Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Study for your vocabulary test happening in a week!
DO Now - Copy and Complete
Entry Title: Matching Vocabulary Words
Directions: Copy this entry into your composition notebook and complete.
| 1 | accentuate | _____ | a person forced to leave their home country | |
| 2 | aspire | _____ | to make noticeable | |
| 3 | boisterous | _____ | to reject someone from a group | |
| 4 | decorum | _____ | found guilty of a crime | |
| 5 | refugee | _____ | to strive for an ambitious goal | |
| 6 | endure | _____ | to make a sudden movement | |
| 7 | cringe | _____ | noisy, energetic, and cheerful | |
| 8 | alienate | _____ | to suffer quietly | |
| 9 | conviction | _____ | etiquette |
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Learning Target(s)
- I can peer review the poetry project for properly formatted dialogue.
Mini-Lesson: Identifying Dialogue in Poetry
- Read the excerpt below from the poem Choose (page 106)
...
The man behind us whispers,
Choose America,
more opportunities there,
especially for a family
with boys ready to work.
Mother whispers back,
My sons,
must first go to college.
If they're smart
America will give them
scholarships.
Mother chooses.
July 4
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- Project work time.
Assessment / Homework
- Work on your project. It is due tomorrow!
TUESDAY 12-13 D-Day: Turn in Projects
Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Study for your vocabulary test happening in a week!
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DO Now - Copy and Do
Entry Title: Word Scramble List III
List III Word Scramble
Mr. DeGrandis
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Learning Target(s)
- I can submit my completed Inside Out & Back Again project.
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Mini-Lesson: Turning in Your Porject
- Making your project "picture perfect".
- You are turning in two assignments - 16.0 and 17.0!
- Remember - I am grading these as well!
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Work Time
- Put the finishing touches on your project.
- Check the following...
- Rubric completed by three peer reviewers!
- All columns on the rubric are added up correctly.
- Turn in your project! Do not share it with me!
- Turn in Assignment 16.0!
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Assessment / Homework
- Turn in your completed project.
- Study for your Vocabulary List III Quiz
WEDNESDAY 12-14 A-Day: Vocabulary FlashCards for List III
Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Study for your vocabulary test happening in a week!
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DO Now - None
- Finish peer reviewing and revising your project.
- TURN IN BY THE END OF THE PERIOD!
- When done, start your FlashCards. Note the new format for the cards below!
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Learning Target(s)
- I can create a study tool for Vocabulary List III.
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Mini-Lesson: Review of How to Create Flash Cards
- Flash Card Machine tutorial.NEW FORMAT FOR CARDS!
- FRONT: WORD, WORD FAMILIES & SENTENCE
- BACK: Just the definition
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Work Time
- Complete all ten cards.
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Assessment / Homework
- Turn in your cards via Google Classroom.
- NEW! Now you can just add the link when you turn in your cards.
THURSDAY 12-15 B-Day: Finish FlashCards
Announcements
- CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
- Study for your vocabulary test happening next week!
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DO Now - Think and Do
Entry Title: Two Words One Sentence
- Directions: Write one sentence that uses two vocabulary words and that clearly illustrates the meaning of each word.
- Example: When one lives a religious and monastic life as a Carmelite nun, one must conduct oneself with a great deal of control and prayerful decorum.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can share my creative writing with an audience.
- I can create study tools for Vocabulary List III.
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Mini-Lesson: Tips for Reading Your Poetry Out Loud
- Watch this clip titled, Doing Poetry Right!
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Work Time
- If you have not completed your Vocabulary List III FlashCards and turned in your link, then you should do that while listening to the poetry performances.
- If you are done and would like to share your Inside Out & Back Again poems with the class, get ready.
- If you just want to enjoy listening to others poems, you may do that as well.
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Assessment / Homework
- Study your vocabulary words.
FRIDAY 12-16 C-Day: DIRT Day
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Did you TURN IN your final project for Inside Out and Back Again?
Check Your DIRT Day Entry
- Capitalize your title correctly.
- Capitalize the author's name correctly!
- Complete 10 Thoughts
- Use complete sentences with proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation!
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DIRT Day Expectations
- Do the following BEFORE the bell rings…
- Open your DIRT Day Assignment in Google Classroom.
- Be in your seat reading.
- Focus on your reading the entire period.
- Do not sub-vocalize during DIRT.
- 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.
