The week of 6/4/18
MONDAY 6/4
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading Ch 12
- Preparing for poster discussion
- Backing up files on iPad
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Going over Poster Discussion expectations
- Poster discussion
- Backing up Files from iPad
- Entrance Activity: Final backing up files from iPad and returning them
- Notes from Chapter 10-12 due today
- Watching The Outsiders movie
- Watching The Outsiders movie
- Adding comments to poster discussions
- Making up late or missing work
- Watching The Outsiders movie
- Adding comments to poster discussions
- Making up late or missing work
The week of 5/28/18
MONDAY 5/28
No School
TUESDAY 5/29
No School
TUESDAY 5/29
- questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Finishing Chapter 7
- Reading ch 8
- Preparing for socratic seminar
- Exit Note: share one question you could ask to help start a discussion
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Finishing Ch 8
- Discussion # 3: Focus on theme
- Reading ch 9
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Finishing Chapter 9
- Discussion #4: Focus on textual evidence
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading ch 10 and 11
- Notes on Chapter 7-9 due today
The week of 5/21/18
MONDAY 5/21
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading ch 3
- Exit Note: What makes a successful discussion?
- Entrance Activity: Get to your new seats/Grid of Awesome-friendship-time-power
- Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading ch 4
- Review What makes a successful discussion?
- Discussion #1
- Closure: Reflecting on discussion/making predictions
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading ch 5
- Exit Note: Share a word from your vocabulary list along with a definition and example sentence.
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading ch 6
- Discussion #2
- Closure: Reflecting on discussion/making predictions
- Entrance Activity: Creating questions and writing summaries in our notes
- Reading Ch 7
- Notes on Chapter 1-6 due today
The week of 5/14/18
MONDAY 5/14
- Entrance Activity: Check weekly schedule and update planner
- SSR
- Closure: Sharing books with each other
- Entrance Note: What did you learn from our TED-Talks?
- Make-up TED-Talks
- Closure: What can influence a person to change?
- 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 and writing summaries
- Exploring characters more
- Choosing top 3 characters
- Starting Chapter 2
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Cornell Notes; asking questions and writing summaries
- Finishing Chapter 2
The week of 5/7/18
MONDAY 5/7
- Entrance Activity: Roll/Outside Team builder while group sets up the room
- Group 2 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
- Group 3 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
- Group 4 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
- Group 5 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
- Group 6 TED-Talk Day
- Presenting Speeches
- Question Round (if time)
- Self and Peer Assessment
The week of 4/30/18
MONDAY 4/30
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Steps to making a TED-Talk handout
- Making Posters
- Sharing Posters
- Working on next step within your group
- Exit Note: What step are you on? How ready are you to present?
- Entrance Activity: What step are you on individually? How are you as a whole group?
- Working on TED-Talk
- Exit Note: What is your progress so far?
- Entrance Note: What is a works cited page?
- Creating a works cited page using oslis.org
- Sign-ups
- Working on our 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 Note: Make a list of what you need to make and do today to be ready to present
- Last day for working on TED-Talk
- Works Cited Pages and Credible Sources Due
- 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
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 4/23/18
MONDAY 4/23
- SBAC Testing
- SBAC Testing
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials and creating plan of action for the day
- Working on Storyboarded speech
- Creating Multimedia for TED-Talk
- Exit Note: What are you most concerned about when it comes to this assignment?
- SBAC Testing
- SBAC Testing
The week of 4/16/18
MONDAY 4/16
- Entrance Activity: Updating planner with weekly schedule
- High school Counselors here meeting with individuals
- Work time: Continuing research and outline
- Exit Note: Describe your progress
- Entrance Note: How do you use multimedia to enhance a presentation?
- Ted-Talk: “How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries”
- Use of Multimedia
- Speech techniques
- Creating storyboarded speech from outline
- Exit Note: Share one image you plan to use in your TED-Talk and why
- Entrance Activity: Sharing your progress with your producers
- Working on Storyboards
- Exit Note: Any questions about the storyboard or our TED-Talk process still left unanswered?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials and creating plan of action for the day
- Working on Storyboarded speech
- Storyboards Due
- Exit Note: What is something important to remember about State Testing?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing important reminders about State Testing list
- SBAC Practice Test
- Make-up work/TED-Talk practice time
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 4/9/18
MONDAY 4/9
No School
- Entrance activity: Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Ted-Talk: “The Hidden Power of Smiling”
- Identifying credible sources
- Exit Note: What is your progress so far on your TED-Talk?
- Entrance Activity: What makes a source Credible?
- 9:30 to 11:00 at high school
- Conducting research
- Exit Note: What is one credible source you have found today? How do you know it is a reliable source?
- Entrance Note: What is an “outline,” and how do we use them in our writing process?
- Ted-Talk: “How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries”
- Structure
- Pacing
- Creating Outline based on research and focus on flow
- Exit Note: What is your progress so far on your TED-Talk?
- Entrance Activity: Gathering sources and outlines
- Outlines due today
- Begin creating multimedia for presentation
- Dialogue Journals
No School
The week of 4/2/18
MONDAY 4/2
- Entrance Note: Get to know new groups; establishing group norms
- Filling out planner with weekly schedule
- Intro to Ted-Talk: “A Teen Just Trying to Figure it Out”
- Group-think on impressions of video
- Exit Note: What is something worth knowing or changing in this world?
- Entrance Note: What was yesterday’s Ted-Talk about?
- Exploring Ted-Talk structure
- Introduction to Group ted-talk assignment
- Identifying group theme and roles
- Exit Note: What subject or argument are you going to research for your groups ted-talk?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing test-norms
- Research pre-test
- Citing Sources Pre-test
- Closure: Identifying our group theme and individual topics
- Entrance Activity: Identify the claim
- Ted-Talk; “3 fears about screen time for kids — and why they're not true”; focusing on claims and evidence
- Creating claims
- Exit Note: What is your topic and claim?
- Entrance Note: Write down your claim from yesterday
- Group question pass-around.
- Research questions mini-lesson
- beginning research on claims based on questions
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 3/19/18
MONDAY 3/19
No School: Conferences
FRIDAY 3/23
No School
- Entrance Activity: Writing down weekly schedule in planner
- Gallery Walk/Presentation overview and Sign-up
- Last minute presentation practice and work
- Exit Reminder: Sign up!
- Entrance Note: Gallery Walk Expectations Sheet
- Gallery Walk Part 1
- Class-wide presentations
- Gallery Walk Part 2
- Entrance Note: Preparing for gallery walk and presentations
- Gallery Walk Part 3
- Class-wide presentations
- Dialogue Journals
No School: Conferences
FRIDAY 3/23
No School
The week of 3/12/18
MONDAY 3/12
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Activity: Sharing books and thoughts
- Entrance Note: Looking up Weekly Schedule and updating planner
- Writing Practice #16: “My Grandfather’s Memory Book”
- Exit Note: Revisiting potential projects for Showcasing our writing
- Entrance Note: If your short Story were a writing practice what would be one of the topics it represents?
- Reviewing Showcase Overview
- Creating Showcase Proposal
- Getting started on our projects
- Exit Note: What are your plans for creating your project?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing project proposal and plan for creating project
- Time to work on project
- Exit Note: What did you accomplish today and what do you still need to finish?
- Entrance Note: What makes a presentation successful?
- Expectations for Gallery Walk on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week
- Finishing up projects and signing up for presentation slot
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 3/5/18
MONDAY 3/5
- Entrance Activity: Filling out planner with weekly schedule
- Writing Practice #15: Sinking Islands, Floating Nation
- Exit Note: Seating chart possibilities
- Entrance Activity: remember the Reading Record? Let’s find that…
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing your reading record so far this year.
- Entrance Note: What are some things we focus on when we proofread and edit?
- Review proof reading feedback
- Exit Note: What is a grammatical error that you kept making in your writing?
- Entrance note: What do you need to change in your writing today?
- Making Changes (proof reading Due Today)
- SSR when finished editing
- Exit Note: What editing did you do today? Any trends?
- Entrance Note: What are some ways that we should share/publish our writing?
- Intro to sharing expectations
- Project proposal form
- Dialogue journals…
The week of 2/26/18
MONDAY 2/26
- Entrance Activity: Checking weekly schedule and updating planner
- Finishing peer conferences
- Working on Final Draft
- Exit Note: Sharing favorite sentence
- Entrance Note: How and why do we add details to our writing?
- Big sentences mini-lesson
- Applying to our writing
- Exit Note: What is your progress so far on your writing?
- Entrance Note: What is your plan for revision the next few days?
- Filling out GPA
- Working on Final Draft
- Entrance Note: Reviewing plan for final draft?
- Working on Final Draft
- Mini Lesson station: Forwshadowing
- Exit Note: How confident are you in finishing your final draft by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Identifying literary device in your final draft
- Final Drafts due today!
- Literary device explanation
- Final Draft self-assessment
- Dialogue journals
The week of 2/20/18
MONDAY 2/19
No School
TUESDAY 2/20
No School
TUESDAY 2/20
- Entrance Activity: Writing weekly schedule in planner
- Reviewing rubric against various Narrative examples
- Exit Note: Favorite sentences from your rough draft
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing feedback from Mr. Ruth and writing down area of focus for further feedback
- Peer writing conference
- Exit Note:Plan for revision
- Entrance Activity: reviewing plan for revision
- Finish up peer-feedback
- Working on final draft
- Exit Note: Sharing revisions with partner and get further feedback
- Dialogue journals
- Literary device Mini-lesson
- Applying to our writing
- Final Draft work time
- Exit note: progress on final draft so far.
The week of 2/12/18
MONDAY 2/12
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for writing practice
- Writing Practice #13: Based on various images
- Exit Note: Did today’s writing practice inspire any stories?
- Entrance Activity: Checking Class Website and filling out our agenda
- Sharing our plans for writing
- Intro to Short Story Unit
- Writing our rough drafts
- Closure: Sharing writing from today
- Entrance Note: What is “foreshadowing”
- Foreshadow mini lesson
- Rough Draft Work Time
- Entrance Note: What
- Rough Draft Work Time
- Exit Note: How confident are you in finishing your by tomorrow?
- Entrance Note: What is your plan for writing today?
- Rough Draft due today
- Exit Note: What is something that you want me to focus on while I am reading your story?
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 2/5/18
MONDAY 2/5
- Entrance Activity: Writing down weekly schedule
- Discussion overview
- Asking questions about discussion overview
- Examples of prepared notes
- Preparing our notes for discussion by reading and marking the text
- Exit Note: What makes a discussion successful
- Entrance Activity: Reading answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Reviewing what makes a discussion successful
- Discussion example video
- Creating agenda
- Last minute preparations
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing agenda and planning discussion
- Discussion
- Self-assessment
- Entrance Note: What inspires a story?
- Intro to Short story unit
- Reading refugee story and short story inspired by it
- Exit Note: How do you think this event inspired the story?
- Entrance Note: What event inspired the story “Sea Prayer?”
- Finding inspiration for our own stories
- Give one Get one
- Website immigrant stories
- Earlier writing practice
- Exit Note: What ideas do you have so far for a short story?
The week of 1/29/18
MONDAY 1/29
- Entrance activity: Gathering notes on literary devices
- Literary Devices pre-test
- Reviewing tests and other literary devices
- Exit Note: Favorite literary device and why
- Entrance Note: What makes a story worth reading?
- Available short stories overview
- Choosing top stories you want to read from options
- Exit Note: What stories do you want to read and why?
- Entrance Note: What does it mean to “read like a writer”?
- Literature circle rolls overview
- Identifying rolls
- Marking the text how to reminder
- Reading short stories with rolls
- Entrance Activity: gather stories and notes.
- Marking the text reminder
- Reading Short stories and preparing for discussion
- Exit Note: What makes a discussion successful?
- Entrance Note: Discussion Strategies
- Sharing strategies on board
- Discussion of structure and literary devices
- Exit Note: How did the literary devices enhance your understanding of the story?
The week of 1/22/18
MONDAY 1/22
No School - Teacher Work Day
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials for presentations
- Presenting poetry analysis
- Exit Note: Reflection on experience today
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing our books
- Entrance Note: What is a literary device?
- Intro to short story unit and literary devices
- Exit Note: Literary device questionnaire
- Entrance Note: How do we choose stories worth reading?
- Choosing top stories you want to read from options
- Exit Note: What stories do you want and why?
- Dialogue journals
No School - Teacher Work Day
The week of 1/1/18
MONDAY 1/1
No School
TUESDAY 1/2
No School
TUESDAY 1/2
- Entrance Note: What are some expectations you have for one another in this class?
- Revisiting Class Social Contract
- Pen Pals class activity
- Exit activity: Reflection on class activity
- Entrance Note: How do we analyze artwork?
- Introduction to poetry unit:
- Art and poetry from Terezin Concentration Camp
- Marking the text
- Creating statements
- Exit note: What is a statement you could make about today’s poem and artwork?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing and reflecting on our notes.
- Re-reading poem
- Creating level 2 and 3 questions for tomorrow’s socratic seminar
- Exit note: Sharing level 2 and 3 questions
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing notes and questions
- Socratic Seminar
- Partner up
- Discussion
- Reflection
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 12/11/17
MONDAY 12/11
- Entrance activity: Reviewing Notes from last week
- Writing Practice #10: based on our books (this will help you fine-tune your thoughts and analysis)
- Exit Note: Where do you need to read to by Wednesday?
- Entrance Note: Reviewing and revising Notes
- Reading and Note taking to prepare for our in-class writing and socratic seminar
- Exit Note: Summarizing your notes
- Entrance activity: Gathering notes and materials
- Preparing for Poster discussion:
- Creating topics and essential questions
- Sharing first round thoughts
- Exit Note: How did you use evidence from your book to support your thoughts?
- Entrance activity: Gathering notes and materials
- Continuing Poster discussion
- What makes a successful comment example
- 3 more rounds at least
- Exit Note: How did you use evidence from your book to support your thoughts?
- Entrance activity: Review comments on poster discussions
- Reflection and make-up day: take time to self assess and get caught up on anything you missed
- Turning in notes on books from the last two weeks.
The week of 12/4/17
MONDAY 12/4
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing our notes and asking questions
- Writing practice #9: based on our books (this is kind of like a informal in-class writing)
- Exit Note: Where do you need to read to by tomorrow
- Entrance Note: What makes a strong discussion
- Reviewing group roles during discussion
- First group discussion: Focusing on theme and analysis
- Exit Note: Self-assess your discussion and plan to improve
- Entrance Note: What makes a strong discussion
- Reviewing group roles during discussion
- First group discussion: Focusing on theme and analysis
- Exit Note: Self-assess your discussion and plan to improve
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing our notes and asking questions
- More reading and note taking to prepare for our next discussion
- Exit Note: Where do you need to read to by tomorrow
- Entrance Note: Summarizing our notes so far by answering the questions we created
- 2nd group discussion: Focusing on theme and analysis
- Exit Note: Self-assess your discussion and plan to improve
The week of 11/27/17
MONDAY 11/27
- Entrance Activity: Gathering materials fro writing practice
- Writing Practice #8: “Mother’s Day”
- Exit Note: Sharing a favorite sentence from your writing.
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Reading Goal Conference
- Exit Note: Sharing
- Entrance Note: How do we learn from our history?
- Intro to Anne Frank and the Holocaust
- Introduction to potential books for literature circles
- Exit Note: Top three books to read from our selection
- Entrance Note: Reviewing Performance Task Overview and Rubric
- Performance Task Introduction:
- Expectations
- Rubric overview
- Asking questions
- Getting our books and meeting our groups:
- Grid of Awesome Friendship time power
- Creating Reading plan
- Exit Note: Share one question about the performance task that you need answered
- What does it mean to describe key details? and, How do these contribute to our understanding of a story?
- Reading and discussing our books in our groups
- Identifying key-details
- Quoting important moments in our Cornell Notes
- Sharing our thoughts and creating plan to further our reading and understanding.
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 11/13/17
MONDAY 11/13
- Entrance Activity: “Grid of Awesome-Friendship-Time-Power”
- Writing Practice #7: “Seafarers”
- Exit Note: Sharing Favorite Sentence
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Reading Goal Conference
- 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 11/6/17
MONDAY 11/6
NO SCHOOL: Observance of Veterans Day
- Entrance Note: “What does it mean to be detailed in our writing? Share an example”
- Writing Practice #6: Rebuilding in Miniature
- Exit Note: Sharing one detailed sentence from writing today
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Note: Sharing
- Entrance Note: Why do we reflect on our work?
- Reading Record Reflection
- Work Sample Reflection
- Entrance Note: What are some things to look for when we proofread?
- Reviewing editing errors in our writing
- Personal Proofreading checklist
- Exit Note: One element to focus your proofreading on
NO SCHOOL: Observance of Veterans Day
The week of 10/30/17
MONDAY 10/30
NO SCHOOL: Teacher Work Day
- Entrance Note: What does a successful speech look like?
- Last day to work on building presentations
- Impromptu Speeches if time
- Exit Note: Signing up for speeches.
- Presenting speeches
- Presenting speeches
- Finishing Speeches
- Reflection and self-assessment
NO SCHOOL: Teacher Work Day
The week of 10/23/17
MONDAY 10/23
- Entrance Note: What is feedback, and how do we best use it to improve?
- Reviewing feed back from Mr. Ruth
- Responding to our peers writing
- Exit Note: What is one piece of feedback you received?
- Entrance Note: What is an agenda or plan, and why would we use them for our writing?
- Responding to peer writing continued
- Creating a final draft plan
- Working on Final Draft
- Exit Note: What is your plan, and what have you accomplished so far?
- Entrance Note: What is the purpose of your writing?
- Mini lesson-based on trends in rough drafts
- Applying to our final drafts
- Working on final drafts
- Exit note: Does your writing accomplish it’s purpose?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing purpose of your writing.
- Final Draft Due today
- Intro to speeches
- Quick walkthrough of Keynote (video)
- Watching example presentation
- Creating presentations
The week of 10/16/17
MONDAY 10/16
- Monday Moment of Mindfulness
- WP #5: “I Have a Message For You”
- Exit Note: Sharing most detailed sentence
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Exit Activity: Sharing reading
- Entrance Note: Updating apps needed
- Tech Day
- Organizing e-binder
- Genius Scan
- Updating ELA materials
- Exit Note: How does keeping organized benefit our learning?
- Entrance Note: What is a claim?
- Claims and Evidence Lesson:
- “Why I’m a Weekday Vegetarian”
- Identifying Claims/evidence
- Focus on Structure
- Exit Note: How might this argument inspire your own?
- Peer feedback on rough draft:
- Identifying Claims/Evidence
- Focus on Purpose/Message
- Exit Note: Reflecting on feedback
The week of 10/9/17
MONDAY 10/9
NO SCHOOL
- Entrance Activity: Preparing for summative writing practice
- Writing Practice #4: “Richard Twice” (SUMMATIVE)
- Sharing some of our writing
- Exit Note: What do you know about writing an persuasive speech?
- Entrance Activity: Reviewing Cornell Notes
- Working on rough drafts (due tomorrow)
- Exit Note: How confident are you in finishing your rough draft by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Sharing your writing so far with a partner
- Working on rough drafts
- Rough draft due today in Google Classroom
- Exit Note: What is one thing you want Mr. Ruth to focus on when reading your rough draft?
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- E-Binder Check
- SSR
- Choice Reading
- identifying theme
- Analyzing theme and supporting analysis with textual evidence
- Sharing our stories
- Exit Note: Reflection/updating reading record
NO SCHOOL
The week of 10/2/17
MONDAY 10/2
- Entrance Activity: Moment of Mindfulness
- Writing Practice #3: “A Conversation With Police on Race”
- Exit Note: Sharing favorite sentence
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Choice Reading
- identifying theme
- Analyzing theme and supporting analysis with textual evidence
- Sharing our stories
- Exit Note: Reflection/updating reading record
- Entrance Note: What makes a story interesting to you?
- “Nevermore” by Edgar Allen Poe
- Intro to Persuasive Essay/Speech
- Reading through handout
- Discussing possibilities
- Proposing ideas
- Creating questions
- Exit Note: Share one of the questions you have about the assignment
- Entrance Activity: Reading over assignment FAQ
- Working on rough drafts (due tomorrow)
- Exit Note: How confident are you in finishing your rough draft by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Sharing your writing so far with a partner
- Working on rough drafts
- Rough draft due today
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 9/25/17
MONDAY 9/25
- Entrance Activity: Moment of Mindfulness
- Writing Practice #2: Wolf Mountain
- Exit Note: Sharing a favorite sentence
- Entrance Activity: Read through Tell-Tale Heart movie trailer FAQ
- Working on Movie Trailer
- Exit Note: How confident are you in having this project finished by tomorrow?
- Entrance Activity: Preparing to share your trailer with the class
- Sharing our iMovie Trailers
- In-Class Writing
- Identifying theme and tone in the story and iMovie
- Analyzing theme and tone as they propel the plot and deeper meaning of the work
- Using notes to help provide evidence for analysis
- Exit Activity: Turning in video and analysis to google classroom
- Entrance Activity: Updating Reading Record
- SSR
- Choice Reading
- identifying theme
- Analyzing theme and supporting analysis with textual evidence
- Sharing our stories
- Exit Note: Reflection/updating reading record and Vocabulary
- Entrance Note: What is your experience with poetry?
- Close Reader: “Frankenstein” by Edward Field
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 9/18/17
MONDAY 9/18
- Bell Ringer: Intro to Essential Questions
- Writing Practice #1: Shetland Pony Grand National
- Using Notability for writing journal
- Exit Note: What was most difficult about our writing practice today?
- Bell Ringer: Uploading Reading record and Personal Vocabulary sheet to Notability
- SSR
- Exit Note: Reflection/updating reading record and Vocabulary
- Entrance Note: In literature, what is does the word “tone” mean?
- Pre-reading and continuing vocabulary for “Tell-Tale Heart”
- Reading reviews
- Numbering paragraphs
- Making predictions
- Introduction to Cornell Notes
- Exit Note: What is the potential Tone of “Tell-Tale Heart”
- Entrance Activity: Prepare your CORNELL Notes with a partner
- Reading Tell-Tale Heart
- Small group discussions with guided questions
- Intro to Tell-Tale Heart movie trailer project
- Exit Note: What questions do you have about the movie trailer project?
- Entrance Activity: Read through Tell-Tale Heart movie trailer FAQ
- Working on Movie Trailer
- Exit Note: How confident are you in having this project finished by next Wednesday?
The week of 9/11/17
MONDAY 9/11
- Entrance Note: What are some ways you can add new words to your vocabulary?
- “Tell-Tale Heart”
- Find someone who…
- Exit Note: How does knowing your classmates improve your learning?
- Entrance Note: What makes a book worth reading?
- SSR
- Exit Note: Reflection/updating reading log
- Entrance Note: What are some expectations we have for iPad behavior
- Intro to Class Website
- Intro to Google Classroom
- Intro to Notability
- Exit Note: What questions do you have about the technology and resources we will be using in class?
- Entrance Activity: Prepare your CORNELL Notes with a partner
- Reading Tell-Tale Heart
- Small group discussions with guided questions
- Exit Note: Is “Tell-Tale Heart” appropriate for middle schoolers?
- Entrance Note: What is a “literary analysis”?
- Close Reader: “The Outsider”
- Dialogue Journals
The week of 9/4/17
MONDAY 9/4
No School: Labor Day
TUESDAY 9/5
No School: Labor Day
TUESDAY 9/5
- Entrance Note: Guess Who Sticky Notes
- My Brain activity
- Example from Times Magazine
- Fill out my brain
- Fill out their own
- Small group/class sharing
- Summarize learning and understanding
- School Expectations
- Exit Note: What should the brain of our class look like (factor in school expectations)
- Entrance note: What are some classroom norms we should establish (using exit note from yesterday)
- Pen Pals team builder
- Sharing potential expectations
- Costa’s Levels of Questioning Introduction
- Exit Note: What is an expectation we should have as a class?
- Entrance Note: Creating level 2 questions based on our compiled classroom expectations
- Reviewing Costa’s Level’s of Question
- Introduction to socratic Seminar
- Preparing
- Norms
- Structure
- Exit Note: What is a question you have about Socratic Seminars?
- Entrance Note: Creating Level 3 questions based on our compiled classroom expectations list
- Socratic Seminar
- reviewing expectations
- Preparing
- discussing
- reflecting
- Dialogue Journals