For Today's Research!

1.Google person’s name and put “bio” at the end of it
~ For example, Barack Obama bio
2.Answer the basic W’s! Who is this person? What has s/he accomplished? Why did they do what they do?
3.Also, find at least one interesting fact that you find interesting fact
4.Use your KWL chart and answer the questions you asked in “What I want to know” in the “DRAFTS” section of your writer’s notebook
5.Make sure you also write down the site’s URL
~For example, http://www.aliciakeysbiography.com/

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Exemplary Standards for a Memoir

TRUE STORY

  • Memoir focuses on a single event or a sequence of smaller events that is true
LESSON/IMPORTANT MOMENT

  • Memoir expresses a clear, direct lesson/im or offers it using strong clues for inferencing
PLOT/STRUCTURE

  • Memoir arranges story details to solve a problem, which usually is the lesson and occurs at the climax
DETAILS

  • Memoir uses images, dialogue and other techniques to develop story
WRITING CONVENTIONS

  • Evidence of revision -- multiple drafts and participation in Peer Review/Workshop
  • Limted sentence-level and grammatical errors
  • Published

FINAL MEMOIR WILL BE DUE FRIDAY, NOV. 14

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Up and Running

Now that students have blogs and are connected, we can use this darn blog for what it was intended.

This week our focus was getting these blogs put together and getting us all connected. Obviously we hit some snags along the way with Blogger being weird and glitchy, causing just about every problem possible. But now we're set.

So, while I wanted to have the memoirs done this week, it is looking more likley they will be due next week (11/14) after parent-teacher conferences (which are slated for next Wednesday at 4pm and Thursday at 3pm).

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