1. Interdisciplinary Writing Unit Presentation Narrative, 5 th grade & Biography, 5 th grade READ 7140 Katie Linton

2. Georgia Writing Test Evaluation of student responses to prompt Given either imaginative story or personal narrative prompt. Evaluated to determine the developmental stage of writing 6 stages: emerging, developing, focusing, experimenting, engaging, or extending writer

3. Narrative Writing 5 th grade

4. 5 th grade, Narrative Writing Social Studies Connection: SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War. b. Discuss how issues of states’ rights and slavery increased tensions between the North and South. c. Describe the effects of war on the North and South.

5. Pre-assessment Activity Give student prompts Have 45 minutes to write narrative story Prompts: 1.What if your pet could talk to you. 2.Where would you go if you could fly anywhere for 48 hours? 3.What would you do if you woke up one morning and found you were invisible?

6. Grouping Options Whole Group – Modeling & Practice Activity Individual – Assessment Activity Small Group – Part of Assessment Activity during revising and editing

7. Narrative Writing Students write a story, retell a story, write sequels, write a personal narrative, or create an original story. Students include beginning, middle, and end in their story.

8. Prewriting Students choose an appropriate genre Students identify the audience, form, and purpose of their writing. Students fill out a story map. The students write on the topic based on their own experiences. Modeling – The teacher will show a model of a story map that she filled out.

10. Practice Activity Students will fill out a story map together for their practice. Teacher will use shared writing method. Students will use the rubric as a guide to filling out story map. Class will be writing as if they are a young girl with a Union family who has a friend that has a Confederate family.

11. Assessment Students will work alone and fill out the story map for their story. Students will pretend they are a child from the time period of the Civil War and write a story about the tensions of friendships. You will write as if you are a child with a friend from the other side of the war.

13. Drafting Student write a rough draft Student marks page as rough draft Student emphasizes content rather than mechanics Modeling – The teacher will show a copy of her draft she wrote from her model story map.

14. Practice Activity Students will come up with a rough draft using the story map filled out during prewriting practice. The class will write it using the shared writing method. Students will use the drafting rubric to make sure they include everything.

15. Assessment Students will write a rough draft using their story maps from prewriting. Students will write as if they have a friend that is from the other side of the war and their friendship was not allowed.

17. Revising Students reread their own writing Students make changes in their compositions by adding, deleting, and transposing using a black pen. Students work in groups to get opinions on changes that need to be made after they revise their own paper using a red pen. Modeling – The teacher will show the students a copy of her draft that she has revised.

18. Practice Activity Overhead transparency of draft from practice drafting Class will find the revising errors in the writing. Class will use the shared writing method Class will use proofreader’s marks to correct the writing.

19. Assessment Students will revise their own work Students will be grouped to go through group revising strategy Students will use revising rubric as guide.

21. Editing Students proofread their own writing Students identify mechanical errors and correct their writing Students help proofread others’ work Student may meet with teacher for final editing. Modeling – The teacher will show a copy of her draft that she has edited.

22. Practice Activity Class will make editing corrections to revised draft. Use shared writing method Use proofreader’s marks to make corrections. Use rubric as guide

23. Assessment Students will edit their revised copy of writing. Students will edit their paper individually. Students will use proofreader’s marks to make corrections. Students will work with group to make additional editing changes.

25. Publishing Students make final copy of writing. Students rewrite or type their paper. Students share their finished work with appropriate audience. Modeling – The teacher will show the students her published writing.

26. Practice Activity Teacher will hook up computer to television screen. Class will use shared writing method. Corrections will be transferred to final copy of typed draft. Print out published writing.

27. Assessment Class will go to computer lab. Students will make the needed corrections to typed draft. Use rubric as guide Students will print a published copy of writing.

29. Informational Writing: Biography 5 th grade

30. 5 th grade – Informational Writing: Biography Social Studies Connection: SS5H1 The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War. d. Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

31. Biography Writing A biography is an account of a person’s life written by someone else. We are going to focus on the historical biography. You can use historical records, interviews, letters, dairies, mementos, and lots of other sources.

32. Pre-Assessment Activity Give students prompts 45 minutes to write Prompts: 1.Write an autobiography about yourself. 2.Write a biography about one of your family members. 3.Write a biography about one of your friends.

33. Prewriting Students identify the audience, form, and purpose of their writing. Students fill out a graphic organizer The students write on the topic based on their own experiences. Modeling –The teacher will show the students a copy of the graphic organizer she filled out.

34. Practice Activity Students will fill out a graphic organizer together for practice. Teacher will use shared writing method. Students will use the rubric as a guide to filling out graphic organizer. Class will be writing a biography of one of the important historical figures during the Civil War.

35. Assessment Students will work alone and fill out their graphic organizer for their biography. Students will fill out the biography graphic organizer on the historical figure that they are given.

38. Drafting Student write a rough draft Student marks page as rough draft Student emphasizes content rather than mechanics Modeling –The teacher will show the students a copy of the draft she wrote using her graphic organizer.

39. Practice Activity Students will come up with a rough draft of biography using the graphic organizer filled out during prewriting practice. The class will write it using the shared writing method. Students will use the drafting rubric to make sure they include everything.

40. Assessment Students will write a rough draft using their graphic organizer from prewriting. Students will write a biography on the historical figure given.

42. Revising Students reread their own writing Students make changes in their compositions by adding, deleting, and transposing. Students work in groups to get opinions on changes that need to be made after they revise their own paper. Modeling – The teacher will show the students her revised copy of the draft she wrote.

43. Practice Activity Overhead transparency of draft from practice drafting Class will find the revising errors in the writing Class will use the shared writing method Class will use proofreader’s marks to correct

44. Assessment Students will revise their own work Students will be grouped to go through group revising strategy Students will use revising rubric as guideline

46. Editing Students proofread their own writing Students identify mechanical errors and correct their writing Students help proofread others’ work Student may meet with teacher for final editing. Modeling – The teacher will show the edited copy of the draft she wrote.

47. Practice Activity Class will make editing corrections to revised draft. Use shared writing method Use proofreader’s marks to make corrections. Use rubric as guide

48. Assessment Students will edit their revised copy of writing individually. Students will use proofreader’s marks to make corrections. Students will work with group to make additional editing changes.

50. Publishing Students make final copy of writing. Students rewrite or type their paper. Students share their finished work with appropriate audience. Modeling – The teacher will show the students the published copy of her writing.

51. Practice Activity Teacher will hook up computer to television screen. Class will use shared writing method. Corrections will be transferred to final copy of typed draft. Print out published writing.

52. Assessment Class will go to computer lab. Students will make the needed corrections to typed draft. Use rubric as guide Students will print a published copy of writing.

54. Accommodations & Modifications Gifted Students – go to the back of room to begin working on their writing. Learning disability students – conference with the teacher during each lesson to make sure that they are on the right track. Nonstandard English Student – Teacher will teach mini-lessons on subject-verb agreement and adjective placement within the sentence.