Week+of+November+17,+2008

Monday 11/17/08 Teach Adding Dialogue

Thursday 11/20/08 teach students that dialogue does not need to be perfect... you don't have to remember exactly what you said but you can guess what you might have said...

do a whole class example where you do a story prompt and then have students guess what you might have said. write down their ideas. emphasize correct grammar/punctuation of quotation marks and periods inside the quotation marks.

give them a TRY IT before they start implementing this in their own writing...

Monday, 11/24/2008 talk about punctuating dialogue do a couple of examples as a group give them a try it...

Tuesday, 11/24/2008 many students will have understood and done a good job with punctuating dialogue. correct the papers and pull a small group for students who did not get it. do the sheet as a whole group on the projector for students who did not understand. send them away to do another try it.