English 10 Honors--1/17/2020

Jump Off
--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom and log in back at your assigned seat.  Then, log in to Membean where today's quiz will deploy.  Finally, complete the quiz quietly and independently.  Good luck!

Assessment -- Vocabulary Quiz #3
--continue completing the quiz
--When you finish, fully shut down your Chromebook, return it to the proper slot, and plug it in via a cord.  Then, please pick up a copy of the "Soft Skills Self-Assessment and Corresponding Comments" sheet from the front table and read the "Directions" at the top of the page.

Self-Assessment -- Marking Period 3 Soft Skills
--complete the self-assessment sheet quietly and independently as directed

• When you finish, place your sheet in the black basket on the front table and engage in free reading until further directions are given.

Block 3B ACE: Application Activity/Writing Workshop -- Applying the Conventions of Literature to Animated Film
--Reminder: Following a purposeful viewing of Garth Jennings' Sing (3B ACE) or Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske's Peter Pan (4 ACE) , you will write a two paragraph response in which you...

• show that one of the conventions of literature is being implemented within the film
• explain how the director(s) use(s) the convention to develop an emergent theme of the story.

--Finish purposefully viewing the film by jotting down notes:

• Which conventions of literature are being used?  How so?
• What theme(s) (theme word[s]) do you see emerging?
• What meaningful and complex theme statements "work" for the film?
• How do the conventions used "feed in" to the theme statement(s)?
• Anything that might be useful when crafting your final assignment of the course (What is your "why?"?

Block 4 ACE: Flex Block (20-ish mins.)

• Take INITIATIVE and...
• log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
• Two more log-ins in the window of time beginning tomorrow and ending next Thursday = an extra week!
• use my Membean report charts to calculate any potentially earnable partial credit. 
• If a student completes the extra week, this partial credit is inputted in Marking Period 3.  Otherwise, it is NOT.
• Continue engaging in free reading.

Transition

--Please pick up the two halfsheets from the front table:

• "Claim Templates with TAG About a Writing Strategy in Literature"
• "Claim Templates for a Theme Statement in Literature Conveyed Through a Writing Strategy"

Closure

--Write the topic sentences for each of your paragraphs using the two halfsheet templates.

HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)

--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 1/17-1/23, WHICH MEANS THAT MIDTERM WEEK IS AN "EXTRA WEEK."  (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)

• If you earned (or anticipate earning) the opportunity for Marking Period 3 credit recovery, you should stay after school TODAY (Friday, 1/17) to calculate your partial credit!

--Complete another cycle of Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses or trained for a total of 45 minutes over three different days between Friday, 1/24 and 11:59 PM on Thursday, 1/30.  (See the most recent "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing/Class Preparation

--Continue reviewing the conventions of literature, bearing in mind that you are expected to apply your knowledge and understanding (to Lord of the Flies when we start reading it, to your free reading books, to anything, really!) moving forward and will be writing about Sing or Peter Pan soon.
--Finish writing the topic sentences for each of your paragraphs for your upcoming literary analysis writing piece using the two halfsheet templates.

• About which convention of literature will you write?
• What is a strong theme statement for the film?
• What pieces of evidence from the film do you intend to use?

--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 man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read" (Anonymous). 

Miscellaneous
--Good luck on midterms!
--Enjoy the long weekend--you truly only get so many of 'em! :)