Jump Off (10-12 mins.)
--Please do the following:
--agenda/HW
--first part of "Phase 3" MODELED (see SMART Notebook file)
Writing Workshop (Phase 3) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3) (40-50 mins.)
--Complete the following steps:
--When your group finishes or time runs out (whichever happens first), please...
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 this Thursday, 12/19. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 12/20-1/2, WHICH MEANS THAT BOTH OF THESE WEEK ARE "EXTRA WEEKS." (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
--Upon returning from Winter Break, Membean training will be assigned each week up until midterm.
Writing
--Please do the following:
- take out the following:
- any notes that will help you continue moving forward on the group writing assignment
- your copy of the "Writing Paragraphs" document (notes and template) for your group's characterization paragraph
- pick up a copy of Animal Farm from the front table
- 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) in your notebook OR on the lines in your assigned template section
- PLEASE DO NOT WRITE A TIEBACK FOR YOUR PIECE OF EVIDENCE!
--agenda/HW
--first part of "Phase 3" MODELED (see SMART Notebook file)
Writing Workshop (Phase 3) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3) (40-50 mins.)
--Complete the following steps:
- "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.
--When your group finishes or time runs out (whichever happens first), please...
- re-column the desks
- see me at the front table so that I can collect one of your group member's templates via a drawing of cards
- obtain your Chromebook, log in back at your desk, log in to Membean, and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
*WHILE YOU TRAIN, I WILL WORK ON PROVIDING GROWTH-ORIENTED FEEDBACK ON TEMPLATES SO THAT CAN MOVE FORWARD BEFORE TYPING.*
Before You Leave
--Please take care of your Chromebook! :)
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 this Thursday, 12/19. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 12/20-1/2, WHICH MEANS THAT BOTH OF THESE WEEK ARE "EXTRA WEEKS." (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
--Upon returning from Winter Break, Membean training will be assigned each week up until midterm.
Writing
--Continue reviewing your notes for Animal Farm in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block as well as when we return from Winter Break.
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. If you still do not yet have the "right" book in your possession, please let me know how I can help!
On the backburner:
--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?"?
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS. If you still do not yet have the "right" book in your possession, please let me know how I can help!
- "Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are" (Mason Cooley).
Hooked on Books runs through the end of this week! :)
On the backburner:
- Adding to "Interest Inventory" (AGAIN!)--selecting an initial research topic
