MP3 - Week 1

   MONDAY   1-29    C-Day:  Diagnostic     

     Announcements                                        

• Check Your Gmail! 
• How is your 20% Time Project Going?
• Volunteers needed to re-present their project proposals on Thursday.  Anyone interested?

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     DO Now - Proofreading Diagnostic                  

Click here to take the proofreading diagnostic.

• Click Login.
• Click Login in with Google.
• Complete the diagnostic.

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     Learning Target(s)                                   

• I can use proofreading techniques to improve a peer's writing.

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     Mini-Lesson:  What is a Diagnostic Test?        

 
• helps identify issues that need attention
• helps you focus on weak areas 

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     Work Time                              

 

• Complete the diagnostic.
• Proofread for...
• Capitalization
• Utilization
• Punctuation
• Sentence Structure

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • None

   TUESDAY    1-30    D-Day:  Revision Day     

     Announcements                

• Check Your Gmail! 
• How is your 20% Time Project Going?
• Volunteers needed to re-present their project proposals on Thursday.  Anyone interested?

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     DO Now - Proofreading Practice                       

Directions: Click on this link and complete the proofreading challenge!

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     Learning Target(s)                                            

• I can Peer Review the Back Again poem for a friend's final project.
• I can help a friend find all the typos in their poetry.  

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     Mini-Lesson:  Reviewing and Editing                         

 
• Purpose:  To make your project the best it can be BEFORE submitting it for a grade!
  
• Check out this video on 

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     Work Time             

 

• Periods 1, 2,4:  Have a friend peer review your Back Again poem!  Use the rubric and go a step at a time.
  
• Period 6:  Have a friend proofread your project for CUPS (Capitalization, Utilization, Punctuation and Sentence Structure).

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Incorporate feedback from your peer reviewers into your poetry project.

   WEDNESDAY   1-31    A-Day:  Complete Revisions     

     Announcements                 

• Check Your Gmail! 
• How is your 20% Time Project Going?
• Volunteers needed to re-present their project proposals on Thursday.  Anyone interested?

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     DO Now - Varying Sentence Structure                

Click here to challenge yourself on varying sentence structure.

     Learning Target(s)                

• I can finish peer reviewing a friend's final project. 

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     Mini-Lesson:   Sentence Structure     

 
• Review Do Now 

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     Work Time       

 

• Complete peer review with a focus on sentence structure.  

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Incorporate peer review suggestions to improve your final project.

   THURSDAY    2-1    B-Day:  Final Peer Review & 20% Time Video Taping     

     Announcements                

• Check Your Gmail! 
• How is your 20% Time Project Going?
• Volunteers needed to re-present their project proposals on Thursday.  Anyone interested? 

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     Learning Target(s)                           

• I can incorporate final suggestions into my project. 

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     Mini-Lesson:    Make it Count!        

 
• How do you KNOW your project is the best it can be? 

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     Work Time       

 

• Final touches.
• Proofread one last time!  

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • None

   FRIDAY    2-2    C-Day:  ReadWorks Assignment     

Finish assigned texts in READWORKS.ORG

MP2 - Week 10

   MONDAY    1-22    B-Day:  Peer Review of Inside Out & Back Again Poetry Projects     

     Announcements                                   

• Check Your Gmail!
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?
• Half Day next Friday!

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     DO Now - Copy in Notebook and on Post-it!   

Entry Title: Revising vs. Editing

DIRECTIONS:  Copy this into a new entry in your composition notebook then write these down on a Post-it Note to use when peer reviewing.

Peer Reviewing Includes...

Revising (The big picture)
Add words and sentences (be descriptive, capture all ideas).
Remove words and sentences (be concise).
Move words and sentences (sentence fluency, organization).
Substitute words and sentences (word choice, voice).

AND...

Editing (Conventions)
Capitalization
Usage (Verbs and nouns—does it make sense?)
Punctuation
Spelling

     Learning Target(s)     

• I can explain the difference between Revising and Editing. 
• I can edit and revise a friend's Inside Out and Back Again Poetry.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Revising vs. Editing     

 
• What's the difference?
• What's it look like? 
• How can a rubric help?

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     Work Time                                   

 

• Peer edit a friend's poems.  

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     Assessment / Homework             

• • Finish peer reviewing a friend's work.

   TUESDAY    1-23    C-Day:  Peer Review of Inside Out & Back Again Poetry Projects     

     Announcements                         

• Check Your Gmail!
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?
• Half Day next Friday! 

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     DO Now - Think and Respond                         

Entry Title: Feedback

Answer this question in your composition notebook!

What are some ways you think feedback (giving a person your opinion about their written work) can make YOU a better writer.

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can explain the difference between Revising and Editing. 
• I can edit and revise a friend's Inside Out and Back Again Poetry.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Revising vs. Editing     

 
• What's the difference?
• What's it look like? 
• How can a rubric help?

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     Work Time                                   

 

• Peer edit a friend's poems.  

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     Assessment / Homework             

• • Finish peer reviewing a friend's work.

   WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY   1-24    D-Day:  NWEAs     

Students will be taking the Winter NWEAs.

MP2 - Week 9

   MONDAY    Martin Luther King Day           

NO CLASSES TODAY!

   TUESDAY    1-16-18    B-Day:  Enjambment     

     Announcements     

• Fill out the Breakfast Survey in your Gmail!
• Clean out old emails!
• You have until Thursday to get any make-up work in and done by end of the school day today!  This is only for students who have already met with me and we have agreed on a plan.

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     DO Now - Copy                           

Entry Title: Enjambment

Enjambment: When a poet continues a thought from one line of poetry into the next line for effect.

• Line Without Enjambment:
  Rolling through the field in the dead of winter.
  
  Line With Enjambment: 
  
  
  Rolling through the field in the
  dead
  
  
  of winter.

Try it:  Color the following lines in green that you think illustrate enjambment?

FIREWORKS (modified for lesson) by Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind wanting to start again?

Do you ever feel feel so paper thin like a house of cards one blow from caving in?

Do you ever feel already buried deep six feet under screams
but no one seems to hear a thing?

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can explain what enjambment is.
• I can identify enjambment in poetry.
• I can identify enjambment in my own poetry.

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     Mini-Lesson:  End-Stops and Enjambment     

 
• Watch this video on ENJAMBMENT.
• Demonstration of how to identify enjambment in Inside Out and Back Again. 
• Copy the all the PURPLE TEXT below into today's composition entry on ENJAMBMENT...

Excerpt from BROTHER KHOI'S SECRET  p.85

Brother Khoi stinks;

we can't ignore it.

He stews and sweats

in a jacket

he won't take off.

Forced to sponge-wipe

twice a day,

he wraps the jacket

around his waist.

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Excerpt from Last Respects  p.83

...

I don't know them,

so their pain seems unreal

next to Brother Khoi's,

whose eyes are as wild

as those of his broken chick.

I hold his hand:

Come with me.

He doesn't resist.

Alone at the back of the ship

I open Mother's white handkerchief.

Inside lies my mouse-bitten doll,

her arms wrapped around 

the limp fuzzy body of his chick.

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     Work Time       

 

• Go through your poem(s) and fix the lines that should demonstrate enjambment and add end punctuation to those lines that don't.
• Highlight those lines you changes in yellow.

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     Assessment / Homework                     

• • Show your teacher your revised poetry.

   WEDNESDAY   1-17-18      C-Day:  Project Work Time       

     Announcements     

• Check your Gmail.
• Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
• First draft of project due this Sunday 11:59PM 

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     DO Now - Copy                              

7.  cringe v. (-ed, -s, -ing) to feel disgust or embarrassment often through movement of your face or body; to make a sudden movement out of fear of being hurt.

    Many English teachers cringe when they hear their students use the non-word "mines."

8.  alienate v. (-ed, -s, -ing) to cause someone to feel that he or she no longer belongs to a particular group or part of society.

     He alienated most of his friends with his bad temper and soon no one even texted him anymore.
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     Learning Target(s)                     

• I can create an Inside Out and Back Again poem in the style of Thanhha Lai. 

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   THURSDAY  1-8-18    D-Day:  Project Work        

     Announcements     

• Check your Gmail.
• Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
• First draft of project due this Sunday 11:59PM  

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     DO Now - Copy                                          

Copy the following into Vocabulary List III

9.  conviction n. (convict, -ed, -s, -ing) a firmly held belief;  a formal ruling that someone is guilty of a crime.

It is my firm conviction that all students have the ability to learn and be successful.

10.  monastery  n. (-ed, -s, -ing) the place where a group of nuns or monks work and live either as a group or alone.

Brother Maurice lived in a beautiful monastery on Bolivia for most of his life.

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can create an Inside Out and Back Again poem in the style of Thanhha Lai. 

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   FRIDAY     1-19-20    A-Day:  Project Work or 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.

MP2 - Week 8

   MONDAY  1-8-18    A-Day:  Analyzing Your Essays     

     Announcements                                   

• Check Your Gmail! 
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?  How's It going?
• You have about 14 weeks (about 3.5 months) left before we start planning our Ted-Talks.

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     DO Now - View and Comment             

Entry Title: Peer Reviewing

1. Watch this video about peer reiview.  

Use your own headset or borrow a class set from up front!

2.  Answer this question:  What is one thing you learned about peer review and why do you think it is important?

3.  Be prepared to share your answer for a ticket.

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     Learning Target(s)                                

• I can improve my writing skills by responding to peer reviewer feedback on my Who is Ha? essay. 

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     Mini-Lesson:  Using Feedback to Improve Your Writing     

 
• Why are we doing this?  It was clear that many students did not provide their partners high quality feedback that could have helped improve their grades.
•   Global Issues FIRST    - Impacts the whole essay 
• What is the thesis statement or controlling idea?
• How well are ideas organized in the essay?
•   Local Issues SECOND     - Impacts specific parts of an essay
• Sentence issues (awkward, confusing)
• Paragraph issues (TREES)
• Proofreading (grammar, spelling, capitalization)
• Use the rubric language provided when making comments.
• When making negative comments, use "I" statements.  When making positive comments, give a reason why!
• Use an end note comment that summarizes your feedback.

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     Work Time                            

 

• Complete Assignment  30.0 in Google Classroom.
• Due by the end of the period.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • None

   TUESDAY    1-9-18    B-Day:  Intro to Final Project for Inside Out and Back Again     

     Announcements                                     

• Check Your Gmail! 
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?  How's It going?
• You have about 14 weeks (about 3.5 months) left before we start planning our Ted-Talks.

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     DO Now - Copy                   

Create a new Google Doc titled Vocabulary List III and copy the following into it...

1.  accentuate v. (-d, -s, -ing) to make more noticeable

The girl accentuated her bright orange hair with a giant yellow bow which seemed to make it even more orange!

2.  aspire v. (-d, -s, -ing, aspiration) to strive for an ambitious goal

When I was younger, I aspired to become a famous stage actor even though I felt it was an unattainable goal.

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     Learning Target(s)                                   

• I can summarize what I am expected to do for the final project based on the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai.|
• I can create an overview of the refugee character who will be the main character for my Inside Out & Back Again project.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Introduction to Your Final Project and Creating Your Refugee Character       

 
• What You Will Do:  Create a POEM in the style of Inside Out & Back Again based on a refugee character you create and that reads like a story and includes the accurate use of literary elements.
• Click here for the Assignment and a Sample of what is expected.
• Click here for the rubrics that will be used to grade your final project.
• How to create an interesting refugee character.

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     Work Time                                             

 

• Did you take the Breakfast Survey in your Gmail account?
• Open Assignment 31.0 in Google Classroom: Creating Your Refugee Character
• Complete this classwork assignment for a grade. Do not turn it in! You need this to write your poem!

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Summarizing the project.
  • Assignment 31.0 completed by end of the period.

   WEDNESDAY   1-10-18    C-Day:  Project Work Time     

     Announcements     

• Check Your Gmail! Do your Breakfast Survey there!
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?  How's It going?
• You have about 14 weeks (about 3.5 months) left before we start planning our Ted-Talks. 

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     DO Now - Copy                        

Copy into your Vocabulary List III Entry

 3.  boisterous adj. (boisterously) noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.

    The students in the gym were really boisterous yelling and cheering-on their Bubble Ball teammates.

4.  decorum n. behavior in keeping with good taste; etiquette.

     It took all the decorum Frankie had to walk past the group of boys with class and not look at them while they screamed for her phone number.
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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can create an Inside Out and Back Again poem in the style of Thanhha Lai.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Your Goal for Today...         

 
• Show Mr. DeGrandis your completed Creating Your Refugee Character assignment.
• Then, open assignment 32.0 in Google Classroom and begin working on the first draft of your poem.
• Be aware of the poem's formatting!
• Titlea
• Date at the end
• One-Two Sentences per Stanza
• Three-Five words per line
• Italicize any time someone speaks or there is dialogue between two characters.

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     Work Time       

 

• Open Assignment 32.0 in Google Classroom
• Begin writing!

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Show Mr. DeGrandis your progress before the end of the period!

   THURSDAY   1-11-20    C-Day:  Project Work Time     

     Announcements                                           

• LOCKDOWN DRILL tomorrow morning at 8:30!
• Check Your Gmail! 
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?  How's It going?
• You have about 14 weeks (about 3.5 months) left before we start planning our Ted-Talks. 

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     DO Now - Copy                                    

3.  boisterous adj. (boisterously) noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.

    The students in the gym were really boisterous yelling and cheering-on their Bubble Ball teammates.

4.  decorum n. behavior in keeping with good taste; etiquette.

     It took all the decorum Frankie had to walk past the group of boys with class and not look at them while they screamed for her phone number.

5.  refugee n. (refugees) a person forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster.

     Many child refugees experience the horrors of war before they leave their home countries in order to find a safe place to live.
6.  endure v. (-d, -s, -ing, endurance) to patiently suffer something painful or difficult; to remain in existence or last a long time.

     It is unbelievable that a child can endure such horrible living conditions and still manage to smile.
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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can create an Inside Out and Back Again poem in the style of Thanhha Lai.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Your Goal for Today...         

 
• Show Mr. DeGrandis your completed Creating Your Refugee Character assignment.
• Then, open assignment 32.0 in Google Classroom and begin working on the first draft of your poem.
• Be aware of the poem's formatting!
• Titlea
• Date at the end
• One-Two Sentences per Stanza
• Three-Five words per line
• Italicize any time someone speaks or there is dialogue between two characters.

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     Work Time       

 

• Open Assignment 32.0 in Google Classroom
• Begin writing!

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Show Mr. DeGrandis your progress before the end of the period!

   FRIDAY    1-12-20    D-Day:  Projects