MONDAY 10-21-2019 D-Day: Finish 6-Word Horror Stories & RAFFLE!
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Get your raffle tickets ready!
- Did you set up your first mentor meeting yet?
- Still need a mentor? YOU MUST COME SEE ME!
- Students that are doing sign language. This is your last chance! Come Friday, Period 7 for sign classes.
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DO Now - Sticky Note
DIRECTIONS: Grab a sticky note from Mr. D. and write the following info on it.
DO Now - Write a 6-Word Story
Entry Title: A 6-Word Story
- Directions: Write a quick and easy 6-Word Story!
- Here here are some ideas to get you started or make up your own!
- Snap Chat, Facebook, Instagram or...
- Video Games
- My Best Friend
- My Worst Enemy
- My Mom
- My Pet
- An embarrassing life moment
- Superheros
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Learning Target(s)
- I can use the writing process to create a 6-Word Horror Story for Halloween.
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Mini-Lesson: (See Yesterday)
- Watch these two videos on 6-Word Stories and Memoirs
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Work Time
- As a class we will pick up our first novel - Inside Out and Back Again
- Then,we'll finish our stories...
- Make final edits
- Decorate your submission.
- Be sure to write your name and period on the back!
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Assessment / Homework
- None
WEDNESDAY 10-23-2019 B-Day: 1975: Year of the Cat
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Get your raffle tickets ready!
- Did you set up your first mentor meeting yet?
- Still need a mentor? YOU MUST COME SEE ME!
- Students that are doing sign language. This is your last chance! Come today Wednesday and Friday, Period 7 for sign classes.
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DO Now - Copy
Entry Title: Vocabulary List II
1. engender v. (engenders, engendered, engendering) - to bring a feeling into existence
When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school, it engendered anger in the student body.
When the principal announced that students could no longer wear sneakers to school, it engendered anger in the student body.
2. pacify v. (pacified, pacifying, pacifies, pacifist) - to ease someone's anger; calm someone down
After dropping her cell phone in the muddy puddle, I tried to pacify my angry friend by offering her a big, warm hug.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can make inferences to deepen my understanding of Inside Out & Back Again. (Inferencing)
- I can cite evidence from the novel to explain how incidents reveal aspects of Ha's character (personality) as she is shaped by war. (Proving what you think the novel is saying by quoting accurately with words, phrases and details from the novel.)
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Warm-up: Numbered Heads Together
- Your teacher will assign each of you a number from 1-5.
- Meet with your group.
- Your teacher will give the class a unique question. Each of you will answer the question on your own first.
- Share your response with your group.
- As a team, decide on the best response and be ready to share out.
- Your teacher will call on a specific number (1-5) to share the thinking of your group for participation points.
- How might powerful, negative or positive, events in your life shape who you are?
Mini-Lesson: 1975: Year of the Cat
- You have looked at images and read some details about the topic of this novel - the fall of Saigon.
- Today, we will begin our study of the novel Inside Out & Back Again reading closely the first poem of the novel, 1975: Year of the Cat.
- Focus Questions
- Ha says, "No one would believe me, but at times I would prefer wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama."
- Based on the gallery walk and the sentence strips we read, what do you think might have happened to a little girl to make her say she preferred war at home (Saigon) to peace in Alabama (The United States)?
Getting the Gist: Getting your initial reaction to what the text is mostly about. You will do this now as you hear the first poem of the novel, 1975: The Year of the Cat read aloud.
Read Aloud: Follow the text with your eyes as you listen to the poem being read.
Turn and Talk: What is your initial sense of what the poem is mostly about?
Turn and Talk: What is your initial sense of what the poem is mostly about?
Assessment / Homework
- None
THURSDAY 10-24 C-Day: Vocabulary Review Day
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Did you set up your first mentor meeting yet?
- Check out the new Mentor Agenda for your first meeting!
- Students that are doing sign language. This is your last chance! Come today Friday, Period 7 for sign classes.
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DO Now - Review Vocabulary Words
Directions: go to your www.quizlet.com account and quiz yourself or a partner on the vocabulary words and their word family members. Make sure you know how to spell all the words AND their word family members correctly!
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Learning Target(s)
- I can study for the upcoming vocabulary test by playing a review game!
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Mini-Lesson: What and How to Play
New Strategy: Around the Room and Back
- An activity where teams travel "around the room and back" in a competition to complete station challenges that review class content.
- How it works...
- Mr. DeGrandis will assign you a group and your starting station.
- You will have 3 minutes to complete the challenge. When the timer goes off, time is up!
- When your group completes the station challenge, raise a hand and Mr. DeGrandis will come check your work.
- Reminder: Use good sportsmanship!
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Work Time
- Play the game!
- May the best team win!
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Assessment / Homework
- Study for the vocabulary quiz tomorrow!
- Bring your 20% Time Book!
FRIDAY 10-25 D-Day: 20% Time Work and Research
1. Take Vocabulary List II Quiz in Google Classroom, Assignment 26.0. The quiz should only take 10-12 minutes to complete.
504 Accommodations: If you would like to take advantage of your 504 accommodations, please let Mr. DeGrandis know before you get started.
504 Accommodations: If you would like to take advantage of your 504 accommodations, please let Mr. DeGrandis know before you get started.
2. When done, begin your second 20% Blog Update.
