MP1 - Week 3

   MONDAY  9-19 through Wednesday 9-21    X-Days:  A-C     

You will be taking the first of three NWEA tests this week.  There will be two more sessions, one in the winter and one in the spring.

If you finish your NWEA early, consider one of these activities...

1. Check your Gmail!
2. Read your independent reading novel or book.
3. Refresh Your Memory on how to diagram sentences by clicking this link, THEN Practice Diagramming Sentences by clicking this link. (You'll need pencil and paper!)
4. Learn about the history of Vietnam.
5. Study your vocabulary words.
6. Download Classroom Apps...
1. Google Drive
2. Google Classroom
3. Google Docs
4. Sit With Me (optional)
5. Remind (optional)
1. Period 2:  Text @mrjdegr to 81010
2. Period 4:  Text @mrjdegra to 81010
3. Period 5AC: Text @mrjdegran to 81010
4. Period 5BD: Text @mrjdegrand to 81010
5. Period 6:  Text @6c48a2 to 81010 

   THURSDAY    9-22     D-Day:  Logical Conclusions       

     Announcements     

• Get your Chromebook
• Check your Gmail
• Start your Do Now

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     DO Now - Copy into Composition Notebook    

Add these words to Vocabulary List I

•  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 had a feeling something was odd.
  
  
  6.  lapse n. (lapsed, lapsing) to sink or slip gradually.
  While waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienced a momentary lapse into stage fright, but he pulled himself out of it and went on with the show.

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can explain what inferencing is.
• I can use inferencing to determine the purpose of a character in a dramatic scene.

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     Mini-Lesson:  XXX     

 
• 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       

 

• Watch your teacher model a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference to determine the purpose of a character in a scene.  Then...
• Divide into groups of 3-4 people.
• Create a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference about the purpose of a character in your scene.
• No words allowed!
• Perform it for the class.
• You will be graded on how well the audience can identify the purpose of your character.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Your grade will be determined on how well the audience can use inferencing to determine the purpose of your skits main character.

   FRIDAY  9-23    A-Day:  DIRT Day         

DIRT Day Expectations

1. Do the following BEFORE the bell rings…
1. Open your DIRT Day Assignment in Google Classroom.
2. Be in your seat reading.
2. Focus on your reading the entire period.
3. Do not sub-vocalize during DIRT.
4. Complete 10 thoughts using the Active Reading Model by the end of the period. Do more for extra credit.

If You Finish a Book…

In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write a review about your book in 3-paragraph essay format.

Guidelines for the Essay:

• ¶ 1 - title, author and genre of the novel and your opinion of the book (controlling idea).
• ¶ 2 - short summary of the book and include at least two text-based examples from the book
         that support your controlling idea in ¶
• ¶ 3 - explain why you would or would not recommend this book to a friend and where they might be able to find it or purchase it.

If You Forgot Your Book…

• Choose a book from the class library or Mr. DeGrandis will give you one.
• Be sure to bring your book next week.

If You Want to Switch Books…

In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write an Abandon Book Essay.

Guidelines:

• ¶ 1 – title, author and genre of the novel you are abandoning and
          three reasons you don’t like the book (controlling idea).
• ¶ 2 through 4 - Develop each reason using text-based details from the book.
• ¶ 5 - Offer your suggestions for other novels you have read that another student might enjoy.