Friday, May 31, 2019

Friday, May 31 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop time
Peer Editing if you choose (through Turnitin)
Writer’s Workshop Time
Follow directions on the document I shared with you in Classroom called “Steps to have a complete paper”
Paper needs to be printed out, DOUBLE-SPACED, two sided, MLA format, rubric paper-clipped to front, work cited page is last page
Paper collected beginning of block Monday (use these 40 minutes WISELY)
}The Odyssey
How is Odysseus demonstrating Epic Hero characteristics?
Discuss notes from “Cyclops” and finish story
“Circe: Grace of the Witch” p1124
}Introduce Odyssey Children’s Story –story due Thursday!
Children’s book assignment due 6/6 (presenting to the class)
We’ll have more planning time on Monday

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Thursday, May 30 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Study Word Parts (prefix/suffix list): Test Wednesday of next week/Word Part study time (root list)
}The Odyssey
Read “The Lotus Eaters” section: take notes on story map/timeline of what happens (who, where, how) and how you see any epic characteristics.
Read The Cyclops pg 1112: notes on story map (details of event) and how it shows epic characteristics, specifically epic hero
https://goo.gl/2P2QWv (we stopped reading on page 35 of the PDF)
}Writer’s Workshop
Upload peer revision if choosing to use this opportunity
Finish rough draft (if you still haven’t)
Revise and edit your own work (can be based on peer revision)
Meet w/ me about summary vs. analysis highlighting or other concerns
Work on making this the best thing you’ve written
Paper Due end of work time Friday/Monday
If you want to do a peer revision, upload it to the peer revision assignment in Turnitin by 3:40 today

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Wednesday, May 29 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Explain Summary vs Analysis highlighting then Odyssey Intro Quiz
}Writer’s Workshop:
Summary vs. Analysis Highlighting
print out body paragraphs and highlight for your conference with me (use 2 different color highlighters, one for summary and one for analysis, use the sheet you got Friday to help you determine the difference)
Finish rough draft (if you still haven’t)
Revise and edit your own work (can be based on peer revision)
Meet w/ me about summary vs. analysis highlighting
Work on making this the best thing you’ve written

            ◦You need to aim for 30% summary/textual evidence and 70% analysis and original               opinion/thought
Intro Examples (shared with you)
Works Cited page reminder (only one entry –the book)
Conferring –if you need to confer with me and already have, we can. If you haven’t met with me about summary vs analysis, you MUST
Self-edit
Peer-edit with someone you trust (and use the peer revision option in Turnitin)
Revising Ideas:
Print out your draft, read the last sentence first, then the second to last, and so on.  This allows you to focus on the structure of the sentence rather than the content of information.
Share your document with a peer you trust, have them comment on it.
Write your thesis next to each chunk of analysis, helping you make sure that the analysis is directly related to your thesis.

Paper Due Friday/Monday
}Odyssey:
Epic Posters
Epic Characteristics Review, Archetype review (do you have notes sheet?)
Timeline/story map notes
Read all italicized information on pages 1104-1112 as a class (in the online text -in Classroom- it is 1204-1212).  While reading take notice of how epic characteristics are shown, what happens in the plot (on timeline/story map)

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Tuesday, May 28 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Final Slide Word Parts
}10 Min Independent Reading or finish epic poster
}Start The Odyssey  -grab lit book
Present epic posters
Notes on Odyssey background –read 1088-1089, 1091, take notes on info about The Illiad, The Odyssey, Odysseus, and how gods intervene
Link to online text: https://goo.gl/2P2QWv (page 4 and 5)
}Writer’s Workshop (40 min)
Whole paper rough draft should be done
Stronger analysis examples
If your body paragraphs aren’t done, you need to work on them
If your intro isn’t done, you need to work on it
If your conclusion isn’t done, work on it (full rough draft should be done already)
Conferences on summary vs. analysis and Turnitin comments
SELF-EDIT!!!!!
Reminders:
In-text citation, Intro, and Conclusion Reminders: Document shared with you
MLA format –you have a handout on this, make sure your paper follows it

Friday, May 24, 2019

Friday, May 23 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Summary vs. Analysis
Read through this.  Make sure to think about these ideas while writing/finishing your body paragraphs
}Writer’s Workshop (40 min)
Intro and conclusion notes (shared with you)
Whole paper rough draft done by Tuesday (if you get the intro and conclusion done today, great)
In-text citation, Intro, and Conclusion Reminders: Document shared with you
**If you have a first draft (at least all three body paragraphs) done, begin working on your intro and then conclusion.  If you are done with everything, start editing and revising your draft –upload what you have at the end of the block unless you are going to work on it after school
MLA format –you have a handout on this, make sure your paper follows it
}Epics: A long narrative poem recounting actions, travels, adventures, and heroic episodes (write this on your notes chart I gave you)
Based on the information you have read in the chart, brainstorm any stories, movies, books, etc that you know of that could fit into this definition (write these down on the same notes sheet)
}Using the ideas you just brainstormed, make a Quick Epic Poster –not quality art, just sketches and labels
With partner/group of three pick a book, movie, series, etc. that you both know and then create a poster that shows why you feel it is an epic by coming up with a detail from it to fit into each section from the epic notes sheet. 
For each category, write a few different ideas but choose one to illustrate (see example)
}More Writer’s Workshop –when you finish your poster
If your body paragraphs aren’t done, you need to work on them
Work on your intro and conclusion (full rough draft should be done by Tuesday)
You need a body draft uploaded to Turnitin ASAP (the earlier you do this, the more time you have for revisions)

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Thursday, May 23 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Meeting #7
}While you meet, I will be listening to you AND checking outlines
}Writer’s Workshop time: topic sentence and body paragraph reminders
Outline check: make sure you used the template in Classroom that is already shared with me
Topic Sentences and body paragraphs –on the shared document
In-text Citations: after every quote, no comma, period AFTER the citation NOT BEFORE!
Work time on Paper: first thing, write your thesis (revise it if necessary) as the first sentence on your draft
Body paragraphs rough draft due tomorrow end of work time or earlier

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Wednesday, May 22 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Suffixes
}Analysis paper assignment –a THEME connected to: any big idea more in depth (THEME), any idea examined by your group or you as an individual, any quote, life lesson, real world parallel, etc
}Outline Review: Outline is due beginning of block Thursday
Main Ideas
Textual Evidence: 3-6 final, continue finding as many as you can to start, then begin to narrow:
Things that can be ANALYZED –they don’t say EXACTLY what you are trying to say, but you read between the lines and infer and interpret to get to proving your thesis (you may even think of modifying your thesis after you have finalized your pieces of evidence)
On Outline: Need thesis and at least three main ideas/points with three quotes (minimum) by mid block tomorrow
On Thursday (middle of block LATEST), you should be done with your outline (or at least body paragraph portion) and starting to write your body paragraphs.  If you are at this point earlier, complete the rest of the outline (intro and conclusion) and then start the fourth and fifth steps (topic sentences and paragraphs (rough drafts))
}Independent Reading (10 min): tomorrow is the LAST meeting

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Tuesday, May 21 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Thesis form (linked in classroom)
}Independent Reading time: 10 minutes –make sure to mark big idea evidence!!!
}Discuss Big Idea Textual Evidence
}Thesis Answers
}Analysis paper assignment –a THEME connected to: any big idea more in depth (THEME), any idea examined by your group or you as an individual, any quote, life lesson, real world parallel, etc
Big Ideas and Messages (what you highlighted)
Textual Evidence: 3-6 final, find as many as you can now
Things that can be ANALYZED –they don’t say EXACTLY what you are trying to say, but you read between the lines and infer and interpret to get to proving your thesis

Homework: Potential Evidence Identified; Read for Meeting #7 (finishing the book)

Monday, May 20, 2019

Monday, May 20 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Roots
}Brainstorming Messages from your novel –on Google Classroom
Highlight big ideas, add messages to at least 5 (creating themes); turn in when done
Theme example: Isolation (highlighted big idea): Individuals who are forced into isolation fear reentry into society.
}Independent Reading time: 10 minutes
If you finish your book club book, you need to find a new one (or go back to one you were reading before) for the last few weeks of the semester
}Meeting #6
}PSAs –if you haven’t sent me yours DO IT BEFORE YOU START READING
PSAs I have received: 
Heather, Izzy, Sam, Jacob, Blake, Aidan, Cavin, Chase, Luke, Lexie, Molly, Connor, Jordan, Kate, Dawson
Sarah C., McKayla, Cate, Hanne, Will, Brody, Sayde, Sarah D, Aaron, Tiffany, Cashton, Alexis, Carson, Keegan

Friday, May 17, 2019

Friday, May 17 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
}15 minutes reading
Make sure you have finished your Big Idea Comp Book para as it’s due
When annotating, mark specific places where big ideas are seen!!
}Final class time for PSA work (all need to be shared with/emailed to me by the end of work time)
Don’t forget your works cited page
If you don’t remember what is needed for each entry, use the works cited google slide linked in Classroom (in the Writing category)
}Meeting 6 on Monday, make sure you have reading and annotations done

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Thursday, May 16 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Suffixes
}10 minutes reading
}Meeting #5
Need to do Meeting 5 form through google classroom
}Make sure your Courage TIQA is posted on YOUR blog
}PSA work time
DON’T FORGET THE WORKS CITED PAGE!!!
If you don’t remember what is needed for each entry, use the works cited google slide linked in Classroom (in the Writing category)
I will also collect your rubric when your video is shown (make sure you have it)
We will have about 45 minutes tomorrow to work on the PSA

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Wednesday, May 15 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Begin brainstorming any current issues or events that you can relate to or connect to your book.  You should have a list of at least 5 to share with your group during Meeting #5 (TOMORROW)
}Courage TIQA para
Brainstorming types of courage together
Write paragraph, making sure to ANALYZE NOT summarize
When done, post it to your blog –due Thursday
}Make sure your courage TIQA is posted to your blog.
}Independent reading time –BE PREPARED FOR MEETING 5 TOMORROW
}PSA work time (final class time is Friday)
Remember, you need a work cited page for your PSA!!

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Tuesday, May 14 Agenda


}Bell Ringer: Roots
}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?
Definition of Moral: concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character.
}15 minutes reading -look for big ideas, WoW, discussion question topics, answer quiz questions if you haven’t, comp book para (big idea), etc.
(track areas of moral growth of your main character; track courage)
}Hand back ‘quizzes’ and correct what your peer answered on the questions you created
}PSA work time
Rubric
PSAs will start being shown on Friday (volunteers??)
Videos due Friday end of block (email links to me)

Monday, May 13, 2019

Monday, May 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
Follow-up questions are good (what do you think AND WHY?)
}10 minutes reading –remember, comp book paragraph (big idea) is due Friday
}MEETING #4
}Quiz Exchange (due Tuesday)
}Social Issue PSA work time
At this point you should be DONE working on your script and storyboard (If you didn’t show me them Friday, do it now). Presentations of PSAs begin in less than a week (end of this 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!!