- Thursday
- Set a timer for 15 minutes and read your free reading book. As you do so, consider doing the following (though you DO NOT have to write anything down!):
- Search for anything your author does purposefully. For example, does your author characterize a character a certain way? Does your author use a literary technique like irony or symbolism or a literary convention like "geography" or "marked for greatness" for a certain effect?
- Brainstorm theme words (e.g., adversity, love, etc.) for your book.
- Develop potential theme statements about the themes that emerge in your book (especially if you have read past the halfway point!).
- Allow your free reading book to help you answer the "why?" question.
- Why does the protagonist in your book do what (s)he does, say what (s)he says, etc.?
- JOURNAL YOUR THOUGHTS/IDEAS FOR 5 MINUTES?!
- Friday
- Log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
- Monday
- Set a timer for 15 minutes and read your free reading book. As you do so, consider doing the following (though you DO NOT have to write anything down!):
- Search for anything your author does purposefully. For example, does your author characterize a character a certain way? Does your author use a literary technique like irony or symbolism or a literary convention like "geography" or "marked for greatness" for a certain effect?
- Brainstorm theme words (e.g., adversity, love, etc.) for your book.
- Develop potential theme statements about the themes that emerge in your book (especially if you have read past the halfway point!).
- Allow your free reading book to help you answer the "why?" question.
- Why does the protagonist in your book do what (s)he does, say what (s)he says, etc.?
- JOURNAL YOUR THOUGHTS/IDEAS FOR 5 MINUTES?!
- Tuesday
- Log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
- Wednesday
- Engage in free reading OR Membean training for 15 minutes.
- Optional: Participate in your class block's Flipgrid about the past seven days in which you...
- share what you have been up to and/or some good news.
- share a little bit about your free reading experience. For example, you might try to explain why your protagonist did some of what he or she did in the last chunk of text that you read.
- Can you drop some Membean words in your video?!
Monday, March 30, 2020
English 10 and English 10 Honors--Thursday, 4/9/2020-Wednesday, 4/15/2020
Friday, March 13, 2020
English 10 Honors--3/13/2020
Jump Off
--If you have not yet turned in your completed "Book Review" template, please do so now by placing it in the black basket on the front table.
--If you revised your conventions of literature in film writing piece, please write your name on the whiteboard so that I know to look it over one last time.
--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/Hooked on Books -- Vocabulary Quiz #4
--continue completing the quiz
--When you finish, please return and plug in your Chromebook. Then, engage in free reading until everyone is finished with the quiz. If you have not yet selected a memoir, continue looking around the classroom and/or the library.
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Transition
--Please arrange your desks and selves so that the classroom looks like this again:
--Please take out your "Lord of the Flies Unit--CHAPTER ONE through CHAPTER FIVE Discussion Preparation" materials as well as your "Lord of the Flies Unit--CHAPTER SIX Discussion Preparation/Take-Home Assessment" so that we can continue engaging in the "Speed Dating" activity using these materials.
Discussion Activity (cont.) -- Significant Passage "Speed Dating" (25-ish mins.)
--If you have not yet turned in your completed "Book Review" template, please do so now by placing it in the black basket on the front table.
--If you revised your conventions of literature in film writing piece, please write your name on the whiteboard so that I know to look it over one last time.
--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/Hooked on Books -- Vocabulary Quiz #4
--continue completing the quiz
--When you finish, please return and plug in your Chromebook. Then, engage in free reading until everyone is finished with the quiz. If you have not yet selected a memoir, continue looking around the classroom and/or the library.
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
Transition
--Please arrange your desks and selves so that the classroom looks like this again:
3B ACE
4 ACE
--Please take out your "Lord of the Flies Unit--CHAPTER ONE through CHAPTER FIVE Discussion Preparation" materials as well as your "Lord of the Flies Unit--CHAPTER SIX Discussion Preparation/Take-Home Assessment" so that we can continue engaging in the "Speed Dating" activity using these materials.
Discussion Activity (cont.) -- Significant Passage "Speed Dating" (25-ish mins.)
--Reminder: directions for today's activity
Transition
--Please form a circle out of the desks, considering what you see below as you do so:
--engage in discussion until the class block ends via a passing of the conch
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
HW (Class Preparation)
--Actively/purposefully read CHAPTER EIGHT of Lord of the Flies prior to next class as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?).
--Review all of your materials pertaining to LotF in preparation for an upcoming assessment.
--If you have already signed out a memoir, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
Miscellaneous
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
- the student with his/her back facing east stays stationary throughout the activity
- the student with his/her back facing east starts each "date" by reading his/her selected passage aloud
- You can use your best passage, or you can "mix it up" for each date.
- the student with his/her back facing west aims to complete tasks B, C, and D (explaining how the selected passage could be used in a discussion of his/her claim)
- the student with his/her back facing east validates/corrects before sharing how the passage fits with his/her claim
- roles reverse
- "dates" end after 6 minutes
- students with backs facing west rotate by heading south
- lather...rinse...repeat!
Transition
--Please form a circle out of the desks, considering what you see below as you do so:
- Now that we have read over half of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, how does it seem he would respond to the following questions:
- Why do people do what they do, say what they say, etc.? What are human beings really like?
- What did you talk about during "speed dating" and/or read about in CHAPTER SEVEN that allows you to form your claim in response to the questions above?
- Do you agree or disagree with Golding, and to what extent?
- Considering this morning's announcement about our district's response to novel coronavirus as well as any follow-up discussions that you have had throughout the school day, consider the following questions:
- Why do people do what they do, say what they say, etc.? What are human beings really like?
--engage in discussion until the class block ends via a passing of the conch
Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation
Writing/Class Preparation
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
- Research Unit: What might you ARGUE with regard to your research topic? Do you find yourself coming any closer to an answer to this question?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--Actively/purposefully read CHAPTER EIGHT of Lord of the Flies prior to next class as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?).
--Review all of your materials pertaining to LotF in preparation for an upcoming assessment.
--If you have already signed out a memoir, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
"I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going
into someone else's life, going through someone
else's day and getting out of your own head"
(American author and former actress Isabelle Gillies).
Miscellaneous
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
--Enjoy the long weekend--you truly only get so many of 'em! :)
English 10--3/17/2020 DRAFT
Jump Off (15-18 mins.)
--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. After logging in, log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session. Once you finish training, return and plug in your Chromebook and wait for further instructions.
S. the C. (5-8 mins.)
--S.M.A.R.T. Goal index cards read aloud
--share the lists below:
Block 4 BDF--Source Annotation #1
--agenda/HW
Transition (2-3 mins.)
--Please open your notebook and date the page (3/13/2020 [ACE] or 3/17/2020 [BDF]). Label this section of your notes "Introduction to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist".
--Miss Farmer, the teacher in the film clip that we are about to view, seems to have planned her lesson in response to the following question that we have been exploring together: Why do people do what they do, say what they say, etc.? As you view the clip, pay attention to any thoughts that you have. The following prompts/questions should help:
--view the film clip
--discuss the film clip in groups of three via a drawing of cards
--discuss the film clip as a whole class via a drawing of cards
--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. After logging in, log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session. Once you finish training, return and plug in your Chromebook and wait for further instructions.
S. the C. (5-8 mins.)
--S.M.A.R.T. Goal index cards read aloud
--share the lists below:
Block 2 BDF--Source Annotation #1
- I Need
- None--THANKS! :)
--agenda/HW
Transition (2-3 mins.)
--Please open your notebook and date the page (3/13/2020 [ACE] or 3/17/2020 [BDF]). Label this section of your notes "Introduction to Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist".
--Miss Farmer, the teacher in the film clip that we are about to view, seems to have planned her lesson in response to the following question that we have been exploring together: Why do people do what they do, say what they say, etc.? As you view the clip, pay attention to any thoughts that you have. The following prompts/questions should help:
- Summarize the life philosophy/depiction of human nature that Miss Farmer seems to be trying to convey. To what extent do you agree or disagree with her "life line"?
- What seems to be Miss Farmer's "why?"?
- What seems to be Cherita's "why?"?
- What seems to be Donnie's "why?"?
- What specific "things" would you add to Donnie's list ("the whole spectrum of human emotion") in order to present a clearer life philosophy/depiction of human nature?
- What is your "why?"?
--view the film clip
--discuss the film clip in groups of three via a drawing of cards
--discuss the film clip as a whole class via a drawing of cards
Transition
--Please pick up the following from the front of the classroom:
--Please pick up the following from the front of the classroom:
- a copy of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. Write your name and book number on the sheet of paper near the books.
- On the inside cover of your copy of The Alchemist, write the following:
- your first and last name--Mr. Martin--2019-2020
- REMIND STUDENTS AGAIN NEXT CLASS TO DO THIS!
- a copy of the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--Paulo Coelho's 'Four Obstacles' Philosophy" sheet. Purposefully read the directions.
Purposeful Reading/Discussion/Closure -- Paulo Coelho's "Four Obstacles" Philosophy (flex time)
--work time (independent reading? oral reading?)
--engage in a share-out/discussion by completing the notes template on the SMART Board and connecting Coelho's ideas to the film clip from earlier in the block
--work time (independent reading? oral reading?)
--engage in a share-out/discussion by completing the notes template on the SMART Board and connecting Coelho's ideas to the film clip from earlier in the block
- What is your "why?"?
--begin "gist reading" the novella together?
Class Preparation
--If you have already signed out a memoir, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
Miscellaneous
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--If we do not finish before the end of today's class block, complete the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--Paulo Coelho's 'Four Obstacles' Philosophy" sheet. I reserve the right to collect and assess the quality of your work at the beginning of next class block.
Writing/Class Preparation
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--If we do not finish before the end of today's class block, complete the "The Alchemist Novella Unit--Paulo Coelho's 'Four Obstacles' Philosophy" sheet. I reserve the right to collect and assess the quality of your work at the beginning of next class block.
Writing/Class Preparation
- Research Unit: What might you ARGUE with regard to your research topic? Do you find yourself coming any closer to an answer to this question?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--If you have already signed out a memoir, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
"I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going
into someone else's life, going through someone
else's day and getting out of your own head"
(American author and former actress Isabelle Gillies).
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
Thursday, March 12, 2020
English 10--3/13/2020
Jump Off (20-25 mins.)
--Please form a circle out of the desks so that we can pass the talking piece and discuss this morning's announcements.
S. the C. (25-30 mins.)
--view the following TED Talk:
--share the list below:
Block 1 ACE--Source Annotation #1
Transition (15-18 mins.)
--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. After logging in, log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session. Once you finish training, return and plug in your Chromebook and wait for further instructions.
Brief Introduction -- Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist (3-5 mins.)
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:--Please form a circle out of the desks so that we can pass the talking piece and discuss this morning's announcements.
S. the C. (25-30 mins.)
--view the following TED Talk:
--share the list below:
Block 1 ACE--Source Annotation #1
- I Need
- Kyle L.
- Faith M.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
Transition (15-18 mins.)
--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. After logging in, log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session. Once you finish training, return and plug in your Chromebook and wait for further instructions.
Brief Introduction -- Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist (3-5 mins.)
--view the following YouTube clip:
Transition (2-3 mins.)
--Please pick up the following from the front of the classroom:
--brief overview of Coelho's "Four Obstacles" Philosophy
--Please pick up the following from the front of the classroom:
- a copy of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist. Write your name and book number on the sheet of paper near the books.
- On the inside cover of your copy of The Alchemist, write the following:
- your first and last name--Mr. Martin--2019-2020
- REMIND STUDENTS AGAIN NEXT CLASS TO DO THIS!
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment)
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
Writing/Class Preparation
- Research Unit: What might you ARGUE with regard to your research topic? Do you find yourself coming any closer to an answer to this question?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--If you have already signed out a memoir, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
"I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going
into someone else's life, going through someone
else's day and getting out of your own head"
(American author and former actress Isabelle Gillies).
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
--Enjoy the long weekend--you truly only get so many of 'em! :)
--Enjoy the long weekend--you truly only get so many of 'em! :)
Monday, March 9, 2020
English 10 Honors--3/11/2020
Jump Off
--If you do not have each of the following items, please pick up whatever you are missing:
S. the C.
--review the "Take-Home Assessment/Classwork Check System"
--exemplary take-home assessment response shared
--take-home assessments returned
--agenda/HW
Discussion Activity--Preparation -- Significant Passage "Speed Dating"
--Reminders:
--let's familiarize ourselves with speed dating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IW6PQnZIg
--Transition
Transition
--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 3/6-3/12, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS 7-DAY WINDOW IS A SECOND "EXTRA WEEK" for Marking Period 4. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
--If you do not have each of the following items, please pick up whatever you are missing:
- a blank "Book Review" template
- the "Sample Book Review for Beartown Using Template" sheet
S. the C.
--review the "Take-Home Assessment/Classwork Check System"
--exemplary take-home assessment response shared
--take-home assessments returned
--agenda/HW
Discussion Activity--Preparation -- Significant Passage "Speed Dating"
--Reminders:
- Three of our standards for reading literature read/can be paraphrased as follows:
- English 10 Honors students...
- "cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly/implicitly and make logical inferences, including determining where the text is ambiguous."
- analyze how authorial decisions (regarding word choice, structure, point of view, perspective, purpose, etc.) create meaning, impact elements such as tone and mode, and affect the reader on the whole.
- "determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development, including how they emerge and are shaped and refined by specific details over the course of the text."
- The following is a list of the conventions of literature that authors often choose to implement that you should both know and be able to apply:
- literary communion
- Christ(ological) figure
- geography
- marked for greatness
- literary blindness
- irony
- Part 3 of the NYS Regents in ELA asks you to "identify a central idea in the text [provided] and analyze how the author's use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea."
--let's familiarize ourselves with speed dating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7IW6PQnZIg
--Transition
- move desks into pairs
- the student with his/her back facing east stays stationary throughout the activity
- the student with his/her back facing east starts each "date" by reading his/her selected passage aloud
- You can use your best passage, or you can "mix it up" for each date.
- the student with his/her back facing west aims to complete tasks B, C, and D (explaining how the selected passage could be used in a discussion of his/her claim)
- the student with his/her back facing east validates/corrects before sharing how the passage fits with his/her claim
- roles reverse
- "dates" end after 6 minutes
- students with backs facing west rotate by heading south
- lather...rinse...repeat!
Transition
--MODEL "Book Review" template shared for Caitlin Doughty's Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs
--"Compact for Work Time" reviewed
Free Reading -- Book Review
Free Reading -- Book Review
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," ...
- WORK ON COMPLETING THE "BOOK REVIEW" TEMPLATE FOR ONE OF THE FREE READING BOOKS THAT YOU READ THIS SCHOOL YEAR. THIS IS A GRADED ASSESSMENT FOR MARKING PERIOD 4 AND MUST BE TURNED IN BY THE END OF THE BLOCK. ALSO, YOUR POSTERS WILL BE HUNG UP IN THE HALLWAY SO THAT WE HAVE A WIDER AUDIENCE! :)
- DURING THIS TIME, I WILL MEET WITH THE FEW STUDENTS LEFT IN ORDER TO CONTINUE FINISH LITERARY ANALYSIS WRITTEN RESPONSES.
Flex Block
- Take INITIATIVE and...
- continue exploring the databases in search of additional sources.
- Input any potentially useful sources in NoodleTools (building a rough Works Cited page).
- Actively/purposefully read (a) source(s) as per the "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet.
- "book surf" through the memoirs spread out in the southeast corner of the classroom.
- If you find a memoir that interests you, see me and sign it out.
- begin reading your memoir if you sign one out.
- log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
- use my Membean report charts to calculate any potentially earnable partial credit.
- If a student completes one of the extra weeks, this partial credit is inputted in Marking Period 4. Otherwise, it is NOT.
- create a poster for the "Membean Word Wall" and share it with me via email.
- Make sure...
- that the word you use IS NOT already up on the wall.
- to include a note defining your word and linking its meaning to the picture.
- continue pursuing your "why?" by questioning some of the "whats?" currently in your life.
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
Writing/Class Preparation
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
Class Preparation
--Actively/purposefully read CHAPTER SEVEN of Lord of the Flies prior to next class as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?).
--If you signed out a memoir today, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
Miscellaneous
Writing/Class Preparation
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
- Research Unit: What might you ARGUE with regard to your research topic? Do you find yourself coming any closer to an answer to this question?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--Actively/purposefully read CHAPTER SEVEN of Lord of the Flies prior to next class as preparation for analysis/discussion/(an assessment?).
--If you signed out a memoir today, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
English 10--3/11/2020 & 3/12/2020
Jump Off
--If you do not have each of the following items, please pick up whatever you are missing:
--If you do not have each of the following items, please pick up whatever you are missing:
- a blank "Book Review" template
- the "Sample Book Review for Beartown Using Template" sheet
*REMINDER: TODAY, WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED, YOU WILL MEET WITH ME AND...
- SHARE SOME OF YOUR ACTIVE/PURPOSEFUL READING NOTES AND ANSWER MY FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS
- DISCUSS YOUR FREE READING EXPERIENCE.*
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
--share the lists below:
Block 1 ACE--Source Annotation #1
--go over the scoring sheet together via SMART Notebook
--agenda/HW
--share the lists below:
Block 1 ACE--Source Annotation #1
- I Need
- Kyle L.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
- Faith M.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
- Emma M.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
- Alan P.-A.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
- Jason P.
- Zoe T.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
Block 2 BDF--Source Annotation #1
- I Need
- Kyle H.
- Nick P.--must finish by responding to questions 4-6 on assignment sheet
- Lillian S.--must finish by responding to questions 4-6 on assignment sheet
Block 4 BDF--Source Annotation #1
- I Have
- Anna C.--finished?!
- Julia M.--finished?!
- Matthew S.
- Katarina W.
- Jake W.
- I Need
- Kenna A.
- Wyatte G.
- Aidan H.
- Mason H.
- Anthony L.
- Savannah L.
- Kirsten L.
- Marissa M.
- Wyatt R.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
- Lizardo S.
- Trey S.
- Dan S.
- Nick T.--must join "Inbox" in NoodleTools
- Xander T.
- Q & A
--"Compact for Work Time" reviewed
Transition
Transition
--If you are working on your annotation today, please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. Back at your desk, log in. Please also take out the source with which you are working and any corresponding notes.
Research -- Inquiry-Based Argumentative Research Paper
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," ...
Research -- Inquiry-Based Argumentative Research Paper
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," ...
- EDIT/REVISE/FINISH THE "SOURCE ANNOTATION #1" ASSIGNMENT AND SUBMIT TO ME (PREFERABLY VIA NOODLETOOLS). THIS IS A GRADED WRITING ASSIGNMENT FOR MARKING PERIOD 4.
Free Reading -- Book Review
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," ...
- WORK ON COMPLETING THE "BOOK REVIEW" TEMPLATE FOR ONE OF THE FREE READING BOOKS THAT YOU READ THIS SCHOOL YEAR. THIS IS A GRADED ASSESSMENT FOR MARKING PERIOD 4 AND MUST BE TURNED IN BY THE END OF THE BLOCK. ALSO, YOUR POSTERS WILL BE HUNG UP IN THE HALLWAY SO THAT WE HAVE A WIDER AUDIENCE! :)
Flex Block
--return and plug in your Chromebook
Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation
- Take INITIATIVE and...
- continue exploring the databases in search of additional sources.
- Input any potentially useful sources in NoodleTools (building a rough Works Cited page).
- Actively/purposefully read (a) source(s) as per the "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet.
- "book surf" through the memoirs spread out on the bookshelf.
- If you find a memoir that interests you, see me and sign it out.
- begin reading your memoir if you sign one out.
- log in to Membean and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
- use my Membean report charts to calculate any potentially earnable partial credit.
- If a student completes one of the extra weeks, this partial credit is inputted in Marking Period 4. Otherwise, it is NOT.
- create a poster for the "Membean Word Wall" and share it with me via email.
- Make sure...
- that the word you use IS NOT already up on the wall.
- to include a note defining your word and linking its meaning to the picture.
- continue pursuing your "why?" by questioning some of the "whats?" currently in your life.
--return and plug in your Chromebook
Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation
--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 3/6-3/12, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS 7-DAY WINDOW IS A SECOND "EXTRA WEEK" for Marking Period 4. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
Writing/Class Preparation
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
Class Preparation
--If you signed out a memoir today, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
Miscellaneous
--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, 3/19. This is the first take-home assessment of Marking Period 5!
Writing/Class Preparation
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
- Research Unit: What might you ARGUE with regard to your research topic? Do you find yourself coming any closer to an answer to this question?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--If you signed out a memoir today, aim to read at least 10 pages of it between now and next class block. ALWAYS BRING YOUR MEMOIR TO CLASS!
--If you have not yet signed out a memoir, be thinking about the following question: Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
Thursday, March 5, 2020
English 10 Honors--3/9/2020 DRAFT
Jump Off
Before You Leave
--return and plug in Chromebooks
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 3/6-3/12, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS 7-DAY WINDOW IS A SECOND "EXTRA WEEK" for Marking Period 4. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing/Class Preparation
--Continue thinking about the following questions:
HW (Class Preparation)
--Review your CHAPTER ONE through CHAPTER SIX materials for Lord of the Flies as further preparation for discussion and/or an assessment.
--Aim to read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class block.
Your book should be finished by NEXT CLASS BLOCK (Wednesday, 3/11). ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Strongly consider working on completing the "Book Review" template for one of your free reading books. This assignment is due at the end of next class block (Wednesday, 3/11 [ACE] or Thursday, 3/12 [BDF]).
--Be thinking about the memoir genre. Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
Miscellaneous
--Please place your "Lord of the Flies--CHAPTER SIX Discussion Preparation/Take-Home Assessment" in the black basket on the front table. If you do not have this assignment completed, you are to stay after school today as per Room 203 policy.
--Please pick up each of the following from the front table:
--Please pick up each of the following from the front table:
- the "Accessing the Databases--Day 1" halfsheet
- the "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet
- the annotated article titled "A Playful Approach to Learning Means More Imagination and Exploration"
--Please take out your notebook and date the page (3/9/2020). Label this section of your notebook as follows: "A 'Crash Course' in Accessing the Databases and Working With Sources".
*REMINDER: DURING TODAY'S CLASS BLOCK, I WILL CONTINUE CALLING STUDENTS OVER TO MY WORKSTATION SO THAT WE CAN MEET ONE-ON-ONE ABOUT CONVENTIONS OF LITERATURE WRITING PIECES.*
S. the C.
--agenda/HW
--MODELING today's tasks ("crash course")/notetaking
--"Compact for Work Time" reviewed
Transition
--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. Back at your desk, log in.
Research Unit Activities -- Accessing the Databases and Working With Your Sources
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," complete the task at hand
Flex Block -- Conducting Additional Research AND/OR Free Reading AND/OR "Book Review" Template AND/OR ...
Research Unit Activities -- Accessing the Databases and Working With Your Sources
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," complete the task at hand
Flex Block -- Conducting Additional Research AND/OR Free Reading AND/OR "Book Review" Template AND/OR ...
Before You Leave
--return and plug in Chromebooks
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM MEMBEAN 3/6-3/12, WHICH MEANS THAT THIS 7-DAY WINDOW IS A SECOND "EXTRA WEEK" for Marking Period 4. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing/Class Preparation
--Continue thinking about the following questions:
- Research Unit: What might you ARGUE with regard to your research topic? Do you find yourself coming any closer to an answer to this question?
- End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?
--Review your CHAPTER ONE through CHAPTER SIX materials for Lord of the Flies as further preparation for discussion and/or an assessment.
--Aim to read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class block.
Your book should be finished by NEXT CLASS BLOCK (Wednesday, 3/11). ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Strongly consider working on completing the "Book Review" template for one of your free reading books. This assignment is due at the end of next class block (Wednesday, 3/11 [ACE] or Thursday, 3/12 [BDF]).
--Be thinking about the memoir genre. Whose life/what "type" of life would you like to read about during the last 12 weeks of the school year?
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
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