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=Bell Ringer: Complete Survey (10 minutes)=

=Word Study=

Implore and Entreat
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**Read Aloud**
 * Video: //Totally Like Whatever, you know?// (poem by Taylor Mali)

=Writing Workshop=
 * Free Write (5 minutes): ** What do you want to be? **
 * Writer's Notebook--MUST HAVE ONE BY FRIDAY (I'm taking a grade!) This can't just be loose paper in your binder. It must be a removable journal or spiral notebook that you can turn in to me. Remember, I have some for sale for $1 if you need one.
 * **First Tab: Writing**
 * ** Second Tab: Writer's Eye **
 * ** Third Tab: Words & Phrases **
 * ** Fourth Tab: Golden Lines **
 * Read Aloud: "Reading Like a Writer" from //Live Writing: Breathing Life Into Your Words// by Ralph Fletcher
 * Attach Participles Mini-Handbook in Golden Lines section.

=Independent Reading/Writing=
 * Small Group Conferences: Participial Phrases
 * Publish to your blog your final essay on "Ka-Ching."
 * Copy the link to the SPECIFIC Blog Post, and paste it in the wiki discussion tab.
 * When you finish, read, journal, and update your reading log. As you read, look for participial phrases, and add a few sparkling ones to your Writer's Notebook under the participle mini-hand-book you attached today.


 * If you do not post the link to your blog post (with the final copy of your essay) by the end of this class, you will suffer penalty points (-20). **

=Homework=
 * Read like a wolf eats!
 * Add some sparkling participial phrases to your Writer's Notebook.