MONDAY 9-19-22 A-Day: iReady Diagnostic
ANNOUNCEMENTS
DO NOW Copy these last four vocabulary words into List I in your notebook.
7. reverie n. (reveries) a daydream.
Example: Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding hands.
8. meditation – (meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated) an act of deep thinking or reflection.
Example: Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days.
9. tedious adj. – (tediously) boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness.
Example: Every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became more tedious because she had nothing to do.
10. perverse adj. – (perverted, pervert) turned away from what is right or good.
Example: Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Jacaruso, the girl she bullied relentlessly all of eighth grade.
WORK TIME
Continue with our iReady Diagnostic.
TUESDAY 9-20-22 B-Day: Finish iReady Diagnostic
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. Complete your Do Now
DO NOW Using a Google Doc or a page in the vocabulary section of your digital notebook, write a sentence using one of the words in list ten.
Match your birth month with the number of the vocabulary word in List I you must use for your sentence.
Example: If your birth month is May, do vocabulary word #5.
11s = number 1
12s = use number 2
Example Sentence
If fearlessly walking into oncoming traffic wasn't enough, Clara's brazen attempt to cause an accident put her in grave danger.
Power Tip: Use part of the definition of the word in your sentence. See the bolded phrase above.
WORK TIME
Complete your iReady Diagnostic today!
WEDNESDAY 9-21-22 C-Day: Write an Email to Your Teacher
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. Start your Do Now.
DO NOW Periods 1, 6, 9: Google the phrase, Genius Hour, and find one fact you think is interesting about it.
Period 2: Google the phrase, "Good Email Etiquette" and as a group, pick one good tip for writing emails to people.
LEARNING TARGETS 1. I can use good email etiquette to write my teacher an email.
2. I can explain what Genius Hour is.
MINI-LESSON
- Use a salutation.
- Include a specific subject line with your class period.
- Keep it to-the-point.
- Avoid text-speak.
- Sign and proofread.
What Exactly is Genius Hour?
Check out this presentation about Genius Hour for kids.
Here's one for Parents and Teachers.
Student Models
Watch these three awesome Genius Hour Projects from past students who did a great job!
Group Chat
What are some things you learned about Genius Hour after viewing these past presentations?
WORK TIME
DIRECTIONS
You just received your essay back from your teacher. You received a failing grade. You spent hours working on it and you were sure you did a great job. Convince your teacher to reconsider your grade.
SITUATION 2
You missed the deadline for your big project to be turned in. Explain why you missed the deadline and convince your teacher to give you extra time to make up your work.
SITUATION 3
It's one week before the end of the marking period. Your teacher posted the final grades and you are missing four assignments. Convince your teacher to let you make up the work so you can pass the marking period with partial credit.
SITUATION 4
You have an 'F' in English. But your average is 62%. Write an email convincing your teacher that you deserve the opportunity to do an extra credit assignment so you can pass the course and earn those three points!
EMAIL RUBRIC
- A = Included all five suggestions above for a good email.
- B = Included 3-5 of the suggestions from the video.
- C = Included only 1-2 of the suggestions from the video.
- D = Wrote an email but did not follow any of the suggestions.
- F = Did not write an email at all.
ASSESSMENT Turn in your email to Mr. DeGrandis before the end of the period for a classwork grade worth 30 points.
Complete the brainstorming assignment in Google Classroom to help you come up with ideas for your Genius Hour project.
THURSDAY 9-22-22 D-Day: Review Game for Vocabulary List I
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. We will postpone the vocabulary quiz until next week.
3. Are you done with your iReady Diagnostic?
DO NOW Copy the scenarios below into a Google Doc in the Vocabulary Section of your notebook and infer (a guess based on your own knowledge and a text) which vocabulary word it reflects most closely. Write that word on the line provided.
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. It was heaven.
_________________ - Jerrell had been sitting at his 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 Giselle 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. She slowly realized the room was silent and everyone had stopped singing.
LEARNING TARGETS I can review for the Vocabulary List I quiz by playing a review game.
MINI-LESSON
1. What is the format of the quiz?
2. How do you play Around the Room and Back?
WORK TIME
Play the game!
ASSESSMENT Study for the quiz happening tomorrow.
FRIDAY 9-23-22 A-Day: Independent Reading Activity
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. Check your Gmail twice a day - before school and after school.
2. Complete the Do Now.
DO NOW Go to this PadLet and answer the prompt there. We will use this as the basis of a class discussion on Monday.
LEARNING TARGETS I can practice active reading by reading the short story, Of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson.
MINI-LESSON
Some basic info about the story...
Setting
Time - Springtime and Fall in the 1950s
Place - The basement of a house.
Characters
1. Narrator: a "child" who is 8 years old.
2. Mother 3. Father 4. Little Mother - Narrator's sister
Conflict
The narrator wants to get out of the basement.
Climax
The narrator kills his sister's kitten.
Theme
People fear what they do not understand.
WORK TIME
Complete the Active Reading worksheet, Assignment 14.0, in Google Classroom.
ASSESSMENT Turn in Assignment 14.0 and respond to the PadLet in the Do Now!
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