WEDNESDAY 1-2-2019 C-Day: What is a Refugee Part II
- Check Your Gmail!
- Next blog update - provide evidence!
- Create links that look like words, not web addresses!
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DO Now - www.Padelt.com
Directions: Go to www.padlet.com and share your thoughts about refugees there.
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Learning Target(s)
- I can explain what a refugee is.
- I can draw inferences from a text about the experiences of refugees.
- I can record details of the refugee experience to use later in my final project.
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Mini-Lesson: What is a refugee?
- ref·u·geeˌrefyo͝oˈjē/noun
- a person or character who has been forced to leave their home in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
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- Listen again to the poem Saigon is Gone. (page 67) Ha is now a refugee. She has left her country to escape a war.
- Think-Pair-Share
What are some textual details you noticed about the conditions Ha must endure? Be prepared to share a response with the class! - What's it's Like to be a Refugee?DIRECTIONS: As you watch the videos below, record at least one detail from each video in the Notice and Wonder Chart in Assignment 43.0 in Goolge Classroom for your Inside Out and Back Again poems!SET 1: These videos are actual refugee accounts narrated by child refugees. Their stories have been animated for clarity and maximum impact on the audience.SET 2: These videos are true stories (factual accounts) from child refugees from around the world...
- Video #1: To Be A Refugee (UNHCR) (8:03 min)
- Video #2: Syria's child refugees: 'You feel that they have lost their hearts' (3:41 min)
- Video #3: DRC's child refugees and victims of war speak out (4:36 min)
Work Time
- Read your notice and wonder chart to your partner.
- Listen while your partner reads their chart to you.
- Compare charts.
- Add at least one new detail to each set of videos from your partner's chart.
- Share at least one new detail from each set of videos for your partner's chart.
- Your completed Refugee Notice and Wonder Chart due tomorrow for a PASS/FAIL classwork grade.
With a partner...
Assessment / Homework
THURSDAY 1-3-2019 D-Day: Intro to Final Project for Inside Out & Back Again
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Are you working on your 20% Time Project? How's It going?
- You have about 14 weeks (about 3.5 months) left before we start planning our Ted-Talks.
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DO Now - Copy
Create a new Google Doc titled Vocabulary List III and copy the following into it...
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.
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Learning Target(s)
- 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.|
- I can create an overview of the refugee character who will be the main character for my Inside Out & Back Again project.
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Mini-Lesson: Introduction to Your Final Project and Creating Your Refugee Character
Create a narrative poem (a poem that tells a story) in the style of Thanhha Lai's narrative poem, Inside Out & Back Again.
The Assignment: 46.0 in Google Classroom
Student Example: See Assignment 46.0 in Google Classroom.
The First Step... Create Your Refugee Character!
The First Step... Create Your Refugee Character!
How to create an interesting refugee character.
Work Time
Assessment / Homework
- Complete Assignment 45.0 in Google Classroom. This will help get you started.
- 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!
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Work Time
- Open Assignment 45.0 in Google Classroom: Creating Your Refugee Character.
- Complete this classwork assignment for a grade. Do not turn it in! You need this to write your poem!
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Assessment / Homework
- This will be due Sunday 11:59 PM.
FRIDAY 1-4-2019 A-Day: 20% Time or Finish Creating Your Character
Announcements
- Check Your Gmail!
- Are you working on your 20% Time Project? How's It going?
- You have about 14 weeks (about 3.5 months) left before we start planning our Ted-Talks.
- Check Your Gmail!
- Next blog update - provide evidence!
- Create links that look like words, not web addresses!
DO Now - None
Learning Target(s)
- I can make progress on my 20% Time Project.
Mini-Lesson: None
Work Time
- Work on Assignment 45.0 OR
- Work on your 20% Time Project.
- Need help? Just ask!
Assessment / Homework
- Assignment 45.0.
