Jump Off
--Please do the following:
--Please do the following:
- obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. Back at your desk, log in, log in to Membean, and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
- return your Chromebook
- take out the following:
- any notes that will help you continue moving forward on the group writing assignment
- the two copies of the "Writing Paragraphs" document (notes and template) with the characterization paragraph on top
- pick up a copy of Animal Farm from the front table.
--agenda/HW
Writing Workshop (Phase 2 cont.) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
Writing Workshop (Phase 3) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--Complete of the following steps:
Writing Workshop (Phase 2 cont.) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--Complete the following steps:
- Start/continue/finish MODELING "Phase 2" steps with a sample writing piece in response to a similar prompt about Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."
- "Anchored in" to our "Compact for Group Work", ...
- copy your claim (topic sentence[s]) for your first body paragraph onto the "A Paragraph's..." template (if you have not already done so).
- Reminder: All group members must complete the paragraph template documents. As a ticket-out-the-door today, I will ask for submission of a copy at random from one group member.
- reread the claim aloud.
- "Divide and conquer" the evidence-gathering process for the first body paragraph by assigning each other a page range and/or character and template section upon which to write.
- Last class block, most groups seemed to leave with a clear sense of who would search for evidence where. If this was not the case for your group, please assign/agree upon roles before moving forward.
- Quietly and independently back at your own desk, search for the strongest piece(s) of evidence in your page range and/or about your character in support of your group's claim about characterization. Carefully copy the direct quotation(s) on the lines in your assigned template section. PLEASE DO NOT WRITE A TIEBACK FOR YOUR PIECE OF EVIDENCE!
Writing Workshop (Phase 3) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--Complete of the following steps:
- "Rotate" templates (e.g., Jonah to Nicki, Nicki to Chris, and Chris to Jonah).
- Reminder: Again, all group members must continue completing the paragraph template. As a ticket-out-the-door today, I will ask for submission of a copy at random from one group member.
- Quietly and independently back at your own desk, write a multi-sentence tieback for your group member's direct quotation. Strongly consider the following questions:
- Based on the paragraph's purpose (as established in the claim), why did your group member select this direct quotation?
- This quotation suggests that... because...
- This idea relates back to the claim that... because...
- How does this direct quotation relate back to the paragraph's purpose (as established in the claim)?
- Again, get back into groups.
- "Anchored in" to our "Compact for Group Work", ...
- share evidence and tiebacks so as to complete the template for your group's first body paragraph.
- Does anything need to be changed? Added? Etc. (If so, "take care of business" accordingly!)
- agree upon and write an all-encompassing concluding sentence
- With a few minutes remaining in the block, ...
- re-column the desks
- return your copy of Animal Farm by placing it back on the front table
Ticket-Out-the-Door -- Template Collection via a Drawing of Cards (last few mins.)
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses or trained for a total of 45 minutes over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/12. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
Writing
--Continue reviewing your notes for Animal Farm in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block.
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
Writing
--Continue reviewing your notes for Animal Farm in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block.
--If you have not done so in a while, consider the following question:
- What topic(s) might you write about in your argumentative research paper?
--If you have not yet selected your next free reading book, consider doing so at some point between now and Friday, 12/13. I will do my best to help get the "right" book in your possession throughout the week beginning 12/9. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
On the backburner:
- "'A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,' said Jojen. 'The man who never reads lives only one'" (George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons).
On the backburner:
- Adding to "Interest Inventory" (AGAIN!)--selecting an initial research topic
