Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Be sure to spend some time this week on your 20% Time Project!
DO Now - Copy
Copy these two new words into Vocabulary List II
7. contagion n. (contagions) - the spreading of a disease or idea from one person to another through close contactOnce the idea of storming the Bastille took hold, it spread like a contagion among the people.
8. pestilence n. (pestilences) - a fatal epidemic disease, especially the bubonic plague
The Ebola virus is a horrific pestilence that was just as easily spread as the bubonic plague.
Learning Target(s)
- I can identify personality traits, interests, beliefs or values of Ha, the main character of the novel, Inside Out and Back Again by Thannha Lai by using a graphic organizer.
Mini-Lesson: Evaluating Evidence
- When you are writing an essay, it's really important to be sure that your evidence is accurate, reliable (credible sources) and supports the topic sentence.
- How do you do this?
- Identify the claim (topic sentence)
- Identify the evidence.
- See if the evidence supports the topic sentence (claim)
Work Time - Who is Ha Anchor Chart
- Using your Who is Ha? Anchor Chart (go to Google Classroom) and the novel, find at least four pieces of evidence that are accurate, reliable and support your topic (characteristics of Ha's personality, values, beliefs or physical appearance).
- Actively Read up to page 41 in the novel. Fill in evidence about Ha as you go!
- Share your evidence with one other student and fill in your chart with any evidence they had that is different from yours.
- Check their evidence to be sure it is solid!
Assessment / Homework
- None
TUESDAY 11-14 C-Day: Writing Refresh
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Be sure to spend some time this week on your 20% Time Project!
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New Strategy: Syntactic Comparisons
- What it is? A strategy that helps compare something you already know with a picture to help you remember the concept.
- How it Works...
- You will be presented with four pictures and a statement that reads: __________ is like a ________ because...
- You will select a picture that you think best reflects the concept and complete the sentence.
- Try it...
START a new document in your composition notebook titled: Syntactic Comparisons
The TREES strategy is like a...
because...
Example: TREES is like a map because is helps guide me when writing a well developed paragraph.
Learning Target(s)
- I can write a well developed paragraph using strong evidence to support a claim using a graphic organizer.
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Mini-Lesson: Review TREES/Essay Structure
- Periods 1, 2, 4: A 5-Paragraph Essay - Prezi: What's Opera Doc?
- Watch this video before reading over the Prezi above...
- Here is another way to think about a multi-paragraph essay.
- Period 6: Using evidence to support a claim. Review the TREES structure.
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Work Time - Write Rough Draft
- Begin rough draft of your Who is Ha? essay.
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on your rough draft. Due Thursday by end of the period.
WEDNESDAY 11-15 D-Day: ReadWorks
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Be sure to spend some time this week on your 20% Time Project!
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DO Now - None
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Learning Target(s)
- I can practice Active Reading for the ELA using the ReadWorks site and answering challenging text questions.
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Mini-Lesson: Read Works
- Go to ReadWorks.org
- Log in using your Google credentials.
- Periods 1, 2, 4: Voting Rights
- Period 6: A Monument for Peace
- This is a classwork grade worth 50 Points!
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Work Time
- Actively read the text.
- Answer the multiple choice and short answer questions using textual evidence when necessary!
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Assessment / Homework
- Complete for homework if necessary.
THURSDAY 11-16 A-Day: Peer Editing the Who is Ha? Essay
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Be sure to spend some time this week on your 20% Time Project!
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Copy these two new words into Vocabulary List II
9. writhe v. (writhes, writhing, writhed) - to make continual twisting movements of the body.
The majestic lion writhed in pain, its body twisting in strange patterns, after being shot with a tranquilizer gun at close range.
10. pivotal adj. (pivot, pivoting, pivots, pivoted) - of crucial importance in relation to the success of something else.
Graduating from high school was a huge achievement in Hank's life and a pivotal moment in the life of his mother as well.
Learning Target(s)
- I can write a rough draft of a 5-Paragraph Essay using a rubric that clearly states all the criteria needed to complete it.
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Mini-Lesson: The Rubric
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Work Time
- Using the rubric in Assignment 23.0 in Goolge Classroom, write the rough draft of your Who is Ha Essay.
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Assessment / Homework
- Complete your rough draft - due Monday.
FRIDAY 11-17 B-Day: Teacher Directed DIRT Day
Complete Assignment 24.0 in Google Classroom.
MONDAY 11-20 C-Day: Complete Rough Draft of Who is Ha Essay!
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Be sure to spend some time this week on your 20% Time Project!
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Assessment / Homework
- Bring in your novel for a Teacher Directed DIRT Day!
TUESDAY 11-21 D-Day: Teacher Directed DIRT Day
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Be sure to spend some time this week on your 20% Time Project!
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DO Now - None
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Learning Target(s)
- I can identify examples of imagery in a text by reading closely.
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Mini-Lesson: Identifying Imagery
- Watch this short video on imagery.
- You teacher will then model how to identify examples of imagery in the novel Inside Out and Back Again!
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Work Time
- Read pages 42-69
- Complete Assignment 24.0 in Goolge Classroom.
- Due by the end of the period!
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Assessment / Homework
- None
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