MONDAY 3-20 A-Day: Article a Day Intro and Practice
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
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DO Now - Copy
Add to: Informational Text
- Article-a-Daya high-impact, 10-15 minute daily routine where students choose and read one high-quality nonfiction article every day, as part of a weekly, topically-related article set.
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Learning Target(s)
- I know how to complete an Article-a-Day assignment.
- I can discuss responses about informational texts.
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Mini-Lesson: What is An Article-a-Day
- Knowledge is stored in these articles. Words are where human beings store knowledge. So by reading these articles you are learning new and valuable knowledge.
- By reading these articles you are building your own personal vocabularies, and everyday you are becoming stronger, independent readers with more stamina.
- Steps for Completing an Article-a-Day Assignment
- Actively Read (like you would for DIRT Day) the assigned article.
- Create and entry titled: My Book of Knowledge
- Write down 3 things you learned from the article - details or information you didn't know before.
- Share out - be ready to share with the class out loud one thing you learned from the article.
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Work Time
- Modeling: Using the Energy Article, Energy for Life Mr. DeGrandis will walk you through the above steps.
- Practice: Follow the same steps above for the next article titled, Engineering and Natural Gas.
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Assessment / Homework
TUESDAY 3-21 B-Day: Analyzing Poetry on the ELA Using SOAPStone
Announcements
- Check your Gmail!
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DO Now - Article-a-Day
Add to: Article-a-day Entry
- Actively Read the article: Houston Affects the Earth
- Write down three things you learned as a result of reading the article in your composition notebook.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can use the SOAPSTone strategy to analyze a poem to answer questions on the ELA.
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Mini-Lesson: What is SOAPSTone?
Entry Title: SOAPSTone
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Work Time
- Practice it yourself!
- Use Assignment 38.1 in Google Classroom - Life Ain't Been No Crystal Stair by Langston Hughes.
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Assessment / Homework
WEDNESDAY 3-22 C-Day: SOAPSTone Practice
Announcements
- Check your Gmail! You are responsible for checking this everyday.
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DO Now - Article-a-Day
Add to: Article-a-day Entry
- Actively Read the article: Free Transfer
- Write down three things you learned as a result of reading the article in your composition notebook.
- Challenge Yourself: Can you do a SOAPSTone to analyze this article? Try it!
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Learning Target(s)
- I can use the SOAPSTone strategy to analyze a poem to answer questions on the ELA.
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Mini-Lesson: SOAPSTone Review
- Using gestures and your favorite character voice, teach your Albany Appointment how to use SOAPSTone to analyze text for theme/main idea.
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Work Time
- Complete Assignment 39.0 in Google Classroom with a small group or on your own.
- Be prepared to share your idea of the theme with the class when done.
- Turn this in for a classwork grade!
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Assessment / Homework
- Do a SOAPSTone Analysis of this article:
THURSDAY 3-23 D-Day: SOAPSTone Test
Announcements
- Check your Gmail
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DO Now - None
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Learning Target(s)
- I can prove I understand how to analyze text using SOAPSTone
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Mini-Lesson: None
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Work Time
- Take the SOAPSTone Test - Click Here!
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Assessment / Homework
- Submit your test when you're done!
FRIDAY 3-24 A-Day: DIRT Day
- PRACTICE ELA!
- Open Assignment 40.0 in Google Classroom and get started!
Do the following BEFORE the bell rings…
Open your DIRT Day Assignment in Google Classroom.
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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.
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.
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.
¶ 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.
