Writing Workshop (Phase 3) -- Short Story "Unit"--End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3) (35-40 mins.)
--Complete the following steps:
- Quietly and independently back at your own desk, write a multi-sentence tieback for your group member's direct quotation. Strongly consider the following questions:
- Based on the paragraph's purpose (as established in the claim), why did your group member select this direct quotation?
- This quotation suggests that... because...
- This idea relates back to the claim that... because...
- How does this direct quotation relate back to the paragraph's purpose (as established in the claim)?
- Yet again, get back into groups.
- "Anchored in" to our "Compact for Group Work", ...
- share evidence and tiebacks so as to complete the template for your group's first body paragraph.
- Does anything need to be changed? Added? Etc. (If so, "take care of business" accordingly!)
- agree upon and write an all-encompassing concluding sentence.
- When your group finishes, ...
- re-column the desks
- return your copies of the "'The Masque of the Red Death' Assessment" by placing them in the black basket on the front table
- place all of your templates in the black basket on the front table
- I will select one at random upon my return!
Hooked on Books (time permitting)
--engage in free reading during any remaining class time
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--engage in free reading during any remaining class time
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses (approximately 45 minutes) over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday (12/5). DUE TO THANKSGIVING RECESS, I AM ADDING TOGETHER THE "STATS" FROM THE 11/22-11/28 REPORT AND THE 11/29-12/5 REPORT, MEANING THAT ONE OF THESE TWO WEEKS IS AN "EXTRA WEEK." (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
Writing
--Continually improve your Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay. Conferences will continue occurring until I have had a chance to meet with everyone, and a score will be reported as a part of your Marking Period 2 GPA. Expect the due date to be sometime during the first week of December!
--Continue reviewing your notes for "The Masque…" in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block.
HW (Class Preparation)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class. You have up until early December to finish your book. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
Miscellaneous
--FYI: The NYS ELA Regents celebration will take place after school right here in Room 203 on Tuesday, 12/3!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
Writing
--Continually improve your Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay. Conferences will continue occurring until I have had a chance to meet with everyone, and a score will be reported as a part of your Marking Period 2 GPA. Expect the due date to be sometime during the first week of December!
--Continue reviewing your notes for "The Masque…" in preparation for continuing the in-class writing assignment next class block.
HW (Class Preparation)
--Read at least 10 pages of your free reading book between now and next class. You have up until early December to finish your book. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
Miscellaneous
--FYI: The NYS ELA Regents celebration will take place after school right here in Room 203 on Tuesday, 12/3!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
Jump Off
--Please take out the following:
--Please take out the following:
- your free reading book
- your notebook
Date the page in the lefthand margin of your notebook page (12/7) and label this section of your notes "Common Error Review."
--Reagan S.: Please drop the grammar hammer!Grammar Hammer Review/Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- Comma Error Review (10-15 mins.)
--quick-review comma usage with introductory elements/transitions via definitions, examples, etc. on the whiteboard and/or SMART Board
--quick-review comma usage with introductory elements/transitions via definitions, examples, etc. on the whiteboard and/or SMART Board
- Do your best to capture the notes!
--quick-review comma usage with FANBOYS via definitions, examples, etc. on the whiteboard and/or SMART Board
- Do your best to capture the notes!
--Obtain your Chromebook from the cart in the back of the classroom and log in.
Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- Short Story "Unit"--End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--divvy up typing tasks (e.g., Nicki types sentences 1-5, Jonah types sentences 6-10, and Chris types sentences 11-15)
--RE-READING strategies MODELED for comma errors reviewed earlier in the block
--RE-READ for comma errors as per review, fixing any errors that you find
Writing Workshop (Phase 5) -- Short Story "Unit"--End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--divvy up typing tasks (e.g., Nicki types sentences 1-5, Jonah types sentences 6-10, and Chris types sentences 11-15)
--one student per group creates a shared Google Doc
- MODEL (if necessary)
--group-type response
- MODEL (if necessary)
*DURING THIS TIME, I WILL CALL STUDENTS UP TO THE FRONT TABLE FOR...
- ESSAY CONFERENCING
- FREE READING CONFERENCING.*
--RE-READ for comma errors as per review, fixing any errors that you find
--discuss Membean words (e.g., those for which you created posters earlier in the school year) and deftly incorporate at least one word in your writing piece. Don't overdo it, though!
*DURING THIS TIME, I WILL CONTINUE CALLING STUDENTS UP TO THE FRONT TABLE FOR...
*DURING THIS TIME, I WILL CONTINUE CALLING STUDENTS UP TO THE FRONT TABLE FOR...
- ESSAY CONFERENCING
- FREE READING CONFERENCING.*
- Share your group's Google Doc with me.
- MODEL
- Return the Chromebooks.
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--Complete Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses (approximately 45 minutes) over three different days before 11:59 PM this Thursday (12/5). DUE TO THANKSGIVING RECESS, I AM ADDING TOGETHER THE "STATS" FROM THE 11/22-11/28 REPORT AND THE 11/29-12/5 REPORT, MEANING THAT ONE OF THESE TWO WEEKS IS AN "EXTRA WEEK." (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.)
- If you earned the opportunity for Marking Period 2 credit recovery, you must stay after school this Friday, 12/6 to calculate your partial credit!
--Complete another cycle of Membean training until you have earned 100 correct responses (approximately 45 minutes) over three different days before 11:59 PM on Thursday, 12/12. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
Writing
--Your improved Thematic Writing Assignment--Partner Interviews essay is due via email before 11:59 PM this Thursday (12/5).
- Please bring your "marked up" original copy of this writing assignment to class on Friday, 12/6.
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--If you have not already done so, finish reading your free reading book by the end of this week. ALWAYS BRING A FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
On the backburner:
- Introducing "Take a Stand" Activity and ThinkCERCA/Article of the Week purpose, framework, etc.
- tablet
- first Grammar Hammer (WUBAIS!!!)
Writing Workshop Preparation #1 -- Short Story "Unit"--End-of-"Unit" Writing Assessment (Regents Part 3)
--Please take out your notebook, date the page, and label this section of your notes "Elevating Diction." Then, as per my MODELING on the SMART Board, complete the task set forth below:
- Look at the words posted on the Membean Word Wall. Which ones make you "think" about "The Masque of the Red Death" in some way?
- Write at least three different sentences about your associations. Be prepared to share your sentences with your group during Writing Workshop.
Transition
--Draw a line under your last section of notes. Then, label the next section "RE-READING Strategies for Common Errors."
--Brooke B./Nadia B.: Please drop the grammar hammer!Grammar Hammer Review/Writing Workshop Preparation #2 -- RE-READING Strategies for Common Errors
--quick-review RE-READING strategies for both comma usage with introductory elements/transitions and comma usage with FANBOYS
- Do your best to capture the notes!
--finish group-typing your response (if you have not already done so)
--discuss the Membean words about which you wrote earlier in the block
- Can you deftly incorporate at least one word in your writing piece? Please aim to do so (without, of course, overdoing it!)
- Share your group's Google Doc with me.
- MODEL
- Return the Chromebooks.
HW (Practice/Take-Home Assessment/Class Preparation)
--If you earned the opportunity for Marking Period 2 Membean credit recovery, you must stay after school TODAY to calculate your partial credit!
--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, 12/12. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
--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, 12/12. (See the updated "English Department Membean Routine" sheet.) This is the first take-home assessment assignment of Marking Period 3!
HW (Class Preparation/Take-Home Assessment)
--If you have not yet selected your next free reading book, consider doing so at some point between now and the end of next week. Next week, I will do my best to help get the "right" book in your possession. ALWAYS BRING YOUR FREE READING BOOK TO CLASS!
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
- "There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book" (Frank Serafini, author of The Reading Workshop).
--Enjoy the weekend--you only get so many of 'em! :)
