Seventh Grade Short Stories

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Reading Comprehension II

Writing A Descriptive Paragraph

The Giving Tree
 
Standard: Writing
Expectation: W 7.3 Uses a variety of sentence types to construct a paragraph; applies organizational patterns to construct a descriptive paragraph.
Academic Purpose: After observing the video "The Giving Tree", the students will write an 8 to 10 sentence descriptive paragraph about the boy and the tree, applying correct grammar.
Skills: descriptive writing, grammar
Depth Of Knowledge: Create, Meta-Cognitive

Observe the video "The Giving Tree" and write an 8 to 10 sentence descriptive paragraph about it, using the following questions as guide in the comment section. Remember to use as reference the previous paragraph structure applied in class.

Guiding Questions

1. How was the little boy's behavior with the tree?
2. How did it change as he got older?
3. How was the Tree's behavior towards the little boy?
4. How did it change as the boy got older?
5. Is there anything or anyone the Giving Tree remind you of and why?

Homework: copy the paragraph in a piece of composition paper to hand-in class tomorrow.

RUBRIC
4 = the student constructs a descriptive paragraph that exceeds 10 sentences without grammatical errors, uses correct paragraph structure
3 = the student constructs an 8-10 sentence descriptive paragraph, with a maximum of 3-5 grammatical errors, uses correct paragraph structure.
2 = the student constructs a 5-7 sentence descriptive paragraph, with 6-8 grammatical errors, does not use correct paragraph structure.
1 = the student constructs a 1-4 sentence descriptive paragraph, with over 8 grammatical errors, does not use correct paragraph structure.

Reading Selection: What is a Blog?

What is a Blog?

          A blog is a web page where an individual or a group uses an interactive and chronological order format of text, images, media objects, and data. Such information is used with the purpose of having others interact providing their comments and reactions in a particular subject such as journals, brand advertisements and more.

Resource:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog