Homework: Monday, September 15 - Monday, September 22

1. Read each night for at least twenty minutes and complete the log. 

2. Edit, revise, and publish your first piece of the year. It is due on Friday. Here is a copy of the sheet I'm sending home with you tonight...

Free-Write Published Piece

Due Friday, September 19^th

            Over the past two or three weeks we have been working to learn the lower-case cursive letters during writing workshop. After each of these mini-lessons you have gone out to write independently while I worked one-on-one and in small groups with people to continue work on their cursive. You were asked to fill up page after page with ideas and pieces that inspired you to write. These may have come in the form of stories, informational texts, songs, poems, and so on.  

            Now is the time to go back and select one of these pieces you have been working on and revise, edit, and publish. Your published piece is due this Friday and, other than reading, will constitute the majority of your homework this week. Please take the time to conference about your piece with an adult at home, jot down all of their revision and editing feedback in the margins of your text, and carefully publish your final piece on at least two clean sheets of paper. You should handwrite this, using cursive for the lower-case letters. Because we haven’t formally learned the upper-case letters you can print those if you’d like.

Here is the list of items you decided, as a class, your parents could help with when conferencing about your writing…

Effort

·        Look over the entire writing journal. Knowing that you have had about half an hour each day for two weeks to write in your journal, how does your parent feel about the volume of writing you have produced in that time? Does it demonstrate really hard work on your part?

Now just look at that one piece from your journal that you plan to publish. Do the following with a parent...

Editing

·        Capital letters               

·        Endmarks (periods, question marks, exclamation marks)

·        Spelling

·        Quotation marks

Revising

·        Does it all make sense?

·        Are all the sentences complete sentences?

·        Could I use paragraphs?

·        Are there parts that need more detail or description?