English 10--1/13/2020 & 1/14/2020

Jump Off

--Please do the following:

• take out the following: 
• any notes that will help you continue moving forward on the Animal Farm group writing assignment
• your copy of the "Writing Paragraphs" document (notes and template) for your group's characterization paragraph
• pick up the following from the front table: 
• a copy of Animal Farm
• your copy of the "Writing Paragraphs" document (notes and template) if it was collected before Winter Break

S. the C.
--agenda/HW
--today's initial steps MODELED on the SMART Board

• https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/quoliterature/

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

• Get back into groups.
• "Anchored in" to our "Compact for Group Work", ...
• read, discuss, and attend to any feedback that I provided for your group's first paragraph (if you have not already done so).
• For example, if one of the comments reads, "Carefully copy quotes so as to avoid accidental plagiarism," use your copies of the novella to fix the mistakes.
• finish sharing evidence and tiebacks so as to complete the template for your group's first paragraph (if you have not already done so).
• Does anything need to be changed?  Added?  Etc.  (If so, "take care of business" accordingly!)
• as per the modeling that occurred during the "S. the C.," agree upon and start writing introductions for each piece of evidence.
• https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/quoliterature/
• agree upon and write an all-encompassing concluding sentence.
• divvy up first paragraph typing tasks (e.g., Jonah types sentences 1-3, Nicki types sentences 4-6, and Chris types sentences 7-9).

Transition

--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom and log in.

Writing Workshop (Phase 4) -- Animal Farm End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--one student per group creates a shared Google Doc

• MODEL (if necessary)

--group-type response

• MODEL (if necessary)

--When You Finish...

• share Google Doc with me
• MODEL
• return Chromebooks

Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- Animal Farm End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)

--Complete the following steps:

• "Anchored in" to our "Compact for Group Work", ...
• read, discuss, and attend to any feedback that comes through via Google Docs
• write the claim for your second body paragraph on the appropriate lines of your second template (see your second halfsheet from before break)
• I will share a sample claim for "The Masque..." first via the template with which I have been working.
• develop a precise plan for outlining/typing the second body paragraph of your group's response
• Be prepared to share your group's plan with the rest of the class before we enter in to the next phase of Writing Workshop!

Writing Workshop (Phase 7) -- Animal Farm End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3) (__-__ mins.)
--whole-class share-out (plans for the next phase of Writing Workshop)

• time determined according to plans shared

--execute your group's plan in the time permitted!
--divvy up typing tasks (e.g., Nicki types sentences 1-3, Chris types sentences 4-6, and Jonah types sentences 7-9

Before You Leave...

• return Chromebooks

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 (1/16).  (See the most recent "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)

Writing/Class Preparation
--Your finished "Animal Farm End-of-Unit Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3) is due at the end of next class block.  Please plan accordingly.

--Continue reviewing your notes for Animal Farm in preparation for continuing/finishing the in-class writing assignment before the end of Marking Period 3.

--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)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class.  ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS.

• "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" (Rene Descartes).

On the backburner:

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