Instructor: Debbie East

Write the dates in this column that correspond with the semester you are taking the course. Don’t count Spring Break as a week.

Go to Quick Start Help for Students

Visit the SiteScape Complete Help Guide for Students

Read Topic Introductions:

1. Writer’s Notebook

2. The Teaching of Writing

Introductions are  on-line. (These two introductions refer to the assignments that start next week).

Go to Getting to Know Us discussion folder and follow the directions for your first posting. Each week you will need to post by noon on Saturday, and respond to two colleague's postings by 6 pm Sunday.

Introduction

Calkins: Ch. 1-6 Writing Essentials
Lessons from Children

Post a Reader Response to any of the readings (listed to the left) in the "Week 2 Folder" by noon Saturday.
Respond/React to two other  postings by 6 pm, Sunday. This will serve as our class discussion. 

Calkins: Ch. 7-10 Writing throughout
Childhood

Continue your own writing at least 5 times a week. This can include all kinds of informal writing.

Calkins: 11-12

Anderson: 1-53

L&W: 5-20
 

Writing Groups: Heads-up! You will be writing a down draft in your team sites during week 6, so begin thinking about ideas from your notebook you may want to "flesh out"

Calkins: Ch. 13 & 14, 24 
Conferring

L&W: 21-39

Calkins: Ch. 16, 18 

Anderson: 54-83
 
 
 

Writing Groups

To help with writing groups, The writer should include a short introduction about the piece being posted, concerns, questions and places you need help.

Writing Groups

Post a draft or revision of something you’ve written in your team space area on SiteScape by Saturday, noon. Respond to the writing of all other group members by Sunday, midnight.

Calkins: Ch 21,22

Anderson: 84-108

L&W: 41-74

Inquiry Project: Use some of your daily writing time to brainstorm issues, ideas, conflicts, curiosities about writing and the teaching of writing that might become a research question for your project. 

Inquiry Project: 

You have the option of emailing your inquiry projectquestions to the instructor for response.

L&W: 41-74
(Don't worry--lots of pictures on these pages!)
 

Writing Groups: Heads-up!In addition to your regular meeting next week, you may want to share and discuss possible questions for your inquiry project.

Inquiry Project

Begin to solidify inquiry questions.

Plot Treatment, How do you know when you’re done? 

Calkins: Ch. 19 

Anderson: 109-130

L&W: 75-88

Writing Groups

Post a revision of something you’ve written in your team space area on SiteScape by Saturday, noon. Respond to the writing of all other group members by Sunday, midnight..

Calkins: Ch. 22 & 26

Anderson: 131-153

Calkins: Ch. 27 & 28 
 

Writing Groups: You may ask for response to drafts of sections of your inquiry paper from members of your writing group, the instructor, or others in the class via e-mail. 

Writing Groups
 Create rubrics with teammmates that will assess the writings. **Send final draft of writing piece and rubrics with copy of inquiry project and copy of writer's notebook.