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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Entry Title: Peer Reviewing
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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Mini-Lesson: Using Feedback to Improve Your Writing
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Create a new Google Doc titled Vocabulary List III and copy the following into it...
2. aspire v. (-d, -s, -ing, aspiration) to strive for an ambitious goal
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Mini-Lesson: Introduction to Your Final Project and Creating Your Refugee Character
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3. boisterous adj. (boisterously) noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.
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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Mini-Lesson: Your Goal for Today...
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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.
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Learning Target(s)
Mini-Lesson: Your Goal for Today...
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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.
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.
Work Time
- Complete Assignment 30.0 in Google Classroom.
- Due by the end of the period.
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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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.
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.
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!
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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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.
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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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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.
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.6. endure v. (-d, -s, -ing, endurance) to patiently suffer something painful or difficult; to remain in existence or last a long time.
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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
