English 10--12/6/2019 & 12/9/2019

Jump Off
--Please take out the following: 

• any notes you took while listening to George Orwell's novella Animal Farm
• your theme statement index card
• your free reading book
• the two halfsheets from last class block:
• "Claim Templates with TAG About a Writing Strategy in Literature"
• "Claim Templates for a Theme Statement in Literature Conveyed Through a Writing Strategy"
• the two copies of the "Writing Paragraphs" document (notes and template)

--Please pick up the following from the front table:

• a copy of Animal Farm

S. the C.

--agenda/HW

• I did not plan a "Brain Break" today.  Next block, I will break up the Writing Workshop block--I promise!
• IF YOU HEAR YOUR NAME CALLED AT ALL DURING TODAY'S CLASS BLOCK, PLEASE SEE ME AT THE FRONT TABLE TO DISCUSS YOUR FREE READING BOOK.

Writing Workshop (Phase 1 cont.) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)

--Complete the following steps:

• Get back into your groups from last class block.  (SEE THE BLOG POST FOR GROUPINGS.)
• "Anchored in" to the Room 203 "Compact for Group Work", ...
• draw consensus in order to either pick a theme statement about which to write or craft a new, "ultimate" theme statement about which to write (if you have not already done so).
• pick a character or multiple characters about which to write (if you have not already done so). 
• after I MODEL on the SMART Board, write the topic sentences for each of your paragraphs using both the halfsheet templates and the paragraph template documents.  Review the notes included within the paragraph template documents as necessary.  (SEE THE FRONT BOARD FOR IDEAS ABOUT ORGANIZATION!)
• 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 (time permitting).

Writing Workshop (Phase 2) -- Animal Farm Unit--End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3) (flex time)
--Complete the following steps:

• MODEL "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."
• Reread the topic sentence(s) for your first body paragraph.
• Reminder: Again,  all group members must complete the paragraph template.  As a ticket-out-the-door today, I will ask for submission of a copy at random from one group member (time permitting).
• "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.
• 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)

--Begin working toward completion of the following steps:

• "Rotate" templates (e.g., Jonah to Nicki, Nicki to Chris, and Chris to Jonah).
• Reminder: Yet 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)?
• Yet 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

Transition

• 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)

--1 ACE: If you earned the opportunity for Marking Period 2 Membean credit recovery, you must stay after school TODAY to calculate your partial credit!
--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)

--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!

• "There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book" (Frank Serafini, author of The Reading Workshop).

Miscellaneous
--1 ACE: Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)

On the backburner:

• Adding to "Interest Inventory" (AGAIN!)--selecting an initial research topic