The week of 6/3/19
MONDAY 6/3
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- We’ll see if we can finish the book today
- Reading Chapter 12 if not finished
- Final thoughts, finishing notes and setting up/starting poster discussion
- Poster Discussion
- Working on poster discussions if possible
- Step up day… 10:30 to 12
- Chapter 9-12 notes due today
- Last chances to add comments to poster discussion
The week of 5/27/19
MONDAY 5/27
- No School
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Notes on Chapter 1-4 due today
- Reading/watching Ch 5/6
- Closure: What decisions have the characters been making and how has it affected them?
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading/watching Ch 7
- Exit Note: share one question you could ask to help start a discussion
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading Ch 8
- Discussion #2
- Reflecting on discussion/
- Starting Chapter 9 (if time)
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Notes on Chapter 5-8 due today Focused on Decisions made
- Finishing ch 9
The week of 5/20/19
MONDAY 5/20
- Entrance Activity:
- Reviewing Ch 1 notes and summarizes by answering questions
- Finishing ch 2: Reviewing notes and asking questions
- Watch most of ch 3
- Exit Note: What is one decision a character has made so far?
- Science Testing
- Entrance Activity: Writing summary of Ch. 2 by answering questions
- Reviewing ch 3. notes and asking questions
- Reading ch 4
- Exit Note: What makes a successful discussion?
- Entrance Activity: Creating level 2 and 3 questions to prepare for discussion
- Discussion #1
- Closure: Reflecting on discussion
- Start ch. 5
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading and watching ch. 5
- Notes on Chapter 1-5 due today
The week of 5/13/19
MONDAY 5/13
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while group sets up the room
- TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while group sets up the room
- TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
- Entrance Note: What is a moment from your life that has influenced you to change?
- Influencing change philosophical chairs
- Exit Note: Discussion reflection
- Entrance Activity: Gathering books and labeling Cornell notes
- Chapter 1 of The Outsiders
- Exit Note: First impressions of the main characters
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Cornell Notes; asking questions on chapter 1
- Starting Chapter 2
- Closure: Filling in the gaps in our notes
The week of 4/29/19
MONDAY 4/29
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while 1st group sets up the room
- TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while 1st group sets up the room
- TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
- SBAC Practice Test
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while 1st group sets up the room
- TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while 1st group sets up the room
- TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
The week of 4/22/19
MONDAY 4/22
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- High Level Outline Due
- Working on TED-Talk: Steps 6, 7, and 8
- Exit Note: What is your progress so far?
- Entrance Activity: What are the best ways to present a speech?
- Reviewing how to give a TED talk
- How to give a speech
- Mapping visual aides
- TED Talk Sign-ups
- Working on group performance
- Exit Note: Have your team sign up for a day before your leave… What materials do you need for your group’s TED -Talk Day?
- Entrance Activity:
- Working on TED-Talk: Steps 6, 7, and 8
- Working on group performance
- Exit Note: What do you still need to know in order to be ready for you TED Event by Friday?
- Entrance Note: Make a list of what you need to make and do today to be ready to present
- Audience Etiquette reminder through impromptu speeches
- Last day for working on TED Talks
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while 1st group sets up the room
- Group 1 TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
The week of 4/15/19
MONDAY 4/15
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Reminder: Works cited expectations
- Works Cited Pages and Credible Sources Due
- Exit Note: How to best catch a reader’s attention?
- Entrance Activity: Getting set up for today’s notes on the example TED Talk
- Watching TED Talk with a focus on Introductions, Conclusions, Claims and Evidence
- Working on step 4 and 5
- Exit Note: What have you accomplished today on your TED Talk?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing TED-Talk Checklist
- High Level Outline Expectations
- Working on Step 4 and 5
- Exit Note: What do you still need to finish for Step 4 and 5
- Evaluate Testing
- Finishing Evaluate Testing
- Working on TED Talk when finished
- Step 4 and 5 Due Today
The week of 4/8/19
MONDAY 4/8
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating Planner
- Ted-Talk example; focusing on claims and evidence
- Creating claims
- Identifying credible sources
- Step 1 and 2 Due
- Forecasting at high school 8:45-10:15
- Entrance Note: What does “Credible source” mean?
- How to find important information in credible sources
- Conducting research
- Exit Note: What is one credible source you have found today? How do you know it is a reliable source?
- Entrance Note: How do we know a source is credible?
- Works cited page expectations
- Exit Note: What is your progress so far on your TED-Talk?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials
- Step 3: Works Cited Pages and Credible Sources Due
- Dialogue Journals
- No School: Teacher Work Day
The week of 4/1/19
MONDAY 4/1
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Welcome Back Letter
- What has gone well in this class
- What could be improved
- Ted-Talk assignment Overview
- Ted-Talk example
- Exit Note: What would the ideal group look like for you?
- Entrance Note: Describe what an essential question is and what it does
- Writing Practice #14: “Who Speaks Wukchumni?”
- Exit Note: What is something worth knowing/arguing for?
- Entrance Activity: Grid of Awesome-Friendship-Time-Power
- Steps to making a TED-Talk handout
- Identifying main components of each step
- Making Posters representing steps
- Entrance Note: What are the 8 steps to creating a Ted-Talk?
- TED-Talk Steps Posters
- Making Posters representing steps
- Sharing posters
- Exit Note: What are some potential topics for TED-Talks?
- Entrance Note: What are Step 1 and 2 of the TED Talk Process?
- Ted-Talk; focusing on claims and evidence
- Creating claims
- Step 1 and 2 Due
The week of 3/18/19
MONDAY 3/18
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Read the Question Pre-evaluate review
- Evaluate Testing
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for Evaluate or make-up work
- Evaluate Testing
- Working on late or missing work when finished
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for Evaluate or make-up work
- Evaluate Testing
- Working on late or missing work when finished
- No School: Conferences
- No School: Spring Break
The week of 3/11/19
MONDAY 3/11
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Your Planner
- Proofreading Mini Lesson
- Working on Final Draft
- Exit Note: What is a mistake you tend to make in your writing?
- Entrance Note: Review common errors to proofread handout
- Working on Final Draft
- Revising based on feedback
- Proofreading
- Exit Note: What do you have left for your final draft?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for last minute adjustments.
- Working on Final Draft
- Final Draft Due Today
- Work Sample Reflection
- Entrance Note: How has your writing changed throughout the writing process?
- Writing Process Packet Due today
- Exit Note: How comfortable are you in sharing your writing with people in this class?
- Entrance Activity: Preview reading workshop handout
- Sharing our writing
- Small groups with discussion
- Whole class
- Exit Note: What was the best comment your received today?
The week of 3/4/19
MONDAY 3/4
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly schedule and updating planner
- Review short story rough draft checklist
- Writing time
- Rough draft due today
- Exit Note: Sharing thoughts on your writing
- Entrance Activity: L.1 review
- SSR Looking for examples of L.1 and sensory details
- Exit Note: Sharing some of what you found today in your reading
- Entrance Activity: Reading a passage and creating questions
- Using questions to add details to our writing mini-lesson
- Exit Note: Share a question you were asked and how you answered it
- Entrance Activity:
- Adding Descriptions to single sentences mini-lesson
- Exit Note: Sharing sentences and how you have changed them
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing feedback from Mr. Ruth and writing down area of focus for further feedback
- Peer Writing Conference
The week of 2/25/19
MONDAY 2/25
- Entrance Note: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Reading Sea Prayer
- The event that inspired “Sea Prayer”
- Exploring events to inspire your own story
- Exit Note: What are your plans for writing a story?
- Entrance Activity: What inspires a story?
- Writing Practice #13: Images and words to inspire stories
- Closure: Sharing writing so far
- Entrance Note: Reading Short Story Overview
- Exploring more potential events to inspire writing
- Start writing
- Exit Note: What questions do you have about this writing assignment?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing assignment FAQ
- Writing time
- Closure: Sharing your writing so far
- Entrance Note: Short story rough draft checklist
- Writing time
- Rough draft due today
- Exit Note: Sharing thoughts on your writing
The week of 2/18/19
MONDAY 2/18
- No school: President’s Day
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- L.1 and L.2 warm-up
- Evaluate testing
- Entrance Activity: Getting set up for evaluate or reading
- Finishing Evaluate
- Reading when done
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials
- Finishing Evaluate testing
- Reading “The Latehomecomer”
- Exit Note: What have you accomplished this week?
- Entrance Note: Gathering Materials
- Reading “Sea Prayer”
- Event that inspired "Sea Prayer"
- Exploring events to inspire your own story
- Exit Note: What are your plans for writing a story?
The week of 2/11/19
MONDAY 2/11
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and Updating Planner
- Writing Practice #12: “My Grandfather’s Memory Book”
- Sharing our writing
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Activity: Sharing books and thoughts
- Entrance Note: What is a short story?
- Intro to short story unit and literary devices
- Reading “My Favorite Chaperone” by Jean Davies Okomoto
- Similes
- Dialogue
- Imagery
- Sensory details
- Exit Note: Which type of literary device stands out to you the most?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing and Revising Notes; adding questions
- Finish Reading “My Favorite Chaperone” by Jean Davies Okomoto
- Similes
- Dialogue
- Imagery
- Sensory details
- Literary Devices Poster
- Definition
- Desired Effect
- Example from story
- Entrance: Reviewing and summarizing notes; answering questions
- Finishing Literary Devices Poster
- Definition
- Desired Effect
- Example from story
- Sharing Posters
- Exit Note: “Polish” understanding of Literary Devices in your notes
The week of 2/4/19
MONDAY 2/4
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice #11: based on books
- Exit Note: How do you plan on analyzing your book further?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing notes you have taken on the book so far
- SSR
- Finish up books
- Identify potential moments/topics to analyze
- Finding quotes to support potential analysis
- Exit Note: What did you accomplish today during your reading?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing handout from yesterday and identifying what to focus on in analysis
- Structuring analysis using cited evidence
- Exit Note: What do you have prepared so far for your in-class writing?
- Entrance Note: Structuring example sentence using commas (L.2)
- Structuring sentences using commas mini-lesson
- W.2 and L.2 focus
- prepare for in class writing
- Exit note: How confident are you in being able to analyze your book in tomorrow’s in class writing?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering all materials and notes on your books so far, reviewing and preparing for in-class writing
- In-class writing
- Self-assessment of in-class writing
The week of 1/28/19
MONDAY 1/28
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating Planner
- Fishbowl discussion overview
- Reviewing expectations
- Assessing example discussion
- SSR Prepping for fishbowl if time
- Exit Note: Questions about Fishbowl discussion
- Entrance Note: What is a question or phrase that can help further discussion
- Compiling comments that further discussion
- SSR/note-taking
- Exit note: What is something you plan on bringing to discussion?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing all notes taken on story so far
- Creating Agenda: How are you analyzing your book and citing textual evidence in your discussion?
- Fishbowl Checklist/signing up for discussion
- SSR Note-taking
- Entrance Activity: Preparing for discussion/observations
- Fishbowl discussion
- Entrance Activity: Preparing for discussion/observations
- Fishbowl discussion
- Self-Assessment
The week of 1/21/19
MONDAY 1/21
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- No School
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Planner Check
- Evaluate testing
- Reading/preparing notes if finished
- Evaluate testing
- Evaluate testing
- Reading/preparing notes if finished: Getting ready for discussion #3
- Entrance Note: Looking at note taking process to revise our notes and prepare an agenda for discussion
- 3rd group discussion (summative)
- Turn in notes you have gathered so far
- Teacher Work day
- No School
The week of 1/14/19
MONDAY 1/14
- Entrance Activity: updating schedule
- Literature Circle Note-taking roles
- SSR
- Taking notes and preparing for Wednesday’s discussion
- Exit Note: What is one thing you want to bring to Wednesday’s discussion?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing what are the characteristics of a strong conversation?
- Example discussion through youtube, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Literature Circles.
- Exit Note: Creating agenda for discussion
- Entrance activity: Reviewing agenda for discussion
- Establishing group roles for during discussion
- First group discussion
- Exit Note: Self-assess your discussion and plan to improve; recorder’s notes turned in
- 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: Looking at note taking process to revise our notes and prepare an agenda for discussion
- 2nd group discussion
- Exit Note: Self-assess your discussion and plan to improve
The week of 1/7/19
MONDAY 1/7
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Freedom and Responsibility
- Reminder of class expectations
- What do you know about literature circles?
- What do you want to know about literature circles?
- Entrance Activity: What makes a book worth reading?
- Introduction to potential books for literature circles
- Exit Note: Top three books to read from our selection
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for Writing Practice
- WP # 10: “The Sneetches” by Dr. Seuss
- Exit Note: What are some techniques for furthering discussion?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing what we Know and Want to know about literature circles
- 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
- Exit Note: Sharing what you learned
- Getting our books and meeting our groups:
- Grid of Awesome Friendship time power
- Identify roles within the group and how to best take notes as those roles
- Creating Reading plan
- Start reading books if time
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 12/17/18
MONDAY 12/17
- Entrance Activity: Checking Class Website and Updating planner
- SSR
- Sharing some of our books
- Entrance Note: Did you finish your poetry analysis and Butterfly?
- Writing Practice #9: “The Shampoo Summit”
- Exit Note: Sharing favorite sentence
- Presenting analytical paragraphs
- Presenting analytical paragraphs
- Presenting analytical paragraphs
The week of 12/10/18
MONDAY 12/10
- Entrance Activity: Checking Class Website and Updating planner
- Writing Practice #8: “I Have a Message For You”
- Exit Note: Sharing favorite sentence
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing our books
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing analytical paragraphs
- Creating art inspired by poems
- Continuing analytical paragraph/preparing to present analysis
- Exit Note: What concerns do you have in finishing this assignment?
- Entrance Note: What do you need help with the most when it comes to your analysis?
- Finishing art/paragraph
- Preparing to present tomorrow
- Exit Note: Turning in final draft of paragraph
- Evaluate Testing
The week of 12/3/18
MONDAY 12/3
- Entrance Activity: Checking Class Website and Updating planner
- Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing our books
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for writing practice
- Writing Practice #7: “Mother’s Day”
- Exit Note: Sharing a favorite sentence
- Entrance Note: How do we find the importance in literature and artwork?
- Intro to I Never Saw Another Butterfly
- Choosing a poem
- Marking the text
- Number paragraphs or stanzas
- Highlight main ideas/details
- Write thoughts in margins
- Exit quick write: Initial thoughts and theories on chosen poem
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing poetry analysis overview
- Sharing thoughts and questions on assignment
- Creating a class wide analytical paragraph
- Working on individual analytical paragraph
- Exit Note: What is one question you still have about this assignment?
- Entrance Activity: Review cleaned up class wide paragraph
- Does our paragraph meet our expectations? Applying to rubric.
- Working on individual analytical paragraph
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 11/26/18
MONDAY 11/26
- Entrance Activity: Checking Class Website and Updating planner
- “Grid of Awesome-Friendship-Time-Power”
- Writing Practice #6: “Holding On to the Farm”
- Exit Note: Sharing Favorite Sentence
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- Reading Record Reflection
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing
- Entrance Note: What does it mean to analyze poetry?
- Poetry Exploration: “My Mother” by Magdalena Klein
- Marking the text
- Analyzing the poem
- Exit Note: provide one quote from the poem and your thoughts/analysis of the poem based on that quote.
- Entrance Note: What makes a successful discussion?
- Poetry Exploration day 2: Small group discussions
- Creating Level 2 and 3 questions
- Creating analytical statements that create and further discussion
- Exit Note: What statement can you make about the poem?
- Entrance Note: Sharing some of your level 2 and 3 questions and statements
- Poetry Exploration Day 3: Socratic Seminar
- Turning in Cornell notes
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 11/12/18
MONDAY 11/12
No School
TUESDAY 11/13
No School
TUESDAY 11/13
- Entrance activity: Checking weekly Schedule and updating Planner
- Preparing for Speeches
- Impromptu speeches?
- Exit Note: Sign up for speech
- Entrance Note: What is proper Audience Etiquette?
- Speeches
- Self-Assessment
- Entrance Note: What is proper Audience Etiquette?
- Speeches
- Self-Assessment
- Entrance Activity: Logging in to Evaluate
- Evaluate Testing
- Reading when you are done
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 11/5/18
MONDAY 11/5
No school: Teacher Work Day
- Entrance Activity: Checking class website and updating planner
- Working on final draft
- Exit Note: How confident are you in finishing your final draft by the end of tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Getting out materials for writing
- Working on final draft
- Final Draft Due today
- Entrance Activity:
- Intro to speeches
- Overview of expectations
- Keynote video
- Preparing for speeches
- Exit Note: Questions about speeches
- Entrance Note: Reviewing frequently asked questions page about speeches
- Preparing for speeches
- Exit Note: How confident are you in giving your speech next week?
No school: Teacher Work Day
The week of 10/29/18
MONDAY 10/29
- Entrance Activity: Checking class website and updating planner
- Philosophical chairs overview
- Rules
- Examples
- Practice
- Fine-tuning our argument for or against Measure 103
- Gathering materials and preparing for Philosophical Chairs
- Philosophical Chairs
- Reflection
- Turning all materials and reflection into Google Classroom
- Entrance Note: How do we best receive feedback?
- Getting feedback from Mr. Ruth
- Preparing for peer writing conference
- Exit Note: What is one thing that you will need to focus on for your revisions?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing what you need help with in your writing
- peer writing conferences
- Exit Note: What kind of feedback did you get and how do you plan on using it?
- Entrance Note: What does the word omission mean?
- Formatting cited materials and omission mini-lesson
- Finishing peer writing conferences and applying feedback and the mini lesson to your own writing
- Dialogue journals
The week of 10/22/18
MONDAY 10/22
- Entrance Activity: Checking Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice #5: Verbatim: Expert Witness
- Closure: Sharing your writing
- Entrance Activity: Getting books and preparing for reading
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing some of what you read with a classmate
- Entrance Note: How do we best receive feedback?
- Getting feedback from Mr. Ruth
- Preparing for peer writing conference
- Exit Note: What is one thing that you will need to focus on for your revisions?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing what you need help with in your writing
- peer writing conferences
- Exit Note: What kind of feedback did you get and how do you plan on using it?
- Entrance Note: What does the word omission mean?
- Formatting cited materials and omission mini-lesson
- Finishing peer writing conferences and applying feedback and the mini lesson to your own writing
- Dialogue journals
The week of 10/15/18
MONDAY 10/15
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Weekly Schedule and Updating planner
- Conducting Research and writing rough draft
- Rough Draft Due
- Reflection: What should Mr. Ruth focus on in your writing?
- Entrance Note: What is an Essential Question?
- Writing Practice #4: “Death Row Doctor”
- Exit Note: Sharing a favorite sentence from your writing
- Entrance Activity: Logging in to Evaluate
- Evaluate Testing for ELA
- Read when you are finished
- Entrance Activity: Logging in to Evaluate
- Evaluate Testing for ELA
- Read when you are finished
- Entrance Note: What is an ellipsis and what does it do in writing?
- Citing Evidence and omission using ellipses mini-lesson
- Applying mini-lesson to our writing
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 10/08/18
MONDAY 10/08
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Weekly Schedule and Updating planner
- Identifying topic for speech and creating claims/outlines
- Exit Note: How do we best conduct research?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing outlines-What do you need to provide evidence for?
- Finding Sources Lesson/taking Cornell notes
- Beginning research and writing rough draft
- Exit Note: What sources have you found so far and how are they credible?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Cornell notes-creating questions
- Conducting research and writing rough draft
- Exit Note: How confident are you in completing a rough draft by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Notes and creating summaries
- Conducting Research and writing rough draft
- Rough Draft Due
- Reflection: What should Mr. Ruth focus on in your writing?
- No School: Statewide In-Service
The week of 10/01/18
MONDAY 10/01
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Working on Tell-Tale Heart Trailer
- Exit Note: How much more time would you need for your trailer?
- Gathering materials and preparing to work on trailer
- Working on Tell-Tale Heart Trailer Due Today
- Preparing for in-class writing: Finding textual evidence
- Exit Note: Please describe your work together as a group
- Special Assembly and Den Lessons: No regular Classes
- Entrance Activity: Preparing for in-class writing
- In Class Writing
- “Nevermore” by Edgar Allen Poe
- Exit Note: What are some initial ideas you have for the next assignment?
- Entrance Activity: Intro to Persuasive Essay/Speech
- Reading through handout
- Discussing possibilities
- Proposing ideas
- Creating questions
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 9/24/18
MONDAY 9/24
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice #2: Wolf Mountain
- Exit Note: Sharing a favorite sentence
- Entrance Activity: Gathering book and handouts and updating reading record
- SSR
- Exit Activity: Sharing our reading with a partner and turning in handout
- Entrance Activity: Getting prepared for writing practice
- Writing Practice #3: “Kaboom” (SUMMATIVE)
- Exit Note: Share one Sentence from your writing with a partner
- Entrance Note: How does the tone of a story affect its theme or meaning?
- Tell-Tale Heart Trailer project intro
- Creating basic script for trailer based on theme and tone
- Exit Note: What is one question you have about this project?
- Entrance Activity: Review Tell-Tale Heart movie trailer FAQ
- Working on project
- dialogue journals
The week of 9/17/18
MONDAY 9/17
- Entrance Activity: Exploring Class Website and updating weekly Schedule
- Reading: Tell-Tale Heart
- Marking the text:
- Numbering paragraphs
- underlining moments expressing tone or theme
- writing thoughts in the margins
- Quickwrite/summary
- Marking the text:
- Exit Note: Filling in gaps in our notes with a partner
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing notes and creating questions
- Reviewing story with Costa’s Levels of Questioning
- Introduction to Socratic Seminar
- Exit Note: fill out the “What I Want to Discuss” side of the socratic seminar sheet
- Entrance Note: Grab a Socratic Seminar Sheet and review the “What I Want to Discuss” side
- Socratic Seminar
- Closure: Reflection questions
- Entrance Activity: Making sure we have Notability downloaded from Meraki
- Writing Practice #2: “Kaboom”
- Exit Note: Share one Sentence from your writing
- Entrance Activity: Updating reading record
- SSR
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 9/10/18
MONDAY 9/10
- Entrance Note: What makes a question “essential?”
- Writing Practice #1: “Picture Day”
- Exit Note: Sharing a favorite sentence from your writing
- Entrance Activity: Getting iPad or Chromebook ready
- Evaluate Testing
- Finishing Evaluate Testing/reading
- Exploring Mr. Ruth’s Website
- Signing into Google Classroom
- Entrance Note: What makes a book worth reading?
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing our reading
- Entrance Note: In literature, what is does the word “tone” mean?
- Pre-reading “Tell-Tale Heart”
- Making predictions
- Numbering paragraphs
- Exit Note: What is the potential Tone of “Tell-Tale Heart”
- Dialogue Journals (if time)
The week of 9/3/18
MONDAY 9/3
LABOR DAY: No School
TUESDAY 9/4
LABOR DAY: No School
TUESDAY 9/4
- Entrance Note: Two facts and one question about you
- Introduction to me
- “My Name” by Sandra Cisneros
- Exit Note: Summarize your understanding of theme from “My Name”?
- Entrance note: Reviewing “My Name”
- Name Questionnaire
- School Expectations
- Exit Note: What is an expectation we should have as a class?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing potential expectations for class
- Creating a social contract
- Exit Note: Signing social contract
- Entrance Note: Reviewing potential expectations for class
- Finishing social contracts
- Intro to Essential Questions and Costa’s Levels of Thinking
- Dialogue Journals