MONDAY School Holiday - Martin Luther King Jr.
TUESDAY 1-18-22 A-Day: Identifying Literary Elements
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. Are you making progress on your Genius Project? Set aside some time this week to make some progress on it. Your next update is due this Sunday!
3. Thursday: NYS CBT Practice Test. Wednesday will be prep time for it to make sure Chromebooks are all set for it.
DO NOW DIRECTIONS
Go to the vocabulary section of your notebook and start a new page titled, Vocabulary List III and add the first two words below.
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.
LEARNING TARGETS
1. 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.|
2. I can create an overview of the refugee character who will be the main character for my Inside Out & Back Again project.
MINI-LESSON: Final Project for Inside Out & Back Again
Create a narrative poem (a poem that tells a story) about a unique refugee character you create in the same style as Thanhha Lai's narrative poem, Inside Out & Back Again.
- Complete Assignment 39.0 in Google Classroom. This will help get you started.
- 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!
WORK TIME
- Open Assignment 39.0 in Google Classroom: Creating Your Refugee Character.
- Complete this classwork assignment for a grade by Thursday.
ASSESSMENT Turn in assignment 39.0 by Thursday.
WEDNESDAY 1-19-22 B-Day: Prep for NYS CBT Test
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. OPEN THE CLASS BLOG: www.johndegrandis1.blogspot.com
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. Don't forget to complete assignment 39.0 for your refugee character. It is due tomorrow.
DO NOW 
3. boisterous adj. (boisterously) noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.4. decorum n. behavior in keeping with good taste; etiquette.
It took all the decorum Frankie had to walk past the group of boys with class and not look at them while they screamed for her phone number.
LEARNING TARGETS MINI-LESSON
WORK TIME
- Read the novel as a class.
- Use the Literary Elements Note Catcher in Google Classroom to document evidence of literary devices Thanhha Lai uses as we read.
ASSESSMENT None
THURSDAY 1-20-22 C-Day: Take the NYS CBT Practice Test
FRIDAY 1-21-22 D-Day: Grammar Time!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. Next week's preview.
DO NOW Copy the following new vocabulary words into Vocabulary List III
6. endure v. (-d, -s, -ing, endurance) to patiently suffer something painful or difficult; to remain in existence or last a long time.
LEARNING TARGETS I can take a diagnostic grammar assessment that will design a personalized grammar program just for me using www.quill.org.
MINI-LESSON
Demonstration of how to log into Quill.org.
WORK TIME
Complete the diagnostic activity in Quill.org.
ASSESSMENT This diagnostic will generate a final report for you.
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