Mini-Lesson+for+Genres

Mini-Lesson Grade: 5th GLCEs: Standard 1, LE: BM: 1, 2,3,4,5. Standard 3 LE: BM: 4,5,6,8. Standard 7.LE.BM:3, 4. Standard 8:LE.BM:3.Standard 10.LE BM1.Standard 12 LE.BM 2. Materials: Sample Meap for example (Elementary), Meaps examples for the class (Elementary), projector, pen. Lesson: I am going to tell the class we are going to be learning about, and getting prepared for Writing on Demand. Writing on Demand is writing a paper after you are a given a prompt, and you have to write paper in a limited amount of time. I am going to tell them today we are going to be looking at essays that are already written from an essay test, from the MEAP. I am going to go over a practice paper with them, so they know what they are doing. I am going to do these three things with the paper, working backward (Gere 16), changing wording (Gere 12), and writing in different genres (Calkins 357), and general revisions. They are going to write these in their writing notebooks. Assignment: 1. They are going to look at an essay paper (the same one) individually and read the essay and then write a number of prompts that could have caused the essay. (Working Backward) 2. They are going to go through the essay and look at words they did not know how to spell, and come up with a different word to use that would work for the same word. 3. Think of a different genre they could have wrote the essay in.

Assessment: 4. I am going to check to make sure everyone has a couple of guesses on the prompt. When they do, I will tell them what the prompt was. I am going to have them remember a previous writing and relate it to this prompt (Calkins 41). 5. We are going to share their ideas after we are all done.