ENGLISH 8 Week 5

     MONDAY & TUESDAY 9/27 and 9/28                                         

No classes due to NWEA Testing

     TUESDAY 9/29                                                                         

     WEDNESDAY  9/30 and THURSDAY 10/1: Digital Vocabulary Flashcards!  

REMINDERS...

1. Get your Chromebook and Composition Book.
2. Be seated, quiet and working before the timer goes off!

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DO NOW - Copy

Entry Title:  Answer Me This

1. You have a brazen fetish for exotic feathers. You are at Seneca Park Zoo.  You see the peacock exhibit.  What is something you might impulsively do?
2. If you you intuitively felt that getting on an airplane could be a perverse experience, what might you decide to do?  

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I can create study tools for Vocabulary List I to help me do well on the upcoming quiz.

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MINI-LESSON

How to use Flashcard Machine to create virtual flashcards!

Flashcard Machine is a web-based flashcard maker.  Students can create their own set of virtual flashcards to use as study aides for vocabulary lists in English class.

Mr. DeGrandis will model how to create your own set of cards, but if you missed today's lesson the link above will give you an idea of how to do it. 

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Work Time

1. Go to www.flashcardmachine.com

1. Login.....
   Username: jdegrandis
   Password: disney11
2. Click on your period.
3. Click on the "New Flashcard Set" button.
4. Title:  Your Name
   Description:  Vocabulary List I
   Subject: English
   Education Level:  8th Grade
   Folder: Select the period you have English
5. When you are done, show Mr. DeGrandis your work.  You must have at least five cards done by the end of class.

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Assessment/Homework

1. Finish making your cards.
2. You will receive a classwork grade upon the completion of all ten of your cards.

     FRIDAY  10-2:  DIRT Day                                                        

Reminders...

Got out your novel, composition notebook and begin a new DIRT Day entry.

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Do Now - Start a new DIRT Day entry!

Click here to see a sample of how to start a new DIRT Day Entry and expectations.

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I can closely read a text for improved comprehension and recall of textual evidence.

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Work Time Options

1. DIRT Day - Ten  Thoughts due by the end of the period.  Your work will be checked ten minutes before the period it over.
   
2. Finish Flash Cards
   
3. Finish any make up work in The Stream.

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Assessment/Homework

Check = 10 Thoughts.

Check + = More than 10 thoughts.

Check - = Fewer then 10 thoughts.

ENGLISH 8 Week 4

     MONDAY  9-21:  Intro to Inside Out and Back Again Part I        

Reminders...

1. Did you turn in your signed Criteria Sheet and Medical Field Trip Form (Period 1 Only)?
2. Be seated, quiet and working before the timer goes off!

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Do Now #6 - COPY

Entry Title:  Add to Vocabulary List I

    

8.   meditation – (meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated) an act of deep thinking or reflection.
    Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several weeks.

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1. I know what inferencing is.
2. I can support my inferences with textual evidence.
3. I can participate in discussions about a text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.

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House-keeping

Next week Monday and Tuesday... NWEAs (the sequel)!
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Mini-Lesson

• Watch this video on Inferencing...
• Inference:  a thought process a reader makes to understand the meaning of text, or even an image; a logical conclusion.

• When you infer, you pay attention to the details in front of you, and you use other information (from the text, or your background knowledge) to mentally fill in the gaps between the details that are actually said or shown, and what the author expects the reader to understand. 

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Work Time

1. Watch your teacher model a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference.  Then...
2. Divide into groups of 3-4 people.
3. Create a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference about what is happening in your group's skit.
4. Perform it for the class.
5. You will be graded on how well your group communicates a situation that requires an inference to be made.

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Assessment/Homework

Quality of your group skit.

     TUESDAY  9-22:  Intro to Inside Out and Back Again Part II          

Reminders...

1. Get your comp. book, and Chromebook
2. Begin Do Now #7

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Do Now #7 - COPY

Entry Title:  Vocabulary List 1

    

9.   tedious adj.– (tediously) boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness.
    Every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became more tedious because she had nothing to do.

10. perverse adj.– (perverted, pervert) turned away from what is right or good.
    Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth grade.

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1. I know what inferencing is.
2. I can support my inferences with textual evidence from a text.
3. I can participate in discussions about a text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.

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House-keeping

Did you hand in your signed Course Criteria Sheet and Field Trip medical form to your Period 1 teacher?
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Mini-Lesson

• Watch this video on Inferencing...
• Inference:  a thought process a reader makes to understand the meaning of text, or even an image; a logical conclusion.

• When you infer you pay attention to the details in front of you, and you use other information (from the text, or your background knowledge) to mentally fill in the gaps between the details that are actually said or shown, and what the author expects the reader to understand. 

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Work Time: Gallery Walk

• What:  A gallery walk is a chance for you to view a text.
• How:  Click on and open these two links...  
• Gallery Walk:  NY Times Photo Gallery
• Notice and Wonder Chart 
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• View each photo for 60 seconds.  You teacher will set a timer.  Then...
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• Record what you notice and wonder about on the chart.

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Assessment/Homework

1. Go into The Stream in Google Classroom and...
2. Watch the video about the novel, Inside Out and Back Again and reply to the Question #1.0 with a quick thought.
3. Complete Assignment #3:  Post a comment on this prompt: Based on today’s gallery walk (see above link), what do you think happened to these people and why?

     WEDNESDAY and Thursday  9-23 and 24:  How to Write a Well Developed Paragraph - TREES                  

Reminders...

1. Get your comp. book, and Chromebook
2. Begin Do Now #8

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Do Now #8 - Think and Respond

Entry Title:  Vocabulary Inferencing

    Read each scenario and infer which vocabulary word it reflects most closely.  Write that word in your composition book. You do not have to copy the sentences.  Just write your answer!

1. Terry needed to clear her head.  It had been a long day.  She turned down the lights.  Light a scented candle and sat in the middle of her living room floor and reflected on her day.
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2. Jerell had been sitting in this desk for almost two hours.  He had finished his exam over an hour ago and now he sat staring at the clock. He couldn't leave for another hour! No phone. No book.  No way to occupy himself.  Just sit there staring into space and hope time would speed up just a little.
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3. It all happened so quickly that Ginelle thought that maybe she had imagined what she had just done.  When she saw her cousin Imani's birthday cake and thought of all the bullying she had suffered every day since school started, she couldn't help herself.  It was too late. She looked at the white, purple and red frosting smeared all over her fist and then looked at the giant hole in the cake.  Then she realized the room was silent and everyone had stopped singing.
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I know how to structure and develop a single paragraph using the TREES method.

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House-keeping

1. Turn in your field medical form to your Period 1 teacher.
2. Also, don't forget that we are taking the NWEA on Monday and Tuesday next week!

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Mini-Lesson

How to write a well developed single paragraph essay using the TREES method.

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Work Time
Complete Assignment #4 in The Stream for a grade worth 25 points.

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Assessment/Homework

Complete Assignment #4 in The Stream and turn it in.

     THURSDAY  9-24:  Practice Writing a TREES Paragraph  

Reminders...

1. Get your comp. book, and Chromebook
2. Begin Do Now #9

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Do Now #9 - Think and Do

Go into the Google Classroom and look at all of the assignments that have been returned to you. Read over the comments and check out any of the sites that your teacher has suggested to you to help improve your writing.  Then, send your teacher a response and explain what you will do to avoid losing points in the future!

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I can write a well developed single paragraph TREES essay.

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Mini-Lesson

None.  but if you need to review yesterday's lesson, please see Mr. DeGrandis.
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Work Time
Complete Assignment #4 in The Stream and turn it in by the end of the period.

Done? Do one of the following...

1. Begin creating your cool, new online flashcards by registering with your School Google Account on http://www.flashcardmachine.com/
2. Begin a DIRT Day entry in your composition notebook and read until the period is over adding thoughts as your read.
3. Do your own thing, just do not disturb others around you!

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Assessment/Homework

Your completed TREES Essay!

     FRIDAY  9-25:  DIRT Day                                                   

Reminders...

Got out your novel, composition notebook and begin a new DIRT Day entry.

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Do Now - Start a new DIRT Day entry!

Click here to see a sample of how to start a new DIRT Day Entry and expectations.

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I can closely read a text for improved comprehension and recall of textual evidence.

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Work Time
Ten  Thoughts due by the end of the period.  Your work will be checked ten minutes before the period it over.

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Assessment/Homework

Check = 10 Thoughts.

Check + = More than 10 thoughts.

Check - = Fewer then 10 thoughts.

ENGLISH 8 Week 3

    MONDAY (AC) 9-14: TOWN MEETING                                                   

Regularly scheduled classes will resume tomorrow for periods 1 & 2.  Today we will have a special guest, Mr. Chandler, who will talk about being part of a school community and how you can be a part of it!

Periods 6 & 9 will work in Google Classroom to complete Assignment #1.

    TUESDAY (BD) 9-15: Active Reading Lesson Part II                                  

Do Now: Copy Into Vocabulary List 1  

4.  impulse n. (impulsively) a sudden wish or urge.
Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and faced the bully.

5.  intuition n. (intuitively, intuit) a sense of knowing; an insight.
Meagan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she just knew something was odd.

6.  lapse n. (lapsed, lapsing) to sink or slip gradually.
While waiting to go on stage, Alvin had a momentary lapse of stage fright, but he pulled himself out of it and went on with the show.
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Learning Target:  I can use the Active Reading strategy when reading a text.
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Practice:  Reading Checkouts, a short story, by Cynthia Rylant and complete 5 thoughts on the Active Reading Worksheet.  

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Assessment: Complete the Active Reading Worksheet with five additional thoughts.  

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     None  

    WEDNESDAY (AC) 9-16: DIRT Day Practice                                      

Do Now: Get Novel and Comp. Book  

1. Start a new DIRT Day entry and begin reading your book.
2. 10 Thoughts due by the end of the period.

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Learning Target:  I can use the Active Reading strategy when reading a text.
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    THURSDAY  (BD) 9-17:  Get Novels / Intro Activity                                

Do Now: Copy Into Vocabulary List 1  

7.  reverie n. (reveries) a daydream.
Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands.

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Learning Targets

1. I can sign out a novel from the library.
2. I can TURN-IN essay in to Google Classroom.
3. I understand the expectations for DIRT Day!

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Checking Out and Tagging Your Novel

1. We will be going to the library to check out our first novel.  What are the expectations for behavior while we are there?
2. Once you receive your novel, go back to the classroom.
3. Using a small sticky note from your teacher, write your name, period and room number you have English on it.  Stick it on the inside front cover of the novel.

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This lesson is being moved to MOVED to Monday... MINI-LESSON: What is inferencing and how do I do it?

Inference:  a thought process a reader makes to understand the meaning of text, or even an image; a logical conclusion.

When you infer, you pay attention to the details in front of you, and you use other information (from the text, or your background knowledge) to mentally fill in the gaps between the details that are actually said or shown, and what the author expects the reader to understand. 

PRACTICE

Gallery Walk:  NY Times Photo Gallery

1. Open this Notice and Wonder Chart in Google Docs record your thoughts and inferences.
2. You will have about 60 seconds to view each photo.
3. Write down what you notice and/or wonder in your chart.
4. Move this chart into your classroom folder when complete.

ASSESSMENT

Completed Notice and Wonder Chart

HOMEWORK: None

    FRIDAY (AC) 9-15: DIRT Day