--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! :)
