April 25, 2019

Objective:  I can produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience (W11-12.4).
Agenda:

• Entry Task:  Quickwrite--what are some of the rules you learned in kindergarten?  To what extent are those rules still applicable to life for you today?
  
• Copy the definition of credo and precept into your journal
  
  • Credo:  A personal statement about life
    
  • Precept:  A rule, instruction, or principle that guides somebody’s actions and/or moral behavior
    
• Follow along, highlight phrases you agree with, as we read Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”
  
• After reading, review at least 5 statements we highlighted as a class
  
• If a personal credo can be considered a literary genre, what are some conventions that would characterize this genre based on Fulghum’s example?  Find and label the following:
  
  • Imperative sentence
    
  • Compound sentence with parallel structure
    
  • Dash--
    
  • Ellipsis . . .
    
  • Polysyndeton is a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed.
    
• Review the directions for “My Credo” in your Journal Rubric
  
  • Fold and tape the reading into your work
    
  • Begin with your perception of life, identify where you learned important precepts
    
  • List your 14-16 precepts, using at least 3 of the syntactic structures analyzed
    
  • Close with a reflective commentary and a related call to action
    
• Exit Task:  Be ready to type your credo tomorrow; we will also take a test over all three sets of vocabulary.