Do Now | Silent Reading + Reading Log
Analysis | Conflict Conflict is the major obstacle the main character must overcome within the novel in order to find personal success in their life. Sometimes this obstacle is another character like Harry Potter needing to defeat Lord Voldemort. Sometimes this obstacle is internal, forcing the main character to overcome their own mind like Aza in Turtles All The Way Down needing to gain control over her obsessive compulsive disorder. Sometimes this obstacle is the physical world like in the Ship Breaker series where the many characters must overcome the deteriorating, war-torn world around them full of flooding and hurricanes.
Exit Slip | Hotspot thinking routine Do Now | Professional Email Create a new email using our professional email standards. The email should include the following information:
Do Next | Character Analysis Select one character from your novel. Answer the following two questions on the note card handed out at the door as preparation for discussion:
Visual Analysis | See, Think, Wonder Individually consider the image. Quick jot your responses to the See, Think, Wonder thinking routine in preparation for discussion.
Inferencing | PostSecrets
Description In November 2004, Frank Warren printed 3,000 postcards inviting people to share a secret: something that was true, something they had never told anyone. No two secrets are identical, but every secret has a story behind it. Directions Construct a secret from the perspective of a character in your novel that connects to the conflict you identified in this week's thinking routine, Hotspots. Create a secret that is associated with the conflict. This secret has to be realistic! It has to be "prove-able" using evidence from the novel! For example, it wouldn't make any sense for Lev's secret in Unwind to be that he is in love with Risa. There is no evidence to support such romantic thoughts. HOWEVER, there is evidence that perhaps Connor did think of her as more than just a friend. So maybe Connor's secret would be "You make me want to be a better person. I want to make a better world for you." Steps:
Do Now | Writing Workshop
Finish your CJ | Setting + System. Send professional email to Ms. Degenhardt. If you have done so, please proceed on to the Do Next and then to Silent Reading + Reading Log. Do Next | Studio Time Step One: Skyward Check, complete the following checklist. If you have a passing grade for the assignment, record the grade on the line and put a check in the box. If you have a zero or a one on the assignment, put that grade on the line but do not put a check in the box. A zero means I DO NOT have the assignment. Complete the assignment and send me a professional email with the assignment linked. Then check it off the list. If it is a one, it means that you have submitted your work but there is not enough to pass and you must finish the work. When it is finished, send me a professional email with the assignment linked. Then check it off the list. Assignment Name, Grade (check box if there is a passing grade)
Silent Reading + Reading Log
Exit Slip | Turn the slip of paper with the assignments in. Ms. Degenhardt will use this to conference with you on Wednesday. Do Now | Silent Reading
Read for 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes for reading log completion Reading Log This reading log is to be kept in your ELA folder. Today we will find and organize all of our class folders in order to do this. If you do not have a class folder, you will need to get one out of the supply closet with the teacher. Your independent reading book will also go in your folder. Not having it in class is not acceptable.
Connections | How does a character in your novel challenge the system? Writing Workshop | Setting + Systems System: A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. Construct a new cyberjournal on the Blog page of your Reading Portfolio. In this blog post, consider the setting and system of your novel in order to better understand how its society works.
Professional Publication | Email Last week your completed your first cyberjournal entry for independent reading. This cyberjournal utilized the Perceive, Know, Care About thinking routine to analyze characterization. Today you will formally submit your writing through a personal email to your teacher.
Do Now | Pick a card from the center of the table that you think most closely represents a setting or system within your novel. Provide an explanation for the class. Writing Workshop | Setting + Systems System: A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. Construct a new cyberjournal on the Blog page of your Reading Portfolio. In this blog post, consider the setting and system of your novel in order to better understand how its society works.
Writer's Conferences | Rubric Review
During the writing workshops, teachers will be pulling individual writers to review your Characterization Cyberjournal using the rubric.
Professional Publication | Email Last week your completed your first cyberjournal entry for independent reading. This cyberjournal utilized the Perceive, Know, Care About thinking routine to analyze characterization. Today you will formally submit your writing through a personal email to your teacher.
Script 1 | Today we will be observing a courtroom scene and filling out the discussion questions based on your thoughts of what you heard in the scene. Before we begin, we will need one volunteer to play Sarah Good.
This particular scene takes place during Colonial times, 1692. Observe Courtroom Scene 1. Discussion Questions:
Script 2 | For script 2, we will need some additional volunteers to play:
Discussion Questions:
Do Now | Silent Reading
Read for 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes for reading log completion Reading Log This reading log is to be kept in your ELA folder. Today we will find and organize all of our class folders in order to do this. If you do not have a class folder, you will need to get one out of the supply closet with the teacher. Your independent reading book will also go in your folder. Not having it in class is not acceptable.
Mix n' Mingle | What is your favorite part of your Parts, People, Interactions from Thursday? What is your favorite part of the characters in the novel? Finish + Submit Analysis | Parts, People, Interactions Open Google Classroom (the printer is currently not working). Open the assignment Independent Reading | Parts, People, Interactions (setting analysis) NOTE: thinking routine is do at the end of class on Tuesday Setting: setting is the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place, but it is also the social situation that the characters have to deal with
Do Now | Silent Reading
Read for 25 minutes followed by 5 minutes for reading log completion Reading Log This reading log is to be kept in your ELA folder. Today we will find and organize all of our class folders in order to do this. If you do not have a class folder, you will need to get one out of the supply closet with the teacher. Your independent reading book will also go in your folder. Not having it in class is not acceptable.
Analysis | Parts, People, Interactions Open Google Classroom (the printer is currently not working). Open the assignment Independent Reading | Parts, People, Interactions (setting analysis) NOTE: thinking routine is do at the end of class on Tuesday Setting: setting is the location and time frame in which the action of a narrative takes place, but it is also the social situation that the characters have to deal with
Do Now | Silent Reading (only 15 minutes, no reading log due!)
Do Now | Everybody Who Activity Today we will learn more specifics about each other's books by playing Everybody Who. Make it a nice wide circle. Any student who feels he/she could also truthfully make that statement about their book will stand up and find a new chair. The person without the chair will start the process again by saying something that is true about their book.
Connections
What have you learned about a character in your book? I will begin this activity by stating something I have learned about a character in my novel. Every student in the room must make some connection. When you have a connection, stand next to the previous person, state your connection and explain how, from your novel, you made this connection. |
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