Demonstrations+and+Mentor+Lessons



see grammarrevival.wikispaces.com for more **Jeff Anderson** grammar lessons

materials from **Writing Marathon** and **small writing groups**

Attached is the powerpoint that loosely outlines the unit and the worksheet students completed in the computer lab. Ultimately, students did a debate and wrote a paper arguing their points; I used the Common Core argumentative writing rubric to grade the paper.
 * 5/7/2014 Layered Text Unit- Should foreign language classes be mandatory in schools?** (layered text sets prepared by Jacquelyn Schmidt)

Praise Question Wish: An approach to responding to writing; can be used in peer review Re-Imagining the Essay: Structure Without Formula -- DeAnn and Colleen's Write to Learn Presentation


 * Lit Circles** - how to introduce the roles one at a time

Revision the lesson plan Revision the presentation "Introducing Students to Peer Review of Writing"
 * 1/24/14 MMS Mentor Lesson**

Cubing - A Thinking Strategy a method for accessing prior knowledge Cubing - the slideshow
 * 12/12/13 LMS Mentor Lesson**

Debriefing: A Reflecting Conversationa protocol to reflect on the lesson

Literary Analysis - Finding Evidence the presentation. Change the writing prompt to adapt it to your own lesson. Literary Analysis - Teacher's Guideincludes a text structure for writing about a claim Literary Analysis for Laquey Teachers based on the Pearl Buck story "Christmas Day in the Morning" four student responses from Victoria C.'s classrrom to the literary analysis text structure.
 * 12/5/13 MMS Mentor Lesson -- 1/15/14 LMS lesson**

the lesson plan Text Structure - Patriotism the presentation. A lesson to introduce students and teachers to text structures.
 * 11/5/13 LMS Mentor Lesson**

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the presentation. A lesson to help students examine evidence to develop a claim for argument. the strategy used to help students define and understand a term. the strategy used to help students record evidence for/against a topic.=====

the lesson plan Getting Heard: Emails the presentation. A lesson in social studies class about taking an active part in lawmaking and writing well.

**10/29/13 MHS Mentor Lesson**
the lesson plan the presentation. A lesson presented 10/29 in a freshman writing class about considering cyberbullying policies and developing awareness with multiple audiences. [|Web Discussion Sheet]

Writing About Clues the lesson plan Clues: Making Inferences the presentation. Presented Oct. 29--used text structure "Clues and Confirmation"

Getting Real: Authenticity in Writing Prompts an article on the NWP digital space; used in preparation for mentor lessons

Pecha Kucha tutorial A powerful presentation format with 20 slides of 20 seconds each. Much more information on how to create a Pecha Kucha can be found by googling the topic. Amy Sampson of Monett can be credited for introducing us to this format during the Summer Institute sponsored by OWP.

REVISED! MMS lesson 9/13/13, LMS 10/8/13 Note to Monett: All the cold writing has been removed in order to focus on the main purpose, and the worksheet has been revised to make it easier for students to understand.

MIS lesson 9/11/13

Ba-da-bing presentation MIS lesson 10/3/13

Evolution of a Term presentation MMS lesson 10/4/13

a follow-up to "Evolution of a Term" essays Peer Conferences and Revision

Text Structures: A Growing Collection Crunchtime: 20+ Weeks of Writing Plans based on Gretchen Bernabei's books