Announcements
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- Start your Do Now
DO Now - Copy into Composition Notebook
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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.
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.
_______________________________________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(s)
- I can explain what inferencing is.
- I can use inferencing to determine the purpose of a character in a dramatic scene.
Mini-Lesson: What is Inferencing?
- Watch this video on Inferencing...
- Inference: a thought process a reader makes to understand the meaning of text, or even an image; a logical conclusion.
- When you infer, you pay attention to the details in front of you, and you use other information (from the text, or your background knowledge) to mentally fill in the gaps between the details that are actually said or shown, and what the author expects the reader to understand.
Work Time
- Watch your teacher model a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference to determine the purpose of a character in a scene. Then...
- Divide into groups of 3-4 people.
- Create a skit that requires the audience to draw an inference about the purpose of a character in your scene.
- No words allowed!
- Perform it for the class.
- You will be graded on how well the audience can identify the purpose of the main character of your skit.
How will you be graded?
- A - The audience could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
- B - Some of the class could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
- C - Only a few people could infer the purpose of the main character.
- D - Audience could on guess as to the purpose of the main character.
- F - There was no purpose or the actors did not take their role seriously and laughed throughout the performance.
Assessment / Homework
- Your grade will be determined on how well the audience can use inferencing to determine the purpose of your skits main character.
TUESDAY 9-25 C-Day: Inferencing Part II
Announcements
- Check your Gmail!
- Are you ready to perform your skit?
- Be seated, quiet and working before the bell!
- Check out Google Classroom for an awesome new contest!
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DO Now - Copy
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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.
Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can explain what inferencing is.
- I can use inferencing to determine the purpose of a character in a dramatic scene.
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Mini-Lesson: Review of Inferencing
- Inferencing - coming up with a logical conclusion based on 1) Textual evidence (something you see) and 2) Your own personal experience.
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Work Time
- Finish performing group skits.
- How will you be graded?
- A - The audience could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
- B - Some of the class could easily infer the purpose of the main character of your skit.
- C - Only a few people could infer the purpose of the main character.
- D - Audience could on guess as to the purpose of the main character.
- F - There was no purpose or the actors did not take their role seriously and laughed throughout the performance.
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Assessment / Homework
- How well was the audience able to draw inferences from your skit?
WEDNESDAY 9-26 D-Day: Analyzing Your Classwork and Grades
Announcements
- Check your Gmail!
- Be seated, quiet and working before the bell!
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DO Now - Take the Sentence Structure Challenge
Go to www.quill.org and log in using your Google Credentials! Then, take Sentence Structure Challenge!
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Learning Target(s)
- I can analyze my classwork to understand what I did well and where I need to improve!
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Mini-Lesson: How to Analyze Your Classwork
- Mr. DeGrandis will demonstrate how to read comments and interpret your grades for assignments in Google Classroom and ReadWorks!
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Work Time
- Complete Assignment 16.5 in Google Classroom
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Assessment / Homework
- TURN IN Assignment 16.5 before the end of the period.
THURSDAY 9-27 A-Day: Gallery Walk
Announcements
- Check your Gmail!
- Be seated, quiet and working before the bell!
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9. tedious adj.– (tediously) boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness.
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.
Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth grade.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can draw inferences from graphic textual evidence.
- I can support my inferences with textual evidence from a photo.
- I can participate in discussions about a text with a partner, small group, and the whole class.
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Mini-Lesson: Gallery "Walk"
- Review: Take the Inferencing Quiz in Google Classroom, Assignment 16.0!
- What is a Gallery walk and how does it work?
- A gallery walk is a chance for you to view a text.
- How it works: You have the chance to view a collections of photos and write down details you notice about each one.
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Work Time
- Complete Assignment 17.0 in Google Classroom.
- View each photo for 60 seconds. Your teacher will set a timer.
- Then...
- Record what you notice and wonder about on your chart.
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Assessment / Homework
- TURN IN Assignments 16.0 and 17.0 for classwork Grades!
FRIDAY 9-28 B-Day: DIRT Day
