Reflecting on Litearcy Rituals

Entering Activities: Students will enter and copy today’s agenda and begin the sponge, which will read:

According to Ralph Keyes, author of The Courage to Write, many famous authors have followed unusual rituals like the ones below whenever they wrote:
• Ernest Hemingway did not write anything until he had sharpened twenty pencils.
• Mark Twain wrote only while in bed.
• John McPhee always wrote in his bathrobe and used the belt to strap himself in his chair so he could not
wander.
• Robert Browning wore bare spots in his carpet from pacing the floor while he composed.
Wila Cather read the Bible before she began to write looking for beautiful language.

Students will choose one of these rituals to copy into their notebooks and tell why they find in the most interesting.
Anticipatory Set: I will go over that today we’ll be beginning some activities to help us reflect on our writing process. We will also be doing some revising and editing to the transactive piece of our portfolio.
Teaching and Learning: I will share with students my drawing of myself showing details of where, when, and how I write.
Independent Practice: Students will be given 10-15 minutes to “flashsketch” a drawing of where they do their best writing. I will give students and opportunity to share their drawing with a partner.
Guided Practice: I will transition students to our revision time. I will give to them a graphic organizer identifying ten types of evidence that can be used in transactive pieces. We will go over the evidence and I will guide students to find examples of each type in their transactive pieces. The goal is for students to see what types of evidence they can use, what type they did use, and where to go from here.
Closure: On an exit slip, I will ask students to identify something they can revise in their transactive piece or one revision they made today