Week+of+October+22,+2008

Session 1: Launching the Small Moment Date: Monday, October 20, 2008//
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats

Objective:** By the end of the lesson students will demonstrate an understanding of what a small moment is by sharing small moment stories with a partner. || Teacher shows students their small moment notebooks and tells them that they will be recording their small moments in these notebooks. || Session 2: Jotting Down Memories in Your Small Moment Notebook Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008//** ||  || //note: the enlarged small moment needs to be adjusted by the teacher to illustrate their own small moments// || Session 3: Telling & Sketching a Story Across Five Fingers Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008//** || Session 4: Sketching Stories Across Five Fingers Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008//** ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **Learning Target:** I can tell a small moment story to a partner. ||
 * **Language Objective:** small moment/seed vs. watermelon ||
 * **Criteria for Success:** Successful students will be able to tell a small moment (a seed) to their partner. ||
 * **Material:** small moment notebooks to show students at the close of the lesson. ||
 * **Opener:** "We are going to start writing stories about our lives. And these stories are going to be small moment stories. Small moment stories are really small memories that we remember because they were special for some reason. In first grade you learned about watermelons and seeds. Small moment stories are seeds. Writing about your birthday party would be a watermelon, but writing about the moment that you blew out the birthday candles would be a seed." ||
 * **Teacher Directed Instruction:** Teacher tells their own small moment story. ||
 * **Joint Practice: "**Now you are going to go off and tell your own small moment stories with a partner." ||
 * **Student Practice:** Students go back to their seats to share small moment stories with each other. Teacher walks around to hear and comment on student stories. ||
 * **Student Share/Debrief:** A few selected students share their small moment stories at the rug.
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * **Objective:** By the end the lesson students will demonstrate an understanding of how you record your seed memories in your small moment notebook. ||
 * **Learning Target:** I can write my seed memories in my small moment notebook. I can take care of my small moment notebook. ||
 * **Language Objective:** small moment, seed vs. watermelon ||
 * **Criteria for Success:** Successful students will be able to write seed stories in their small moment notebooks. They will be able to jot down one memory per page. ||
 * **Material:** small moment notebook, teacher enlarged display of small moment notebook [[file:smallmomentnotebookdemo.doc]], projector, golf pencils (make sure they are sharpened)
 * **Opener:"**Today we are going to get our small moment notebooks. These are our own special notebooks where we can jot down small moment in our lives. Later, we can use these notebooks to help us write small moment stories during Writer's Workshop." ||
 * **Teacher Directed Instruction:** "On the computer I am going to show you some pages of my small moment notebook." //As you show students be explicit how each of these is a small moment out from a bigger event// ||
 * **Joint Practice:** "Now we are going to walk around the school and look for our own small moments. We need to be very quiet so that we don't disturb any teachers and so that students can think." ||
 * **Student Practice:** Students walk around school and collect small moments (hot spots are the playground, cafeteria, gym, and outside the bathroom) ||
 * **Students Share/Debrief:** Students share out small moment at the rug - teacher affirms good small moment and helps students with watermelons narrow down their story - it's important that all students hear the teacher doing this. ||
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * **Mastery Objective:** By the end of the lesson students will demonstrate an understanding of telling and sketching a story across five fingers by being a part of a shared writing activity. ||
 * **Learning Target:** I know that you tell and sketch small moment stories across five fingers, sketching (as it is described in this unit: pencil, lots of details, imperfect) ||
 * **Language Objective:** students should become familiar with the phrase "telling a story across five fingers," students should internalize the idea of a small moment story and a seed story. ||
 * **Criteria for Success:** Successful students will understand that small moment stories are told across five fingers. Successful students will also understand that writers sketch stories with lots of detail (but that sketches are imperfect). ||
 * **Material:** my small moment notebook, five pieces of paper on the board to sketch, 5-page booklets ||
 * **Opener:** Today I am going to show you how to tell a story across five fingers and then how to sketch that story across five pages. The first thing that is important that you do is that you tell your story across your five fingers to a partner or teacher. ||
 * **Teacher Directed Instruction:** Student tells an experience they have shared with the class across five fingers. Make sure that the small moment is written in your small moment book so that you are showing students that you come up with your ideas by looking at your small moment notebook. Be sure to review with students so that they really remember the story. ||
 * **Joint Practice:** Five students come up and sketch the stories on the five pages. Review each page before students come up. ||
 * **Student Practice:** Students get there booklets and start telling a partner a story across five pages while touching each page. ||
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * **//Unit: Small Moment Stories/Writing Like Ezra Jack Keats
 * Mastery Objective:** By the end of the lesson students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of telling a story across five fingers and pages by orally telling their story to a friend and then sketching it.
 * Learning Target:** I can sketch a small moment story across five pages in my writing booklet.
 * Criteria for Success:** Successful students will be able to sketch a small moment story across five pages in a writer's booklet. The sketches will be detailed but not perfect. The story will be a "seed" and not a "watermelon."
 * Material:** Lots of five-page booklets.
 * Opener:** "Yesterday you told a story to a partner across five pages in a booklet. Today you are going to sketch that story across five pages. You will do no writing. Remember that the sketch does not have to be perfect. It must be in pencil and it must have lots of details.
 * Teacher Directed Instruction:** Students go back to do their work.
 * Student Share/Debrief:** Students come to the rug and share their story across five pages with the sketches.