2:2

Monday, 10/20/25

TEKS: (9)(A) plan a piece of writing appropriate for various purposes and audiences by generating ideas through a range of strategies such as brainstorming, journaling, reading, or discussing

Objective: Today we will plan a piece of writing

Activity: Introduce STAAR essay rubric and ACES essay format

Tuesday, 10/21/25

I’m absent

TEKS: (9)(A) plan a piece of writing appropriate for various purposes and audiences by generating ideas through a range of strategies such as brainstorming, journaling, reading, or discussing

Objective: Today we will plan a piece of writing

Assignment: Students plan The Most Dangerous Game essay - due today

Wednesday, 10/22/25

TEKS: (9)(B) develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing in timed and open-ended situations

Objective: Today we will develop drafts into a focused, structured, and coherent piece of writing

Assignment: Students type and submit The Most Dangerous Game essay.

Discuss formatting on the google doc, including spacing for quotation marks

Thursday, 10/23/25

I’m absent

TEKS: (9)(C) revise drafts to improve clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness, including use of parallel constructions and placement of phrases and dependent clauses;

Objective: Today we will revise drafts to improve clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness

Assignment: Students complete revising  multiple choice

Friday, 10/24/25

TEKS: (C) revise drafts to improve clarity, development, organization, style, diction, and sentence effectiveness, including use of parallel constructions and placement of phrases and dependent clauses; (D) edit drafts using standard English conventions,

Objective: Today we will peer revise and edit drafts

Activity: Musical peer revising and editing

2:1

Monday, 10/13/24

Teacher work day

Tuesday, 10/14/25

TEKS: (4)(C) make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures

Objective: Today we will make and correct or confirm predictions

Assignment: Finish reading The Most Dangerous Game

Wednesday, 10/15/25

Class displaced to cafeteria

TEKS: (9)(D) edit drafts using standard English conventions

Objective: Today we will edit drafts

Assignment: STAAR editing

Thursday, 10/16/25

TEKS: (9)(D)(i) a variety of complete, controlled sentences and avoidance of unintentional splices, run-ons, and fragments

Objective: Today we will edit to avoid splices, run-ons, and fragments

Activity: Writing lesson about parts of speech, comma splices/when to use a period.

Friday, 10/17/25

TEKS: (9)(D)(i) a variety of complete, controlled sentences and avoidance of unintentional splices, run-ons, and fragments

Objective: Today we will edit to avoid splices, run-ons, and fragments

Assignment: Punctuation Editing assignment