The week of 5/29/17
MONDAY 5/29
No School: Memorial Day
TUESDAY 5/30
No School: Memorial Day
TUESDAY 5/30
- Entrance Note: How did you “Loaf and Invite Your Soul”?
- WP #45: Reflecting on homework
- Intro to Song as Poetry: “Became” by Atmosphere
- 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: What is a song in your life that you find poetic and why?
- Another example song from Mr. Ruth
- 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 4/10/17
MONDAY 4/10
WEDNESDAY 4/12
- Entrance Note: Making sure "AirSecure" app is correctly installed
- Practicing SBAC
- Slam Poetry Rubric and Overview
- Examples of slam poems (partners and solo)
- Time for writing and practicing
- Exit Note: What topic is your poem inspired by?
- Entrance Note: How do we make our body movements and inflections of voice as much a part of our message as our words are?
- More examples of slam (partners and singles-with a lot of body language)
- Writing and practice day
- Exit Note: What is your biggest concern with our Slam Poem project? What are you most excited about?
WEDNESDAY 4/12
- Entrance Note: What is the best way to memorize something you need to present?
- Sign up for presenting slam poems
- One more video
- Writing and practicing our presentations
- Closure: Make sure you are signed up for a time in class or outside of class to present your slam poem
- Entrance Note: Read your poem out loud and focus on body movements.
- Last bit of practice
- Starting presentations
- Closure: reflecting on your performance
- Entrance Note: Read your poem out loud and focus on body movements.
- Presenting Slam Poems
- Closure: reflecting on your performance
- Dialogue journals
The week of 4/3/17
MONDAY 4/3
No School: Teacher Work Day
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule on class website
- Writing Practice #37: “The Shampoo Summit”
- Revisiting classroom norms through discussion and activity
- Exit Note: What do you want to see changed in this world and why?
- Entrance Note: What is a primary source?
- Comparing Texts-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 are some things you know about the SBAC test? Rules and expectations you remember?
- SBAC Practice
- SSR
- Exit Activity: Brainstorming topics and beginning research
- Entrance Note: What is “good” research? And, how do we determine this?
- Mini-lesson: Collecting research/creating annotated bibliography
- Putting our research into outlines
- Exit Note: Share one piece of research and why you think it is “good” research
- Dialogue Journals
No School: Teacher Work Day
The week of 3/13/17
MONDAY 3/13
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice 35: "Allied with Green" by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Dialogue and Paragraph structure mini lesson
- Exit Activity: Searching for a moment in our writing to add dialogue
- Entrance Note: What are sensory details?
- Mini-lesson on adding sensory details
- SSR-Looking for those sensory details in what we read today.
- Exit Note: Please share one example of sensory details that you found in your book today.
- Entrance note: What is a symbol, and how can we use them in our writing?
- Writing Practice #36: “The Bull Rider”
- Mini-lesson: using “so” and “very” from grammar girl podcast.
- Exit Activity: Searching for “so” or “very” in our writing and how we can punch it up.
- Entrance Activity: Checking feedback from Mr. Ruth
- Leads Mini-Lesson
- Peer Writing Conferences
- In-class writing: What are you adding after this weeks’s mini-lessons, writing practices, feedback from Mr. Ruth, and peer-writing conference
- Exit Note: Share a descriptive sentence from your newest draft.
- Entrance Note: Writing Practice #37: “Polar Dream” by Helen Thayer
- Work time for Final draft (Due Monday)
- Creating cover pages
- Preparing to share next Week
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 3/6/17
MONDAY 3/6
- Entrance Activity: Check website for weekly schedule and update planner
- Writing Practice #33: Another Kind of Girl
- Finishing presentations
- Introducing Memoir Assignment and rubric/ getting started by “drawing our drafts”
- Exit Note: What questions do you have about the memoir assignment?
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile?
- SSR-Searching for figurative language
- Exit Note: Share one example of personification, metaphor, or simile from a book that you read today.
- Entrance Note: What is a mentor text, and how can we use it to improve our writing?
- Writing Practice # 34:
- "The Hidden Southwest: The Arch Hunters," by James Vlahos
- Creating rough drafts of memoirs: As you write today focus on creating possible metaphors or similes
- Exit Note: Share one descriptive sentence from your writing today.
- Entrance Note: What are sensory details, and how do authors use them in their writing?
- Mini-lesson on adding sensory details
- Time to work on and turn our thoughts into a rough draft.
- Exit Note: How confident do you feel in creating a finished rough draft of your memoir by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing CORNELL Notes from this week
- Writing Practice #35: "Allied with Green" by Naomi Shihab Nye
- Small group discussion on our writing
- Rough Drafts Due today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/27/17
MONDAY 2/27
- Entrance Activity: Looking over this week’s schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice #31: The Man Who Sells the Moon
- Soliloquy Summative Assessment FAQ
- Working on Soliloquy
- Exit Note: How confident are you in completing your Soliloquy by Wednesday?
- Entrance Note: Filling out Writing Conference sheet
- Here are your options for today:
- Working on Soliloquy: Getting feedback and revising
- Practicing/recording your soliloquy presentation
- SSR
- In-class Writing on theme within The Tempest (Summative)
- Exit Note: What theme might your character and their transformation represent?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing SL.4 Rubric for today’s presentation expectations
- Final drafts due today (There will be no time in class to work on these today)
- Presentations/recording soliloquy
- Memoir on nature pre-test
- Exit Note: Making sure all assignments are turned in to the Google Classroom.
- Entrance Note: How can nature inspire or affect your experiences?
- Writing Practice #32: “The Doctor Who Saved 100,000 Eyes”
- Anticipation guide: Sentence preview from Memoir, by Eddy Harris, from Mississippi Solo
- Any leftover presentations
- Exit Note: Looking through your writing practices: Where might you take your writing?
- Entrance Note: Getting our CORNELL Notes ready for reading today.
- 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 2/20/17
MONDAY 2/20
NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY 2/21
NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY 2/21
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner.
- Finishing ACT 2 Interpretations
- How well do you know The Tempest’s plot so far? (Test)
- Starting ACT 3
- Exit Note: Who is your favorite character so far in the play and why?
- Dialogue Journals
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between a topic and a theme?
- Finishing ACT 3
- Reviewing new character map, and preparing to add how characters start to evolve
- SSR
- Exit Note: Why might an author want their characters to transform
- Entrance Note: 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 Activity: Introducing “Soliloquy Summative Assessment”
- Finishing ACT 4
- Improvisational Interpretations
- Maybe starting ACT 5 if time
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/13/17
MONDAY 2/13
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice #29: “Summer’s Choice”
- Presenting Opinion speeches
- Exit Note: What do you know about Shakespeare?
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between affect effect?
- Introduction to Shakespeare: research on him, on the play.
- 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
- SSR for remainder of period
- Exit note: What are some books that you have finished so far this year?
- Entrance Note: What are some techniques to best continue a discussion?
- Writing practice #30: two videos with similar topics
- Poster discussion
- Closure: reflecting on discussion
- 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 Cornell Notes
- Finishing Act 1
- Reenactments based on initial tone and mood of the play
- Starting Act 2 (if time)
- Dialogue journals
The week of 2/6/17
MONDAY 2/6
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- Writing Practice #28: “Don’t Talk to Strangers, Marry Them” by Keerthi
- Impromptu Speeches
- Exit Note: What is one thing you need help with when it comes to or need to focus on when creating your final draft?
- Entrance Note: What are some of the best ways to give feedback on someone’s writing?
- Comparing Mr. Ruth’sRough Draft to Final Draft
- Peer Review Handout
- Working on Final Draft
- Closure: Discuss with a partner how you progressed today; what did you accomplish from your plan?
- Entrance Activity: Planning your writing today; in a few sentences explain your plan for work today in class.
- Mini lessons and writing conferences: Rotating through sections and giving mini lessons based on each section
- Impromptu Speeches
- Closure: Discuss with a partner how you progressed today; what did you accomplish from your plan?
- Entrance Activity: Planning your writing today; in a few sentences explain your plan for work today in class.
- Mini lessons and writing conferences: Rotating through sections and giving mini lessons based on each section
- Work time on final draft
- Impromptu Speeches
- Closure: Discuss with a partner how you progressed today; what did you accomplish from your plan?
- Entrance Note: Practice presenting your thoughts to a partner
- Finishing up Writing Conferences
- Any Repeat Mini-lessons
- Work time on final draft
- Final Draft Due today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/30/17
MONDAY 1/30
- Entrance Activity: Checking out weekly schedule and update website
- Writing Practice #27: “Animated Life: Mary: Leaky”
- Outline of Opinion Essay Due today
- Exit Note: What are the characteristics of an essay?
- Entrance Note: What is an example of a “Close Reading Strategy?”
- Close Reader “Saving the Lost”
- SSR
- Sharing your books
- Exit Note: Did you use any close reading strategies during SSR? Why or why not? If so, which one(s)?
- Entrance note: Looking over what makes an essay from Monday
- Reading “Stephen Kings guide to Movie Snacks” to see an alternative way to essay writing
- Taking your outline and turning it into an essay
- Exit Note: What is one thing you learned about writing an essay today?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing CORNELL Notes from these last couple of weeks
- Rough Draft Due today
- Exit Note: What is one thing you would like me to focus on when reading your rough drafts?
- Entrance Note: Tell me something I don’t know about WWII
- Science Friday #2: “Fu-Go” Presented by Radioloab
- Story vs. Science in the podcast, and how they drive one another
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/23/17
MONDAY 1/23
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- Mentor Sentences
- Writing Practice #26: “Death Row Doctor”
- Reading “Heartbeat” Close Reader
- Exit Note: How does”Heartbeat” relate to or represent the saying “Seeing is Believing?”
- Entrance Note: What is the difference between an opinion and an argument?
- Mentor Sentences
- Pavement Chalk art Focusing on “Seeing is Believing”
- Intro to seeing is believing opinion piece
- Exit Note: What questions do you have about this assignment?
- Entrance Note:What book are you writing your book review on and why?
- Mentor Sentences
- SSR
- Choice reading
- Working on Book Report: Due Tomorrow!
- Sharing our books
- Exit Note: How many books have you read so far this year? How many have you dropped?
- Entrance Note: What is a graphic organizer, and how can they help our writing?
- Mentor Sentences
- Outlines: Crafting your arguments
- Work time
- Make-up work
- Outline-Looking through notes for resources
- Book Review Due Today!
- Exit Note: Is there anything I need to know about your book review before I start assessing it?
- No School: Teacher Workday/End of Semester 1
The week of 1/16/17
MONDAY 1/16
NO SCHOOL: MLK Day
Here is a link to some information on Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and some current resources if you're interested in learning more:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/information-students
TUESDAY 1/17
NO SCHOOL: MLK Day
Here is a link to some information on Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and some current resources if you're interested in learning more:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/information-students
TUESDAY 1/17
- Entrance Activity: Checking Website for Weekly Schedule to update planner
- Writing Practice # 24: "White Sox Only" by Evelyn Colemon
- Comparing Poems: “Sonnet 43” by William Shakespeare, and “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W.B. Yeats
- Double Bubble comparison graphic organizer
- Exit Note: Paragraph comparing and contrasting these two poems.
- Entrance Note: What do the words “Abnormal” and “Perceive” mean? How can they be applied to what we read in class.
- SSR
- Choice Reading
- Working on Book Review
- Sharing our reading with class
- Exit Note: How close are you to finishing your book review? What do you still need help with?
- Entrance Note: What does the phrase “Seeing is Believing” mean?
- Writing Practice # 25: “Verbatim: Expert Witness”
- Repeated Reading: “The People Could Fly”
- Exit Note: How does the story we read today relate to the phrase “Seeing is Believing”?
- Entrance Note: How do Science and Language Arts relate to one another?
- Introduction to Science Friday
- Radiolab: “Bringing Gamma Back”
- Research concepts from the podcast
- Sharing your research and resources
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/9/17
MONDAY 1/9
- Entrance Activity: Check out Weekly Schedule and update planner
- Writing Practice #23: “The Other Side of the Mountain”
- Revisiting Classroom/School expectations
- Exit Note: What are some expectations you have for this classroom?
- 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
- Mini research on “Sorry, Wrong Number” through google doc on the author of the play, background of the play, etc. (NO SPOILERS)
- 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: What do the words “feature” and “tone” mean? Remember to define these with a language arts perspective.
- Reviewing the best ways to take notes
- Reading “Sorry, Wrong Number”
- Exit Note: What predictions do you have? or, Did your predictions come true?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Notes from yesterday
- Finishing “Sorry, Wrong Number”
- Identifying tone and theme of the play
- Creating improvisational sketches based on that tone and theme (formative of S/L-4)
- Exit Note: Performance self-assessment
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing book review assignment on Google Classroom. What is your plan for today?
- Finishing any leftover sketches
- SSR-
- Choice Reading
- Working on Book review
- Exit Note: How close are you to finishing your book review? What do you still need help with?
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 1/3/17
MONDAY 1/2
NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY 1/3
NO SCHOOL
TUESDAY 1/3
- SNOW DAY!!!
- SNOW DAY!!!
- SNOW DAY!!!
- SNOW DAY!!!
The week of 12/12/16
MONDAY 12/12
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- WP# 22: Based on literature circle books
- Working on final projects
- Exit Note: What materials will you need for your project?
- Entrance Activity: Reading over Fishbowl Discussion Overview.
- Assessing Mr. Ruth’s Discussion
- Options for today:
- SSR
- Working on Project
- Preparing for literature circle discussions
- Exit Note: How prepared do you feel for discussion tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: What are some ways to keep our conversations going?
- Another example of a good discussion
- Fishbowl Discussions
- Working on projects
- Exit Note: How is your project coming along? What do you need help with to finish it?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing ways to keep the discussion going
- Finishing Fishbowl Discussions
- Working on projects
- Exit Note: How confident are you in having your project finished and ready to share by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: In class artist’s statement
- Sharing Projects/Make-up work day…
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 12/5/16
MONDAY 12/5
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- WP # 21: “Who Speaks Wukchumni”
- Some SSR with note taking to prepare for Wednesday’s Discussion
- Exit Note: So far, what is your book about on a deeper level (topics/themes and essential questions)?
- Entrance Activity: Mini-discussion with group to identify roles
- SSR using role sheets to prepare for tomorrow’s discussion
- Exit Note: What would you like to bring up during tomorrow’s discussion?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing notes and creating agenda for today’s discussion
- Discussion #2: Using role sheets and knowledge from reading, students will discuss their book, focusing on specific elements that they establish through their “agenda”
- Reading to prepare for tomorrow’s discussion
- Exit Note: through Google form, self-assessment of discussions from today.
- Entrance Note: Reviewing notes and creating agenda for today’s discussion
- Discussion #3: 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”
- Self-assessment of discussions from today
- Reading to prepare for tomorrow’s discussion
- Exit Note: How might we share our books with the world (this class)?
- Entrance note: Reviewing notes and creating agenda for today’s discussion
- Discussion # 4: 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”
- Assessing Mr. Ruth’s Project and Artist’s Statement
- Project proposals: Students will identify how they want to share their books.
- Dialogue journals
The week of 11/28/16
MONDAY 11/28
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- Literature Circle:
- What are Literature Circles?
- KWL
- Revisiting “What makes a book worth reading/how do we choose books?”
- Introduce“book menu” and books so they can choose their top 5 book choices.
- Exit note: What is one thing that you learned/shared about Literature Circles today?
- Entrance Note: What are some techniques for furthering discussion?
- Preparing for Poster Discussion:
- Watching two videos:
- Coming up with topics and essential questions to guide discussion
- Beginning Poster Discussion (Summative)
- Providing evidence
- Furthering discussion
- Analyzing and reflecting on discussion
- Exit Note: Self-Assessment
- Entrance Note: What does it mean to analyze literature?
- Checking out our books from the library.
- Getting to know our groups through filling out the “Grid of Conversational Excellence"
- Begin our reading
- Exit Note: Includes group roles, group guidelines, and what they want to have read by the next day.
- Entrance Note: Looking at conversation guidelines, what did we miss?
- WP # 20: “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss
- Literature Circles demo from “Erica Lit Circles in Action”
- Adding to the “L” learned section of our KWL on Literature circles based on what we see in the example video.
- Identify roles within the group and how to best take notes as those roles.
- SSR (if time)
- Exit Note: How prepared do you feel for your first discussion tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: What are the characteristics of a strong conversation?
- SSR first half of class
- Example discussion through youtube, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Literature Circles.”
- Discussion #1: Using role sheets and knowledge from today’s reading, students will discuss their book, focusing on specific elements that they establish through their “agenda”
- Recorder’s notes and individual role sheets will be turned in.
- Exit Note through google form: self-assessment of discussion from today.
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 11/14/16
MONDAY 11/14
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule
- Writing Practice #18: “My Brother Teddy”
Working on narrative - Rough Draft due today!
- Exit Note: Share one ‘descriptive’ sentence from your writing?
- Entrance Note: What do descriptive details look like and add to a story?
- Exploding a moment Mini-lesson
- Big Sentences adding details
- Exit Note: Turn in 2 altered sentences.
- Entrance Note: Why do we look for the topic/theme of a story?
- Writing Practice # 19: From our stories
- Looking at our rough draft reactions
- Reflecting on these reactions: Do the suggested themes match your ideas for your story? How can you expand on these?
- Entrance Activity: Checking our writing for things to proofread
- Personal Proofreading checklist
- Peer-Writing Conference Record
- Final Draft Due Tomorrow!
- Exit Note: What is one grammatical error you make often?
- Entrance Activity: How should we share our writing with the world?
- Final Draft due today!
- Writing process packet
- self-assessment
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 11/7/16
MONDAY 11/7
- Entrance note: What is Narrative writing?
- Writing Practice #15: Reading Short story of their choice: “Bawl Baby” “All Summer in a Day”
- “Big Boy” “Thank you, Ma’am” “Mint Snowball” “Idolatry”
- Exit Note: Share favorite sentence from writing
- Introduction to Writing Workshop: Six word Memoir
- Researching and finding 6 word memoirs
- Creating 6 Word Memoirs
- Circle up for sharing
- Reflection questions from Website
- Free Write based on one Memoirs created
- Sharing writing
- Exit Note: Share favorite sentence from writing
- Entrance Note: Narrative Overview and questions
- 3 Short writings based on simple topics.
- Creating Short Story rough drafts
- Sharing
- Exit Note:What are you writing your rough draft on?
- Entrance Activity: Narrative FAQ
- Writing time
- Rough Drafts Due Monday
- Dialogue Journals
- No School- Veteran's Day
The week of 10/31/16
MONDAY 10/31
- Entrance Activity: Checking Website and Updating Planner
- Final Draft due Tomorrow: Writing process packet on book creator
- Presentations Starting Tomorrow
- Exit Note: How ready are you for presentations tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: Turning in Writing Process Packet to Google classroom/Self-Assessment
- Presentations
- Exit Note: Presentation Self-Assessment
- Entrance Note: Google Classroom
- Book report reminder
- Book Report FAQ
- SSR
- Sharing our reading
- Exit Note: Do you have an idea of what you would like to do a book report on?
- Entrance Note: What is you experience with Short Stories?
- Writing Practice #15: Selected Short Stories
- Remaining Presentations
- Dialogue Journals
- No School- Teacher Work Day
The week of 10/24/16
MONDAY 10/24
- Entrance Activity: Checking Website and Updating Planner
- Mentor Sentences
- Writing Practice #14: Verbatim: Follow the Chicken
- Impromptu speeches
- Exit Note: What are some questions you have for the presentation portion of your persuasive writing?
- Entrance Activity: Mentor Sentences
- Finishing Impromptu speeches
- Speech mini-lesson
- Exit Note: How comfortable do you feel in sharing your persuasive writing with the whole class?
- Entrance Activity: Mentor Sentences
- Review and revision process
- Creating Leads mini-lesson
- Exit Note: What was your first lead, and how have you changed it? Why did you make, or not make, these changes?
- Entrance Activity: Mentor Sentences
- Mini-lesson: Doing research and using it in our writing
- Work time for final draft and presentation
- Exit Note: How well did you use evidence to support your claims? What can you do to improve your research?
- Entrance Activity: Mentor Sentences
- Work time
- Final Draft Due Monday: have your speeches ready
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 10/17/16
MONDAY 10/17
- Entrance Activity: Checking Website and Updating Planner
- Mentor Sentences
- Writing Practice #12: “Serving Up School Lunches of Tomorrow”
- Finishing project Presentations
- Exit Note: What is something worth arguing for?
- Entrance Note: What is your experience with persuasive writing?
- Mentor Sentences
- Writing Practice # 13: Based on 10/17 Exit Note
- Intro to “Oral Commentary” Summative
- Exit Note: What do you plan to argue for or against?
- Entrance Note: How do you best find evidence to support a claim?
- Mentor Sentences
- Should Abby have Set Sail?:
- Article Jigsaw
- Mini-argument creation essay
- Exit Note: How might you use the activity from today to form your argument?
- Entrance Note: What do we do when we need to get started writing?
- Mentor Sentences
- SSR/Persuasive Writing
- Book Report FAQ
- Exit Note: How confident do you feel in getting your rough draft done by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Mentor Sentences
- Rough Draft of Persuasive writing due today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 10/10/16
MONDAY 10/10
- Checking Website and Updating Planner
- Esperanza Rising: “Los Espárragos - Asparagus”
- Esperanza Rising: “Los Duraznos - Peaches”
- Project approval process
- Exit Note: What materials will you need to complete your project?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering all materials you created during our reading of Esperanza Rising
- WP# 11: Esperanza Rising: “Las Uvas - Grapes”
- Time to work on creating projects
- Exit Note: Describe your project and what it represents.
- Entrance Activity: Sharing what you have of your project with a partner
- Finishing projects
- Starting our Artist’s Statements based on our projects
- Exit Note: How do you plan to present your project? What concerns do you have with this?
- Entrance Note: Finishing Artist’s statement
- Project Self Assessment
- Presenting projects
- Dialogue Journals
- No School
The week of 10/3/16
MONDAY 10/3
- Entrance Activity: Checking the class website and updating planner
- Writing Practice #9: “Broadway Siblings”
- Esperanza Rising: “Las Almendras - Almonds”
- Exit Note: Updating Vocabulary sheet, and symbol chart
- Entrance Activity: Getting Reading Record and Personal Spelling list prepared
- SSR
- Summarize and discuss SSR books
- Exit Activity: Introduction to book review assignment
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing CORNELL Notes
- Esperanza Rising: “Las Ciruelas - Plums”
- Some background on the time period of our book
- Introduction to potential projects when we finish our book
- Exit Note: What would be a way to share our book with the world?
- Entrance Note: How has Esperanza changed so far in this story?
- Writing Practice #10: “Small Plates"
- Esperanza Rising: “Las Papas - Potatoes”
- Exit Activity: Updating character chart
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing CORNELL Notes
- Esperanza Rising: “Los Aguacates - Avocados”
- Esperanza Rising: “Los Espárragos - Asparagus”
- Literature Circle #2
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 9/26/16
MONDAY 9/26
- Entrance Activity: Checking the class website and updating planner
- Writing Practice #7: “The American Dream, Served Family Style”
- Flight of Icarus
- Arachne
- Exit Note: What is a theme from Flight of Icarus/Arachne?
- Entrance Activity: Introduction to Costa’s Level of Questioning
- Essential questions mini lesson using Flight of Icarus and Arachne
- Esperanza Rising: “Los Higos: Figs”
- Exit Note: What is a symbol that could represent a person from your life?
- Entrance Activity: Getting Reading Record and Personal Spelling list prepared
- SSR
- Summarize and discuss SSR books
- Exit Note: Share a spelling word, definition, and example sentence
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing CORNELL Notes
- Writing Practice #8: “Daredevil on a Snowmobile”
- Esperanza Rising: “Las Guayabas: Guavas”
- Exit Note: Filling out Symbol chart
- Entrance Note: Reviewing CORNELL Notes
- Esperanza Rising: “Los Melones: Cantaloupes”
- Esperanza Rising: Las Cebollos: Onions
- Literature Circle #1
- Dialogue journals
The week of 9/19/16
MONDAY 9/19
- Entrance Activity: Checking the class website and updating planner
- Finishing “Rogue Wave” poster discussion
- Finding your everest close reader
- Exit Note: What does it mean to be an “active listener?”
- Entrance Note: What is a Bold Action? What are some examples from the stories we’ve read, and the video’s we’ve watched that could represent a bold action?
- Writing Practice# 5: The Scars of Stop and Frisk
- How we hold a successful discussion
- Discussion day (bold actions)
- Exit Note: Discussion self-assessment
- Entrance Activity: Preparing reading record and personal spelling list
- SSR
- Sharing our books with others in the class
- Exit Note: How do we analyze a story?
- Entrance Note: How do we “analyze” a story?
- Writing Practice # 6: “Long Term Parking”
- Intro to Esperanza Rising
- Literary devices handout
- Exit Note: What is a literary Device that stands out to you and why?
- Entrance Note: Getting CORNELL notes ready
- Chapter 2 Esperanza Rising
- Mini discussion
- Chapter 3 Esperanza Rising
- Intro to plot diagram, and character chart
- Dialogue journals
The week of 9/12/16
MONDAY 9/12
- Entrance Activity: Checking the class website and updating planner.
- Intro to Google Classroom
- Voting on Classroom posters
- How do we choose books?
- Exit Note: What do you like to read?
- Entrance Activity: Going over best ways to check out books
- Checking out books
- Intro to reading logs
- SSR
- Writing Practice #3: Diving for Scallops *Either today or Wednesday depending on when we can get into the library.
- Exit Note: Summarize what you read today
- Entrance Note: How do we best take notes?
- Intro to CORNELL and CARPE notes
- Reading “Rogue Wave”
- Exit Note: What do you predict will happen in “Rogue Wave” next?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing CORNELL Notes
- Writing Practice# 4: Climbing the Shark’s Fin
- Continue Rogue Wave
- Poster discussion on plot elements of Rogue Wave
- Exit Note: What are some rules for holding a successful discussion?
- Entrance Note: What does it mean to take a bold action?
- Finding Your Everest close reader
- Discussion day (bold actions)
- Dialogue journals