Announcements
- Check your Gmail and clean it out!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project this week?
- PERIOD 6 Only
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Enter your grade in the private comments! Then...
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DO Now - Syntactic Visualization
DIRECTIONS
- Select a single image from the choices below.
- Then complete this sentence...Refugees are like _________ because they ________ .
- The blank is the image you selected.
- Example (can't use this one): Refugees are like leaves on a tree because they stick together.
Learning Target(s)
- I can explain what a refugee is.
- I can draw inferences from a text about the experiences of refugees.
- I can record details of the refugee experience to use later in my final project.
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Mini-Lesson: What is a refugee?
- ref·u·geeˌrefyo͝oˈjē/noun
- a person or character who has been forced to leave their home in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
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- Now, listen again to the poem Saigon is Gone. (page 67) Ha is now a refugee. She has left her country to escape a war.
- Think-Pair-Share
What are some textual details you noticed about the conditions Ha must endure? Be prepared to share a response with the class! - What's it's Like to be a Refugee?DIRECTIONS: As you watch the videos below, record at least one detail from each video in the Notice and Wonder Chart in Assignment 43.0 in Goolge Classroom for your Inside Out and Back Again poems!
SET 1: These videos are actual refugee accounts narrated by child refugees. Their stories have been animated for clarity and maximum impact on the audience.SET 2: These videos are true stories (factual accounts) from child refugees from around the world...- Video #1: To Be A Refugee (UNHCR) (8:03 min)
- Video #2: Syria's child refugees: 'You feel that they have lost their hearts' (3:41 min)
- Video #3: DRC's child refugees and victims of war speak out (4:36 min)
- Read your notice and wonder chart to your partner.
- Listen while your partner reads their chart to you.
- Compare charts.
- Add at least one new detail to each set of videos from your partner's chart.
- Share at least one new detail from each set of videos for your partner's chart.
- Your completed Refugee Notice and Wonder Chart due tomorrow for a PASS/FAIL classwork grade.
With a partner...
Assessment / Homework
TUESDAY 12-18-18 D-Day: Vocabulary Review Game for List II
Announcements
- Check your Gmail and clean it out!
- Vocabulary Quiz Wednesday on List II!
- What will you be doing for your 20% Time Project this week?
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DO Now - Think and Do
Entry Title: Antonyms
In a Google Doc, match each vocabulary word with its antonym.
Hint: Use an online thesaurus!
- dissolution healthy
- writhe to anger
- pacify straighten
- pestilence construction
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Learning Target(s)
- I can prepare for a vocabulary quiz by participating in a review game.
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Mini-Lesson: Review
- Review how to play Around the Room and Back
- Create Teams
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Work Time
- Play Around the Room and Back Again
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Assessment / Homework
- Study for the vocabulary quiz on Wednesday.
WEDNESDAY 12-19-18 A-Day: Vocabulary List II Quiz
Announcements
- Check your Gmail and clean it out!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project this week?
- Have you scheduled a second meeting with your mentor?
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DO Now - Think and Do
Entry Title: Two Words, One Sentence
Directions: Find your Google Doc titled, Two Words, One Sentence and write one sentence using two vocabulary words that proves you understand their meaning by the way you used them. Be prepared to share for a ticket!
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Learning Target(s)
- I can prepare for a vocabulary quiz by playing a review game.
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Mini-Lesson: Kahoot Set Up
- Go to www.kahoot.com
- Enter the game code.
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Work Time
- Play the Kahoot! Review
- Complete the quiz, Assignment 44.0, in Google Classroom.
- When you are done, work on your 20% Time Project.
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on your 20% Time Project.
THURSDAY 12-20-18 B-Day: Kahoot Holiday Game and Guest Speakers
Announcements
- Check your Gmail and clean it out!
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project this week?
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DO Now - None
Entry Title: Vocabulary List III
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.
Work Time
- Go to www.padlet.com and share your thinking!
- Welcome Our Guest Speaker! Open Assignment 43.0 to capture your thoughts during the presentation.
- Kahoot Holiday Game!
- Raffle Time!
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Assessment / Homework
- None
FRIDAY 12-21-18 Holiday Break!
