1. Why We Write: Write down your homework: Free Write Activity from the Bingo Handout

2. Student Inventory:
Complete the Student Inventory Sheet on your desk.

3. Process: Take out your warm-up page.
Turn it over to the back and answer the following questions:
How does the article we read today connect to this class?
Compare how you read the article, the website, and the policy handouts.

4. Writer’s Notebook Set-up
Divide the spiral in half
First half – Writing Rubric
Back half – Vocabulary (we’ll do this tomorrow!)

5. Writing Rubric Homework is collected and graded on Mondays.
You are responsible for 1 Writing Response and 2 Vocabulary words.
Each section may earn up to 4 points.
Let’s focus on the writing for today.

6. Blocks Take three post-it notes from the table.
On each of the three, write ONE:
adverb or adjective
noun (this should be a common noun such as “clown”, “box”, “painter”, etc.)
verb

7. NOUN
VERB
ADJ/ADV

8. Directions
It’s time to think outside the box! Using the words on your post-it notes, write a descriptive paragraph below. Remember that you cannot be wrong! For example, if I choose: N: frog A: lazy V: played I could write about a “lazy frog that played” or a “frog that played lazily”

9. Homework
Glue your BINGO board onto the back of the first page in your Writer’s Notebook.
Choose one (OR more) of these activities for tonight.
Remember to include all elements – including that artistic component!

10. Closure: Index Cards Write your name on the index card.
On your index card, decide what score your descriptive paragraph should earn.
Explain your thinking.