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