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Class Notes
If you are absent, please check here for what we did in class. We are always working and completing important work that grows your skills and knowledge. YOU are responsible for making up any missing assignments. Please email me, schedule an intervention in English, or see me during nutrition break if you have any questions.
January 12:
Today:
Block 2 finished up their annotations.
Block 4 watched a video to help conceptualize the research they finished on the historical context of JFK's "Inaugural Address". Students also began the process of reading, annotating, & analyzing the speech.
January 9:
Today:
Block 2 watched a video to help conceptualize the research they finished on the historical context of JFK's "Inaugural Address". Students also began the process of reading, annotating, & analyzing the speech.
Block 4 began their research of the historical context of JFK's "Inaugural Address".
January 8:
Today students took notes on the "Rhetorical Situation" and filled in an example graphic organizer in their notebooks. Students then filled out another graphic organizer, filling in the rhetorical situation presented in the "Gettysburg Address." Students wrote a 5-8 sentence paragraph explaining the "Gettysburg Address" and turned it in.
Block 2 had time to begin researching the historical context of JFK's "Inaugural Address".
Block 4 completed the notes in the right hand column of the "Gettysburg Address" with the actions of what Lincoln was doing through his speech.
January 7:
Today students finished their articles.
We began our first ELO focussed unit, with the ELO, "Reading: Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning". Students took notes on Metacognition and then again while I demonstrated what that looks like to use metacognition while reading the first paragraph in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Students then worked with partners and annotated the next two paragraphs using those metacognitive techniques. They then summarized each paragraph on the left margin of their paper.
Block 2 completed the question set for homework.
Block 4 just got through the left hand margin summaries.
January 6:
Today students logged into Google Classroom, took a short survey, then completed their Random Autobiographies.
Ms. Millard assigned a foundational skills assignment; students swapped random autobiographies and wrote a news article about the student whose autobiography they received.
January 5:
Introductions
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