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Lay Your Foundation

Planning
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DISCUSS:
Choose a rule. What do you think might be the reason for the rule?
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Get your supplies.
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Get your Planning worksheet and your notes. Put them side by side.
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Write the start of your opinion statement.
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Write your reason 1.
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Read your notes and choose one detail that you think is exciting.
Mark it with a check mark.
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Read your notes again and choose at least one more detail
that you think Hailey will like. Mark it with a check mark.
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Copy the checkmarked details onto the “details” section for reason 1.
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Write your reason 2.
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Choose at least two details for your reason 2. Mark them with a
check mark.
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Copy the checkmarked details onto your Planning worksheet.
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Write the start of your conclusion.
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Write your final thought.
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Read your writing plan.
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Lay Your Foundation
Planning

Students will...

Print Prep
  • use their notes to make a plan for their writing.

  • plan an introduction, 2 reasons with details, and a conclusion.

Before this lesson...

Students should have completed Lesson 1 of this unit.
What you’ll need for student
Rock Camp: Planning worksheet 1 per student
Camp Flyer from previous lesson
1 per student
Max Letter from previous lesson
1 per student
Rock Camp Notes from previous lesson
1 per student

OPTIONAL SUPPLIES

Rock Camp: Sample Planning teacher-only resource 1 per class
Sample notes from previous lesson
1 per class
Prep Instructions

Students will need to bring their completed work from the previous lessons to this lesson.

Sample Notes can be used to support students during this lesson or students who were absent.

Standards

Jump to

Introduction

10 mins

Writing Activity

20 mins

Extend this lesson

Partner Activity

Partner Activity

With a partner, share which camp activities you like best. Brainstorm reasons and details about them.

Video

Video

Learn about other rocks in this Mystery Science mini-lesson: How are diamonds made?.

Transcripts

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Rock Camp Lesson 2: Lay Your Foundation

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