English 10--1/7/2019 & 1/8/2019

Jump Off (2 mins.)
--Take out your notebook and date the page (1/7/2020 [ACE] or 1/8/2020 [BDF]).  At the start of class today, we will bounce back and forth between me giving you a prompt and you doing some writing (hence the need for lined paper!).

S. the C. (5-8 mins.)
--agenda/HW

Thinking, Writing, and Speaking Activity -- The Time Machine, The Quest for Your "Why?", and Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals

Part 1--The Time Machine and The Quest for Your "Why?" (60-ish mins.)
--write for 3-5 minutes in response to each of the four related prompts

• Prior to each prompt, I will share some anecdotes!

--Transition 

• form partnerships

--partner share (roughly one minute per partner)
--5-7 students share a "what?" about which they wrote in order to compile a list on the front board (e.g., doctor, teacher, member of a committed relationship, living in Florida, etc.)
--share the quote below and begin briefly applying it to an item or two on the list compiled on the front board

• "Your WHY is the purpose, cause, or belief that inspires you."

--view the following talk(s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0GmcwVi7jo&t=39s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvqvLF5UpRk

• Jot down notes about what resonates with you while viewing the talks, considering the questions that overarch our course and the writing responses you just completed:
• Why do people do what they do, say what they say, etc.?
• Why do you do what you do, say what you say, etc.?  Why did you write the "things" that you wrote earlier in class?
• What are human beings really like?
• What is your "why?", and how is it related to your observations about/understanding of human nature?

--Transition

• Pick up a copy of the "The Quest for Your 'Why?'" sheet from the front table.

Closure -- Further Clarifying the "Why?" and Listing the "Whats?"
--look through the front of the "The Quest..." sheet together
--list three "whats?" on the back of your sheet with which you will work next class block (MODEL)

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 (1/9).  (See the most recent "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing

--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.

• "Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere" (Mary Schmich).

On the backburner:

• Library
• print a promising source procured from a database
• back at the classroom, engage in active/purposeful reading as per the same directions given on last AoW (SEE LAST SCHOOL YEAR)

--use of the sheet MODELED
--writing responses just completed via a student in the "hot seat" so as to frame our viewing of the upcoming videos
--complete the task at hand