MP2 2019-2020 - Week 5

   MONDAY     12-9-19    B-Day:  Review for Inside Out and Back Again Quiz     

     Announcements                                     

• Check Your Gmail! 
• Start your Do Now!
• What have you done this week for your 20% Time Project?
• The quiz on pages 1-1222 of the novel is tomorrow.

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     DO Now - Create                                   

Entry Title: Make a Multiple Choice Question

DIRECTIONS:   Create a challenging multiple choice question with a friend or alone based on the novel Inside Out and Back Again.  Be sure to cite the page with the correct answer.

Share your multiple choice question for a ticket!
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     Learning Target(s)                                   

• I can prepare for the quiz on the novel Inside Out and Back Again happening tomorrow by playing a team review game.

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     Mini-Lesson:  How to Play Kahoot!     

 
• All students will be invited.
• Type class code into Kahoot!
• Create your nickname and get ready to play!

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     Work Time                                            

 

• Play the game.

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     Assessment / Homework                    

• • Study for the quiz tomorrow.

   TUESDAY    12-10-19    C-Day:  Quiz on Novel     

     Announcements               

• Check Your Gmail! 
• Start your Do Now!
• What have you done this week for your 20% Time Project?
• The vocabulary quiz on List III is Thursday.

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     DO Now - Think and Do       

Entry Title: Using Literary Elements

DIRECTIONS:  Read this excerpt from the poem 1975: Year of the Cat.  Write a brief TREES paragraph in PadLet that answers the following question.  You will have ten minutes.   

Go to www.padlet.com and use this excerpt to answer the question!

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can share my knowledge of the novel through an online assessment and an online bulletin board.

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     Mini-Lesson:  None           

 

Assessment time.

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     Work Time       

 

• Go to Google Classroom and take the quiz.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • None

   WEDNESDAY   12-11-19      D-Day:  What is a refugee?     

     Announcements                                   

• Check Your Gmail! 
• Next blog update - provide evidence!
• Create links that look like words, not web addresses!

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     DO Now - Definition                 

Create anew Entry: What is a refugee?

Google the word refugee and write your own definition of it.

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     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·gee
  ˌrefyo͝oˈjē/

  noun

  1. 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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• 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 Google 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.

  
  

  Refugee Stories

  
  
  SET 2:  These videos are true stories (factual accounts) from child refugees from around the world...

  
  

  1. Video #1:  To Be A Refugee (UNHCR)  (8:03 min)
  2. Video #2:  Syria's child refugees: 'You feel that they have lost their hearts'  (3:41 min)
  3. Video #3:  DRC's child refugees and victims of war speak out (4:36 min)

  
  

     Work Time                                                

With a partner...
1. Read your notice and wonder chart to your partner.
2. Listen while your partner reads their chart to you.
3. Compare charts.
4. Add at least one new detail to each set of videos from your partner's chart.
5. Share at least one new detail from each set of videos for your partner's chart.

     Assessment / Homework                      

• • 
    Completed Refugee Notice and Wonder Chart.

   THURSDAY    12-12   A-Day:  Inside Out and Back Again Final Project     

     Announcements                                     

• Check Your Gmail! 
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?  How's It going?
• You only have about about 3.5 months left before we start planning our Ted-Talks.

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     DO Now - Copy                   

Create a new Google Doc titled Vocabulary List III and copy the following into it...

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.

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     Learning Target(s)                                   

• I can summarize what I am expected to do for the final project based on the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai.|
• I can create an overview of the refugee character who will be the main character for my Inside Out & Back Again project.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Introduction to Your Final Project and Creating Your Refugee Character       

Your Task
Create a narrative poem (a poem that tells a story) in the style of Thanhha Lai's narrative poem, Inside Out & Back Again.


The Assignment:   33.0 in Google Classroom

The First Step...Create Your Refugee Character!

How to create an interesting refugee character.

1. Complete Assignment 34.0 in Google Classroom.  This will help get you started.
   
2. Model Student Tip:  Become your character for a day!  You should like your character.  Become your character for a day and see what it feels like to be that person!

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     Work Time                                             

 

• Open Assignment 34.0 in Google Classroom: Creating Your Refugee Character.
• Complete this classwork assignment for a grade. Do not turn it in! You need this to write your poem!

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     Assessment / Homework                     

• • This will be due Sunday 11:59 PM.

  
  

   FRIDAY     12-13-19   B-Day:  20% Time / Creating Your Refugee Character    

     Announcements                                     

• Check Your Gmail! 
  
• Are you working on your 20% Time Project?  How's It going?
  
• You only have about about 3.5 months left before we start planning our Ted-Talks.

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     Options, Options, Options...                   

1. Assignment 34.0:  Blog Post #3 - Due next week Wednesday
   
2. Assignment 33.0:  Create Your Refugee Character - Due this Sunday!
   
3. Finish and/or Submit ReadWorks Assignment - especially Period 4!