--Please obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom. Back at your desk, log in, log in to Membean, and set up and complete a 15-minute training session.
--When you finish, please set your Chromebook aside. Then, engage in free reading until further directions are given. While reading, please informally do the following:
- Search for authorial purpose (e.g., characterizing a character a certain way, using symbolism, etc.)
- Come up with theme words (e.g., adversity, love, etc.)
- Develop potential theme statements about theme words
- 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.?
Transition
--Please keep out your free reading book.
--Please take out the following:
- your "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet with which we have been working
- the sources that you printed out
--agenda/HW
--"Compact for Work Time" reviewed
Research -- Inquiry-Based Argumentative Research Paper
--"anchored in" to our "Compact for Work Time," ...
- continue actively/purposefully reading your sources as per the directions on the "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet. Remember that ultimately, you are continuing to conduct research in order to develop a "focused knowledge" of your topic. Think of it this way:
- Could you come up to the podium and talk intelligently about your topic for fifteen minutes without repeating yourself?
- If you do not have all of your sources printed out and would prefer to read on paper, please SEE ME for a pass to the library.
- all the while, work on narrowing your topic by zeroing in on the "right" inquiry question--perhaps a "Should..." question?--with the knowledge that the paper you will eventually write will be argumentative. As such, you should be jotting down new questions/potential argumentative claims as they occur to you.
- SHARE YOUR ACTIVE/PURPOSEFUL READING NOTES AND ANSWER MY FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS
- DISCUSS YOUR FREE READING EXPERIENCE.*
- I WILL HAND OUT COPIES OF THE "BOOK REVIEW" TEMPLATE TO STUDENTS WITH WHOM I MEET TODAY.
Before You Leave
--return and plug in your Chromebook
Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation
--return and plug in your Chromebook
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 on Thursday, 3/5.
--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
--Strongly consider finishing actively/purposefully reading whatever you were dealing with at the end of today's class block as per the directions on the "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet.
--FYI: By the end of next class block, you must submit an annotation (written response) for one of your sources. Feel free to pick up a page of directions from the front table if you want to start on this assignment sooner than next class block!
--Please continue thinking about the following questions:
Class Preparation
--Aim to read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class block.
You have up until Wednesday, 3/11 (the middle of NEXT WEEK!) to finish your book. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Strongly consider working on completing the "Book Review" template for one of your free reading books. (I will hand out copies and an example during one-on-one meetings.)
Miscellaneous
--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
--Strongly consider finishing actively/purposefully reading whatever you were dealing with at the end of today's class block as per the directions on the "Working With Your Sources" halfsheet.
--FYI: By the end of next class block, you must submit an annotation (written response) for one of your sources. Feel free to pick up a page of directions from the front table if you want to start on this assignment sooner than next class block!
--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?"?
--Aim to read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class block.
You have up until Wednesday, 3/11 (the middle of NEXT WEEK!) to finish your book. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Strongly consider working on completing the "Book Review" template for one of your free reading books. (I will hand out copies and an example during one-on-one meetings.)
Miscellaneous
--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal. Do something great this calendar year!
