English 9--1/9/2019 & 1/10/2019

Block 2 ACE 
Jump Off
--Please sit in your new assigned seat again.
--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom.  After logging in, log in to Membean and set up and complete a 10-minute training session.  Once you finish training, take out your book and engage in free reading until you receive further instructions.

Block 3 ACE/Block 4 BDF
Jump Off
--Please sit in your new assigned seat again.
--Open up your notebook to the section in which you wrote your quick writes about the time machine scenario.
--Have we scrolled through my Facebook feed together yet?!

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

Block 2 ACE

Transition
--Please take out your notebook and open up to the section titled "S.M.A.R.T. Goals" that you started last class block.

Block 3 ACE/Block 4 BDF
Transition
--Draw a line in your notebook underneath your last set of notes.  Then, label the next section of your notes "S.M.A.R.T.

Thinking, Writing, and Speaking Activity (cont.) -- Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Part 2--Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals
--Block 3 ACE/Block 4 BDF: a quick look at my Facebook feed--'tis the season!

• How many of you know someone who set a New Year's resolution earlier this week?
• How many of you set one yourself?

--link the concept of New Year's resolutions to Part 1 of our current activity and setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

• S.M.A.R.T. Goal acronym explained/notes written on front board/sample S.M.A.R.T. Goal (mine) crafted

--Transition

• Pick up a copy of the "Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals..." document from the front table.

--oral reading of instructional page of document
--set one S.M.A.R.T. Goal for 2019 that relates to Part 1 of our current activity

• As you work, I will refine my S.M.A.R.T. Goal (if necessary) and circulate throughout the classroom in the hopes of helping you out!

--Transition

• Pick up an index card from the front table.  Then, write your first and last name at the top of your card.  Next, write your S.M.A.R.T. Goal down on your card.  Finally, place your card in the black basket on the front table when you finish.

Closure #1

• partner share (30 seconds per partner)
• S.M.A.R.T. Goals read aloud

Transition
--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! :)
*DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, I WILL... 

• RETURN YOUR LAST GRAMMAR HAMMER ASSESSMENT SO THAT YOU CAN REFLECT UPON YOUR PERFORMANCE
• 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

--Q & A--last grammar hammer assessment
--briefly go over the "Transition" as a preview of the rest of today's (hey-yo!) lesson
--card drawn, grammar hammer dropped
--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, begin preparing 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 #2 -- Common Error: Missing or Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe--POST-ASSESSMENT
--complete/go over

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)

--Complete 45 minutes of Membean training in three different days before 11:59 PM this Thursday, 1/10 (see the "English Department Membean Routine" sheet).

HW (Class Preparation)

--Begin preparing for a grammar hammer assessment about the possessive apostrophe, which will take place at the beginning of class on 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.

Also, 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.

• "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!