TUESDAY 10-10 C-Day: 20% Time Proposals and Creating Your 20% Time Blog
Announcements
- Check your Gmail!
- Did you turn in your field trip forms to the 4th Floor House Office for LaserTron?
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DO Now - Think and Respond in Composition Notebook
Entry Title: Vocabulary Inferencing
DIRECTIONS: Copy the scenarios below into your composition book and infer which vocabulary word it reflects most closely. Write that word on the line provided.
HINT: Use Vocabulary List I to help you!
HINT: Use Vocabulary List I to help you!
- Terry needed to clear her head. It had been a long day. She turned down the lights. Lit 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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Learning Target(s)
- I can understand how to communicate with a global audience by creating a blog!
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Mini-Lesson: How to Create Your 20% Time Blog Part I
- What is a blog?
A blog is a frequently updated online personal journal or diary. For our purposes we’ll say that a blog is your own website that you are going to update on an ongoing basis. - Blog Basics...
- Demonstration of how to create your class blog and creating a new post on it!
Title: Playing the Ukulele with John (Should communicate thee purpose of your Blog in a fun and interesting way)
Address: johndSOTA2017.blogspot.com
MUST BE IN THIS FORMAT: firstname last initial SOTA2017
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Work Time - Make It Happen!
- Create your 20% Time Blog!
- Try the Following...
- Change the theme.
- Change the layout.
- Wanna make it look even better? Check out this video from The Blog Beautician
- Complete assignment 17.0 in Google Classroom
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Assessment / Homework
- Create your 20% Time Blog for class.
- Complete Assignment 17.0 in Google Classroom!
WEDNESDAY LASERTRON FIELDTRIP!!!
THURSDAY 10-12 A-Day: Finishing Your 20% Time Blog and RSS Feeds
Announcements
- Check your Gmail! There are new grades there!
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DO Now - Research It!
- Go to the google Search Page and type, "What is RSS?"
- Read one article about it.
- View one video about RSS Feeds.
- Read one article about RSS Feeds.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can understand how to use the www.feedly.com RSS feed to help me research information about my 20% Time Project by adding 3 websites to it!
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Mini-Lesson: How Can RSS Help Me with My 20% Time Project?
- Explain what RSS Feeds are to a friend. Then, have them share what the learned with you! Be prepared to share with the class.
- Watch this video on RSS Feeds...
- In-class Demonstration on how to add websites to your www.feedly.com RSS feed based on your 20% Time Project Topic.
- Where is my Blogger Dashboard?
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Work Time
- Add three websites to your www.feedly.com RSS site.
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Assessment / Homework
- Complete assignment 17.0 in Google Classroom.
- This is due Monday!
- Show Mr. DeGrandis your RSS Feeds in your new Feedly page!
FRIDAY 10-13 B-Day: DIRT Day
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.
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