The week of 6/6/16
MONDAY 6/16
- Entrance Activity: Create an Agenda for your discussion
- Practice discussions
- Working on the poetry packets
- Exit Activity: Preparing to turn in your iPads tomorrow
- *Poetry Packets Due Today*
- Entrance Note: Reading over Discussion Rubric
- Preparing for fishbowl discussion
- Fishbowl Discussions
- Returning iPads
- Entrance Note: Preparing for Fishbowl Discussion
- Finishing Fishbowl Discussions
- Reflecting on Fishbowl Discussion
- Entrance Note: What if questions
- WP# 54: Based on What If Questions
- Choosing activity:
- Sharing stories
- Sharing Poetry
- Impromptu performances: based on What if questions
- Exit Note: Reflecting on activity
- FRIDAY 6/20
- Entrance Note: What is difficutl about sharing your writing with people?
- Sharing Poetry
- Dialogue Journals
- Reflecting on our year
The week of 5/31/16
MONDAY 5/30
- Memorial Day: NO SCHOOL
- Entrance Activity: Reading “Found Poetry”
- WP #53: Based on “Found Poetry”
- Poetry Packet Overview
- Exit Note: Packet Proposal
- Entrance Note: How do we discover poetry?
- Discovering poetry:
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
- Collections of Poetry
- Gathering material for Poetry Packet
- Exit Note: What elements of your poetry packet do you have ready?
- Entrance Activity: More examples of possible packets
- Time to create Poetry Packets/checking in with Mr. Ruth on your progress
- Exit Note: How do the elements you have gathered for your poetry packet all represent the same theme?
- Entrance Note: What makes an effective discussion?
- Practice discussions
- Working on the poetry packets
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 5/23/16
MONDAY 5/23
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- WP #48: “Acceptance” by Robert Frost
- Difficult language: Walt Whitman’s“Song of Myself”
- Exit Activity: You have homework due Wednesday
- Entrance Note: What is Poetry?
- WP #49: “The Bull Rider”
- SSR
- Exit Note: Share your personal spelling words
- 1st Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: How did you “Loaf and Invite Your Soul”?
- WP #50: Reflecting on homework
- Poetry as Song:
- “Would You Be Impressed” by Streetlight Manifesto
- Exit Note: What are some songs that you feel are poetic?
- Entrance Note: What does it mean to “find the poetry in your life”?
- WP #51: Selected poems
- The poetry in my life:
- “Relax” plaque
- Albums and record player
- Exit Activity: You have more homework!
- Entrance Note: How do we identify the theme or central idea of a poem?
- WP #52: Based on the poetry in our lives
- Discussion on the poetry in your lives
- Dialogue journals
The week of 5/16/16
MONDAY 5/16
FRIDAY 5/20
- Entrance Note: Checking weekly schedule
- SSR/Essay make-up day
- Spelling/vocabulary list
- Personal Essay Self-assessment
- Entrance Discussion: Some of the best ways to study for a test
- WP # 47: “Why Do We Make Irrational Decisions?”
- Writing Prompt: Can you think about a situation in which your daily choices are affected by one of the heuristics discussed in this video?
- Spelling/vocabulary list
- Exit Note: What are topics worth researching?
- 1st Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: How do we best develop an argument using evidence and research?
- Introduction to oslis.org
- Selecting group topics and beginning research: Creating works cited page
- Exit Note: What is your group topic and what have you learned so far?
- Entrance Note: What is difficult about doing research?
- Preparing statements for poster discussion
- Beginning poster discussion
- Exit Note: Are you prepared for tomorrow’s spelling/vocabulary test?
FRIDAY 5/20
- Entrance Activity: Reading over poster discussion; reflecting on discussion so far.
- Finishing poster discussion
- Spelling/vocabulary test today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 5/9/16
MONDAY 5/9
FRIDAY 5/13
- Entrance Note: Checking weekly schedule.
- SSR/Essay make-up day
- Spelling/vocabulary list
- Exit Note: What is a word that is most difficult for you?
- Entrance Note: How do we use other writing to inspire our own?
- Guided Writing Practice #46: "Train Time" by D’Arcy McNickle (from collections pg 327)
- Focusing on Character as we read and respond through writing practice.
- Spelling/vocabulary list
- Exit Note: How might “Train Time” inspire your writing?
- 1st Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: Checking emails and getting Mr. Ruth’s feedback
- Peer Writing Conference Records
- Exit Note: What do you plan to do with your writing now that you have gotten this feedback?
- Entrance Note: Filling out "Writing Workshop Form"
- Writing Workshop: Revising
- Exit Note: How has your writing evolved over the course of writing it?
FRIDAY 5/13
- Entrance Activity: What should Mr. Ruth focus on when reading your final draft?
- Writing Workshop: revising and editing
- Writing Process reflection self assessment
- Final Draft due today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 5/2/16
MONDAY 5/2
FRIDAY 5/6
- Entrance Note: Checking weekly schedule.
- Writing Practice #44: Midnight Three & Six
- Finishing Presentations
- Exit Note: Reflecting on presentations.
- Entrance Note: What are some ways to use our writing practices as inspiration for our personal essays?
- Writing Practice #45: “Follow the Chicken”
- Any leftover presentations?
- Finding a favorite writing practice
- Exit Note: Topics for personal essays/How difficult do you think this writing will be?
- 1st Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: Filling out "Writing Workshop Form"
- Writing Workshop: drafting
- Exit Note: How far are you on your essay?
- Entrance Note: What makes a character stand out to you in a story?
- Guided Writing Practice #46: "Train Time" by D’Arcy McNickle (from collections pg 327)
- Focusing on Character as we read and respond through writing practice.
- Time to work on rough drafts.
- Exit Note: How might we apply character to our own writing?
FRIDAY 5/6
- Entrance Activity: What should Mr. Ruth focus on when reading your writing?
- Writing Workshop: drafting and review
- Rough Draft due today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 4/25/16
MONDAY 4/25
FRIDAY 4/29
- Entrance Note: Create one “What if” question.
- Writing Practice #41: Based on our shared “what if” questions
- SSR: With Response Log
- Exit Note: What is one thing you have a difficult time with when presenting your writing?
- Entrance Note: What should you do when (difficulty from yesterday’s exit note)?
- Writing Practice #42: Wiring the Amazon
- Impromptu Speeches
- Exit Note: Impromptu Speech reflections
- 1st Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: What should you do when (difficulty from Monday’s exit note)?
- Finishing up impromptu Speeches
- Creating Speech Notes for your presentations
- Exit Note: Sharing Speech Notes
- Writing Practice #43: True Believers in Justice
- More inspiration for our speeches
- Presenting our Expository Writing
FRIDAY 4/29
- Writing Practice #44: Midnight Three & Six
- Finishing Presentations
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 4/18/16
MONDAY 4/18
THURSDAY 4/21
FRIDAY 4/22
- Entrance Activity: Weekly Schedule
- Writing Practice #38: Gnarly in Pink
- Mini-lesson: Making “Call to Action” Conclusions
- Exit Note: Revising conclusions
- Entrance Note: What does it mean to “cite” your sources? Why do we do this?
- Writing Practice #39: Pass It On
- Mini-lesson: Properly citing our sources and works cited page
- Exit Quiz: Citing Sources
- 1st Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: Reviewing Exit quiz answers
- Final Draft Due Today
- Time to work on final draft:
- peer writing conference/feedback
- proof reading
- Fixing citations
- Exit Note: Self-assessing final draft
THURSDAY 4/21
- Entrance Activity: Get out materials for SSR
- SSR
- Practicing SBAC for ELA
- Exit Note: What is one question you have about SBAC for ELA that didn’t get answered today?
FRIDAY 4/22
- Entrance Note: Questions from yesterday’s exit note
- Writing Practice #40: Vanishing Island
- Practicing SBAC for ELA
- Dialogue journals
The week of 4/11/16
MONDAY 4/11
- Entrance Activity: Weekly Schedule/missing and late work check
- SSR/Late and Missing Work.
- Mini-lesson: Creating Interesting Leads and Introductions
- Exit Note: What might be your new lead?
- Entrance Note: What is a conclusion supposed to do?
- Mini-lesson: Creating Effective and Impactful Conclusions
- Final Draft work time
- Exit Quiz: Properly citing your sources.
- Entrance Activity: Grading and reviewing exit quiz
- Final Draft work time
- Final Draft Due Today
- Dialogue Journals
- Conferences: After School
- Conferences: No School
- No School
The week of 4/4/16
MONDAY 4/4
- Entrance Activity: Weekly Schedule
- SSR
- Sharing What we read today with a partner
- Exit Note: Share one word from your personal spelling list
- Entrance Note: What should an outline look like?
- Writing Practice #37: “An African’s Message to America”
- Close Reader: “History Writing”
- Exit Note: How confident do you feel in being able to finish your rough draft by Thursday?
- First Period Math Facts
- Entrance Activity: Reading “Speech from DNC”
- How to use quotes in our writing mini-lesson using “Speech from DNC”
- Working on Rough Drafts
- Exit Note: TBD
- Entrance Activity: Looking at assignment in Google Classroom
- Rough Drafts due today: Time to work on and finish in class
- Dialogue Journals
- Teacher Work Day: No School
The week of 3/28/16
MONDAY 3/28
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule on class website
- Writing Practice #35: “Melody”
- Classroom norms discussion and activity
- Exit Note: Things worth arguing for
- Entrance Note: Creating electronic Reading log and Personal spelling list
- SSR
- Starting the persuasive/explanatory writing “If I Were Mayor”
- Exit Note: Brainstorming topics and beginning research
- First Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: What would you do as mayor and why? Or, What do you want changed and why?
- Writing Practice #36: Comparing Texts on The Triangle Factory Fire
- How to ask questions and seek answers in our research-looking closely at our performance task expectations for inspiration.
- Exit Note: What is one open-ended question that can aid your writing and research?
- Entrance Note: What is “good” research? And, how do we determine this?
- Mini-lesson: Collecting research/annotated bibliography
- Putting our research into outlines
- Exit Note: Share one piece of research and why you think it is “good” research
- Entrance activity: Sharing outlines with a partner to get feedback
- Research outlines due today with in-progress bibliography
- Starting rough drafts from our outlines
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 3/14/16
MONDAY 3/14
- Entrance Note: What is poetry to you?
- SSR
- Partner sharing of book from today.
- Exit Note: What are the best ways to discuss something you don’t fully understand?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing discussion norms and assigning roles.
- Poetry literature circles with collaborative discussions
- Exit Note: How has your understanding of poetry changed based on our reading and discussions today?
- First Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: What types of poems are there? How are they different?
- Writing Practice #34: “Repetition” by Phil Kaye
- Gathering favorite poems and establishing topics, themes and essential questions.
- Exit Note: What has been your favorite poem so far this week? Why?
- Entrance Note: Why/how do we discuss poetry?
- Close reader: Poems about Nature
- Small group discussion about our answers and what these poems could represent on a deeper level
- Starting poster discussion
- Closure: What are some things you noticed about the poster discussions so far? What can we improve on in our arguments?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing discussion so far, and talking about how we can improve our thinking.
- Finishing poster discussions
- Recapping and reflecting on these discussions
- Dialogue journals
The week of 3/7/16
MONDAY 3/7
- Entrance Activity: Looking over this week’s schedule
- Writing Practice #33: The Man Who Sells the Moon
- Looking over Prospero’s Soliloquy as a mentor text for our own soliloquy
- Learning about our characters and brainstorming their transformation
- Exit Note: What are some questions you have about this assignment?
- Entrance Note: Questions from yesterday’s exit note
- Time to work on soliloquy:
- writing first drafts
- getting peer feedback
- Exit Note: What theme from the play might your character and their transformation represent? and, How does the form of soliloquy affect this theme?
- First Period Math Facts
- Entrance Note: Another question from Monday’s exit note
- Mini-lesson: mistakes to look for when giving feedback and proofreading
- Peer feedback and revision process
- Exit Note: How confident do you feel in finishing and presenting your soliloquy by Friday? and, How do you want to perform your soliloquy?
- Entrance Activity: Watching Prospero’s Soliloquy again for inspiration
- Proofreading soliloquies
- Final drafts due today Beginning Presentations/recording soliloquy
- Exit Note: What are some of the best ways to present you claims and finding?
- Finishing presentations
- In-class writing
- Self-assessment
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/29/16
MONDAY 2/29
- Entrance Activity: What are we doing this week?
- Writing Practice #32: “How to Win an Election”
- Finish up reenactments
- Work on spelling/vocabulary list
- Dialogue Journals (first period)
- Exit Note: Take one topic from today's video and turn it into a theme (a statement of human nature)
- Entrance Note: Why might an author want their characters to transform?
- Reviewing new character map, and preparing to add how characters start to evolve.
- Starting Act 3
- Exit Note: Who is your favorite character so far in the play and why?
- First Period Math Facts
- Entrance Activity: Last minute preparations for spelling test
- Spelling test
- Finishing Reading/watching Act 3
- Exit Note: Summarize ACT 3 in your own words
- Entrance Activity: Introducing “Soliloquy Summative Assessment”
- Starting ACT 4 with focus on character and their transformations.
- Exit Note: How have some of the characters transformed? or, How might they transform by the end of the play?
- Entrance Note: Share some of those difficult words you have been finding in The Tempest, and help each other define them
- Finishing Act 4
- Improvisational Interpretations of scene with Trinculo and Stephano
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/22/16
MONDAY 2/22
- Checking the class website to see this week's Schedule
- Writing Practice # 31: “Summer’s Choice”
- Introduction to Shakespeare: research on him, the play, etc.
- Creating a Shakespeare Wiki through group research on The Tempest and Resources for reading Shakespeare
- Closure: Reviewing our research and making predictions of the play
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between affect effect?
- SSR
- Sharing our books through reading logs
- Time to work on Spelling study guide
- Exit Note: What is your experience with Shakespeare?
- Entrance Note: Review our class wiki on The Tempest
- Reading and watching Act 1 of The Tempest; Identifying themes and central ideas.
- Beginning character map
- Exit Note: Write brief summary of Act 1 so far
- Entrance Note: reviewing potential tone and/or theme of the play so far.
- Finish reading Act 1
- Reenactments based on initial tone, mood, and characters of the play
- Starting Act 2 (if time)
- Closure: What are some one word topics that you find through this play so far?
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between a topic and a theme?
- Mini lesson: turning topics into themes
- Finishing Act 2
- How well do you know The Tempest’s plot so far? (Test)
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/15/16
MONDAY 2/15
No School: President's day
TUESDAY 2/16
No School: President's day
TUESDAY 2/16
- Entrance note: Mini-lesson on using “so” and “very” from grammar girl podcast.
- Working on final drafts of memoirs.
- Individual writing conferences (if time).
- Sending out letter to parents inviting them to view readingExit Note: How prepared are you to share your memoir with a small group of peers?
- Entrance Note: Final draft rubric reading/questions (Quiz, Quiz, Trade).
- Finishing up our final drafts-Proofreading.
- Preparing to share them and discuss
- Exit Note: Share those questions from your sticky notes on the rubric
- Final Draft Due Today!
- Entrance Note: Questions from yesterday’s exit note
- SSR-partner reading: practicing for Friday’s Memoir reading.
- Exit Note: 1-5: how confident do you feel in presenting tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: Memoir final draft self-assessments
- Presentations/sharing with groups… relaxed reading of stories and sharing of covers
- Any whole class presenters?
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/8/16
MONDAY 2/8
- Entrance Note: What is a mentor text, and how can we use it to improve our writing?
- Writing Practice #29: "Allied with Green" by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Small group discussion on what we read and the notes we took; explaining how we can apply this writing to our own.
- Exit Note: What is one thing you noticed from today’s reading that you would like to try in your own writing?
- Entrance Note: What are sensory details?
- SSR-Looking for those sensory details in what we read today.
- Handout Spelling study guide for next spelling test
- Exit Note: Please share one example of sensory details that you found in your book today.
- Entrance Note: preparing your partners to read your rough drafts.
- Peer-writing conference with prepared ideas for discussion and response
- Revising our rough drafts
- Exit Note: How prepared are you to submit a final draft by Friday?
- Entrance Note: What do you want to improve on for your final draft?
- Day to work on final drafts
- Mini-lesson on grammar and proofreading
- Drawing our cover pages; how might you represent your story through a piece of art?
- Closure: Does your memoir have a deeper meaning?
- Final drafts due; first half of class devoted to preparing cover page and final draft to share and explore with classmates
- Literature circle discussion based on our stories
- Presentations/sharing with groups… relaxed reading of stories and sharing of covers (may move to next week)
- Memoir final draft self-assessments
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/1/16
MONDAY 2/1
- Entrance Note: Check website for weekly schedule
- Writing Practice #27: "Another Kind of Girl"
- Finishing presentations
- Work on spelling list if time
- Exit Note: Who has the book creator app? Writing down names to get them the correct app with full features.
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
- Creating books to keep track of our reading and our spelling words
- SSR
- Sharing personal spelling words
- Exit Note: Share one metaphor or simile from a book that you read today.
- Writing Practice # 28: "The Hidden Southwest: The Arch Hunters," by James Vlahos
- As you write today focus on creating possible metaphors or similes
- Memoir rubric/ getting started by “drawing our drafts”
- Exit Note Level 1, 2, or 3 questions surrounding memoirs or what is expected of you in this assignment.
- Entrance Note: From yesterday’s exit note…
- Time to work on and turn our thoughts into a rough draft.
- Last day to turn in late work…
- Closure: How confident do you feel in creating a finished rough draft of your memoir?
- Entrance Note: What is one word that you are still struggling with or need an example of?
- Spelling test
- Rough Draft of memoir due
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/25/16
MONDAY 1/25
- No School-Teacher work day
- Entrance Note: Check Website for this weeks schedule
- SSR-Sharing our books with a partner
- Introduction to the new spelling study guide with time to work on that
- Exit Note: Summarize in 6 words what read in your book today
- Entrance Note: What is a memoir?
- Memoir on nature pre-test/activity
- More time to work on Spelling guide
- Closure: How can nature inspire or affect your experiences?
- Entrance Note: What are some strategies you use to brainstorm before you start writing?
- Writing Practice #25: “The Doctor Who Saved 100,000 Eyes”
- Anticipation guide: Sentence preview from Memoir, by Eddy Harris, from Mississippi Solo
- Work on spelling guide (if time)
- Closure: Where might you take your writing?
- Entrance Note: What are some good techniques for taking notes?
- Introduction to Cornell Notes
- Reading: Memoir, by Eddy Harris, from Mississippi Solo
- How did your predictions match up with what happened in the story?
- Responding through small group discussion/presentation; focusing heavily on the elements of story and plot
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/18/16
MONDAY 1/18
- No School-Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Entrance Note: How do we respond to other’s writing?
- Responding to our peers writing through google docs
- Putting our writing process thus far into book creator to keep it all in one easy to access place
- Closure: Creating a new doc for the final draft
- Strong Kids-review of lesson 1 (1st period only)
- Entrance Note: How do we take responses from others and use them constructively?
- Mini-lesson on structuring our arguments
- Creating 2nd drafts of our opinion pieces and recording presentations
- Exit Note: How are you going to want to present your opinions? How prepared are you for that?
- Entrance Note: Opinion piece and video presentation due today. What will you need to be turning in by the end of the period and where?
- Peer and self-editing before submitting your final draft.
- Turn in your final draft and all the elements of the writing process into the google classroom
- Writing Practice #25 (if time allows): “The Doctor Who Saved 100,000 Eyes”
- Presenting our opinion pieces/ make-up and missing work
- Dialogue journals
The week of 1/11/16
MONDAY 1/11
- Entrance Note: Check the website to update your planner app.
- Finishing up improv presentations (1st and 6th only)
- Writing Practice #23: “Daredevil on a Snowmobile”
- Sharing our writing
- Time to work on our vocabulary study guide
- Closure: Where might you want to take your writing?
- Dialogue Journals (1st and 6th only).
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between an opinion and an argument?
- SSR Choice reading
- Sharing your words through google form
- Work on vocabulary study guide
- Closure: Sharing some of your reading with a new person.
- Entrance Note: What does the phrase “Seeing is Believing” mean?
- Strong Kids (1st period only)
- Creating an opinion piece based on the phrase “Seeing is Believing”
- Finding quotes to turn our opinions into arguments.
- Exit Note: Are you ready for tomorrows spelling/ vocabulary test? (1-5)
- Entrance Note: What are some tough words from your spelling list that you need help defining or using in a sentence?
- Last minute time to study
- Spelling/vocabulary test
- Mini lesson on incorporating your quotes in new and interesting ways
- Closure: How confident do you feel in creating your rough draft of your opinion piece? (1-5)
- Entrance Note: What is your technique to writing a rough draft from your notes?
- Writing Practice #24: “Animated Life: Mary Leakey”
- Writing rough drafts of our opinion pieces
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/4/16
Happy New Year! This week we will be spending time getting back into the groove of school, as well as introducing some new vocabulary words, some types of writing, and new ways to analyze the literature we read, hear, and watch.
MONDAY 1/4
MONDAY 1/4
- Entrance Note: Check out website and update planner app
- WP #21: “Verbatim: Expert Witness”
- Classroom/School expectations powerpoint
- Vocabulary study guide
- Closure: What are some difficult words that you think you might have trouble with?
- Word(s) of the week: "Feature" and "Tone"
- Classroom/school expectations Powerpoint
- SSR Choice reading
- Electronic vocabulary sheet (using Book Creator app)
- Time to work on vocabulary study guide
- Closure: Paragraph summarizing what you read today with analysis of potential theme (handout) Sharing your responses and experiences with a partner.
- Strong Kids (1st period only)
- Entrance note: Can the structure of a piece of writing affect its overall meaning or message? How so?
- Introduction to plays and ideas of structure (worksheet/pretest)
- Intro to “Sorry, Wrong Number”
- Mini research through collaborative google doc on the author of the play, background of the play, etc.
- Sharing interesting facts with the class
- Closure: Review what your classmates have added to the google doc; what do you find most interesting or helpful?
- Entrance Note: How can the structure of a play add to its meaning?
- Writing Practice #22: “The Other Side of the Mountain”
- Use small groups and concept cards to make predictions based on our research from yesterday
- Start reading/listening to the play
- Time to work on vocabulary study guide
- closure: Are your predictions matching up with what is happening in the play?
- Entrance Note: What are tone and theme? and, How can they add to overall meaning of a piece of literature?
- Finish reading/listening to "Sorry, Wrong Number"
- Identify tone and theme of the radioplay as we read it
- Creating and performing improvisational sketches based on that tone and theme (formative of S/L-4)
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 12/14/15
MONDAY 12/14
- Entrance Note: What are 3 topics or themes you have noticed so far in your book?
- WP # 20: From their own books; this will act as a good jumping off point for their expository writing that will go along with their project
- Time to work on projects that will be due by Friday
- Exit Note: Fishbowl Discussion check off list
- Entrance Note: What is one quote from your book that represents a topic or theme from your book?
- Choose your lesson:
- Discussion #6: This will be another fishbowl style discussion to get them prepared for tomorrow’s official discussion
- SSR to better prepare notes for discussion
- Project work time
- Closure: show of fingers on how prepared do you feel for your discussion?
- Entrance Note: double check Fishbowl discussion check list
- Official fishbowl discussions: There will be two groups speaking at once, with the remaining groups listening, taking notes, and assessing the group. I will be monitoring both groups at once, switching from discussion to discussion with my own assessment sheet that is more individualized than the ones for the groups listening
- Exit Note: self-assessment of discussions from today
- Entrance Note: Sharing books with the world check list
- Any leftover discussions from yesterday
- Time to work on our projects and prepare for our presentations
- Exit Note through Google form, self-assessment of discussions from today and/or “How ready are you to present your projects tomorrow?”
- Entrance note: Ten minutes to prepare to present their project, using the checklist as a guide
- Project presentations for the first half of class
- In class writing explaining how their projects represent their books, along with specific quotes, their own analysis and summaries of theme from their book that their project should represent
- Dialogue journals
The week of 12/7/15
MONDAY 12/7
- Writing Practice # 19: “Who Speaks Wukchumni”
- Some SSR with note taking to prepare for tomorrow’s discussion.
- * 6th & 7th period will be having Discussion #3 on Monday after writing practice.
- Closure: How prepared do you feel for your discussion?
- * 6th & 7th period will be self-assessing their discussion through a google form.
- Entrance Note: What do we talk about when we talk about literature?
- Discussion #3: Using role sheets and knowledge from reading, students will discuss their book, focusing on specific elements that they establish through their “agenda”
- * 6th & 7th period had their discussion yesterday so today is all SSR.
- SSR with emphasis on vocabulary, new words and creating interesting sentences from them.
- Exit Note through Google form, self-assessment of discussions from today.
- * 6th & 7th will be sharing their vocabulary words with example sentences through a google form.
- SSR with emphasis on vocabulary, new words and creating interesting sentences from them.
- Google form to share their favorite words that they have found with definitions and example sentences.
- Discussion #4: Using role sheets and knowledge from reading, students will discuss their book, focusing on specific elements that they establish through their “agenda”
- Exit Note through Google form, self-assessment of discussions from today.
- Discussion #5: 12 minute discussion using role sheets and knowledge from reading, students will discuss their book, focusing on specific elements that they establish through their “agenda”
- Discussion # 6: Collaborative discussion/sharing your books with other groups by explaining/summarizing themes and central ideas.
- Exit Note: How might we share our books with the world (this class)?
- Project proposals: Students will identify how they want to share their books. There will be a range of potential projects for them to choose from and they will create a proposal for me to approve based on criteria that we have established; there must be a writing element, explaining how their project reflects their knowledge and analysis of their books using evidence. As long as this is possible then assignments should be approved.
- Dialogue journals