--Turn in your typed-in-MLA-format-two-paragraph argument by placing it in the black basket on the front table.
--If you have a phone, please place it in the receptacle on the front table. Then, get back in your groups from last class block. I am setting the timer for 30 minutes, a time period during which you are expected to wrap up your literary analysis writing pieces.
--The following students still have an INCOMPLETE for Marking Period 2 and need to stay after class today:
--If you have a phone, please place it in the receptacle on the front table. Then, get back in your groups from last class block. I am setting the timer for 30 minutes, a time period during which you are expected to wrap up your literary analysis writing pieces.
--The following students still have an INCOMPLETE for Marking Period 2 and need to stay after class today:
- Person from Whom I Never Received a Nickname
- Wubazz
Assessment (cont.) -- Animal Farm: End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--"anchored in" to the "Compact for Group Work", finish writing your group response in the time permitted
--When you finish, ...
--agenda/rationale/HW--"anchored in" to the "Compact for Group Work", finish writing your group response in the time permitted
--When you finish, ...
- see me for selection of a writing piece representative of your group
- engage in free reading.
Transition
--Please re-column the desks (if you have not already done so) and pick up the following items from the front table:
- your poster that has been hung on the greenboard for the past few months
- a good-smelling marker or two
- a sheet of computer paper
Closure Preparation/Looking Ahead
--Open up your notebook to a clean sheet of paper. Date the page (12/19/2017 [ACE] or 12/20/2017 [BDF]) and label this section of your notes "My Current Answer to the Essential 'Question'". Then, thoughtfully respond to the following questions:
- What is your current answer to the Essential "Question" that overarches our course? (Here are the related questions: Why do people say what they say, do what they do, etc.? What are human beings really like?) After some thought--I encourage you to look through any notes you have taken over the course of the past few weeks during our work with Animal Farm--, write your updated claim about human nature in your notebook. Re-read and revise your claim as necessary; then, write your claim neatly in marker(s) on your sheet of computer paper. (Please note that at the end of the class block, you will be asked to share your claim with me and your classmates! :) )
Closure -- Ball Toss
- What is your claim?
- What do you find yourself thinking about, picturing, etc. as your claim continues coming together in your mind?
- How might you support your claim?
- What would naysayers say?
--Complete a total of 45 minutes of Membean training as directed before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/21. If you fail to appropriately train between now and the administration of Vocabulary Quiz #4, you will not be permitted to take the quiz until you catch up (see the "Membean Routine" document).
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!
- "In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice" (Edmund Wilson, The Triple Thinkers).
