Friday, Dec. 21 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Find 2 courage posts on the blogs of individuals reading a different book than you, read their paragraphs and comment about how your book has a similar type of courage seen, or connect to their para in a different way

}10 minutes reading

}Big Idea writing: Pick 1 comp book to write in

◦Can be about your book club book or another book you have read THIS SEMESTER

◦Pick a Big Idea you think is in the book

◦Write about how your book shows that idea in a way that DOESN’T spoil anything

◦These notebooks will be kept FOREVER by me, and people will read them while looking for a book, while connecting their books to others, etc.

}PSAs: Emma S., Emma D., Abbee

Thursday, Dec. 20 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Suffixes

}10 minutes reading

}Meeting #6

◦Need to do Meeting 6 Individual Report through google classroom

}Make sure your Courage TIQA is posted on YOUR blog

}PSA work time (all need to be shared with/emailed to me by the end of work time/this evening/before class starts tomorrow)

◦DON’T FORGET THE WORKS CITED PAGE!!!

◦I will also collect your rubric when your video is shown (make sure you have it)

Wednesday, Dec. 19 Agenda

With many people gone with choir, we used today as a work day.  Here are some reminders:

}Bell Ringer: Make sure your courage TIQA is posted to your blog.

}Independent reading time –BE PREPARED FOR MEETING 6 TOMORROW

}PSA work time (final class time)

REMEMBER, YOU NEED A WORK CITED PAGE WITH YOUR PSA

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Tuesday, Dec. 18 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}Collect ‘quizzes’

}In book club section/notebook/where you are keeping your annotations: IN LIFE: What factors influence our moral growth? What kinds of experiences help us learn how to judge right from wrong?

}15 minutes independent reading time (track areas of moral growth of your main character; track courage)

◦I will check your annotations for Meeting 5 at this point

}Courage TIQA para

◦Brainstorming types of courage together

◦Write paragraph, making sure to ANALYZE NOT summarize

}Courage: Based on your big idea tracking, explain (in paragraph form) one of the different types of courage that exist in the world and how it has been shown in your book.  You need specific quotes from the novel to use while proving your point.  This should be at least a paragraph in length. I’d suggest the first part of the paragraph should be explaining the type of courage in the world and the second should be that type in the book. (write in paragraph format! TIQA x1 at least!).

}In-text Citation: (Lee 33).

◦When done, post it to your blog –due Thursday

}PSA work time

◦Rubric

◦Videos due Thursday end of block (email links to me)

Friday, Dec. 14 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Suffixes

}Big Idea Paragraph:

◦Pick one of the 30ish big ideas on the sheets taped to the board.  On a document or piece of paper, write that word or phrase, and then explain how the book you are reading shows that big idea. 

–What is your author saying about it based on what is happening/what people are saying/what it makes you think/etc. 

–If you can find evidence to support yourself, that would be great. 

–This should be a longer paragraph in length. 

}15 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc

Social Issue PSA work time

◦At this point you should be working on your script and storyboard (I’d like to see one or the other by the end of the block). Presentations of PSAs begin in less than a week!

◦Works Cited Page (due when you present) so keep track of where your info is coming from

◦Remember, you need images, videos?, audio files, you don’t just want words on the screen (but you do need some words on the screen)

◦USE the RUBRIC to check if you are doing things correctly!!

MEETING #5 ON MONDAY!!!!  Be prepared with LOTS of annotations!!!!  (Big Ideas, WoW, Discussion Questions, etc.)

Thursday, Dec. 13 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Using the Q-chart, make a 7 question quiz on the first half of your book.  Create questions in all parts of the chart (comprehension and discussion); think of ‘teacher-like’ questions that would cover all important aspects of the book so far

}10 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc

}MEETING #4

}Quiz Exchange (due Friday)

}Social Issue PSA work time

◦At this point you should be working on your script and storyboard and/or filming/putting it together

◦Works Cited Page (due when you present) so keep track of where your info is coming from

◦Remember, you need images, videos?, audio files, you don’t just want words on the screen (but you do need some words on the screen)

◦USE the RUBRIC to check if you are doing things correctly!!

Wednesday, Dec. 12 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: 15 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc

}Social Issue PSA work time

◦Next Step: Go through your notes and figure out what your focus is going to be for your PSA –what is something tied to your theme that teens need awareness of?

–Turn things red that you don’t need, highlight what you want to use.

◦Start thinking of what you want to talk about/show/etc.

◦At this point you should be working on your script and storyboard

◦Works Cited Page (due when you present) so keep track of where your info is coming from

◦Remember, you need images, videos?, audio files, you don’t just want words on the screen (but you do need some words on the screen)

◦USE the RUBRIC to check if you are doing things correctly!!

Tuesday, Dec. 11 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: 20 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, etc 

}Read your section

}Track your thinking THOROUGHLY (DON’T JUST WRITE DOWN WHAT HAPPENED)

◦Big Ideas (especially those on the sheet from today)

◦Words of Wisdom

◦PAGE NUMBERS!!! (if not post its)

}Create 2 DISCUSSION questions (lower right corner of the Q-Chart)

}PSA Guidelines

}Scripting and Storyboarding

}Social Issue PSA work time: USE THE DOCUMENT SHARED THROUGH CLASSROOM

◦Next Step: Go through your notes and figure out what your focus is going to be for your PSA –what is something tied to your theme that teens need awareness of?

–Turn things red that you don’t need, highlight what you want to use.

◦Start thinking of what you want to talk about/show/etc.

◦Works Cited Page (due when you present) so keep track of where your info is coming from

◦Remember, you need images, videos?, audio files, you don’t just want words on the screen (but you do need some words on the screen)

◦USE the RUBRIC to check if you are doing things correctly!!

Monday, Dec. 10 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Suffixes

}Online Survey: Go to Google Classroom or my edublogs blog. Click on the “Big Ideas Survey” link.  When you are done answering all questions, pick one of them and write your thoughts about it in your writer’s notebook (at least a paragraph).

}10 minutes reading

}Q-Chart and Epiphanies

◦Epiphany: ‘any situation in which an striking realization allows a problem or situation to be understood from a new and deeper perspective’; deeper thinking; breakthrough; uses the author’s name

}MEETING #3

HOMEWORK FOR MEETING 4

}Read your section

}Track your thinking THOROUGHLY (DON’T JUST WRITE DOWN WHAT HAPPENED)

◦Big Ideas (especially those on the sheet from today)

◦Words of Wisdom

◦PAGE NUMBERS!!! (if not post its)

}Create 2 DISCUSSION questions (lower right corner of the Q-Chart)

Friday, Dec. 7 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Parts (roots)

}15 minutes reading time: Section 3- mark big ideas you are seeing in your reading (use the universal theme sheet if needed)

}PSA Analysis discussion

◦Find the other person who evaluated the same one (assigned)

◦Discuss your notes and figure out what you will say to the whole class about it after we all watch it on Friday

}What should a Public Service Announcement Do/Have/Be?

Homework: Section 3 reading of your book club book (and mark for big ideas); make sure your research notes are done and pick an issue from it to focus your PSA on next week

Thursday, Dec. 6 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Pivotal Moments

–Under your identity chart from yesterday, brainstorm a list of moments, events, ideas, etc that you feel have been important in your life

–Pick the 2 that you feel are the most pivotal (a turning point to who you are today): one that is within your control, one that was not

}10 minutes reading (today we have to only have 10, but if your notes are done for the research, you can read more later)

}MEETING #2

◦Consult the meeting agenda link in Google Classroom (it’s the same link as meeting 1)

}Continue/Finish notes on your theme/issue today notes –you are looking for a specific issue for your PSA… NOTES ARE DUE FRIDAY!!!!

Wednesday, Dec. 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: PSA Analysis

◦Evaluate 5 and 6 together (whole class)

◦Evaluate your assigned # plus a second.  Be prepared to share your answers with a partner (and then the whole class) tomorrow

}10 Minutes Reading Time -make sure you are at where you need to be for meeting #2!!!

}Research Work Time

}Research/Project work time

◦Continue notes, look on your rubric (IDEAS section) if you aren’t sure what to take notes on

◦Work time today, maybe some on Thursday, by Friday you need to be prepared to make your video

◦Finish all Notes: At this point you should be done reading through your sources and writing notes (AS IN DONE WITH STEP 3 ON THE BOARD) If not, FINISH for HOMEWORK

Tuesday, Dec. 4 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Meeting 1/Reading time –if you were gone yesterday, or planned your meeting today, you will have your book club meeting.  If you met yesterday, you have time to read (or work on your notes after 10 min)

}Research/Project work time

◦Continue notes, look on your rubric (IDEAS section) if you aren’t sure what to take notes on

◦Work time today, Tuesday, Wednesday, maybe some on Thursday, by Friday you need to be prepared to make your video 

Monday, Dec. 3 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: 10 Minutes Reading Time (choices: read what is due today/tomorrow, read what is assigned for Thursday, read your choice book)

}WN: Brainstorm ideas for these questions: What is identity? To what extent do we determine our own identities? What influence does society have?

◦Identity Chart

◦“Stories We Tell Ourselves”

–For question 3, consult your identity chart rather than make a new list, and then answer the questions based on your chart

–When you finish the 4 questions, work on your research notes

}Meeting 1

◦See Google Classroom for meeting agenda link

}Research Time

◦Continue notes, look on your rubric (IDEAS section) if you aren’t sure what to take notes on

◦Work time today, Tuesday, Wednesday, maybe some on Thursday, by Friday you need to be prepared to make your video