--Turn in your "Diagnostic Test" by placing it in the black basket on the front table. Don't forget about our homework policy in Room 203!
--Pick up the "Free Reading Course Component--Overview Document" from the front table. After taking care of some old business, we will take a look at this document together in order to understand one of the ways in which we read as part of English 9.
--Sit in your assigned seat.
S. the C. (3 mins.)
--agenda/HW
Activity/Discussion Closure -- Establishing Our Classroom Environment: Commitments & Consequences (5 mins.)
--share student commitments poster/sign the poster column-by-column
--share consequences poster--the system is in place!
Looking Ahead -- Free Reading (30-35 mins.)
--oral reading of the "Free Reading Course Component--Overview Document", stopping along the way for reflection and Q & A time
--two sample "one-pagers" presented
--quick booktalks:
- John Calipari's Players First: Coaching from the Inside Out
- Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why
- John Green's The Fault in Our Stars
- Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It"
--additional information shared about Library Orientation
Transition (4 mins.)
--Take out your Article of the Week #1 document. Spend five minutes continuing the active re-reading process that we began last class. If you need me to quickly model these directions for you, I would be glad to do so--just bravely raise your hand and ask!
Literacy Activity (cont.) -- Article of the Week (20-25 mins.)--DID NOT GET TO IN BLOCK 4 ACE--COMPLETED TEMPLATE IS STILL DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF NEXT CLASS
--finish engaging in independent active re-reading
--mark up a class copy of the text at the SmartBoard via a drawing of cards:
- What is one annotation that you made? Make the same annotation on the class copy of the text up front.
- Why did you "do what you did"? Explain your reasoning to your peers and teacher.
--independent work time
Teambuilding Activity -- Artifact Bags (remainder of class, time permitting)
--I hand a paper bag to random student--he/she then displays items from the bag one at a time, briefly describing what he/she is seeing
--guess who?!
--owner of bag further describes, explains, shares anecdotes, etc. as a form of introduction to teacher/peers
--REPEAT THE PROCESS...
HW
--If you have a book at home that you are reading or would like to begin reading for our free reading course component, bring the book to class next time (and daily between now and when you finish the book or the end of the quarter, whichever comes first).
--Finish entirely filling in the template located on the last page of your Article of the Week #1 document for a homework check next class. Expect to turn this template into an actual writing piece sometime in the near future!
