Vocab Quiz | List 2
Do Next | Studio Time Goal Product + Process: What is your end product? What is your goal today to get to that end product?
Studio Time | (Conclusion of time) Next Steps: What do you need to do next in project development? Exit Slip | Reflection: What HoPs did you work within today? How would you score your progress today (4-1), WHY? Do Now | List 2 Vocabulary.com
Brown Girl Dreaming | Section 1 Read Brown Girl Dreaming as a group. Stop after completing "other people's memory"
Writing Workshop | I am Born poem Student Examples
ThursdayDo Now | Who am I? Parking Lot: Make a list of all the ways we think of identity or all the ways we develop identity. Is there a difference in the way we perceive our own identity versus how others perceive our identity?
Thinking Routine | Parking Lot Recall: Thus far in Brown Girl Dreaming, how does Jacqueline see her identity? Read | “The House on Mango Street”
Home Learning | Explore, Connect, Identify, Belong Open your Perspectives Journal. Create a table that consists of four boxes with the titles listed below. Please respond to the questions in box one and two. Tonight, take sometime responding to box three and four. Take a look around your house, think deeply about a space that means something to you (perhaps your bedroom or your childhood swing set), walk through your community:
FridayWriting Workshop | Explore, Connect, Identify, Belong
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"I am born . . ." Poem Jacqueline Woodson's book, Brown Girl Dreaming, is a "memoir in verse." That means she is telling her own stories—relaying memories about her own life—through the structure of poetry (verse). Write a poem, in 4 stanzas, about the situation of your birth. Each of the 4 stanzas (or sections) must begin with the phrase "I am born . . ." Include these elements to describe your literal and/or metaphorical birth throughout the poem:
Exit Slip | Wrap-up response
Do Now | What's in a name?
Write your name in your Perspectives Journal.
Brown Girl Dreaming | "other people's memory" Read Brown Girl Dreaming as a group. Stop after completing "other people's memory" Exit Slip | Perspectives Journal An important theme in the book is family.
Do Now | Brown Girl Dreaming List 1 Vocab Quiz
Brown Girl Dreaming | "other people's memory" Read Brown Girl Dreaming as a group. Stop after completing "other people's memory" Exit Slip | Perspectives Journal An important theme in the book is family. What does family mean to her? What does it mean to you? DO NOW | See. Think. Wonder. Take a few minutes to examine Norman Rockwell's painting entitled, "The Problem We All Live With" which documents Ruby Bridges' courageous act of desegregation.
What do you see in this painting? (colors, images, perspectives, framing, etc) What thoughts come to mind based on what you see? Art often leaves us in a place of wonder. What questions are you left with? DO NEXT | If your class did not finish sharing research from our google classroom assignment "BGD | Historical Persons Research" yesterday, please do so. STUDIO TIME | "I am born . . ." Poem Today we are going to start writing in our accordion books. Jacqueline Woodson's book, Brown Girl Dreaming, is a "memoir in verse." That means she is telling her own stories—relaying memories about her own life—through the structure of poetry (verse). Write a poem, in 4 stanzas, about the situation of your birth. Each of the 4 stanzas (or sections) must begin with the phrase "I am born . . ." Include these elements to describe your literal and/or metaphorical birth throughout the poem:
TICKET OUT | Share your favorite line from the "I am born . . . " Poem! DO NOW | Watch the video on Jim Crow Laws and Segregation. Identify one human right African Americans were denied because of Jim Crow Laws.
DO NEXT | Open the document BDG | Historical Person Research in Google Classroom. Today you will be given one historical person identified in our new novel Brown Girl Dream by Jacquelyn Woodson. For this research, you will use the Newsela link provided.
Do Now | Vocabulary.com (20 minutes)
Practice list one for Brown Girl Dreaming. Do Next | Story Telling (20 minutes) Write a brief story about yourself—a hobby, an experience, a relationship—using three new vocab words.
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Do Next | Think, Puzzle, Explore Jacqueline Woodson Vocabulary | Brown Girl Dreaming List 1 practice Do Now | Submit your final Nine, Ten website project using the Google Form below. Every student needs to fill out this form, even if they worked in a group. Do Next | Today we will be making accordion books that will be used as personal student journals in our final unit of the year.
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