Mean McMurrin - Reader's/Writer's Notebook

Mean McMurrin
7th Grade English

Reader's/Writer's Notebook

Date	Title
3/7	What is identity?
3/8	QW: How identity is formed
3/9
3/9	"The White Umbrella" Comprehension Questions
3/9	Meaningful Sentences #7
3/14	Why the Narrator Lies t-chart
3/15	QW: Why the narrator lies
3/16
3/17	Theme Tree: "The White Umbrella"
3/18	Topics in Literature
3/21	Structure of a Theme Essay
3/21	QW: Theme in "The White Umbrella"
3/22	Vocab List #8
3/22	Vocabulary Paragraph
3/23	Lemons and Oranges

Date	Title
11/29
11/29	Thinking, Reading, and Writing Like a Reporter
11/29	What We Know About the Northridge Earthquake
11/30	Somebody/Wanted/But/So Northridge Earthquake
12/1
	QW: What Yuma Found Significant
12/7	QW: What I Learned About Newspapers
12/8
12/8	Interview: Significance of the Northridge Earthquake
12/8	Interview Notes
12/8	Vocab List #5
12/8	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
12/14
12/14	Under the Surface Questions about the Text
12/14	Write About: Nebraska's Safe Haven Law
12/15	Somebody/Wanted/But/So: Nebraska's Safe Haven Law
12/15	Organization of a News Article
12/16	Visual Questioning: Chilean Miners
1/10	Vocab List #6
1/10	What We Know About Hurricane Katrina
1/10	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
1/18	Compare and Contrast Signal Words

	QW: What does the reporter want us to know?
	Somebody/Wanted/But/So Bullying article

	QW: What should be done about bullying?
	Citation Practice
	Context Clues Practice
	QW: What the Reporters Want Us to Know
	Visual Questioning
	Lesson 3: Context Clues
2/22	Research Report Rough Outline
2/22	Research Report Draft
3/3	Lesson 20: Bibliography

Narrative Unit Notebook

Date	Title	Page #
9/14	Academic and Personal Goals
9/15	What is Narrative?
9/15	House Diagram
9/17	My Incidents
9/17	House Story
9/21	Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Comprehension Questions
9/22	QW: Analyzing Characters in the Text
9/23	Significant Sentences: Character Analysis
9/24	Character Traits
9/29	QW: $100
9/30	"A Hundred Bucks of Happy" Comprehension Questions
10/5	QW: Character Analysis
10/5	Character Analysis Bubble Map
10/7	Climbing the Plot Mountain
10/11	"A Hundred Bucks of Happy" Plot Flow Map
10/11	Vocabulary List #2
10/11	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
	My Quiz Scores
	Figurative Language in "A Hundred Bucks of Happy"
	Simile or Metaphor?
	Figurative Language in "A Hundred Bucks of Happy"
10/18	Vocab List #3
08/18	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
10/18	"Everything Will Be Okay" Comprehension Questions
10/20	QW: My Reaction to "Everything Will Be Okay"
10/20	Under-the-surface questions about the text
10/21	Reflect on the inquiry-based discussion
10/22	Review academic and personal goals
10/25	Vocab List #4
10/25	Meaningful Vocab Sentences
10/25	Point of View
10/26	QW: Point of view in the text
10/26	First Person to Third Person
10/27	Sensory Details
	Figurative Language in "Everything Will Be Okay"
	Active and Passive Voice
	Character Analysis Bubble Map
	Active and Passive Verbs
	Analogy
	A-Z
	Reflect on Learning