Mean McMurrin - Reader's/Writer's Notebook

Mean McMurrin
7th Grade English

Reader's/Writer's Notebook

Persuasion Notebook

5/17	QW: An Experience with Persuasion	46
5/17	Experiences with Persuasion	47
5/17	What is Persuasion?	48
5/18	Methods of Persuasion	49-53
5/24	Counterarguments	54
5/24	QW: Evaluate Olmos' Points	55
5/25	"Toilet Training for Seventh Graders" Comprehension Questions	56
5/25	Methods We've Found	57-59
5/26	Persuasion in Commercials	60
5/26	Commercial Slogans	61
5/27	More Commercial Slogans	62
5/27	What My School Needs	63

Response to Literature Notebook

2/11	What is identity?	1
2/12	QW: What is identity?	2
2/16	Habits of reading fictional stories	3
2/16	Types of Sentences	4
2/17	Reader Response Log	5
2/18	Simple Sentences	6
2/19	Compound Sentences	7
2/19	Reading Response Journal	8
2/22	Vocab List #10	9
2/22	Meaningful Vocab Sentences	10
2/22	Complex Sentences
2/25	Plot & Character Analysis
3/4	Theme Tree: "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?"
3/8	Sentence Construction
3/9	QW: Theme in "What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?"
3/10	QW: Theme in Almost a Woman/How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents/When I Was Puerto Rican
3/15	Significant Sentences: theme in the novel
4/5	Vocabulary List #13
4/5	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
4/6	"Two Kinds" Comprehension Questions
4/8	"Two Kinds" T-chart
4/8	QW: Mother/daughter relationship
4/12	Vocab List #14
4/12	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
4/13	QW: Power in "Two Kinds"
4/14	Figurative Language Devices
4/15	Text Rendering: "Two Kinds"
4/19	Vocabulary List #15
4/19	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
4/20	Reflection: How I Think I Did on the Periodic Assessment
4/22	Found Poem: "Two Kinds"
4/23	Figurative Language: "The Willow and Gingko"
4/26	Vocabulary List #16
4/26	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
5/3	Vocabulary List #17
5/3	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
5/4	Measuring Up Lesson 11: Analyze Plot
5/5	Measuring Up: Point of View
5/7	Test Prep: Usage and Expression

Exposition and Research Notebook

Date	Title	Page #
11/18	Reading, Writing, and Thinking Like a Reporter	1
11/18	What We Know About the Northridge Earthquake	2
11/19	Interview: Significance of the Northridge Earthquake	3
11/19	Interview Notes	4-5
11/23	QW: What Yuma Found Significant	6
11/23	Somebody/Wanted/But/So "Lessons and Kindness"	7
11/25	What Makes an Event Significant	8
11/30	Vocab List #6	9-10
11/30	Meaningful Vocab Sentences	11
12/2	Visual Questioning	12
12/3	What We Know About Hurricane Katrina	13-16
12/7	Vocab List #7
12/7	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
	My Quiz Scores
	QW: What the Reporters Want Us to Know
	Sources the Reporters Used
	Organization of a News Article
	My Research Topic
	Reporter's Note Page
	Using Context Clues
	Vocab List #8
	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
	QW: What the Reporters Want Us to Know ("Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth")
	Adequate, Accurate, and Appropriate
	Bias & Stereotyping
	Context Clues: Compare and Contrast
	Bibliography
	Practice Context Clues

Bone Black Comprehension Questions Write Like: First Person to Third Person
Reflect on Inquiry-based Discussion

9/9	Academic and Personal Goals	1-2
9/10	House Diagram	3
9/11	House Story	4
9/14	Vocab List #1: Narrative Terms	5-6
9/14	Meaningful Vocabulary Sentences	7
9/15	QW: Remembering a narrative	8
9/15	Characteristics of a Good Narrative	9
9/16	Bone Black Comprehension Questions
9/17	Significant Sentences: Character in Bone Black	12
9/18	First Person or Third Person (Notes)	13
9/18	Write Like: First Person to Third Person
9/21	Vocab List #2	15-16
9/21	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
9/22	Sensory Details: Bone Black
	QW: Relationships in Bone Black
	Nouns: Concrete or Abstract?
	My Life Timeline
	"Amigo Brothers" Comprehension Questions
	My Quiz Scores
	Common and Proper Nouns
	Significant Sentences: Relationships in "Amigo Brothers"
	QW: Antonio and Felix's Shared Dream

	Plot Flow Map
	Vocab List #3
	Plot Mountain
	Meaningful Vocab Sentences #3
	Figurative Language
	Figurative Language in "Amigo Brothers"
	Reflection: Point of View in "Amigo Brothers"
10/12	Vocab List #4
10/12	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
10/13	Active vs. Passive Voice
10/13	Discovery Writing
10/14	"Everything Will Be Okay" Comprehension Questions
	"Everything Will Be Okay" Reaction
10/16	Character Analysis
10/19	Significant Sentences: "Everything Will Be Okay"
10/20	My Reaction to "Everything Will Be Okay"
10/22	Reflection on Inquiry-based Discussion
10/22	QW: Theme of "Everything Will Be Okay"
10/23	Analogy
10/29	Plot Flow Map: Personal Narrative
10/29	Rough Draft #1: Personal Narrative
10/30	Sensory Details: Personal Narrative
11/2	Vocab List #5
11/2	Figurative Language: Personal Narrative
11/2	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
11/3	My Introduction
11/3	Personal Narrative
11/3	Draft #2
11/9	Narrative Unit A-Z
11/9	Narrative Unit: Final Reflection
11/10	Reflect on My Academic and Personal Goals