Ms. Redeemer 6th Grade Language Arts

  2. Agenda – November 4th • Do Now (5 minutes) • Writing Prompt (10 minutes) • Exploring Mentor Author (10 minutes) • Exploring Mentor Text (10 minutes) • Vocabulary (5 minutes) • Review Culminating Task for Unit 2 (10 minutes) • Closing – Homework Calendar (5 minutes)

  3. Do Now – 7 minutes • Write the lesson essential question (LEQ) and the high order thinking (HOT) questions in your spiral notebook on a blank sheet of paper. Include the proper heading. Silently read we you are finished. • LEQ – How does a writer’s purpose influence genre, structure, medium, and text elements? • HOT Qs - How do readers select a mentor author to imitate their style of writing? How do readers analyze a mentor text to identify their mentor author’s craft and style? How do readers utilize their mentor author and mentor text to create their own piece of literature?

  4. Writing Prompt – 10 minutes • In your spiral notebooks, respond to the following prompt using complete sentences, proper punctuation, and capitalization. Be sure to restate the question in your response. • Prompt: What does it mean to be a mentor? What are the qualities or attributes of an effective mentor? Describe your mentor or someone who you would like to be your mentor.

  5. Group Share 3 minutes (tables) / 2 minutes (whole class)

  6. Ms. Redeemer’s Mentor

  7. Exploring Mentor Author Create the Ven Diagram graphic organizer on a blank sheet of paper. This graphic organizer is used to compare and contrast two things. Title graphic organizer “Mentor Author”. On the left side write your definition of a mentor author. On the right side I will provide you with another definition of mentor author. In the center, you will write the similarities between the two definitions. 3 minutes of independent work

  8. Mentor Author – 3 minutes

  9. Ms. Redeemer’s Mentor Author(3 minutes)

  10. Exploring Mentor Text Create the Ven Diagram graphic organizer on a blank sheet of paper. This graphic organizer is used to compare and contrast two things. Title graphic organizer “Mentor Text”. On the left side write your definition of a mentor text. On the right side I will provide you with another definition of mentor text. In the center, you will write the similarities between the two definitions. 3 minutes of independent work

  11. Mentor Text – 3 minutes

  12. Ms. Redeemer’s Mentor Text(3 minutes)

  13. Vocabulary – 5 minutes • Analyze – to examine in detail the structure, purpose, and interpretation of a text. • Craft – • Imitating – to take or model as a style • Style – A manner of writing that involves how something is said rather than what is said.

  14. Culminating Task Unit 2 – 10 minutes

  15. Homework Calendar – 5 minutes • Reading Log • Title and Genre • Pages Read • Summary: • Somebody – wanted – but – so – then

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