ENGLISH 8 - Week 8

     MONDAY  10-19 (B Day):  Answering Text-dependent Questions        

Reminders...

1. Get out your homework - Assignment #5: The Who is Ha Graphic Organizer. It should be in your Google Drive.
2. Be seated, quiet and working before the timer goes off!

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Do Now - COPY

Entry Title:  Vocabulary List II
   

1.  engender v. (engenders, engendered, engendering) - to bring a feeling into existence
     When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school, it engendered anger in the student body.

2.  pacify v. (pacified, pacifying, pacifies, pacifist) - to ease someone's anger; calm someone down
     After dropping her cell phone in the muddy puddle, I tried to pacify my friend by offering her a big, warm hug.

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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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Activating Prior Knowledge


Do Now - THINK and RESPOND
Entry Title:  1975: Year of the Cat

Directions: Answer each of the following questions in complete sentences.  Use your book if needed!

1. Tet is a special day. When is Tet, and what two events are celebrated on Tet?
2. How does Ha's family celebrate Tet?
3. How might this special day affect the other days?
4. What does the narrator, Ha, do that might bring bad luck?

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Learning Target Check-In

I can make inferences to deepen my understanding of Inside Out & Back Again. (Inferencing)

I can cite evidence from the novel to explain how incidents reveal aspects of Ha's character (personality) as she is shaped by war. (Proving what you think the novel is saying by quoting accurately with words, phrases and details from the novel.)

I can use context clues to figure out the meaning of words I don't know.

I can participate in discussions about the text with a partner, small group and the whole class.

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Mini-Lesson: Think-Pair-Share
How It Works...

1. You will get a question.
2. THINK: 10-15 seconds to think about an answer and write it down.
3. PAIR: Share your answer with a partner. Then, listen while they share their answer with you.
4. SHARE: Share your thoughts with the class when called on by Mr. D.  You might earn a ticket for the raffle!

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Practice 
 Using the Inside Out Text Dependent Questions (see

 below) practice using the THINK:PAIR:SHARE

strategy with a partner.

Write your responses to each question in your

composition notebook, then pair and share.

Inside Out (page 4) Text Dependent Questions

1. How might the events in this poem connect to the first poem we read, 1975: Year of the Cat and the poem, Inside Out?
2. What does the fortune-teller foretell about the family's future?
3. Ha lives in a war-torn country. How does she hope her life will be turned inside out?
4. Ha knows that inside out means something different.  What might happen?

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Assessment/Homework

1. Get out your Ha Anchor Chart.
2. Read your anchor chart responses to a partner.
3. Listen as your partner reads their answers to you.
4. Question:  Does each piece of textual evidence support your inferences?  How can you be sure?

     TUESDAY  10-20 (C Day):  Analyzing Poetry for Character Traits   

REMINDERS...

1. Be seated, quiet and working before the timer goes off!
2. Don't for get your novel for tomorrow for DIRT Day!

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Do Now - COPY 
Entry Title:  QuickWrites...

QuickWrites...

1. ...help you keep track of your thinking.
2. ...are a single TREES paragraph about a text.
3. ...helps your teacher know you understand the current learning targets. 

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Learning Targets  

I can make inferences to deepen my understanding of Inside Out & Back Again. (Inferencing)

I can cite evidence from the novel to explain how incidents reveal aspects of Ha's character.

I can use context clues to figure out word meanings.

I can participate in class discussions about the text.

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Mini-Lesson/Practice: Writing a TREES-based QuickWrite

1. Read over The QuickWrite Anchor Chart.
2. Then complete Assignment #6 in The Stream.

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ASSESSMENT/HOMEWORK

Assignment #6: Who is Ha?

Prompt:  What kind of person is Ha?

Use three specific pieces of textual evidence from the text to write a TRE³E³S paragraph in which you discuss three of Ha’s personality traits. Use the title, author and genre in your topic sentence.

Be sure to include at least 3 pieces of textual evidence.  This will be a writing grade worth 25 points.  Rough draft due end of period tomorrow!

QuickWrite Example

PROMPT

Based on the novel, what can you infer about what will happen to Ha and her family?  Be sure to use details from the text to support your answer.  Note the textual evidence in quotes!

     I think that Ha’s family will have to deal with serious danger because of the coming war. I believe this because Ha says that the fortune teller “predicts our lives will twist inside out.”  This means something big is going to change for her family, probably not in a good way.  For example, she says,  “Maybe soldiers will no longer patrol our neighborhood,” and “...maybe I can jump rope after dark,” but in stanza three she hears on the playground that the bang chung (a delicacy eaten during the holiday of Tet) will be “smeared with blood.”  These details about soldiers and blood make it sound really scary, like things are getting dangerous.  I believe that Ha’s family is in danger.

     WEDNESDAY 10-21 (D Day):  Writer's Workshop                  

1. Get your composition book and Chromebook.
2. Start working on Assignment #6 in the stream.
3. It is due at the end of the period done or not!  If you do not finish you will lose credit for the assignment.

     THURSDAY  10-22 (A Day):  Peer Editing of the Who is Ha? QuickWrite Essay    

Reminders...

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

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Do Now - COPY

Entry Title:  Add to Vocabulary List II

3.  ardent adj. (ardently) - enthusiastic support
     Being an ardent Bills fan, Mark painted his face half red and half blue to show his love for the team.

4.  exacerbate v. (exacerbates, exacerbating, exacerbated, exacerbating) - to make something bad even worse
    The singer's terrible voice was exacerbated by the awful pianist who didn't know how to accompany her.

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I can peer edit a well developed single paragraph TREES essay.

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Mini-Lesson

Review of how to peer edit a classmate's essay.
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Work Time

1. Have your essay peer edited by at least two other people in class.
2. Peer edit at least two other people's essays.

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Assessment/Homework

Make the corrections to your Who is Ha Essay and once it is perfect, Turn it In!

You must submit it by Sunday night by midnight!

     FRIDAY  10-23 (B Day):  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.