English 10 Honors--3/9/2020 DRAFT

Jump Off

--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:

• 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 ...

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?

--Don't forget about this question, too:

• End-of-Course Assignment: What is your "why?"?

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

--Consider working toward achievement of your S.M.A.R.T. Goal.  Do something great this calendar year!