Announcements
- Check your Gmail.
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
- Period 6: Did you complete your last blog update?
DO Now - Syntactic Substitutions
Open the entry titled Syntactic Substitutions
The TREES strategy is like a... because...
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Learning Target(s)
- I can improve the big ideas of a peer's essay including sentences and paragraphs.
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Mini-Lesson: Peer Review Circles
- Watch this quick video on the Revision Process.
- Review of how to share your essay via Google Docs!
- The Multi-Paragraph Essay Rubric - How to utilize it!
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Work Time
- You will be assigned a Peer Review Group by your teacher.
- FIRST: Share your essay with each person in your group via Google Docs.
- The Process
- Select a Director for the group. Then...
- Select one person's essay to review. This is the Reviewee.
- Everyone should display the Reviewee's essay on their their Chromebook.
- The Director will then read the essay out loud as the group follows along.
- Each person should just listen. Then as the Director read the essay a second time, begin looking for ideas that need changing. Think TREES! (Topic sentences, reasons, good evidence, context for evidence, clear explanations)
- Then, go through the rubric as a group and highlight each part of the essay according to the rubric.
- If the author's essay is missing anything or needs to be improved, the group should help them figure out what needs to be fixed. Remember you are just changing ideas within sentences or paragraphs.
- The suggestions should be made on the essay so that the author can fix them on their own or do it as the team makes suggestions!
- Repeat this process for each member in the group.
- Mr. DeGrandis will be sitting in giving each student a participation grade.
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Assessment / Homework
- Make revisions to your essay based on your group's feedback.
TUESDAY 11-20 C-Day: Editing with Peer Review Groups
Announcements
- Check your Gmail.
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
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Entry Title: Two Words One Sentence
DIRECTIONS: Write a sentence in which you use two vocabulary words from List II in one sentence. It must be clear you understand the meaning of the words by the sentence you write.
DIRECTIONS: Write a sentence in which you use two vocabulary words from List II in one sentence. It must be clear you understand the meaning of the words by the sentence you write.
- Example: The pestilence that made millions upon millions sick for months seemed to sagaciously choose its victims selecting only the extremely poor as victims.
Learning Target(s)
- I can check my essay for mechanical errors (spelling, grammar,and punctuation) and how my essay looks on the page.
- I can correctly submit my essay for grading.
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Mini-Lesson: Editing the Small Stuff
- Watch this quick video on the Editing.
- Review of how to share your essay via Google Docs!
- The Multi-Paragraph Essay Rubric - How to utilize it!
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Work Time
- FIRST: Share your essay with each person in your group via Google Docs.
- The Process
- Select a Director for the group. Then...
- Select one person's essay to review. This is the Reviewee.
- Everyone should display the Reviewee's essay on their their Chromebook.
- The Director will then read the essay out loud as the group follows along.
- Each person should just listen. Then as the Director read the essay a second time, begin looking for ideas that need changing. Think TREES! (Topic sentences, reasons, good evidence, context for evidence, clear explanations)
- Then, go through the rubric as a group and highlight each part of the essay according to the rubric.
- If the author's essay is missing anything or needs to be improved, the group should help them figure out what needs to be fixed. Remember you are just changing ideas within sentences or paragraphs.
- The suggestions should be made on the essay so that the author can fix them on their own or do it as the team makes suggestions!
- Repeat this process for each member in the group.
- Mr. DeGrandis will be sitting in giving each student a participation grade.
EXTRA CHECKLIST ITEMS
- Do you have a catchy title?
- Is every word in the title capitalized (except for small words)
- Did you punctuate evidence correctly? Like this: Ha says, "Mother chooses ten and burns the rest" (Lai 3). Watch the spaces!
- Punctuate citations correctly. Like this: (Lai 3),
- Did you spell the author's name correctly? Thanhha Lai
- Did you italicize the title of the book? Inside Out and Back Again
- No spaces before commas or periods. Always a space AFTER a comma or a period.
- Check titles of poems. They should look like this: "1975: Year of the Cat" OR 1975: Year of the Cat
- When writing a line of poetry in an essay... Ha says, "Mother chooses ten/ and burns the rest" (Lai 3).
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Assessment / Homework
- Check over your essay for final touches!
MONDAY 11-26 D-Day: Final Edits, Publishing and Evaluating
Announcements
- Check your Gmail.
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DO Now - Do This!
Open the Document Titled: Two Words One Sentence
DIRECTIONS: Write a sentence in which you use two vocabulary words from List II in one sentence. It must be clear you understand the meaning of the words by the sentence you write.
DIRECTIONS: Write a sentence in which you use two vocabulary words from List II in one sentence. It must be clear you understand the meaning of the words by the sentence you write.
- Example
The pestilence that made millions upon millions sick for months seemed to sagaciously choose its victims selecting only the extremely poor as victims.
Learning Target(s)
- I can check mine or a peer's essay for final touches before submitting or publishing.
- I can use a rubric to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer's essay!
Mini-Lesson: Final Checklist
- Open your essay.
- Use this final checklist to make sure your essay is of the highest quality before submitting it!
- Title reflects the content of my essay.
- Title is properly capitalized.
- Each paragraph is indented exactly 5 spaces.
- The font is uniform throughout the essay (New Times Roman, Ariel or Calibri only)
- You cited all evidence like this (2)
- Commas and periods are inside any quotation marks.
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Work Time
- Use the above checklist to look for final issues.
- Check out this guide on writing 5-paragraph essays.
- Then... share your essay with two other classmates through Google Docs.
- Use the RUBRIC in the assignment (last two pages) to grade each section of the essay.
- TOTAL EVERY COLUMN AND USE A CALCULATOR!
Assessment / Homework
- None
TUESDAY 11-27 A-Day: Reading the Novel Pages 98-122
Announcements
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- Did you turn in your Who is Ha? essay?
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
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DO Now - Re-titled
Entry Title: RE-titled
Directions: If you could re-title the novel Inside Out and Back Again, what new title might you give the book?
Example: From Saigon to Montgomery
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Learning Target(s)
- I can identify examples of literary elements in the novel, Inside Out and Back Again.
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Mini-Lesson: Quick Review of Three Common Literary Elements
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Work Time
- Open Assignment 34.0 in Google Classroom.
- Use this to capture examples of your favorite literary elements as we read today.
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Assessment / Homework
- Finish reading up to page 122 and complete Assignment 34.0 in Google Classroom.
WEDNESDAY 11-28 D-Day: Quiz Review
Announcements
- Check your Gmail.
- Did you turn in your Who is Ha? essay?
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
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DO Now - Quick Write
Entry Title: Quick Write
- DIRECTIONS
Using the TREES essay structure, write a single paragraph essay in which you describe a challenge Ha and her family face on their way to America. - SAMPLE ESSAY
In the novel Inside Out and Back by Thanhha Lai, Ha and her family have to suffer harsh conditions. This is because they are trying to get to the United States on an overcrowded ship. Ha's family had to overcome the embarrassment of Brother Khoi's dead chick because it smelled so bad. Hay notes, Neighbors complain... saying it's bad enough/ being trapped/ in putrid, hot air... must everybody/ also endure/ something rotten? This proves the family had to suffer harsh conditions because people knew brother Khoi smelled because of his dead chick. Being a family of refugees isn't easy.
Learning Target(s)
- I can review the major events of the novel Inside Out and Back Again by playing a review game.
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Mini-Lesson: Writing Multiple Choice Questions
- The Parts of a good multiple choice question.
- Write your own for a ticket!
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Work Time
- Play Inside Out and Back Again on Kahoot!
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Assessment / Homework
- Study for the quiz tomorrow.
THURSDAY 11-29 C-Day: Take the Quiz, Begin Flash Cards
Announcements
- Check your Gmail.
- Did you turn in your Who is Ha? essay?
- Are you making progress on your 20% Time Project?
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DO Now - None
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Learning Target(s)
- I can recall the majors events of the novel Inside Out and Back Again.
- I can learn new vocabulary words by creating digital flashcards.
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Mini-Lesson: None
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Work Time
- When you finish your quiz...
- Begin your Vocabulary List II Flashcards using Quizlet!
- Open Assignment 35.0 in Google Classroom
- Remember:
- FRONT: The word with a picture
- BACK: Definition, Sample Sentence, Word Family Members
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Assessment / Homework
- Work on your flashcards.
FRIDAY 11-30-18 D-Day: Finish Vocabulary Flash Cards for Vocabulary List II
