MONDAY 9-28-20 A-Day: Finish Presenting Your Personal Quote Posters
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Check Your Gmail, Class Blog and Google Classroom everyday! This is a course requirement!
- Next week's contest. Thoughts? Ideas?
- Did you submit your personal quote poster in Google Classroom and on Padlet?
DO NOW
DIRECTIONS
Copy the following vocabulary words into the new digital notebook you created.
Just cut and paste them into a new Google Document titled, VOCABULARY LIST I.
Entry Title: Vocabulary List I
3. fetish n. (fetishes) – an abnormal attention or attachment
Example: Jeremy had an abnormal, childish fetish for sucking his thumb, even though he was fourteen years old.
4. impulse n. (impulsive, impulsively) a sudden wish or urge.
Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and faced the bully.
LEARNING TARGETS
1. I can create new entries for English class by using my digital notebook.
2. I can practice my speaking skills by presenting a Personal Quote Poster to my classmates.
3. I can share my beliefs, values, hobbies and interests with my classmates through my Personal Quote Poster.
MINI-LESSON
1. Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate how to create a new entry in your digital notebook and the format we will use throughout the year.
2. Mr. DeGrandis will present a Personal Quote Poster to the class as a model for student presentations.
WORK TIME Present Your Personal Quote Poster
1. Be sure your poster is on THIS PADLET.
2. A name will be picked at random via The Wheel of Names.
3. If your name is picked it will be your chance to present.
4. You will receive a classwork grade worth 20 points for presenting your Personal Quote Poster.
RUBRIC - How You Will Be Graded
18-20 Points - You presented your poster with energy. You are clearly visible in your screen. You were loud and clear. You added appropriate humor and/or your own personal style to the presentation.
15-17 Points - You presented your poster. You were clearly visible in your screen. You were loud enough to be heard.
13-14 Points - You presented your poster. We could not hear you and/or could not see you. You were not in your screen.
12 or Less - You did not choose to present or we could not hear/see you at all. You did not complete the assignment or post it to Padlet.
ASSESSMENT / HOMEWORK
None
TUESDAY 9-29-20 A-Day: Active Reading Part I
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Check Your Gmail, Class Blog and Google Classroom everyday! This is a course requirement!
- Did you show your family the Course Criteria Sheet?
- This week's contest is best emoji sentence!
Here are some good examples...
DO NOW
OPEN THE CLASS BLOG and SCROOL DOWN TO TUESDAY 9-29-20!
Copy the following two new vocabulary words into Vocabulary List I in your digital notebook under the entry titled Vocabulary List I.
3. fetish n. (fetishes) – an abnormal attention or attachment
Example: Jeremy had an abnormal, childish fetish for sucking his thumb, even though he was fourteen years old.
4. impulse n. (impulsive, impulsively) a sudden wish or urge.
Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and faced the bully.
5. intuition n. (intuitively, intuit) a sense of knowing; an insight.
Meagan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd.
6. lapse n. (lapsed, lapsing) to sink or slip gradually. While waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienced a momentary lapse into stage fright, but he pulled himself out of it and went on with the show.
LEARNING TARGET
I understand how to use the active reading strategy for independent reading.
MINI-LESSON
- Start a new page in your notebook and give it the title:
- New Entry Title: Active Reading: A Metacognitive Thing
- Be ready to take some notes on this presentation...
- PRESENTATION: What is Active Reading and How Do I Do It?Watch the presentation above to understand how to use active reading to improve your reading comprehension.
WORK TIME 1. Open the Active Reading Presentation
2. Complete the worksheet in Google Classroom, Assignment 11.0. This is a classwork assignment worth 15 points!
ASSESSMENT / HOMEWORK
1. Complete the worksheet above for homework and an attendance grade for tomorrow.
2. Be sure to share your Course Criteria Sheet with your family.
WEDNESDAY 9-30 C-Day: Active Reading Worksheet Due
See assignment 12.0 in Google Classroom. Be sure to turn it in by noon!
THURSDAY 10-1-20 C-Day: Counselor Presentation
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Check Your Gmail, Class Blog and Google Classroom everyday! This is a course requirement!
- Did you show your family the Course Criteria Sheet?
- This week's contest is best emoji sentence!
Here are some good examples...
DO NOW - One Word, One Sentence
New Entry Title: One Words, One Sentence
DIRECTIONS
Pick a vocabulary word from Vocabulary List I and write a complete sentence using the word correctly in context. Remember to use part of the definition in your sentence and underline both the word and the definition in your sentence.
Be ready to share your sentence with the class for class participation.
EXAMPLE
intuition n. (intuitively, intuit) a sense of knowing; an insight.
Meagan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd.
After we share out, your school counselors will be coming to visit us.
FRIDAY 10-2-20 B-Day: Active Reading Part II
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Check Your Gmail, Class Blog and Google Classroom everyday! This is a course requirement!
- Did you show your family the Course Criteria Sheet?
- Best Emoji Sentence!
Take three and create yours now!
DO NOW
Copy the following two new vocabulary words into Vocabulary List I in your digital notebook.
7. reverie n. (reveries) a daydream.
Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands.
8. meditation n. (meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated) an act of deep thinking or reflection. Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Cherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days.
LEARNING TARGET
I can practice my active reading skills using the short story, Checkouts, by Cynthia Rylant.
MINI-LESSON
Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate how to perform active reading using a short story and an active reading worksheet.
Here is a demonstration of how to do Active Reading.
WORK TIME - Open the short story, Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant.
- Mr. DeGrandis will model how to actively read using Assignment 12.0: Active Reading Worksheet Practice in Google Classroom.
ASSESSMENT / HOMEWORK
Finish Actively Reading the short story, Checkouts by Cynthia Rylant and submit your Active Reading Worksheet for a grade worth 28 points.
There will be a quiz on the story on Monday.
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