The week of 5/27/19
MONDAY 5/27
- No School
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Final Editing today
- Reminder about audio
- Video’s due today
- Introduction to slam poetry
- Watching more examples of slam poetry
- Step 1 and 2 of slam poetry
- Viewing day: Celebrating our videos
- Bring snacks
The week of 5/20/19
MONDAY 5/20
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Reviewing editing techniques
- Working on edits for our videos
- Science Testing for 8th-grade (all day)
- Working on edits
- Planning reshoots
- Working on Edits
- Doing reshoots
- Working on Edits
- Doing reshoots
The week of 4/29/19
MONDAY 4/29
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Start Filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Time for filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
- Entrance Note: How do movies often transition from one scene to the next?
- B-roll and establishing shots
- Making filming plans for the next 2 days
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Time for filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Last day for filming
- Filming Process Reflections and Self-Assessment?
The week of 4/22/19
MONDAY 4/22
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Start Filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Time for filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
- Entrance Note: How do we know we are getting the best performance from our actors?
- Acting exercises
- Making filming plans for the next 2 days
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Time for filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan and gathering permission
- Time for filming
- What have you accomplished in your filming today?
The week of 4/15/19
MONDAY 4/15
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Working on new drafts of your scripts
- Storyboards Due Today
- Exit Note: Storyboard reflection
- Entrance Activity: What does the word inflection mean?
- Taking a storyboard and bringing it to film
- Adding inflection/body language to our acting
- Exit Note: How did adding inflection and focusing on framing affect your filming plan?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing expectations for filming plans
- Creating Filming plans
- Gathering permission for the next 2 days of filming
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan
- Start Filming
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing filming plan
- Filming
The week of 4/8/19
MONDAY 4/8
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Table Reading
- Purpose
- Example
- Recording
- Storyboarding
- Exit Note: What did you learn about your script from your table reading today?
- Entrance Note: What is a Storyboard and why do we need them for our videos?
- Storyboard
- Purpose
- Examples
- Review camera angles, shot sizes, and movements before creating Storyboards
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing camera angles, shot sizes, and movements
- Creating Storyboards:
- Who is working on which scene?
- Reviewing Table Reading for ideas
- Exit Note: What is your progress on your storyboards so far?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing progress on storyboards
- Working on Storyboards
- Storyboard Due
- No School: Teacher Work Day
The week of 4/1/19
MONDAY 4/1
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Welcome Back Letter/Plans for this class
- Writing Scripts overview
- Exit Note: What do you need to do for your video project?
- Entrance Note: How can the setting of a scene affect your film?
- Writing Scene/setting minilesson
- Working on rough scripts
- Entrance Note: What are “stage directions”?
- Enhancing Dialogue minilesson
- Working on Rough Scripts
- Entrance Note: What have you accomplished on your script so far?
- Working on Rough Scripts
- Entrance Note: What have you accomplished on your script so far?
- Working on Rough Scripts
- Scripts due today
The week of 3/18/19
MONDAY 3/18
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Editing workshop
- Editing submissions
- Meeting with editors
- Creating pitches for video projects
- Sharing pitches/voting on ideas for videos
- Entrance Note: What are the characteristics of a strong, collaborative group?
- Editing workshop
- Editing submissions
- Meeting with editors
- Writer’s room
- Creating script
- Identifying roles
- Entrance Note: Review/revise strong group characteristics
- Editing workshop
- Editing submissions
- Meeting with editors
- Writer’s room
- Creating script
- Identifying roles
- Exit Note: Share what your group has created so far, and what plans you have for when we get back from break
- No School: Conferences
- No School: Spring Break
The week of 3/11/19
MONDAY 3/11
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Applying for positions on Anthology
- Lead editors
- Editors
- Proof Readers
- Illustrators
- Creating a “Final Draft” Doc ready to share with editors tomorrow
- Entrance Activity: Why is formatting Important?
- Decisions to make as a class today:
- Font Style
- Font Size
- Formatting Titles and author names
- Sharing stories with Lead Editors for sorting
- Pitching Title Ideas
- Entrance Note: Review potential titles for Anthology
- Voting on Titles today
- Opening up for cover artists based on title
- Editing/illustration workshop
- Entrance Note: Editors, who do you need to meet with today?
- Editing/illustration workshop
- Script writing for those not busy editing today
- Cover art submissions due tomorrow
- Entrance Note: Previewing Cover art critique form
- Cover art submission gallery walk
- Voting on favorite cover art
- Editing/illustration workshop if time allows
The week of 3/4/19
MONDAY 3/4
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Reviewing Mr. Ruth’s Feedback
- Preparing for peer writing conference
- Starting Peer Writing Conference
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing the focus for feedback
- Finishing Peer Writing Conferences
- Creating Plan for Revision
- Start Writing 2nd Draft
- Exit Note: Share some advice you were given, and what is your plan?
- Entrance Activity: Review plan for revision
- Applying for different positions on anthology
- Working of 2nd draft
- Exit Note: Describe your progress so far
- Entrance Activity: Review plan for revision
- Applying for different positions on anthology
- Working of 2nd draft
- Exit Note: Describe your progress so far
- Entrance Activity: Review plan for revision
- Applying for different positions on anthology
- 2nd Draft Due today
- Self Assessment on submission to anthology
The week of 2/25/19
MONDAY 2/25
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Reading Assignment overview
- Exploring our writing and choosing something to create a rough draft from
- Exit Note: What are you planning on writing?
- Entrance Note: Filling out conference sheet
- Writer’s workshop
- Drafting
- Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Exit Note: Describe your progress
- Entrance Note: Reviewing conference sheet
- Writer’s workshop
- Drafting
- Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Exit Note: Describe your progress
- Entrance Note: Reviewing conference sheet
- Writer’s workshop
- Drafting
- Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Exit Note: Describe your progress
- Entrance Note: Reviewing conference sheet
- Writer’s workshop
- Drafting
- Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Rough Draft due
- Exit Note: What do you want Mr. Ruth to focus on when he reads your rough draft?
The week of 2/18/19
MONDAY 2/18
- No school: President’s Day
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating Planner
- What are the characteristics of an essay?
- Reading: “Stephen King’s Guide to Movie Snacks”
- Closure: Revising characteristics of an essay
- Entrance Note: Reviewing revised characteristics of an essay
- Using oslis.org to find inspiration
- Exit Note: Share one topic worth researching more
- Entrance Note: Review and revise notes on the characteristics of an essay
- Writer’s Workshop
- Exit Note: what do you need to accomplish tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: Review what you need to accomplish for your essay
- Writer’s Workshop
- Checking Writing Journal
- Exit Note: Update your writing record
The week of 2/11/19
MONDAY 2/11
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating Planner
- Introduction to Memoir
- 6 word memoirs
- Exit Note: Share one 6-word memoir and some backstory
- Entrance Note: Which of the following would be a memoir?
- Example Memoirs (reading)
- Exit note: What is one aspect about the memoir you read that you would like to discuss?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing discussion expectations
- Memoir discussion
- Exit Note: Updating memoir notes/plans
- Entrance Note: Review and revise notes on Memoir
- Writer’s Workshop
- Exit Note: what do you need to accomplish tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: Review what you need to accomplish for your Memoir
- Writer’s Workshop
- Checking Writing Journal
- Exit Note: Update your writing record
The week of 2/4/19
MONDAY 2/4
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Intro to Short Stories
- Exit Note: Choosing stories to read
- Entrance Note: What should you focus on when reading a story for inspiration?
- Reading chosen short stories and filling out discussion sheet
- Exit Note: What is one thing you plan on discussing about your story tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: What are the characteristics of a successful discussion
- Discussion on short stories and techniques
- Exit Note: Updating short story notes/plans
- Entrance Note: How do we find inspiration for our writing?
- Exploring potential story ideas
- Writing your Short Story
- Exit Note: Describe your progress so far today
- Entrance Note: Reviewing our notes and revising them
- Finishing first draft of short story
- Writing Journal check
- Exit Note: Update your writing record
The week of 1/28/19
MONDAY 1/28
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Introduction to 2nd semester plan
- EPMS Creative Writing Anthology Brainstorming
- Intro to Poetry
- Entrance Note: What are the 5 steps to writing poetry?
- Reading Poetry for inspiration
- Step 1
- Step 2
- Entrance Activity: Reading poetry to inspire writing
- Continuing 5 steps to Poetry
- Entrance Note: What is Flash Fiction?
- Intro to Flash Fiction
- Creating Flash Fiction
- Exit Note: What writing have you created this week so far?
- Entrance Activity: Updating Writing Record
- Finding inspiration for story telling/creative ideas techniques
- Continuing poetry and flash fiction
The week of 1/21/19
MONDAY 1/21
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- No School
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating Planner
- Planner check
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
- Entrance Activity: Review what needs to nee turned in check list
- Filming/work day
- Self Assessment/turning in assignments
- Teacher Work day
- No School
The week of 1/14/19
MONDAY 1/14
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating your planner
- Reviewing 3-week plan
- Adjusting audio mini-lesson
- Working on projects
- Exit Note: Updating and adjusting 3-week plan
- Entrance Quickwrite: What is a lead?
- 4-types of leads
- Where should this story start?
- Where should your story start?
- Exit Quickwrite: Polish “What is a a lead?” entrance quick write
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
The week of 1/7/19
MONDAY 1/7
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly schedule and updating your planner
- Creating your own three-week plan
- Getting Feedback from Mr. Ruth
- Exit Note: Turn in your three-week plan to Mr. Ruth
- Entrance Note: What is a peer writing conference?
- Peer writing conference
- Reviewing three-week plan and getting started
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
- Entrance Activity: Review three-week plan
- Filming/work day
- Exit Note: Check off and update three-week plan
The week of 12/17/18
MONDAY 12/17
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Using symbols in our writing and videos
- Watching “The Bull Rider” looking for symbols and camera angles
- Homework: A symbol for your life
- Entrance Note: What is a symbol for your life?
- Rubiks cube slam poem
- Touchscreen Slam Poem
- 5 steps to write poetry
- Repetition Slam Poem
- Writing from a symbol
- Exit Note: What symbol stands out to you the most/initial thoughts on potential poem
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: What have you created so far this year?
- Reflecting on your work
- Creating new Goal, Plan, Action Sheet
- Turning in our work to get Mr. Ruth’s Feedback
The week of 12/10/18
MONDAY 12/10
- Entrance Note: Why would we add details to a piece of writing?
- Big Sentence expansion
- Expanding our own big sentence
- Exit Note: What effect did your details on your sentence
- Entrance activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating your planner
- Stop-Frame Mini Lesson
- Creating Stop Frame mini video
- Sharing Stop Frame Videos
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
The week of 12/3/18
MONDAY 12/3
- Entrance activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating your planner
- Shot framing 101 quiz
- Storyboarding Quiz
- Entrance Note: Why would we add details to a piece of writing?
- Big Sentence expansion
- Expanding our own big sentence
- Exit Note: What effect did your details on your sentence
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
The week of 11/26/18
MONDAY 11/26
- Entrance activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating your planner
- Grid of Awesome-Friendship-Time-Power
- Shot framing 101 review
- Different shots/angles sheet
- Finding our “clips” from a few weeks ago
- Sharing some of our “clips”/turning them in to google classroom
- Entrance Note: What are the steps in the “Writing Process”
- Writing Process overview
- Google Classroom Assignments for Quarter 2
- Exit Note: What stage in the writing process are you currently in?
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
The week of 11/13/18
MONDAY 11/12
No School
TUESDAY 11/13
No School
TUESDAY 11/13
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Personal Proofreading Checklist
- Proofreading any work in that stage of the writing process
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
- Entrance Note: Preparing for writing Conference with Mr. Ruth
- Writer/creator’s workshop
The week of 11/5/18
MONDAY 11/5
No School-Teacher Work Day
- Entrance activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating your planner
- Shot framing 101
- Different shots/angles
- practicing using “clips” app
- Sharing some of our “clips”
- Entrance Note: What do you normally look for when you proofread?
- Phonetically speaking
- Reading Short story with punctuation sound effects
- Reader’s/Writer’s Workshop (if time)
- Entrance Note: What is the next project you plan on working on?
- Writer’s workshop
- Mini-conferences with Mr. Ruth
- Making up any missing work
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing goal, plan, action sheet and starting next steps
- Writer’s workshop
- Mini-conferences with Mr. Ruth
- Making up any missing work
- planner check
No School-Teacher Work Day
The week of 10/29/18
MONDAY 10/29
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Turning in Finished Video into Google Classroom
- Video in-class Reflection
- Creative Writing Prompt
- Entrance Note: What should an audience know about your movie?
- Movie Time!
- Exit Note: Based on audience reactions and questions, what might you change about your movies if given the chance?
- Entrance Note: What is a goal that you have for your writing or digital production?
- Reviewing creative habits and tendencies
- Creating plans and action items based on goals
- Creative writing prompt (if time)
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing punctuation sheet
- Phonetically speaking
- Reading Short story with punctuation sound effects
- Reader’s/Writer’s Workshop (if time)
- Entrance Note: What is your experience with poetry?
- Poetry and flash fiction introduction
- Writer’s Workshop
- Exit Note: What are you beginning to write or create?
The week of 10/22/18
MONDAY 10/22
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing production schedule
- Filming project
- Filming project should be finished today and ready for editing
- Entrance Note: What are some common editing tips you know about?
- Editing Tips
- Creating editing plan
- Exit Note: What do you need to accomplish to have your film edited by Friday
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing editing plan
- Anyone not working on editing can be working on their writing
- Exit Note: Are there any scenes you need to reshoot?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing editing plan
- Anyone not working on editing can be working on their writing
- Reshoot day if necessary
- Exit Note: What do you still need to do to have your video finished by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing editing plan
- Anyone not working on editing can be working on their writing
- Video Due today
The week of 10/15/18
MONDAY 10/15
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Working on Scripts and storyboards
- Finishing scripts and storyboards Due Today
- Exit Note: Reflecting on script so far
- Entrance Note: Why is it important to plan?
- Creating a filming schedule
- What do you need to film
- Who needs to be in each scene
- When will each scene need to be shot
- Where will these scenes need to be shot
- Exit Note: What do you need to film tomorrow and how will you prep for it?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing production schedule
- Filming project
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing production schedule
- Filming project
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing production schedule
- Filming project
- Filming project should be finished today and ready for editing
The week of 10/08/18
MONDAY 10/08
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Intro to Video Production
- Example videos/projects
- Brainstorming potential ideas
- Creating pitches
- Homework: Bring at least one idea for tomorrow that can be adapted into film (your pitch)
- Entrance Activity: Practice your movie pitch
- Pitching video ideas and choosing them
- Beginning video outlines (due tomorrow)
- Introduction to a “Writers room”
- Exit Note: Which idea of those chosen would you like to work on the most?
- Entrance Note: What is a storyboard?
- Taking outlines and storyboarding and scripting them
- Example story boards/scripts
- Storyboards and first draft scripts due tomorrow
- Entrance Activity: Creating plan of action for today’s work
- Working on Scripts and storyboards
- Finishing scripts and storyboards Due Today
- Exit Note: Reflecting on script so far
- No School: Statewide In-Service
The week of 10/01/18
MONDAY 10/01
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing weekly schedule and updating planner
- Listening to Mr. Ruth’s Feedback
- Making a plan for revision
- Exit Note: What is your plan to complete a revised 2nd draft?
- Entrance Activity: What is dialogue and how can it add to a story?
- Dialogue and Paragraph mini-lesson
- Applying it to our writing
- Exit Note: What changes did you make to your writing today? Why?
- Special Assembly and Den Lessons: No Regular Class
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for 2nd draft
- Working on 2nd draft
- Exit Note: Will you have a 2nd finished draft to turn in tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for 2nd draft
- Working on 2nd draft
- 2nd Draft Due today
- Self-Assessment
The week of 9/24/18
MONDAY 9/24
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Sensory Details mini lesson
- Writing
- Exit Note: How might you add sensory details to your writing?
- Entrance Activity: Opening NearPod and answering first question
- Adding details (exploding moment)
- Asking questions for more details
- Writing
- Exit Note: What was your favorite question that someone asked you? What did it inspire?
- Entrance Note: What are the benefits of writing everyday?
- Writing exercises
- Exit Note: Did these exercises help your writing? Why or Why not?
- Entrance Activity: Opening rough drafts and looking at feedback
- Getting Mr. Ruth’s Feedback
- Peer-writing conferences
- Exit Note: What is your plan for revising your writing?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials from yesterday
- Peer-writing conferences
- writing and creating 2nd drafts
- Exit Note: What is your progress on your next draft so far?
The week of 9/17/18
MONDAY 9/17
- Entrance Activity: Getting use to class website
- Google Classroom Scavenger Hunt
- Writing workshop
- Exit note: Finalizing what you are writing for your rough draft
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing work from yesterday and what Mr. Ruth needs to know about your writing
- Writing Workshop: working on rough draft
- Exit Note: Start thinking about something you want to write a rough draft from
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing work from yesterday and what Mr. Ruth needs to know about your writing
- Writing Workshop: working on rough draft
- Exit Note: How confident do you feel in getting your final draft turned in
- Entrance Note: Gathering
- Writing and finishing rough drafts
- Rough Drafts due Today in google classroom
- Reflecting on our rough drafts and giving Mr. Ruth something to focus on
- Entrance Note: Grid of Awesome Friendship-Time Power
- Introduction to digital production
- Exit Note: How might your writing influence your digital production?
The week of 9/10/18
MONDAY 9/10
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing “rules of writing practice” handout
- Finding inspiration for our writing
- Writing Practice
- Exit Note: Preparing for writing workshop tomorrow—what does Mr. Ruth need to know about your writing so far?
- Entrance Activity: Getting out handout from yesterday and reviewing what Mr. Ruth needs to know about your writing
- Writing Workshop
- Exit Note: Start thinking about something you want to write a rough draft from
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing work from yesterday and what Mr. Ruth needs to know about your writing
- Writing Workshop
- Exit Note: Start thinking about something you want to write a rough draft from
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing work from yesterday and what Mr. Ruth needs to know about your writing
- Writing Workshop
- Exit Note: Decide what you want to write your rough draft on
- Entrance Note: What type of story or book will help you the most with creating your rough draft?
- Reading Workshop
- Exit Note: Explain how your reading today is going to inspire your writing for next week
The week of 9/3/18
MONDAY 9/3
LABOR DAY: No School
TUESDAY 9/4
LABOR DAY: No School
TUESDAY 9/4
- Entrance Note: Guess Who Index Cards
- Getting our Writing Journals
- My Brain activity
- Example from Times Magazine
- Fill out my brain
- Fill out their own
- Small group/class sharing
- Free write
- Exit Note: What should the brain of our class look like (factor in school expectations)
- Entrance Writing: What does it mean to be a writer? How do you fit in this definition?
- Overview of class goal
- Video to inspire writing
- Writing in journal
- Exit Note: What is a piece of advice we should follow as a class of writers?
- Entrance Note: What is your favorite genre? Why?
- Introduction to Writing Territories
- Reviewing Mr. Ruth’s Writing Territories
- Creating our own writing territories
- Sharing favorites
- Pick a writing territory to write from
- Closure: Sharing writing
- Entrance Note: What does reading have to do with writing?
- Reading Workshop
- Reading Record
- Personal Vocabulary List
- Closure: What do you expect to get out of this class? What are your aspirations as a writer and creator?