Writing Curriculum Calendar By Week: Dates Essential Questions

Writing Curriculum Calendar By Week
WEEK
Dates
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
August 25
August 27th
th
September
1st
September
3rd
IDEAS
Unit Essential Question:
How can we come up with good ideas for
personal writing?
IDEAS
Unit Essential Question:
How can we come up with good ideas for
personal writing?
Core Content & CC

Standards
CCSS.ELALITERACY.CCRA.W.3
Write narratives to
develop real or
imagined experiences
or events using
effective technique,
well-chosen details
and well-structured
event sequences.
Gather relevant
information from
multiple print and
digital sources, assess
the credibility and
accuracy of each
source, and integrate
the information while
avoiding plagiarism.
Resources/Materials/
Assessments
Resources:
Brainstorm Web GO
Assessment:
Six Traits Rubric
Ideas Rubric
Link to Rubric
Resources:
RAFTS
Call it out
Picture This
Assessment:
Link to Rubric
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2.B
September
8th
September
10th
Develop the topic

IDEAS
Unit Essential Question: How can we take our with relevant, wellchosen facts,
ideas from broad to specific?
definitions, concrete
details, quotations, or
other information
and examples.
Resources:
Assessment:
Link to Rubric
September
15th
September
17th
WEEK #
5
IDEAS
Unit Essential Question: How can we take our CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2.B
Develop the topic
ideas from broad to specific?
with relevant, wellchosen facts,
other information
and examples.
#Days
September
22
September
24
September
29th
October
1st
October 6th
October 8th
UNIT TITLE AND ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
CONVENTIONS
Unit Essential Questions: Why does
grammar matter?
How has grammar been changed by
technology?
ORGANIZATION
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT
DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONAL STYLES
(TEXT STRUCTURES) ARE THERE?
ORGANIZATION
Unit Essential Questions: HOW DO I
WRITE A GOOD INTRODUCTION?
Core Content & CC

Standards
Develop and
strengthen writing as
needed by planning,
revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a
new approach.
CCSS.ELALITERACY.W.8.2
Write
informative/explanatory
texts to examine a topic
and convey ideas, concepts,
and information through
the selection, organization,
and analysis of relevant
content.
CCSS.ELALITERACY.W.8.2.A
Introduce a topic clearly,
previewing what is to
Resources:
GO of webbing
Assessment:
Link to Rubric
Assessments
Resources:
6 Traits Writing Workbook
Assessment:
Check student edits on sample
paper
Resources:
GO's from 6 Traits Writing
Book
Assessment:
Resources:
follow; organize ideas,

concepts, and information
into broader categories;
include formatting (e.g.,
headings), graphics (e.g.,
charts, tables), and
multimedia when useful to
aiding comprehension.
Assessment:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.1.E
October
13th
October
15th
October
20th
October
22nd
ORGANIZATION
WRITE A GOOD CONLUSION?
*LAST WEEK OF FIRST GRADING PERIOD*
ORGANIZATION
BEEF UP MY BODY PARAGRAPHS WITH
TEXT BASED EVIDENCE?
Provide a concluding
statement or section
that follows from and
supports the
argument presented.
Resources:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2.B
Resources:
Develop the topic

with relevant, wellchosen facts,
other information
and examples.
Assessment:
Assessment:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.4
10
11
October
27th
October
29th
November
3rd
November
5th
ORGANIZATION
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT TYPES
OF PLANNING WORKS BEST FOR ME?
(HOW DO I CHOOSE THE RIGHT
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER FOR MY
WRITING ASSIGNMENT?)
Produce clear and

coherent writing in
which the
development,
organization, and
style are appropriate
to task, purpose, and
audience
ORGANIZATION
WRITE GREAT TRANSITIONS?
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.3.C
Use a variety of
transition words,
phrases, and clauses
to convey sequence,
Resources:
Assessment:
Resources:
signal shifts from one

time frame or setting
to another, and show
the relationships
among experiences
and events.
Assessment:
12
November
10TH
November
12TH
ORGANIZATION
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT TYPES
OF TEXT STRUCTURES DO MY
FAVORITE AUTHORS USE AND WHY?
Produce clear and

coherent writing in
which the
development,
organization, and
audience.
Resources:
Assessment:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2.C
13
FALL
BREAK
14
15
November
17th
November
19th
November
3rd
November
5th
December
1st
December
3rd
December
ORGANIZATION/CONVENTIONS
WRITE GREAT TRANSITIONS?
FALL BREAK
CONVENTIONS
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT
STRATEGIES CAN I USE TO IMPROVE
MY SPELLING?
PUBLISH
Unit Essential Questions: HOW SHOULD
Use appropriate and

varied transitions to
create cohesion and
clarify the
relationships among
ideas and concepts.
FALL BREAK
Resources:
Assessment:
FALL BREAK
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.8.2.D
Use precise language

and domain-specific
vocabulary to inform
about or explain the
topic.
Resources:
Assessment:
Use technology,
Resources:
8th
December
10th
MY WRITING LOOK ON THE PRINTED

PAGE?
WHY (& WHERE) SHOULD I PUBLISH?
WEEK #
16
17
#Days
December
15th
December
17th
Unit Title/ Due Dates / Essential

Questions
VOICE
Unit Essential Questions: How do my
favorite authors use their voice in
writing?
December
22nd
December
24th
WINTER BREAK
December
29th
December
31st
WINTER BREAK
January
VOICE
including the
Internet, to produce
and publish writing
and present the
relationships
between information
and ideas efficiently
as well as to interact
and collaborate with
others.
Core Content & CC

Standards
Assessment:
Assessments
Write narratives to
develop real or
or events using
relevant descriptive
details, and wellstructured event
sequences.
Resources:
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
WINTER BREAK
Assessment:
WINTER BREAK
Write narratives to
Resources:
5th
January
7th
SPEAK TO MY READER?
develop real or
or events using
sequences.
Assessment:

WEEK #
#Days
18
January 12th
January
HOW DO I CHOOSE MORE POWERFUL
14th
NOUNS, VERBS & ADJECTIVES?
19
20
January 19
January 21
January 26
January 28th

Questions
WORD CHOICE
VOICE
Unit Essential Questions: HOW CAN I
BE MORE PERSONAL IN MY
WRITING?
PUBLISH
Unit Essential Questions: HOW
SHOULD MY WRITING LOOK ON THE
PRINTED PAGE?
WHY (& WHERE) SHOULD I
Core Content & CC

Standards
Draw evidence from

literary or
informational texts to
support analysis,
reflection, and
research.
Write narratives to
develop real or
or events using
sequences.
Assessments
Resources:
Assessment:
Resources:
Assessment:
Use technology,
including the
and publish writing
and present the
Resources:
Assessment:
PUBLISH?
21
WEEK #
22
23
February 2nd WORD CHOICE

February
HOW DO AUTHORS USE DESCRIPTIVE
4th
WRITING TO PUT ME IN THEIR WORLD?
#Days
February 9th
February
11th
February
16th
February
18th

Questions
SENTENCE FLUENCY
VARY MY SENTENCE STRUCTURE?
WHAT EFFECT DOES IT HAVE?
SENTENCE FLUENCY
VARY MY SENTENCE STRUCTURE?
WHAT EFFECT DOES IT HAVE
relationships
between information
others.
Resources:
Draw evidence from

literary or
support analysis,
reflection, and
research.
Assessment:
Core Content & CC

Standards
Assessments
Resources:
Produce clear and

coherent writing in
which the
development,
organization, and
audience.
Assessment:
Resources:
Produce clear and

coherent writing in
which the
development,
organization, and
Assessment:

audience.
24
25
February 23 SENTENCE FLUENCY

February
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT ARE
25th
COMPOUND AND COMPLEX
SENTENCES?
March 1
March 3rd
st
SENTENCE FLUENCY
Unit Essential Questions: HOW DO
POETS USE SENTENCE FLUENCY TO
ACHIEVE THE EFFECTS THEY WANT?
Produce clear and

coherent writing in
which the
development,
organization, and
audience.
Draw evidence from

literary or
support analysis,
reflection, and
research.
Resources:
Assessment:
Resources:
Assessment:

WEEK #
26
#Days
March
8th
March
10th
Unit Title / Essential Questions
Core Content & CC

Standards
PUBLISH
Unit Essential Questions: HOW DO I BEST
PRESENT MY WRITING TO OTHERS?
Use technology,
including the
and publish writing
and present the
relationships
between information
others.
Assessments
Resources:
Assessment:
March
15th
March
17th
27
March
22nd
March
24th
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
POETRY/IDEAS
GENERATE IDEAS FOR PERSONAL
NARRATIVE POEMS?
Draw evidence from

literary or
support analysis,
reflection, and
research.
SPRING BREAK
Resources:
Assessment:
*LAST WEEK OF THIRD GRADING PERIOD*
28
WEEK #
29
March
29th
March
31st
POETRY/IDEAS
GENERATE IDEAS FOR PERSONAL
NARRATIVE POEMS?
#Days
Core Content & CC

Standards
Assessments
POETRY
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT STYLES
OF POETRY ARE THERE? WHAT STYLE
SHOULD I USE TO DEVELOP MY POEM
IDEAS?
Resources:
Bronx Masquerade & Other
Classroom Poetry Books.
POETRY
April
5th
April
7th
Draw evidence from

literary or
support analysis,
reflection, and
research.
Write narratives to
develop real or
or events using
well-chosen details
and well-structured
event sequences.
Resources:
sample work from last year
Assessment:
poetry rubric
Assessment:
30
31
32
April
12th
April
14th
April
19th
April
21st
April
26th
April
28th

REVISE MY POEMS?
POETRY
Unit Essential Questions: HOW DO I EDIT
MY POEMS?
POETRY
Unit Essential Questions: WHAT IS A
POETRY SLAM? HOW DO I PARTICIPATE
?
Develop and
needed by planning,
revising, editing,
new approach.
Resources:
Resources:
Word Choice worksheets to
improve simple adjectives
Develop and
needed by planning,
revising, editing,
new approach.
Assessment:
Assessment:
Resources:
Heard 'Em Say video of Tampa
teens speaking poetry
Write routinely over

extended time frames
(time for research,
reflection, and
Assessment:
revision) and shorter
time frames (a single
sitting or a day or
two) for a range of
tasks, purposes, and
audiences.

WEEK #
33
#Days
May
3rd
May
5th
Core Content & CC

Standards
Assessments
ANNUAL SPELLING BEE/ CONVENTIONS

STUDY FOR THE SPELLING BEE?
Produce clear and coherent
writing in which the development,
organization, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and
audience. (Grade-specific
expectations for writing types are
defined in standards 1-3 above.)
Resources:
video of last year's bee and
study skills unit in textbook
Assessment:
34
35
36
37
May
10th
May
12th
May
17th
May
19th
ORGANIZATION
WRITE A RESUME?
ORGANIZATION
WRITE A RESUME?
May
24th
May
26th
PUBLISH
PUBLISH AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO?
May
31st
June
1st
PUBLISH
Write routinely over extended
time frames (time for research,
reflection, and revision) and
shorter time frames (a single
sitting or a day or two) for a range
of discipline-specific tasks,
purposes, and audiences.
Resources:
Assessment:
Resources:
online resume templates
Assessment:
Resources:
Assessment:
Use technology, including the
Internet, to produce and
publish writing and present
the relationships between
information and ideas
efficiently as well as to
interact and collaborate with
others.
Resources:
Assessment:
others.
38
June
7th
June
9th
PUBLISH
others.
Resources:
Assessment:

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