Post date: Sep 8, 2014 2:41:10 PM
Monday, 9/8: Hi! Welcome back!
Click HERE to submit your reading questions for today!
Discuss strongest/most challenging question in small groups.
General feedback/questions
Click HERE to get to the narrative plot structure, which we'll be discussing in class today!
If time: start reading section 2 (up to p. 35)
h/w: read 16 - 35; do matching questions as assigned before.
Tuesday, 9/9: Back for more!
DOG #3: basic to better. If you haven't shared it with me yet, do it by using the submission link above.
Discussion and work with the reading: complication/rising action: what is it?
h/w: read the first part of section 3 (36 - 51) and do the accompanying questions
Wed., 9/10: Advisory, remember! Shortened Schedule!
Process reading: discuss what you're noticing: and: plot highs and lows!
h/w: read second part of section 3 (51 to 62) and do those questions.
Thurs, 9/11: 9th gr. Parents' Night at . . . 6:30?
DOG #4: We are making progress!
PROCESSING!
h/w: this is an amazing chapter: section 4, p. 63 - 79; do questions, too: but mostly, pay attention to the structure and detail. It's AWESOME!
Friday, 9/12: Did we make it? Are we having snacks?
A writing practice piece: let's make a thesis!
Check out some helpful links if you'd like : Part I and Part II
DISCUSSION OF Ms. LEAMON'S FAVORITE CHAPTER!
h/w: If we don't have time during class (ahem!), please watch at least the Part I video above. Last chapter you'll read. . . section 5, 80 - 94, and the questions. If you can manage it, hold off on reading the final chapter and we'll read it in class together. If you want to go ahead, do so, but don't tell anyone what happens.
NOTE: for those of you who like to work ahead: your processing questions, plot or thought, will be due, finalized, on Wed. 9/17. If you are done earlier, that's fine, but you should be done by Wed. unless we have discussed extended time for you!
Syllabus for first week of school: Tues, Sept. 2 - Friday, Sept. 5
Monday, 9/1: NO SCHOOL! LABOR DAY! GO THANK A WORKING PERSON!
Tuesday, 9/2: Parent letter ; name recheck; DOG #1: PLEASE NOTE: To save for use, go to FILE>Make a copy... to save this form to your Google Drive and use as your organizer. Please do not edit this original form.
Start reading "Breakfast". . .
h/w: Signed info sheet from parent letter due back by Friday, Sept. 5; finish "Breakfast" if necessary; processing questions for 9/3.
Wed., 9/3: 30 minute advisory schedule:
Quick input on your reading skill/enjoyment/speed
Reading activity (CLOZE)
Process "B'fast,". . . .
Work on the questions in groups/share out
Steinbeck quote: "I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962.
Discuss!
h/w: no homework.
Thurs., 9/4: DOG #2:
Steinbeck scavenger hunt, if time. . . .
DustBowl activity. . . Great Depression lesson
Video excerpt
Process
Hand out/sign out books
Decide on format
h/w: OMM; read first section 1 - 15 FOR MONDAY. . . .
Friday, 9/5:
Hand back "Breakfast" questions: quick insights
Present options for the questions: plot/thought
Plot questions are appropriate for students who are developing readers looking to practice their reading skills and awareness of specific details;
thought questions are appropriate for students who are already confident readers who notice and discuss the abstract ideas in what they read and can provide specific details to back up their observations.
word game. . . .
Check in writing summing up the week.
h/w: OMM; read first section 1 - 15 and complete assigned processing questions (plot or thought) FOR MONDAY. . . .
Here are the plot questions.
Here are the thought questions!
Please remember to save a copy with your name in the title!!
Have a great weekend, and rest up for the FIVE DAY WEEK TO COME!