MP1 - Week 5

   MONDAY    10-1-18     D-Day:  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?
• Start the Do Now Below BEFORE the bell rings.

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     DO Now - Think and Respond in Composition Notebook     

Entry Title:  Vocabulary Inferencing

DIRECTIONS:  Copy the scenarios below into a Google Doc in 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!

1. 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.
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2. 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.
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3. 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 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:  johndSOTA2018.blogspot.com
  MUST BE IN THIS FORMAT: firstname last initial SOTA2018

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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 19.0 in Google Classroom.
• Show Mr. DeGrandis your new creation!

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     Assessment / Homework                      

• • Work on Assignment 19.0 in Google Classroom!

  
  

   TUESDAY    10-2-18      C-Day:   Finish Your  20% Time Blog   

     Announcements     

• Do you need to finish your NWEA?  
• Check your Gmail!
• Did you turn in your field trip forms to the 4th Floor House Office for LaserTron?
• Start the Do Now Below BEFORE the bell rings.

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     DO Now - Proofreading Practice                  

Go to www.quill.org and complete the proofreading exercise.

• Periods 1, 2, 4:  How was the World Made
• Period 6:  A Little Stranger on the Road

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can communicate with a global audience by creating a blog!

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     Mini-Lesson:  Finish Your Blog       

 
• 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:  johndSOTA2018.blogspot.com
  MUST BE IN THIS FORMAT: firstname last initial SOTA2017

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     Work Time                  

 

1. Finish your blog first!
2. Complete the brainstorming activity in Google Classroom, Assignment 20.0!

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Complete and TURN IN Assignment 20.0.

   WEDNESDAY     10-3-18    D-Day:  Mix and Mingle Activity for Inside Out and Back Again       

     Announcements                

• Complete Assignment 20.0 in Google Classroom by 11:59PM Sunday!
• 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 - Remember and Write!                                     

New Entry Title: Inferences About the Gallery Walk

What are some inferences you remember about the gallery walk from last week?  Click here to see the photos again if you need to.

Write at least three inferences down.

Sample Inferences

1. In the photo with all the cars, I can infer that people may be trying to escape some natural disaster, like a tsunami.
2. In the photo of the helicopter, I can infer that people are trying to escape to safety. 

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     Learning Target(s)                              

• I can support my inferences with evidence from a text.
• I can participate in discussions about the text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Mix and Mingle          

 
• This Mix and Mingle activity will help you create new inferences between the event you have seen in the Gallery Walk and information from the text we will be reading about the Fall of Saigon.

What to do...

• You will receive two sentence strips from your teacher.
• Read them to yourself.
• Turn and Talk: Read your sentence strips to a neighbor.
• Do you think you have the whole story based on the pictures from yesterday and these two sentence strips? Discuss with your partner.

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     Work Time                                          

 SPECIAL REQUEST:  Sentence Strip Envelopes and Sentence Strips:  Please do not write, tear, fold or otherwise damage these so other students in other classes can use them for this activity today as well!  Thank You!   




Mix and Mingle: Create an Inference with Your Group

• Mr. D. will give you an envelope containing two sentence strips.
• When asked to begin, wander the room with your sentence strips.
• Look for peers that have different strips than your own.  Stay together until you collect a total of 4-5 people.  No one should have the same sentence strips!
• You will have five minutes to mix and mingle.
• Select an area of the room in which you can meet with your group.
• Arrange the strips in a logical order.  You should be able to explain why you put your strips in the order you did.
• It's OK if you have more questions than answers at this point!

Class Discussion Questions

What do you think happened to the people in the gallery walk based on the sentence strips and the photos?  What specific evidence do you have to back up your inferences?

Guiding Questions for this novel study...
1.  What is home?
2.  How do critical incidents reveal character?
3.  Which of your quotes might fit our guiding questions?

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     Assessment / Homework             

Complete Assignment 20.0 in Google Classroom!

   THURSDAY  10-4-18    A-Day:  DIRT Day       

Periods 1, 2, and 4
Read the short story, The Rocking-horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence and complete Assignment 21.0 in Google Classroom.

Period 6
Make up day!

   FRIDAY    10-5-18    Superintendent's Conference Day - No Classes for Students     

MP1 - Week 4

   MONDAY  9-24    B-Day:  Inferencing Part I     

     Announcements                             

• Get your Chromebook
• Check your Gmail
• Start your Do Now

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     DO Now - Copy into Composition Notebook    

Cut and Paste these words to Vocabulary List I 

 4.  impulse n. (impulsive, impulsively) a sudden wish or urge.

Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and faced the bully.

5.  intuition n. (intuitively, intuit) a sense of knowing; an insight.

Meagan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd.

6.  lapse n. (lapsed, lapsing) to sink or slip gradually.

While waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienced a momentary lapse into stage fright, but he pulled himself out of it and went on with the show.

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     Learning Target(s)                                   

• I can explain what inferencing is.
• I can use inferencing to determine the purpose of a character in a dramatic scene.

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     Mini-Lesson:  What is Inferencing?         

 
• Watch this video on Inferencing...
• Inference:  a thought process a reader makes to understand the meaning of text, or even an image; a logical conclusion.


• When you infer, you pay attention to the details in front of you, and you use other information (from the text, or your background knowledge) to mentally fill in the gaps between the details that are actually said or shown, and what the author expects the reader to understand. 

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     Work Time                                                

 

• Watch your teacher model a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference to determine the purpose of a character in a scene.  Then...
• Divide into groups of 3-4 people.
• Create a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference about the purpose of a character in your scene.
• No words allowed!
• Perform it for the class.
• You will be graded on how well the audience can identify the purpose of the main character of your skit.

How will you be graded?

• A - The audience could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
• B - Some of the class could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
• C - Only a few people could infer the purpose of the main character.
• D - Audience could on guess as to the purpose of the main character.
• F - There was no purpose or the actors did not take their role seriously and laughed throughout the performance.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Your grade will be determined on how well the audience can use inferencing to determine the purpose of your skits main character.

   TUESDAY    9-25    C-Day:  Inferencing Part II     

     Announcements     

• Check your Gmail!
• Are you ready to perform your skit?
• Be seated, quiet and working before the bell!
• Check out Google Classroom for an awesome new contest!

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     DO Now - Copy      

Add these two new words to Vocabulary List I

7.  reverie n. (reveries) a daydream.
Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands.


8.   meditation – (meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated) an act of deep thinking or reflection.

    Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days.

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can explain what inferencing is.
• I can use inferencing to determine the purpose of a character in a dramatic scene.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Review of Inferencing      

 
• Inferencing - coming up with a logical conclusion based on 1) Textual evidence (something you see) and 2) Your own personal experience.

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     Work Time                                

 

• Finish performing group skits.
• How will you be graded?
• A - The audience could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
• B - Some of the class could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
• C - Only a few people could infer the purpose of the main character.
• D - Audience could on guess as to the purpose of the main character.
• F - There was no purpose or the actors did not take their role seriously and laughed throughout the performance.

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     Assessment / Homework                         

1. How well was the audience able to draw inferences from your skit?

   WEDNESDAY   9-26    D-Day:  Analyzing Your Classwork and Grades       

     Announcements     

• Check your Gmail!
• Be seated, quiet and working before the bell!

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     DO Now - Take the Sentence Structure Challenge                      

Go to www.quill.org and log in using your Google Credentials!  Then, take Sentence Structure Challenge!

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     Learning Target(s)                                

• I can analyze my classwork to understand what I did well and where I need to improve!

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     Mini-Lesson:  How to Analyze Your Classwork          

 
• Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate how to read comments and interpret your grades for assignments in Google Classroom and ReadWorks!

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     Work Time                                           

 

• Complete Assignment 16.5 in Google Classroom

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     Assessment / Homework                     

• • TURN IN Assignment 16.5 before the end of the period.

   THURSDAY     9-27    A-Day:  Gallery Walk     

     Announcements     

• Check your Gmail!
• Be seated, quiet and working before the bell!

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     DO Now - Copy         

Add these two new words to Vocabulary List I

9.   tedious adj.– (tediously) boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness.

    Every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became more tedious because she had nothing to do.

10. perverse adj.– (perverted, pervert) turned away from what is right or good.

    Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth grade.

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     Learning Target(s)                                

• I can draw inferences from graphic textual evidence.
• I can support my inferences with textual evidence from a photo.
• I can participate in discussions about a text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Gallery "Walk"          

 
• Review: Take the Inferencing Quiz in Google Classroom, Assignment 16.0!
• What is a Gallery walk and how does it work?
• A gallery walk is a chance for you to view a text.
• How it works:  You have the chance to view a collections of photos and write down details you notice about each one.

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     Work Time                                  

 

• Complete Assignment 17.0 in Google Classroom.
• View each photo for 60 seconds.  Your teacher will set a timer.
• Then...
• Record what you notice and wonder about on your chart.

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     Assessment / Homework                             

• • TURN IN Assignments 16.0 and 17.0 for classwork Grades!

   FRIDAY    9-28    B-Day:  DIRT Day             

MP1 - Week 3

   MONDAY    9-17  A-Day     NWEAs       

NWEAs today!

WHAT TO DO...
1.  Go to  test.mapnwea.org  
2.  Type in the Class Code (Mr. DeGrandis will give it to you!)
3.  Select your name
4.  Select  Growth: Reading 6+ NY 2017  
5.  Wait for the test to start

Need a Computer?  Mr. DeGrandis has a couple of resources for you to get a super low cost or possibly free computer if your family qualifies.  See Mr. DeGrandis privately for details or email him.

   TUESDAY    9-18    B-Day   NWEAs          

     Announcements                    

• Grab your Chromebook.
• Be seated, quiet and working, BEFORE the bell rings.
• Did you check your Gmail? 
• Bring in a book for DIRT Day this Friday that you have never read!

Log in same as yesterday...

1.  Go to  test.mapnwea.org  

2.  Type in the Class Code (Mr. DeGrandis will give it to you!)

3.  Select your name.

4.  Select  Growth: Reading 6+ NY 2017   

5.  Wait for the test to start


When/If you finish...
1. Go to Google Classroom and find the ReadWorks assignment. 
2. This is for grade in my gradebook, so do your best!
3. Due Wednesday end of day.


   WEDNESDAY    9-19     C-Day  NWEAs       

Log in same as yesterday...

1.  Go to  test.mapnwea.org  

2.  Type in the Class Code (Mr. DeGrandis will give it to you!)

3.  Select your name

4.  Select  Growth: Reading 6+ NY 2017   

5.  Wait for the test to start


When/If you finish...
1. Go to Google Classroom and find the ReadWorks assignment in the stream. 
2. This is for grade in my gradebook, so do your best!
3. Due Wednesday end of day.

   THURSDAY   9-20    D-Day:  20% Time!         

     Announcements                    

• Grab your Chromebook.
• Be seated, quiet and working, BEFORE the bell rings.
• Did you check your Gmail? 

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     DO Now - Research             

• Go to Google.com and type in "20% Time" or "Genius Hour"
• In a small group or alone...
• Find any article, video or website about 20% Time.
• Be ready to share what you find.

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     Learning Target(s)                        

• I can explain what 20% Time is to someone who has never heard about it.

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     Mini-Lesson:  What the Heck is Genius Hour?                           

 
• Watch these awesome 20% Time Projects
• Publishing a Novel
• Writing a Novel
• Photography
• Learning to Speak Chinese

• What did you find our about 20% Time?
• Check out this Presentation on Genius Hour/20%Time
• Here's one for Parents and Teachers

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     Work Time                                             

 

• Spend the rest of the period discussing and brainstorming your most awesome and fantastic ideas! 
  
• List as many things as you can and share it with Mr. DeGrandis before the end of the period.

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     Assessment / Homework                                  

• • Bring a novel you have never read to school tomorrow for independent reading time!

   FRIDAY   9-21    A-Day:  Active Reading Assessment     

     Announcements                    

• Grab your Chromebook.
• Be seated, quiet and working, BEFORE the bell rings.
• Did you check your Gmail? 

     Work Time - Assessment                                   

Complete Assignment 13.0 in Google Classroom for a classwork grade worth 30 points!