English 10 Honors--12/16/2019 (3B ACE and 4 ACE)

Jump Off
--Please pick up a copy of the "Soft Skills Self-Assessment--Small-Group End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)" sheet from the front table.  Please carefully read the directions.  Then, complete the task at hand quietly and independently over the course of the first ten minutes of the block.  If you finish before time is up, please engage in free reading.

Transition
--Please place your self-assessment in the black basket on the front table.

S. the C.
--agenda/HW

Read-Aloud -- Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor--"Introduction: How'd He Do That?"       
--If you would like a copy of the text to follow along while I read aloud, please pick one up from the back of the classroom!
--oral reading of Foster's introduction so as to respond to the following question:

• How might one define the concept "convention of literature?"

--turn and talk

--whole-class share-out

Transition

--column by column, head up to the front table to... 

• draw conventions from the plastic cup
• pick up a copy of the "Learning Conventions of Literature via Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor" sheet

Please purposefully read the sheet so that you know what is coming up for the remainder of today's class block, and take note of any questions that you have so that I can clarify your task.

"Gearing Up" for Lord of the Flies Activity (Phase 1) -- Preparing to Teach Conventions of Literature via Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor

--Q & A about the activity directions

--Transition

• Please pick up the necessary materials from the front of the classroom:
• a copy of Thomas C. Foster's How to Read Literature Like a Professor (if you did not pick one up already earlier in the block)
• "Convention of Literature Notes" document
• "Convention of Literature T-chart" that corresponds with your assigned convention

--sample t-chart handed out and shared
--quiet and independent work time for approximately 15 minutes to "get the party started"
--"anchor in" to the "Compact for Group Work"
--finish purposefully reading
--determine "plan of attack" for preparing lesson
--begin completing T-chart/preparing lesson

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 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?"?

HW (Class Preparation)
--You will have approximately half a class block next time to finish preparing your group lessons.  Do whatever is necessary in the meantime!
--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! :)