Friday, March 29 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Act 1 Quiz –All things you’ve written (notes) can be used on the quiz

◦When done, keep the quiz on your desk then read your independent book

}Viewing A1S4 and 5

◦Make sure the notes you are taking are focusing on both similarities and differences and will help you think about WHY directors make the choices they do

Thursday, March 28 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Part Studying (5 min)

}Word Part Test

}A1S4 Translation answers

}Act 1 Scene 5

◦Talk with partner, what does Juliet say at the end of S5 about Romeo/her situation?

◦View the video and use the text on the link in google classroom

}View summary

}R and J Big Question: Who is to blame? Who is responsible for the fate of individuals? (back of Big Ideas sheet)

◦Add to Your Notes

}Big Ideas of R and J sheet –what themes (big ideas, one word or phrase –think of some of those universal ideas from writing the perspective story) are we seeing so far? Brainstorm with neighbor and write them all down

}Act 1 Quiz Tomorrow (Prologue through Scene 5)

◦Study for Quiz (everything discussed or in plot/character details fair game for this)

}Homework: Study for A1 Quiz (make sure you have all notes), comments on blog short stories due tomorrow (beginning of block)

Wednesday, March 27 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Part Study time (5-10 minutes)

}New Movie Scenes 1-3

◦Make sure to take notes (remember you will need them to write your analysis essay test)

}Romeo and Juliet: Act 1 Scene 4

}Discuss Queen Mab speech pg 960 (end), list the seven types of people she visits and what dreams she brings to each

}Scene 4 foreshadowing (translation) pg 961, the assignment is in Google Classroom, work with your table partner

◦how could this show big idea of fate?

}Understanding the Human Experience

◦Reading commenting collaborator’s story on blog

◦Comments due Friday

Tuesday, March 26 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Part Studying

}10 minutes reading

}View Scenes 1, 2, 3: Note sheet

◦What are the differences? (“old” version to the play, “new” version to the play, old and new to each other)

◦What choices do the directors make? Why?

–Choosing a difference and similarity from scene 1 based on the text

Monday, March 25 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Part Studying (test on Thursday)

◦Print out story and bibliography if not turned in (remember to write your theme on rubric)

}10 Min. Reading

}Grab a literature book

}Romeo and Juliet

◦Blank Sheet (keep in RJ section): on one side write “Big Ideas” on the other “Who is Responsible” on the top

–Big Idea Sheet: What are some big ideas that we know will be in it based on the prologue and A1S1?

◦Act 1 Scene 3

–“Day Chart” Sunday #5 –give details

◦Describe Juliet’s nurse (be detailed and specific) and then describe the nurse and Juliet’s relationship (pg 953)

◦Venn Diagram Capulet and Lady C on Juliet’s marriage, add to Sunday day chart

–Discuss

}Staging of Romeo and Juliet

}View Scenes 1, 2, 3: Note sheet

◦What are the differences? (“old” version to the play, “new” version to the play, old and new to each other)

◦What choices do the directors make? Why?

Friday, March 15 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: R&J:

◦Finish Scene 1

–In RJ Section: Romeo’s opinion on love? Quotes from 948 to show

◦Scene 2

–“Day Chart” –fill out Sunday 3, 4

}Writer’s Workshop Time:

}Enhancing Readers’ Understanding

}Need at least 3 images/videos/links posted by Monday

}Finish working on your bibliography or helping others with theirs, working on your story, or reading your independent book.

}Due today or Monday (after break)

}Blog post with 3 pics/videos minimum

}Short story (best draft with theme written on the rubric)

}Bibliography

Thursday, March 14 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: 10 minutes Reading

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Bibliographic Entries: How to

–Bibliography due after break

–Alphabetical order! You DO need to add addresses.

◦Work at whatever step you need to complete (theme tracing, revising for craft/content, revising for editing (and meeting with me), etc. End result: best piece of writing you have ever created)

–Peer Edit and Self Edit as you work toward your final draft

–Work on your next and final draft using my comments and the comments of peers (as well as your own self-editing)

–Post the story to your blog by 8:15 tomorrow morning

}Romeo and Juliet:

◦Finish Scene 1

–Families Video (comprehension check)

–Romeo’s Mental State (what do Benvolio and Lord Montague say?)

Wednesday, March 13 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Final Slide of Word Parts for the quarter

}10 Min Reading

}Day Chart: How to use

}Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scene 1

◦Take notes on what we discuss, there will be a quiz at end of each act

–view family interview

–Who would Prince be today? Pay attention to when he comes into the play. What did he say?

}Writer’s Workshop time

◦Perspective Story Rubric reminder

◦Work on what you need to do to make this story the best piece of writing you have done

◦Third/fourth draft –fluency and general self-edit

–Consider using a computer resource for editing assistance:

–Grammarly.com, slickwrite.com, Easy Bib’s grammar portion, Ginger writer, Turnitin’s purple layer, others?

◦Draft posted on your blog tomorrow –should be at a ‘final’ point

Tuesday, March 12 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Prefixes

}Independent Reading

}Upload your most current draft to the assignment in Turnitin then print off your story (hopefully you have worked on revising it, so it isn’t the same version as last week)

◦Theme tracing –what is your theme? Where is it alluded to? What details build your message? –highlight all pieces of theme as you develop it (think of “The Sniper”)

◦Also use printed copy for editing

◦Once you have highlighted the whole story, bring it back to meet with me

}Writer’s Workshop:

◦Sign up for a conference with me to talk about what you’ve been working on and what you still want to do

–Need to confer with me today or tomorrow

◦Take a look at your first story, identifying some areas of concern with your writing for you to focus on with the current story we are writing

◦Work on REVISING your story (think of the questions from Friday and human experience, what you just brainstormed, etc)

–Remember, part of revising is often DELETING things, not just adding

–Print out draft to edit: use your comma note sheet

◦Universal theme? What are your plans for including it?

◦As you work on your story, our third draft is going to focus on Universal Themes and Fluency

Monday, March 11 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Word Parts

}Large Group Discussion

◦Discussion of Video Preview

}Literary Terms for Romeo and Juliet Notes

◦Iambic Pentameter and Blank Verse

–Syllables

◦Video: Review of John Green video; Rhyme Scheme and Translation (2 videos)

–OP= original pronunciation

}Romeo and Juliet Prologue

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Work on your draft (making it better, starting with the ‘-’ column ideas or other places you know you need to work

◦Conferences with me: you can either share with me what you’ve been working on with revising or share your for revising one of your ‘-’ notes, sign up for a conference/come up to me and we’ll meet on what you are planning to do (and I’ll answer any questions you have)

◦Continuing with Revising, Editing, and working on your story

◦Editing Draft:

–Pink: basic conventions (punctuation (other than commas), capitalization, etc.) fluency

–Yellow: things that are in your editing section: sentence structure (fragment/run-on, comma splice, commas), dialogue format, verb tense, etc.

Friday, March 8 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Character Questions: become the main character from your perspective story and answer the questions on the sheet.  Make sure you answer at least 8 of them; everyone needs to answer #3, #8, #9, #13 and #14.

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Revision Brainstorm Discussion: share a ‘-’ point from your comments

◦Overall issue I noticed: many stories seem like they could just have a few words changed and have an experience that happened here in WI…that’s not our goal…

–The HUMAN EXPERIENCE of an individual in a different country (some things are universal, but many things are dependent on the place you live…SHOW THIS in your story)

}Start fixing your story from an editing perspective as well.  I will be reading through this weekend for that, and you want me to get as far as possible when I hit six highlighted errors. Make sure your draft is shared with me in Drive and titled: Title Editing Draft

}If your story is titled Story Title: EDITING DRAFT, I will read for editing issues

}Discussion of Shakespeare notes from reading and preview videos

}Small group post on Schoology

}Shakespeare Quiz

}Reading Time (when you are done with the quiz)

Thursday, March 7 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}Independent Reading

}Check of “Shakespeare’s World” notes (add more)

}Shakespeare Intro: The info from this, as well as the reading from earlier, can be used for the quiz. Make sure each question has lots of details underneath.  You don’t want one answer, you want lots of ideas from different videos/article. The videos can answer multiple questions and you will want to use info from multiple videos for each question

◦Notes on videos due tomorrow!

}When you finish the video questions, either finish craft draft (if not done yet; it will be late but it will still get comments on it if you upload it) or read your independent book

◦In order for me to read your draft, it must be uploaded to Turnitin

Wednesday, March 6 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}Independent Reading Time

}In Romeo and Juliet Section: Discuss with partner and record notes: What do you know about Shakespeare and/or his works? List anything and everything you can think of about who he was/is, what he wrote, when he wrote, etc.

}“Shakespeare’s World”

◦Read and take notes pg 926-929

◦Take detailed notes as there will be an open notes quiz (after discussion of all notes tomorrow or Friday) –post two pieces of info to the online discussion boards

}Work Time if you finish the reading and notes before we move on:

◦Choices: Work on first draft (uploaded to Turnitin by 7), write the blog post, comment on blog post, read comment, read choice book

Tuesday, March 5 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Independent Reading Time

}Writer’s Workshop: turn on computer

◦Blog Post and Commenting Collaborators

–Narrative Leads: Post the beginning of your story on your blog.  Your Commenting Collaborator will read what you have so far and give suggestions: what narrative leads technique is being used, what can be done to keep reader’s interest, what questions do you have, etc.

◦Work on your first draft.  Remember to think of Universal Theme!!

◦Make sure you are basing what is happening off your research (do more if needed)

◦Once you’ve posted, check your collaborator’s blog, then comment, then go back to your post, read their comments, and get back to work on writing your story

◦First draft (Craft Draft) can be done at the end of workshop time (shared with me through Classroom and uploaded to Turnitin) but is due by tomorrow evening

◦HWK: Work on your first draft, when it is done, write “Name Completed Craft Draft” as the document title on Google Drive and Turnitin: I will only read through drafts that are titled this way

}Homework: Work on draft, uploaded by 7:00 tomorrow (MUST BE TITLED: Name COMPLETED Craft Draft)

Monday, March 4 Agenda

}Bell Ringer: Roots

}First Person Accounts: Mahmoud from Refugee

}Writer’s Workshop

◦Finish any steps that you haven’t (research, notes, etc)

◦Story Map or Plot Chart: you need a plan for your story that covers the main points of a short story (like we made for our last story) (Due end of class today at latest): digital or paper

–Your story must have exposition (setting, characters, internal and external conflict), rising actions, climax, falling actions, resolution, universal theme

◦Get story map checked

}Narrative Lead suggestions (shared)

◦Begin writing your rough draft; consult your notes for details and remember the requirements we talked about!!

◦By the beginning of class tomorrow you should have at least 1/3 – ½ of your draft done

◦Rough Draft due Wednesday about 7pm uploaded to Turnitin (turn it in early if done, I make no promise of work time on it Wednesday though)

◦Work on your first draft over the next few days, when it is done, write “Name Completed Craft Draft” as the document title on Google Drive and Turnitin: I will only read through drafts that are titled this way