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**Writing for You ** By Samantha Snow  **Subject ** Language Arts **Topic ** Journal activities about you **Grade Level ** 8th grade 

40 minutes Focus/Attention Motivation: 5 minutes Instructional Input & Modeling: 10 minutes Student Engagement/Practice: 20 minutes Closure: 5 minutes 
 * Time Frame **

The overall goal of this lesson is to get the students to express and reflect their feelings into their personal journals. 
 * Overall Goal/ Purpose **

display focus, organization, elaboration and coherence. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Given a journal topic, the students are able to take the topic and elaborate on it using their own experiences. Given that the student has the ability to write a letter to a family member or a friend. Given that the student has written a letter and gotten the person's address they will address an envelope to them by referring to the model. 
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">State Standards **
 * **<span style="display: none; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">IL Correlated Sets ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.2.B.3a || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">> Respond to literary material from personal, creative and critical points of view. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.3.A.3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">> Write compositions that contain complete sentences and effective paragraphs using English conventions. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">IL.3.B.3a || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">> Produce documents that convey a clear understanding and interpretation of ideas and information and
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Instructional Objectives **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Journals Pencil Dry erase board/marker Lined letter paper Envelope Address of person who they are going to write the letter to
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Materials **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Focus Attention/Motivation: When the students come into the class have the bell ringer up on the white board. The journal today is: think of different reasons a person would keep a journal. Then come up with a list of people either fictional or nonfictional, that you would want to write a letter to.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Procedures **

Instructional Input & Modeling: Have the students share the different reasons they think people keep journals. Then have them choose one person from their list to write a letter to. Make sure they are able to get a address for the person, if the person is fictional or dead they can use a made up address and or look up their old address. Before letting the students to begin to write their letter to the person they chose show the students how to correctly address an envelope by showing them a model.

Student Engagement/Practice: Then allow for the students to take time to write their letters, and correctly address their envelope. Give the students the option to mail their letter if the person is real.

Closure: Ask the students how journal entries can serve as an aid when writing a letter or paper. To end have the students do a quick journal by taking two minutes to write about the topic: getting a good or bad grade. 

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Collect the students addressed envelopes to see if they correctly addressed it to the person whom they chose to write to by following the given model. 
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assessment **

(1, 100%) ** || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Student addressed envelope with 100% accuracy. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Student addressed envelope with 70% accuracy. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Student addressed envelope with 50% accuracy. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">No resources added. At-risk students can work with an aid to help them phrase their letter with correct grammar. Also I will put lines on their envelope in the correct spots where each address should go, as a guide for them to follow. Gifted students can write a letter to a historical figure asking them how their life was or how it was different compared to what we live like now. This will challenge the students, and also allow for them to look up their address. ELL students can write their letter and envelope in their native language, and maybe write to a family member who still lives in their native country.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rubric Assessment **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Rubric Assessment ||
 * || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Target (3 pts) ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Acceptable (2 pts) ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unacceptable (1 pt) ** ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Addressed envelope
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Accommodations **