MP2 - Week 5

   MONDAY  12-12    C-Day:  Project Work Time              

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Study for your vocabulary test happening in a week!

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     DO Now - Copy and Complete             

Entry Title: Matching Vocabulary Words

Directions:  Copy this entry into your composition notebook and complete.

1	accentuate		_____	a person forced to leave their home country
2	aspire		_____	to make noticeable
3	boisterous		_____	to reject someone from a group
4	decorum		_____	found guilty of a crime
5	refugee		_____	to strive for an ambitious goal
6	endure		_____	to make a sudden movement
7	cringe		_____	noisy, energetic, and cheerful
8	alienate		_____	to suffer quietly
9	conviction		_____	etiquette

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can peer review the poetry project for properly formatted dialogue.

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     Mini-Lesson: Identifying Dialogue in Poetry     

 

• Read the excerpt below from the poem Choose (page 106)

...

The man behind us whispers,

Choose America, 

more opportunities there,

especially for a family 

with boys ready to work.

Mother whispers back, 

My sons,

must first go to college.

If they're smart

America will give them

scholarships.

Mother chooses.

July 4

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     Work Time       

 

• Project work time.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Work on your project.  It is due tomorrow!

   TUESDAY       12-13     D-Day: Turn in        Projects           

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Study for your vocabulary test happening in a week!

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     DO Now - Copy and Do    

Entry Title: Word Scramble List III

 Directions:  Copy into your composition notebook and unscramble as many as you can! NOTE: The formatting might be a little weird.

List III Word Scramble

Mr. DeGrandis

cniovotcni
neaeltai
rmoeetsyn
efugeer
cdrneuean
rinceg
dmeourc
rbooseuiyslts
nasaptoiri
eactecatnuc

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can submit my completed Inside Out & Back Again project.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Turning in Your Porject     

 
• Making your project "picture perfect".
• You are turning in two assignments - 16.0 and 17.0!
• Remember - I am grading these as well!  

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     Work Time       

 

1. Put the finishing touches on your project.
2. Check the following...
1. Rubric completed by three peer reviewers!
2. All columns on the rubric are added up correctly.
3. Turn in your project!  Do not share it with me!
4. Turn in Assignment 16.0!

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     Assessment / Homework                     

• • Turn in your completed project.
  • Study for your Vocabulary List III Quiz

   WEDNESDAY   12-14      A-Day:   Vocabulary FlashCards for List III       

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Study for your vocabulary test happening in a week!

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     DO Now - None    

• Finish peer reviewing and revising your project.
• TURN IN BY THE END OF THE PERIOD!
• When done, start your FlashCards.  Note the new format for the cards below!

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can create a study tool for Vocabulary List III.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Review of How to Create Flash Cards        

 
• Flash Card Machine tutorial.
  
  
  
  NEW FORMAT FOR CARDS!
• FRONT:  WORD, WORD FAMILIES & SENTENCE
• BACK:  Just the definition

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     Work Time                                             

 

• Complete all ten cards.

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     Assessment / Homework                       

• • Turn in your cards via Google Classroom.
  • NEW!  Now you can just add the link when you turn in your cards.

   THURSDAY      12-15    B-Day:  Finish FlashCards                          

     Announcements                                    

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Study for your vocabulary test happening next week!

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     DO Now - Think and Do                      

Entry Title: Two Words One Sentence

• Directions:  Write one sentence that uses two vocabulary words and that clearly illustrates the meaning of each word.
• Example:  When one lives a religious and monastic life as a Carmelite nun, one must conduct oneself with a great deal of control and prayerful decorum.

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can share my creative writing with an audience.
• I can create study tools for Vocabulary List III.

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     Mini-Lesson:  Tips for Reading Your Poetry Out Loud        

 
• Watch this clip titled, Doing Poetry Right!

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     Work Time       

 

1. If you have not completed your Vocabulary List III FlashCards and turned in your link, then you should do that while listening to the poetry performances.
2. If you are done and would like to share your Inside Out & Back Again poems with the class, get ready.
3. If you just want to enjoy listening to others poems, you may do that as well.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Study your vocabulary words.

   FRIDAY      12-16    C-Day:   DIRT Day            

     Announcements                                  

• Check Your Gmail!
• Did you TURN IN your final project for Inside Out and Back Again?

     Check Your DIRT Day Entry               

• Capitalize your title correctly.
• Capitalize the author's name correctly!
• Complete 10 Thoughts
• Use complete sentences with proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation!

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DIRT Day Expectations

1. Do the following BEFORE the bell rings…
1. Open your DIRT Day Assignment in Google Classroom.
2. Be in your seat reading.
2. Focus on your reading the entire period.
3. Do not sub-vocalize during DIRT.
4. Complete 10 thoughts using the Active Reading Model by the end of the period. Do more for extra credit.

If You Finish a Book…

In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write a review about your book in 3-paragraph essay format.

Guidelines for the Essay:

• ¶ 1 - title, author and genre of the novel and your opinion of the book (controlling idea).
• ¶ 2 - short summary of the book and include at least two text-based examples from the book
         that support your controlling idea in ¶
• ¶ 3 - explain why you would or would not recommend this book to a friend and where they might be able to find it or purchase it.

If You Forgot Your Book…

• Choose a book from the class library or Mr. DeGrandis will give you one.
• Be sure to bring your book next week.

If You Want to Switch Books…

In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write an Abandon Book Essay.

Guidelines:

• ¶ 1 – title, author and genre of the novel you are abandoning and
          three reasons you don’t like the book (controlling idea).
• ¶ 2 through 4 - Develop each reason using text-based details from the book.
• ¶ 5 - Offer your suggestions for other novels you have read that another student might enjoy.

MP 2 - Week 4

   MONDAY  12-5    B-Day:  Project Work Time     

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Clean out old emails!

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     DO Now - Email Management              

Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate some cool tips to help you keep your Inbox junk-free! 


     Learning Target(s)     

• I can create a narrative poem in the style of Inside Out and Back Again by Tahanhha Lai.

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     Mini-Lesson:   None Today        

 
• Begin working on your project!  Remember tomorrow the first draft is due!

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     Work Time       

 

• Work on your poem(s).

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Your teacher will come around to check your progress to see that you are done.  Remember - it doesn't have to be perfect! You will be revising it several times before the final copy is turned in.

   TUESDAY  12-6    C-Day:  Complete First Draft of Project & Enjambment     

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Clean out old emails!

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     DO Now - Copy               

Entry Title: Enjambment

Enjambment: When a poet continues a thought from one line of poetry into the next line for effect.

• Line Without Enjambment:
  Rolling through the field in the dead of winter.
  
  Line With Enjambment: 
  
  Rolling through the field in the
  dead
  of winter.

Try it:  Color the following lines in green that you think illustrate enjambment?

FIREWORKS (modified for lesson)by Katy Perry

Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
drifting through the wind wanting to start again?

Do you ever feel so paper thin like a house of cards?
You're just one blow from caving in?

Do you ever feel already
buried deep
six feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing?

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can explain what enjambment is.
• I can identify enjambment in poetry.
• I can identify enjambment in my own poetry.

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     Mini-Lesson:  End-Stops and Enjambment     

 
• Watch this video on ENJAMBMENT.
• Demonstration of how to identify enjambment in Inside Out and Back Again. 
• Copy the all the PURPLE TEXT below into today's composition entry on ENJAMBMENT...

Excerpt from BROTHER KHOI'S SECRET  p.85

Brother Khoi stinks;

we can't ignore it.

He stews and sweats

in a jacket

he won't take off.

Forced to sponge-wipe

twice a day,

he wraps the jacket

around his waist.

...

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Excerpt from Last Respects  p.83

...

I don't know them,

so their pain seems unreal

next to Brother Khoi's,

whose eyes are as wild

as those of his broken chick.

I hold his hand:

Come with me.

He doesn't resist.

Alone at the back of the ship

I open Mother's white handkerchief.

Inside lies my mouse-bitten doll,

her arms wrapped around 

the limp fuzzy body of his chick.

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     Work Time       

 

• Go through your poem(s) and fix the lines that should demonstrate enjambment and add end punctuation to those lines that don't.
• Highlight those lines you changes in yellow.

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     Assessment / Homework                     

• • Show your teacher your revised poetry.

   WEDNESDAY   12-7    D-Day:  Peer Review of Projects     

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Clean out old emails!

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     DO Now - Copy                      

Copy the following into Vocabulary List III

9.  conviction n. (convict, -ed, -s, -ing) a firmly held belief;  a formal ruling that someone is guilty of a crime.

It is my firm conviction that all students have the ability to learn and be successful.

10.  monastery  n. (-ed, -s, -ing) the place where a group of nuns or monks work and live either as a group or alone.
Brother Maurice lived in a beautiful monastery on Bolivia for most of his life.

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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can use the peer editing process to improve my poetry.

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     Mini-Lesson:  How to Peer Edit Using Google Docs     

 
• Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate how to...
• Use the rubrics to identify problems
• Share a document
• Make comments on a document.

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     Work Time       

 

• Peer edit one other person's poem(s)

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • None

   THURSDAY  12-8    A-Day:  Complete Review and Make Edits     

     Announcements     

• CHECK YOUR GMAIL!
• Clean out old emails!

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     DO Now - None                   

JUST GET STARTED ON YOUR REVISIONS!



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     Learning Target(s)     

• I can complete my project based on peer reviews and my own revisions.

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     Mini-Lesson:  None     

 
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     Work Time       

 

• Complete your revisions and submit your final project for grading.

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     Assessment / Homework       

• • Turn in your project.

   FRIDAY     12-9   B-Day:  DIRT Day            

DIRT Day Expectations

1. Do the following BEFORE the bell rings…
1. Open your DIRT Day Assignment in Google Classroom.
2. Be in your seat reading.
2. Focus on your reading the entire period.
3. Do not sub-vocalize during DIRT.
4. Complete 10 thoughts using the Active Reading Model by the end of the period. Do more for extra credit.

If You Finish a Book…

In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write a review about your book in 3-paragraph essay format.

Guidelines for the Essay:

• ¶ 1 - title, author and genre of the novel and your opinion of the book (controlling idea).
• ¶ 2 - short summary of the book and include at least two text-based examples from the book
         that support your controlling idea in ¶
• ¶ 3 - explain why you would or would not recommend this book to a friend and where they might be able to find it or purchase it.

If You Forgot Your Book…

• Choose a book from the class library or Mr. DeGrandis will give you one.
• Be sure to bring your book next week.

If You Want to Switch Books…

In an email to Mr. DeGrandis, write an Abandon Book Essay.

Guidelines:

• ¶ 1 – title, author and genre of the novel you are abandoning and
          three reasons you don’t like the book (controlling idea).
• ¶ 2 through 4 - Develop each reason using text-based details from the book.

¶ 5 - Offer your suggestions for other novels you have read that another student might enjoy.