Do Now | What do you need to do to complete your annotated paragraph?
Reading | Read or listen to the next character section in Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story. Reading Log | After you have finished the section, update your reading log in Google Classroom.
Vocabulary | Still time remaining in class? Practice List One on vocabulary.com Do Now | Habits of Collaboration Collaboration is an essential part of the professional environment.
What is one specific thing your group will do today to positively collaborate? From Friday | All members of your groups, open the website you created yesterday. Today we will be setting up the mandatory components of the website. On the right side of the screen, you are going to add Pages to the website. 1. Cyberjournal: this the page where you will write your individual analysis of Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2. Research: this the page where you will publish your annotated notes 3. Creative Writing: this is the page where you will publish your creative pieces inspired by the book and research Designated Roles | Before you begin today's research, assign each member of the group a designated role to fulfill during today's research time. While each of you will have a specific role, you will still all read the article and work together to create an annotated paragraph on your Research page.
Research | Open Newsela Under assignments, find the assignment titled How U.S. defines terrorism.
Thinking Routine | Reporter's Notebook Open Google Classroom. As you read or at the conclusion of the article, complete the questions in the assignment Nine, Ten| Terrorism Reporter's Notebook. Each person must complete this thinking routine; however, if you may choose to complete it together as a group. These questions become the foundation of your annotated paragraph.
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DO NOW | Two-word Carousel In your ELA notebook, create an adjective/noun combo that start with consecutive letters of the alphabet (eg. Slippery Teacher or Outrageous Pumpkin, Fluffy Georgia, Careful Death). Remember, an adjective is a describing word that describes some physical (slippery, fluffy) or non-physical (outrageous, careful) characteristic of a noun—a person (teacher), place (Georgia), thing (pumpkin), or idea (death). If you are having fun with it, come up with two our three combos.
Now, LET'S CAROUSEL! DO NEXT | ~The Naming of the Groups~
SHARE OUT | Come back to the main meeting room to share your magnificent group names with the world. WEBSITE CREATION | Ms. Degenhardt & Mr. Neave will demo how to create a google site. Then . . .
TICKET OUT | Have you completed your personal interview? How did it go? Are you planning to do another one? Do Now | Quick Jot What is one thing you learned about a character yesterday? Random selection, be prepared to respond. Reading Log | Finish yesterday's reading log as a group with specific details from the novel. If you can't remember ANYTHING then you must re-read the chapter 9/9. Reading | Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story read 10 pages
Open Google Classroom
Reading Log | Fill out the remainder of the chart INDEPENDENTLY
Vocabulary.com | Spend time on List 1 of Nine, Ten vocabulary REMINDER | There Then, Here Now thinking routine
Do Now | Who will you interview for you There Then, Here Now thinking routine?
Reading | Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story read pages 1-19 Open Google Classroom
Reading Log | Fill out the remainder of the chart
Vocabulary.com | Spend time on List 1 of Nine, Ten vocabulary Exit Slip | Which character are you most interested in learning more about from the book? Why? Do Now | Parking Lot
This week you interviewed your teacher about their memory of 9/11. You captured in the interview in the There Then, Here Now thinking routine, which you will also do for your individual interview; however, there are other ways to capture an interview if you don't have confidence in your typing skills.
Writing | Annotated Paragraph Today you will be given the groups that you will be working in for your final project. Once you have been told your group members, you’ll be put into a breakout room for you to work together to create an annotated paragraph based on your interview with your teacher. One person create a Google document and share with the rest of the group. In this document you will create an annotated paragraph detailing the information you learned from the interview.
Do Now | Review the interview notes from Tuesday's interview.
Interview | Complete the interview questions and notes that you didn't get to on Tuesday. Exit Slip | Who do you want to interview? Step 1: Open Google Classroom. Click on the assignment Nine, Ten | There Then, Here Now. Next open the Newsela article from yesterday. Answer the first row of questions based on information from the article. Step 2: Choose to be a Scribe or an Interviewer. Interviewers will ask their teacher questions from the There Then, Here Now thinking routine. The Scribes will record their answers in the group document. The document will be presented to the group as whole to see. Step 3: Ask the person you would like to interview if they would be willing to participate in this interview. Remember that 9/11 is a fairly recent event and there is still a lot of hurt and pain associated with it. As the interviewers ask the questions, the scribes should be documenting the responses.
Exit Slip | What is one thing you noticed or learned about the interview process? Do Now | Quick Jot
Where were you on 9/11? Just kidding. Your teachers know you were not alive, but 9/11 is one of those events that most people around you remember vividly. Respond to the questions below in a quick jot and prepare to share with the group.
Research | Newsela Article Read the article, A History of the 9/11 Attacks in Newsela.
Exit Slip | What is one new thing you learned about 9/11 that you did not know before you read the article? *ANNOUNCEMENT | If you need a Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story, Mr. Neave will be at school tomorrow after 10 a.m. Please arrange to pick up a book with him by sending him a professional email or hangout. Do Now | Open the assignment Grammar 101 | The Giver Review. Today we are going to discuss how your English teacher gives feedback on your writing, what you should do with that feedback and then practicing using the feedback.
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Complexities Now you practice writing your own review paragraph
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