English 9--1/15/2019 (3 ACE) & 1/16/2019 (4 BDF)

Jump Off
--Please take out the sheet titled "Common Error: Missing or misplaced possessive apostrophe".  If you have not already done so, please wrap up the PRACTICE.

S. the C.
--agenda/HW
--confer, compare, and clarify in pairs

--go over the PRACTICE together

Transition
--Please pick up a copy of the sheet titled "Common Error: Missing or Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe--POST-ASSESSMENT" from the front table.  Complete the assessment quietly and independently based on your understanding of the last lesson as well as the first part of today's class.  Good luck! :)

Review -- Common Error: Missing or Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe--POST-ASSESSMENT
--complete/go over

Transition

--directions given for how to proceed after taking today's quiz
--Please pick up a copy of the grammar hammer quiz from the front table.  After purposefully reading the directions, complete the quiz to the best of your ability quietly and independently.  Good luck--nail it! :)

Assessment -- The Grammar Hammer--QUIZ: Parts of Speech, Identifying Subjects and Verbs, Comma Usage with Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS), and The Possessive Apostrophe
--When you finish, please...

• place your quiz in the black basket on the front table.
• pick up a copy of the "The Essential Questions" sheet from the front table.  One of your class preparation assignments involves reading this sheet and freely writing any shareable thoughts/ideas you have about one or more of the questions.  You can write your thoughts/ideas on the back of the sheet.
• decide which of the following you will do until class ends:
• log in to your Chromebook and complete a 15-minute Membean training session
• continue reading your free reading book
• complete the "The Essential Questions" class preparation assignment

HW Time

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/17 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).

HW (Class Preparation)
--"Gist" read the "The Essential Questions" sheet and freely write any shareable thoughts/ideas you have about one or more of the questions.  You can write your thoughts/ideas on the back of the sheet.  Expect to share next class block!

--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "Reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything" (Tomie dePaolo).

Miscellaneous

--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal some more.  Do something great this year!

English 9--1/15/2019 (2 ACE)

Jump Off

--Please pick up a copy of the halfsheet titled "Free Reading, Vocabulary, and The Grammar Hammer--Closure" from the front table.  I will both read the directions to you and share my model for the book Beartown momentarily.

S. the C.
--"Jump Off" directions/MODELING
--agenda/HW

DEAR/Enrichment/Review -- Free Reading Book and/or Upfront Newsmagazine (15 mins.)
--complete the halfsheet as directed
--brief share-out of "Option #2" via a drawing of cards as review for the forthcoming quiz

Transition
--directions given for how to proceed after taking today's quiz
--Please pick up a copy of the grammar hammer quiz from the front table.  After purposefully reading the directions, complete the quiz to the best of your ability quietly and independently.  Good luck--nail it! :)

Assessment -- The Grammar Hammer--QUIZ: Parts of Speech, Identifying Subjects and Verbs, Comma Usage with Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS), and The Possessive Apostrophe
--When you finish, please...

• place your quiz in the black basket on the front table.
• pick up a copy of the "The Essential Questions" sheet from the front table.  One of your class preparation assignments involves reading this sheet and freely writing any shareable thoughts/ideas you have about one or more of the questions.  You can write your thoughts/ideas on the back of the sheet.
• decide which of the following you will do until class ends:
• log in to your Chromebook and complete a 15-minute Membean training session
• continue reading your free reading book
• complete the "The Essential Questions" class preparation assignment

HW Time

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/17 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).

HW (Class Preparation)
--"Gist" read the "The Essential Questions" sheet and freely write any shareable thoughts/ideas you have about one or more of the questions.  You can write your thoughts/ideas on the back of the sheet.  Expect to share next class block!

--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!

• "Reading is important because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything" (Tomie dePaolo).

Miscellaneous

--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal some more.  Do something great this year!

English 10--1/14/2019

Jump Off
--?????????? (Coelho's "Four Obstacles" Philosophy)

S. the C.
--briefly discuss the "Jump Off", applying the obstacles to Mr. Martin's brother-in-law's experiences
--agenda/HW

Transition
--Open your notebook to the section labeled "The Alchemist--Quick Write #1".  Draw a line under what you wrote last week.  Date this section of your notes (1/14/2019) and label it "The Alchemist--Quick Write #2".

Thinking and Writing Activity -- The Alchemist--Quick Write #2
--write for 8 minutes in response to the prompt of your choice

HW Time -- "First-Draft" Reading of Pages ix-33 of The Alchemist
--Reminder: the nature of a typical “first-draft” reading of a difficult text:

• A gist reading = “survival mode” in order to understand/comprehend the text on a literal level
• Ask the “curious questions”
• Basic comprehension is essential if any deeper understanding is to occur.
• Easier with some sort of defined purpose (therefore, often a purposeful reading)
• Most effective when it is still somewhat active reading (annotate: jot down curious questions, jot down notes related to your defined purpose, etc.)

--begin "gist reading" the novella together, bearing in mind the following purposeful reading question:

• In the "INTRODUCTION" to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, he explains his "Four Obstacles" philosophy.  In the story itself, Coelho portrays the philosophy through his characters.  How is this case through page 33 of the novella? 

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/17 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--Read the PROLOGUE through the page break on page 33 of The Alchemist.  Demonstrate your best skill level in "first-draft" reading, aiming to both basically comprehend the text and respond to the following question:

• In the "INTRODUCTION" to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, he explains his "Four Obstacles" philosophy.  In the story itself, Coelho portrays the philosophy through his characters.  How is this case through page 33 of the novella? 

Expect any or all of the following to occur during our next class block: 

• a "60/40" reading assessment
• a discussion geared around your "first-draft" reading

Writing

--Continue thinking about the following questions:

• Research Unit: What might you argue with regard to your research topic?
• I would like for us to head back over to the library again sometime soon!
• End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?

HW (Class Participation)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.

• "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy books...and that's kind of the same thing."

Miscellaneous

--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal.  Do something great this year!



On the backburner:

• Library
• print a promising source procured from a database
• back at the classroom, engage in active/purposeful reading as per the same directions given on last AoW

English 10 Honors--1/14/2019

Jump Off
--Please take out the following from last week so that we can continue moving forward:

• AoW #1
• the AoW #1 "WRITING COMPONENT--Method of Refutation #1" sheet 
• the "Basic Counterargument Paragraph Template" sheet
• the "Methods of Refutation" sheet

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

Writing Workshop (cont.) -- AoW #1: Writing a Counterargument Paragraph via Method of Refutation #1
--continue outlining together, picking back up with Ella S.'s selected quote from last class block
--continue outlining quietly and independently
--pair/share
--Closure

• Anyone care to share out for the good of the order?
• How many of you take AP classes this school year?  Why?!
• oral reading of a counterargument paragraph about AP classes
• Though this writer is using a different method of refutation, reading the paragraph still ought to prove helpful!

Transition
--Pick up a copy of the "Poetry Analysis Practice" sheet from the front table.

Poetry Analysis Practice Activity -- "On Living"
--Step 1: After purposefully reading the directions at the top of the "Poetry Analysis Practice" sheet, complete the task at hand until you are given another document and instructed to move forward with the multiple choice.

--Step 2: Complete the multiple choice quietly and independently.
--Step 3: Go over the multiple choice via a whole-class share-out.

Transition
--Pick up a copy of the "Poetry Writing Assignment #1" sheet from the front table.  Purposefully read the sheet.

Writing Workshop -- Poetry Writing Assignment #1
--spend at least half of the remaining class time working on the assignment--if you are "lost" in terms of how to get started, follow the suggested procedures and see what happens!

Flex Time -- A0W #1/Poetry Writing Assignment #1/Free Reading Books (remainder of class)
--continue working on the AoW #1 writing assignment OR
--continue working on the poetry writing assignment OR
--engage in free reading--students without books will read Upfront newsmagazine (located on the front table)

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/17 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
Writing
--Finish both outlining AND writing your AoW #1 counterargument paragraph using the "Basic Counterargument Paragraph Template" and the "WRITING COMPONENT--Method of Refutation #1" sheet.  Expect to place your best work in the black basket on the front table at the beginning of class NEXT TIME (Wednesday, 1/16).
--Continue working on the "Poetry Writing Assignment #1", which is due after Midterm Week.  Make sure that your work aligns with the scoring parameters.  My classroom is available after school for any individuals looking to "workshop" together.
HW (Class Preparation)

--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.

• "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy books...and that's kind of the same thing."

Miscellaneous

--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal.  Do something great this year!


On the backburner:

• Literary Conventions Work
• LotF

English 9--1/11/2019 & 1/14/2019

Jump Off
--Please sit in your new assigned seats again today.
--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom.
--Please SEE ME ASAP:

• Lillian S.

Assessment -- Vocabulary Quiz #3
--log in to Chromebook
--log in to Membean where today's quiz will deploy
--complete the quiz quietly and independently--good luck!
--When you finish, take out your book and engage in free reading until you receive further instructions.

DEAR -- Free Reading Book and/or Upfront Newsmagazine

S. the C.
--agenda/HW


Transition
--Block 2 ACE: 

• K. Waters--please drop the grammar hammer again!
• Find your index card from the end of last class block upon which you revised the sentence about "The Lady, or the Tiger?" that was written up on the whiteboard.  On the back of the card, copy down the new sentence written on the whiteboard underneath the clock.  Finally, find and fix the grammar error(s) that exist(s) in the sentence.  Good luck! :)

--Block 3 ACE:

• Pick up an index card from the front table.  Then, copy down the "sentence" written on the whiteboard underneath the clock.  Finally, find and fix the grammar error that exists in the string of words.  Good luck! :)
• When you finish, please take a look at your last grammar hammer assessment so that you can reflect upon your performance.  Do you have any questions that I can answer?

*DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, I WILL GET A SENSE FOR OUR CURRENT COLLECTIVE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING OF TODAY'S COMMON GRAMMAR ERROR BY PEEKING OVER YOUR SHOULDERS AT YOUR INDEX CARDS.*

Grammar Hammer Instruction -- Missing or Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe

--Block 3 ACE: card drawn, grammar hammer dropped
--Block 3 ACE: Q & A--last grammar hammer assessment
--All blocks: briefly go over the "Transition" as a preview of the rest of today's (hey-yo!) lesson
--Transition

• groups of three formed via a drawing of cards
• activity MODELED
• folders handed out

--group work time (appropriately using the letter "s" and/or the possessive apostrophe)
--whole-class share-out
--Transition

• return to desks

--continued instruction, modeling, notes, etc. via "Breath of Fresh Air Cow"
--Transition

• Please pick up a copy of the sheet titled "Common Error: Missing or misplaced possessive apostrophe" from the front table.

--purposefully read through the top half of the first page of the grammar hammer sheet together--additional instruction, modeling, notetaking, etc. as necessary
--independently complete the PRACTICE
--confer, compare, and clarify in pairs
--go over the PRACTICE together
--For HW, prepare for an assessment about anything grammar-related that we have already worked on this school year and the possessive apostrophe--HOW?!

Transition
--Please pick up a copy of the sheet titled "Common Error: Missing or Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe--POST-ASSESSMENT" from the front table.  Complete the assessment quietly and independently based on your understanding of today's lesson.  Good luck! :)

Closure #1 -- Common Error: Missing or Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe--POST-ASSESSMENT
--complete/go over

Transition
--Pick up a copy of the halfsheet titled "......" from the front table.  I will both read the directions to you and share my model for the book Beartown momentarily.

DEAR/Closure #2 -- Free Reading Book and/or Upfront Newsmagazine (time permitting)
--complete the halfsheet as directed
--brief share-out via a drawing of cards

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/17 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).

HW (Class Preparation)

--Finish preparing for a grammar hammer assessment about the possessive apostrophe, which will take place at the beginning of class NEXT TIME (Tuesday, 1/15 [ACE])/Wednesday, 1/16 [BDF]).  Part of the assessment will mirror today's post-assessment.  Also, these are the directions that you will find on another part of the assessment:

• For each of the following sentences, which are about a debate in high schools in the United States, choose the word that correctly fills in the blank in order to demonstrate your mastery of the possessive apostrophe.

Finally, with each new Grammar Hammer assessment administered, I reserve the right to "check on" your understanding of anything grammar-related that we have already worked on this school year.  Please keep this in mind when preparing! :)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.

• "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy books...and that's kind of the same thing."

Miscellaneous
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal some more.  Do something great this year!
--Block 2 ACE/Block 3 ACE: Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)

English 10--1/10/2019

Jump Off
--Please sit in your new assigned seats again today.
--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom.

Assessment -- Vocabulary Quiz #3
--log in to Chromebook
--log in to Membean where today's quiz will deploy
--complete the quiz quietly and independently--good luck!
--When you finish, take out your book and engage in free reading until you receive further instructions.

DEAR -- Free Reading Book and/or Upfront Newsmagazine

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

Transition

--Open your notebook to the section titled "Introduction to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist".  Then, skip ahead a page or two and date this new page (1/10/2019).  Label this section of your notes "The Alchemist--Quick Write #1".
--If you have not already done so, please pick up the following from the front of the classroom:

• a copy of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist.  Write your name and book number on the sheet of paper near the books.
• On the inside cover of your copy of The Alchemist, write the following:
• your first and last name
• Mr. Martin
• 2018-2019
• a copy of the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--Paulo Coelho's 'Four Obstacles' Philosophy" sheet.  Purposefully read the directions.

Thinking, Writing, and Speaking Activity -- The Alchemist Quick Write #1
--"QUICK WRITE PHILOSOPHY" slide shared
--quick writing MODELED via the first prompt choice
--write for 8 minutes in response to the prompt of your choice
--form partnerships
--partner share (up to 60 seconds per partner)
--whole-class share-out (cards drawn--up to 60 seconds per student--YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO PASS!)

Transition

--Take out the sheet titled "The Alchemist Novella Unit--Paulo Coelho's 'Four Obstacles' Philosophy".

Purposeful Reading/Discussion/Closure -- Paulo Coelho's "Four Obstacles" Philosophy (flex time)

--purposefully read the directions at the top of the page
--work time (independent reading? oral reading?) picking back up at the word "Why?"
--engage in a share-out/discussion by completing the notes template on the SMART Board and connecting Coelho's ideas to today's quick writes and the video clip from last class block

• How does Coelho's "Four Obstacles" Philosophy connect to the video clip from last class block?
• How does Coelho's philosophy connect to your quick write from earlier in the class block?
• What is your "why"?

HW Time -- "First-Draft" Reading of Pages ix-10 of The Alchemist
--Reminder: the nature of a typical “first-draft” reading of a difficult text:

• A gist reading = “survival mode” in order to understand/comprehend the text on a literal level
• Ask the “curious questions”
• Basic comprehension is essential if any deeper understanding is to occur.
• Easier with some sort of defined purpose (therefore, often a purposeful reading)
• Most effective when it is still somewhat active reading (annotate: jot down curious questions, jot down notes related to your defined purpose, etc.)

--begin "gist reading" the novella together, bearing in mind the following purposeful reading question:

• In the "INTRODUCTION" to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, he explains his "Four Obstacles" philosophy.  In the story itself, Coelho portrays the philosophy through his characters.  How is this case through page 10 of the novella? 

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM TONIGHT (Thursday, 1/10) (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
--Complete another 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/17 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--If we do not finish before the end of today's class block, complete the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--Paulo Coelho's 'Four Obstacles' Philosophy" sheet.  I reserve the right to collect and assess the quality of your work at the beginning of next class block.
--Read the PROLOGUE through the page break on page 10 of The Alchemist.  Demonstrate your best skill level in "first-draft" reading, aiming to both basically comprehend the text and respond to the following question:

• In the "INTRODUCTION" to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, he explains his "Four Obstacles" philosophy.  In the story itself, Coelho portrays the philosophy through his characters.  How is this case through page 10 of the novella? 

Expect any or all of the following to occur during our next class block: 

• a "60/40" reading assessment
• a discussion geared around your "first-draft" reading

Writing

--Continue thinking about the following questions:

• Research Unit: What might you argue with regard to your research topic?
• I would like for us to head back over to the library again sometime soon!
• End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?

HW (Class Participation)

--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.

• "All I have learned, I learned from books" (Abraham Lincoln).

Miscellaneous
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal.  Do something great this year!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)



On the backburner:

• Library
• print a promising source procured from a database
• back at the classroom, engage in active/purposeful reading as per the same directions given on last AoW

English 10 Honors--1/10/2019

Jump Off
--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom.

Assessment -- Vocabulary Quiz #3
--log in to Chromebook
--log in to Membean where today's quiz will deploy
--complete the quiz quietly and independently--good luck!
--When you finish, take out your book and engage in free reading until you receive further instructions.

DEAR -- Free Reading Book and/or Upfront Newsmagazine (flex time)

Transition
--Please take out the AoW #1 "WRITING COMPONENT--Method of Refutation #1" sheet that you received last class block.  Skim back through the assignment sheet.  Do you have any questions that I can answer?

S. the C.
--agenda/HW
--Q & A

Transition
--Please take out your "Basic Counterargument Paragraph Template" sheet.  Then, pick up a copy of the "Methods of Refutation" sheet from the front table.  We will add at least two more methods to this document before the course ends (and practice implementing said methods)!

Writing Workshop -- AoW #1: Writing a Counterargument Paragraph via Method of Refutation #1
--oral reading of "Methods of Refutation" document and Q & A
--acclimate ourselves to the "Basic Counterargument Paragraph Template" sheet
--begin outlining together--PICK BACK UP HERE WITH ELLA S.'S SELECTED QUOTE ON 1/14
--continue outlining quietly and independently
--pair/share

HW Time

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM TONIGHT (Thursday, 1/10) (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).
Writing
--Finish both outlining AND writing your AoW #1 counterargument paragraph using the "Basic Counterargument Paragraph Template" and the "WRITING COMPONENT--Method of Refutation #1" sheet.  Expect to place your best work in the black basket on the front table at the beginning of class on Monday, 1/14.
--Continue thinking about the following End-of-Course Assignment question: What is your "why?"?
HW (Class Participation)

--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.

• "All I have learned, I learned from books" (Abraham Lincoln).

Miscellaneous

--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)