Jump Off (1- 2 mins.)
--Please open your notebook, date the page in the lefthand margin (12/12 [ACE] or 12/13 [BDF], and label this section of your notes "Free Reading Book Rating and Justification."
S. the C. (5-8 mins.)
--agenda/HW
--MODELING as per the "Jump Off"
Free Reading Course Component -- Book Selection Preparation #1 (5 mins.)
--In three-five sentences, respond to the prompt below in preparation for verbally sharing your response:
- On a scale of 1-10, what score do you give your most recent free reading book? Why? Would you recommend the book to someone else? Why or why not? Explain using as much specificity as possible.
--three-five students share about their free reading books (volunteers first followed by a drawing of cards [if necessary])
Transition (5-8 mins.)
--Please pick up each of the following from the front table:
- an index card
- a copy of the "Book Surfing" sheet
--MODELING as per the directions below
--MODELING the "Book Surfing" sheet
--MODELING the "Book Surfing" sheet
--On the lined side of your index card, develop a sort of "game plan" for your free reading book search in the library today. In order to do so, interact with the information below:
What kind of book do you hope to find today?
- the book that _____ briefly talked about
- a book similar to the one that _____ briefly talked about
- a book by the same author as my last book
- a book similar to my last book
- a nonfiction book...
- about the parts of an engine (hopefully with photographs)
- about conspiracy theories
- that explains the college application process
- that "feels" like fiction and tells a story to which I can relate (a memoir)
- author plays my favorite sport
- author has made money gaming
- author struggles with mental health
- etc.
- a fiction book...
- that is part of a fantasy series and might "hook me" so that I want to read the rest of the books
- that tells a story, but is written in poetry
- with teenage main characters that is written from multiple perspectives (e.g., a different character tells the story in each chapter)
- etc.
- any of the above, but in AUDIO
Transition (18-20 mins.)
--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.
--When you finish, please...
- 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.
--Complete of the following steps:
- Quietly and independently at your own desk, finish searching 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) in your notebook OR on the lines in your assigned template section. PLEASE DO NOT WRITE A TIEBACK FOR YOUR PIECE OF EVIDENCE!
- "Rotate" templates (e.g., Jonah to Nicki, Nicki to Chris, and Chris to Jonah).
- Reminder: 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(s). 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)?
- 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)
--ACE class: 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 TONIGHT (Thursday, 12/12). (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
--Complete another cycle of 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, 12/19. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing
--Continue reviewing your notes for Animal Farm in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block.
HW (Class Preparation)
--Complete another cycle of 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, 12/19. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing
--Continue reviewing your notes for Animal Farm in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block.
--Continue thinking about the following questions:
- Research Unit: What topic(s) might you write about in your argumentative research paper?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--If you have not yet selected your next free reading book, consider doing so at some point between now and Friday, 12/13. (BDF classes: This is TODAY!) I will do my best to help get the "right" book in your possession ASAP. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
On the backburner:
- "Reading not only educates, but it is relaxing and allows you to feed your imagination--creating beautiful pictures from carefully chosen words" (Eric Ripert).
Next week is Hooked on Books! :)
- Adding to "Interest Inventory" (AGAIN!)--selecting an initial research topic
