Reminders...
- Did you turn in your signed Criteria Sheet and Medical Field Trip Form (Period 1 Only)?
- 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
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.
______________________________________________________________Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several weeks.
- I know what inferencing is.
- I can support my inferences with textual evidence.
- I can participate in discussions about a text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.
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House-keeping
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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.
Work Time
- Watch your teacher model a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference. Then...
- Divide into groups of 3-4 people.
- Create a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference about what is happening in your group's skit.
- Perform it for the class.
- You will be graded on how well your group communicates a situation that requires an inference to be made.
Assessment/Homework
Reminders...
- Get your comp. book, and Chromebook
- Begin Do Now #7
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Do Now #7 - COPY
Entry Title: Vocabulary List 1
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.
______________________________________________________________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.
- I know what inferencing is.
- I can support my inferences with textual evidence from a text.
- I can participate in discussions about a text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.
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House-keeping
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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.
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
- View each photo for 60 seconds. You teacher will set a timer. Then...
- Record what you notice and wonder about on the chart.
Assessment/Homework
- Go into The Stream in Google Classroom and...
- Watch the video about the novel, Inside Out and Back Again and reply to the Question #1.0 with a quick thought.
- 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...
I know how to structure and develop a single paragraph using the TREES method.
House-keeping
Assessment/Homework
Reminders...
- Get your comp. book, and Chromebook
- Begin Do Now #8
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Do Now #8 - Think and Respond
Entry Title: Vocabulary Inferencing
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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!
- 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.
_________________ - 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.
__________________ - 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
- Turn in your field medical form to your Period 1 teacher.
- Also, don't forget that we are taking the NWEA on Monday and Tuesday next week!
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Work Time
Complete Assignment #4 in The Stream for a grade worth 25 points.
Mini-Lesson
How to write a well developed single paragraph essay using the TREES method.______________________________________________________________
Work Time
Complete Assignment #4 in The Stream for a grade worth 25 points.
Assessment/Homework
THURSDAY 9-24: Practice Writing a TREES Paragraph
Reminders...
I can write a well developed single paragraph TREES essay.
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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...
Assessment/Homework
Reminders...
- Get your comp. book, and Chromebook
- 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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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!
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.______________________________________________________________
Work Time
Complete Assignment #4 in The Stream and turn it in by the end of the period.
Done? Do one of the following...
- Begin creating your cool, new online flashcards by registering with your School Google Account on http://www.flashcardmachine.com/
- Begin a DIRT Day entry in your composition notebook and read until the period is over adding thoughts as your read.
- Do your own thing, just do not disturb others around you!
Assessment/Homework
FRIDAY 9-25: DIRT Day
Reminders...
I can closely read a text for improved comprehension and recall of textual evidence.
Work Time
Ten Thoughts due by the end of the period. Your work will be checked ten minutes before the period it over.
Assessment/Homework
Reminders...
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Do Now - Start a new DIRT Day entry!
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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.
Assessment/Homework
Check + = More than 10 thoughts.
Check - = Fewer then 10 thoughts.
