Announcements
- Go tot he class blog, then check your Gmail!
- Did you turn in your field trip forms to the 4th Floor House Office for LaserTron?
- Didn't finish your NWEA? This week is make-up week!
- 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!
HINT: Use Vocabulary List I to help you!
- 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.
_________________ - 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.
__________________ - 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 shaming 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 (Your blog title should communicate the purpose of your Blog in a fun and interesting way)
Address: johndSOTA2019.blogspot.com
MUST BE IN THIS FORMAT: firstname last initial SOTA2020
DO NOT USE YOUR LAST NAME
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Work Time - Make It Happen!
- Create your 20% Time Blog! Then 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 18.0 in Google Classroom.
- Show Mr. DeGrandis your new creation!
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on Assignment 18.0 in Google Classroom!
- Due Thursday by the end of the period!
TUESDAY 10-1-18 D-Day: Work on Your 20% Time Blog
Announcements
- Go to the class blog, then check your Gmail!
- Did you turn in your field trip forms to the 4th Floor House Office for LaserTron?
- Didn't finish your NWEA? This week is make-up week!
- Start the Do Now Below BEFORE the bell rings.
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DO Now - Proofreading Practice
Complete the grammar exercise in Google Classroom!
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Learning Target(s)
- I can communicate with a global audience by creating a blog for my 20% Time Project!
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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
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Assessment / Homework
- Complete and TURN IN Assignment 18.0 by Sunday 11:59PM.
WEDNESDAY 10-2-18 A-Day: Finish Blog and About Page
Announcements
Finish NWEAs!
Announcements
- Complete Assignment 18.0 in Google Classroom by 11:59PM tonight!
- Check your Gmail!
- Did you turn in your field trip forms to the 4th Floor House Office for LaserTron?
- No Do Now today!
THURSDAY 10-3-18 B-Day: Mix and Mingle Activity
Announcements
DO Now - Remember and Write!
New Entry Title: Inferences About the Gallery Walk
What are some inferences you recall about the gallery walk from last week? Click here to see the photos again if you need to.
Sample Inferences
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Learning Target(s)
Mini-Lesson: Mix and Mingle
What to do...
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
Assessment / Homework
Announcements
- Complete Assignment 18.0 in Google Classroom by 11:59PM tonight!
- Check your Gmail!
- Did you turn in your field trip forms to the 4th Floor House Office for LaserTron?
- Start your Do Now below...
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DO Now - Remember and Write!
New Entry Title: Inferences About the Gallery Walk
Write at least three inferences down.
Sample Inferences
- In the photo with all the cars, I can infer that people may be trying to escape some natural disaster, like a tsunami.
- In the photo of the helicopter, I can infer that people are trying to escape to safety.
Learning Target(s)
- I can use inferring to put the details of an article in the correct order (sequence).
- I can participate in discussions about the text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.
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. Then...
- 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.
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
- Free class period
- 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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2. How do critical incidents reveal character?
3. Which of your quotes might fit our guiding questions?
Assessment / Homework
Complete Assignment 18.0 in Google Classroom if you did not finish in class!
FRIDAY 10-4-18 C-Day: 20% Time Project Work and IRT
Periods 1, 2, and 4
Read the short horror story, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
What are some strange traditions of which you have been a part of or observed?
What are some traditions for which you have no idea why you do it? "It's what we've always done." "We've always done it that way."
What is symbolism? What are some symbols in the story and what do you think they might mean?
What might the lottery symbolize?
Period 6
Make up day!
