Period 1

Welcome Period 1 to English 10 😎

Wednesday October 14, 2020

WELCOME BACK EVERYONE 🥳

Do Now: Take 3 minutes to type in the chat box 1-3 sentences to describe your Fall Break.

Activity:

  1. Community Ice Breaker: Two Truths and One Lie (All credit towards my Leadership President)

  2. Jamboard: Introduction to Intellectual Safety: Examples and Counter examples

Homework: Bring a blank sheet of printer paper to next class.

Friday October 16, 2020

Do Now: Please answer the Google Classroom Agreement Question to Intellectual Safety.

Activity:

  1. Foldable & Peardeck: Good Thinkers ToolKit

  2. Stimulus for Plain Vanilla Video

Homework: Submit and get your Good Thinker Toolkit question approved by Ms. Benoza for Plain Vanilla by Saturday (10/17) at 11:59PM.

Monday September 21, 2020

Do Now: Type in the chat box who you would like to work with in your peer edit group.

Activity: Group Peer Edit Graphic Organizer

Homework: Look over your peer's edits and consider how to implement their edits in your paper. Be prepared next class to transfer this graphic organizer to a MLA format paper.

Wednesday September 23, 2020

Do Now: Take 10 minutes to look over your peer's edits and make the edits necessary on your Cultural Identity Reflective Graphic Organizer

Activity: Work Period & Lesson Transfer Graphic Organizer to Final Draft

Homework: Final Draft of Cultural Reflective Essay due on Friday September 25, 2020

Friday September 25, 2020

Do Now: Work period on Final Draft of Cultural Identity Reflective Essay

Homework: Have a great weekend 🥳

  1. Complete Final Cultural Idenity Reflective Essay due at 11:59PM TONIGHT

Monday September 14, 2020

Do Now: Take 10 minutes to wrap up your jigsaw slides and be prepared to present.

Activity: Continue Presentations on Part 3 Jigsaw of American Born Chinese

AMERICAN BORN CHINESE EXAM

Homework: None

Wednesday September 16, 2020

Do Now: Take 10 minutes to answer the Padlet posted to your Google Classroom which asks the questions: 1. What culture do you believe has shaped who you are today? 2. What is your best trait that you have gained from the culture?

Lessons:

  1. Ms. Benoza assigns the expectations of Q1: Cultural Identity Reflective Essay.

  2. Sandwich Style: Graphic Organizer for Reflective Essay

Homework:

  1. Complete Reflective Essay Graphic Organizer by the beginning of class on:

    1. Monday 9/21 for Periods 1 & 3

    2. Tuesday 9/22 for Periods 2 & 6

Friday September 18, 2020

Do Now: Work period on Reflective Essay Graphic Organizer

Homework: Have a great weekend 🥳

  1. Complete Reflective Essay Graphic Organizer by the beginning of class on:

    1. Monday 9/21 for Periods 1 & 3

    2. Tuesday 9/22 for Periods 2 & 6

Monday September 7, 2020

NO SCHOOL

Wednesday September 9, 2020

Do Now: Take 5 minutes to think of one word that describes what you learned after filling out your Brainstorm: Cultural Identity worksheet.

Activity: iReady

Reading: Read American Born Chinese (pgs. 133- 160)

Homework due Friday (9/4): Complete reading American Born Chinese Part 3 (pgs. 163- 233)

Friday September 11, 2020 (Odd Period)

Do Now: Seesaw Journal Prompt #3: “Analyze the following quote from American Born Chinese: "It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul." What does it mean to you?”

Activity: Present Jigsaw Part 3 of American Born Chinese

Homework: Have a great weekend

  1. Optional: Study Guide for American Born Chinese Test on Monday (9/14)

Monday August 31, 2020

Do Now: Quizziz American Born Chinese Part 1

Activity: Quick Chat Box and Oral Discussion: Who are the characters?

Activity: iReady Diagnostic

Homework due Wed (9/2): Complete reading American Born Chinese Part 2 (pgs. 55-130)

Wednesday September 2, 2020

Do Now: Type in the chat box what you think the definition of "Hapa" is then start skimming our reading for today, Multiculturalism Explained in One Word: HAPA.

Reading: Multiculturalism Explained in One Word: HAPA

Activity: Padlet Reading Comprehension Questions

Homework due Friday (9/4): Complete reading American Born Chinese Part 2 (pgs. 55-130)

Friday September 4, 2020

Do Now: Seesaw Journal Prompt #2 Which character in American Born Chinese do you relate to the most? Why is that?

Activity: Quizziz American Born Chinese Part 2

Homework due Wednesday (9/9): Have a great weekend 🥳

  1. Complete Brainstorm: Explore your Cultural Identity (Please ask family members if you are struggling with answering the questions).

  2. Finish iReady by September 9, 2020

Monday August 24, 2020

Do Now: EdPuzzle Crash Course Culture (Found on Google Classroom)

Reading: What is Cultural Identity? by Elise Trumbull and Maria Pacheco

Activity: Jamboard: Culture vs. Cultural Identity

Homework due Wed (8/26): SB Activity 1.3: Exploring Cultural Identity (Found on Google Classroom)

Wednesday August 26, 2020

Do Now: Digital Journal Prompt: What are two cultures that you identify with?

Reading: Ethnic Hash by Patricia J. Williams

Activity: Quick Chat Box Discussion on Ethnic Hash & How The Monkey King Came To Be - Journey To The West

Reading: American Born Chinese Part 1 (pgs. 1- 52)

Homework due Friday (8/28): Finish reading Part 1 of American Born Chinese

Friday August 28, 2020

Do Now: Reflection: Google Classroom question (to be posted on Friday 8/28)

Activity: Quick Chat Box Discussion on Ethnic Hash & How The Monkey King Came To Be - Journey To The West

Reading: American Born Chinese Part 1 (pgs. 1- 52)

Homework due Monday (8/31): Finish reading Part 1 of American Born Chinese

Wednesday August 19, 2020

Do Now: 5 minute edits to HW Introduction Journal Page

Activity: Student Introduction Presentations

Go over: Ms. Benoza's Syllabus

Homework due Sun (8/23): Syllabus Scavenger Hunt

Friday August 21, 2020

NO SCHOOL