Writing Room 119, Ms.

Neal
Monday
50 minutes:
Descriptive
Type of writing
that creates a
vivid picture
of an idea,
place, or
person
Brainstorm
descriptive
words with
students
Ask students
to write for 15
minutes and
describe their
favorite
animal
without saying
what the
animal is
Have students
read their
piece aloud
and have the
class guess
which animal
they wrote
about

Weekly Lesson Plan Overview Week 1

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
Descriptive
Descriptive
Descriptive
Continue with
Continue with
Continue with
descriptive
descriptive
descriptive
writing
writing
writing
Talk about
Brainstorm
Brainstorm with
sense words,
descriptive
students to find
or words that
words with
descriptive
can be used to
students that
words relating
describe things
pertain to
to food and
that the five
places and
taste
senses do
vacation
Have students
Ask students to
Ask students to
choose a
spend 15
write for 15
favorite kind of
minutes writing
minutes about
food (Mexican,
a descriptive
their favorite
Italian,
piece about
place they have
Japanese, etc.)
their home
traveled to
Students will
Have students
Ask some
get into groups
share piece
students to
based on food
aloud to their
share their
group
classmates
descriptive
Students will
writing with the
chose a favorite
class
food as a group
and describe
how it is made,
then share with
the class their
piece of writing

Friday
50 minutes:
Descriptive
Continue with
descriptive
writing
Brainstorm
with students
for descriptive
words
Have students
participate in
a game where
they draw
descriptive
words from a
hat
Students will
spend 15 to
20 minutes
creating an
original and
descriptive
piece of
writing using
the words
they drew
from the hat
then share
their work
with a partner

Writing Room 119, Ms. Neal

Monday
50 minutes:
Persuasive
Introduce
persuasive
writing a
more
sophisticated
style of
writing where
you express
an opinion or
take a stance
on an issue,
then support
the opinion in
a way that
convinces the
reader to see
it the same
way
Brainstorm
with students
for words they
could use in
their
persuasive
writing
Introduce
prompt for
persuasive
essay

Weekly Lesson Plan Overview Week 1

Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
Persuasive
Persuasive
Persuasive
Work with
Brainstorm with
Give students
students to
students for
the class period
create a strong
words to use in
to finish the
thesis for their
the body of
body of their
persuasive
their papers
papers
paper
Workshop with
Workshop with
Workshop in
students to
students to
small groups to
create strong
create strong
discuss and
topic sentences
concluding
chose a topic
with persuasive
statements that
for their paper
words and
bring their
Give students
statements
persuasive
arguments to a
time to start
close
formulating
their thesis
sentences

Friday
50 minutes:
Persuasive
Give the
students most
of the period
to complete
their papers,
which will be
due at the end
of the period
Workshop with
students to
peer review
and edit their
papers before
turning them
in at the end
of the period

Writing Room 119, Ms. Neal

Weekly Lesson Plan Overview Week 1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
Narrative
Narrative
Narrative
Narrative
Introduce
Share another
Give students
Give students
narrative
short fairytale
the class period
the class period
writing a
with students
to meet with
to finish writing
type of writing
Discuss the
their groups
their narrative
that tells a
and
work
on
pieces
parts of a story
story, can be
their narrative
Have them
with students,
used for
pieces
ensure they
brainstorm and
fictional
Have them
identify the
plan to preform
stories or to
necessary parts
outline the
their fairytales
recount
Have students
necessary parts
to following
something
of their
class periods
get into groups
that happened
fairytales
Any writing
to write their
to them
own narrative
should be
specifically,
pieces
completed by
and it typically
the end of this
uses the first
period
person
Share fairytale
stories with
students as an
example of
narrative
writing

Friday
50 minutes:
Narrative
Have student
groups
preform their
expository
writing pieces
for the rest of
the class

Writing Room 119, Ms. Neal

Weekly Lesson Plan Overview Week 1
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
50 minutes:
Expository
Expository
Expository
Expository
Introduce
Split students
Give students a
Show short
expository
into small
prompt to
samples of
writing
groups and
respond to
writing and
which is tohave them
regarding
have students
the-point and
brainstorm the
expository
determine what
factual,
differences
writing
type of writing
includes
between
Have students
they are and
definitions,
expository
why
chose from the
instructions,
writing and the
number of
directions, and
other three
prompts and
other basic
types they have
work in pairs to
comparisons
learned about in
create
and
the unit
responses
clarifications,
devoid of
it is devoid of
description and
descriptive
opinion
detail and
opinion
Show students
examples of
expository
writing

Friday
50 minutes:
Wrap Up
Have a short
discussion
with students
at the start of
class to review
the different
types of
writing they
have learned
about
Ask students
to chose their
favorite type
of writing and
produce a
final piece of
writing that
corresponds to
their favorite
type
This piece of
writing will be
due the
following class
period