Announcements
- Check out the changes for TKMB Reading Assignments
- Check Your Gmail!
- Consider having one last Meeting with Your Mentor
- Math Testing is Tomorrow and Wednesday!
- I can identify the theme of Taking a Stand in this chapter and how the author develops this theme in more detail.
- I can explain how Scout's innocence prevented the lynching of Tom Robinson.
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DO Now - READ
DIRECTIONS: Read the FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY of the article below and answer the question in your composition notebook in anew entry titled: Harper Lee.
What are some of your impressions of Harper Lee after reading this paragraph?
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Learning Target(s)
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Take the Vocabulary Quiz
in Google Classroom!
Mini-Lesson: Some Pivotal Points
- This chapter is a turning point in the plot.
- Tom will be moved to the county jail the next day.
- How does the author, Harper Lee, use imagery to describe the town of Maycomb?
- Racism is the main theme developed in this chapter.
- Why did Link Deas and Heck Tate go to Scout's house with a group of other men?
- What did they want Atticus to do?
- How does Jem take a stand in this chapter?
- How does Scout take a stand in this chapter?
- How does Scout "save the day"?
- Read Chapter 15
- Track Themes
- Have Study Guide Out
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Work Time
Assessment / Homework
- Read Chapter 16 on your own.
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GO to www.NEWSELA.com
PERIODS 4 & 6 ONLY TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY
DIRECTIONS
1. Grab a Chromebook and go to www.newsela.com
2. You will find three reading assignments there.
a. The Math Behind Percentages
b. Population Growth Past Ideal Levels
c. The Functions of Various Cells
3. All three articles and related quizzes and writing assignments are due by Friday.
4. This will be your first classwork grade for Marking Period 4!
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THURSDAY 5-2-19 C-Day: Finish Chapter 15, Review and Complete SGQs and Tracker
Announcements
- Check out the changes for TKMB Reading Assignments
- Check Your Gmail!
- Consider having one last Meeting with Your Mentor
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DO Now - Visual Syntactics: Tom Robinson
Entry Title: Visual Syntactics
The Tom Robinson Trial is like a ____ because ____ .
The Tom Robinson Trial is like a ____ because ____ .
Learning Target(s)
- I can track how Harper Lee develops one of the themes of compassion, taking a stand, or prejudice throughout the novel.
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Mini-Lesson: Review of Chapter 15
- Click here for a summary and analysis of Chapter 14.
- Click here for a summary and analysis of Chapter 15!
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Work Time SGQs and Theme Tracker
- Go over study guide questions.
- Find evidence of the theme you are tracking in chapter 15.
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Assessment / Homework
- Read Chapter 16 on your own by Friday.
MONDAY 5-6-19 D-Day: Begin Chapter 17
Announcements
- Check out the changes for TKMB Reading Assignments
- Check Your Gmail!
- Consider having one last Meeting with Your Mentor
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DO Now - To Kill a Mockingbird 2019
Entry Title: To Kill a Mockingbird 2019
QUESTION: Create three movie titles for the 2019 version of
EXAMPLES
EXAMPLES
- The Sin of Maycomb
- The Atticus Effect
- Finding Boo
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Learning Target(s)
- I can explain who the participants are in a courtroom.
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Mini-Lesson: Trial Participants
- The setting for this chapter is in the Maycomb County Courthouse where Atticus works.
- Review of the participants in a typical courtroom. (see info graphic above)
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Work Time
- Read chapter 17.
- Use your theme tracker.
- Have SGQs ready to go.
Assessment / Homework
- None
THURSDAY 5-3-19 A-Day: Finish Chapter 17, Review/SGQs/Theme Tracker
Announcements
- Check out the changes for TKMB Reading Assignments
- Check Your Gmail!
- Consider having one last Meeting with Your Mentor
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DO Now - Pick a Quote
Entry Title: Pick a Quote
DIRECTIONS: Select your favorite from the quotes below. Explain it. Then explain why you selected that quote.
Learning Target(s)
Mini-Lesson: Theme Development
Work Time
Assessment / Homework
Things that should be completed by Sunday evening...
1. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
2. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
3. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
4. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
5. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”
EXAMPLE
I chose quote 2. To me, it means that we take things for granted and when they are gone we miss them. This quote interested me because it made me think about the things in my life I take for granted; people in my life (family and friends) as well as things like my car, my home and even my garage.
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I chose quote 2. To me, it means that we take things for granted and when they are gone we miss them. This quote interested me because it made me think about the things in my life I take for granted; people in my life (family and friends) as well as things like my car, my home and even my garage.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can track how the author develops a theme in chapter 17.
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Mini-Lesson: Theme Development
- FINAL PROJECT QUESTION: Prove you understand how the author, Harper Lee, develops the theme of (compassion, taking a stand or prejudice) over the course of the novel.
- What does it mean when we say, "The author develops the theme of ___ using ____ "?
- What does "over the course of the novel" mean?
Work Time
- Go over SGQS
- Review theme tracker
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Assessment / Homework
- None
FRIDAY 5-3-19 B-Day: 20% Time Project Work or Make Up Time
- Read up to and including Chapter 16.
- Complete all Study Guide Questions up to and including Chapter 16.
- Update Theme Tracker (you should have at least three examples/evidence for each section of the novel (first 1/3, second 1/3, last third) up to and including Chapter 16.
All done? Work on your 20% Time Project!
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