Week 7
Monday | September 30, 2019
Monday | September 30, 2019
Warm Up:
- Create "Week Seven Warm Ups" Heading; list today's date
- In 5+ sentences explain:
- What are your favorite things about the fall season?
Agenda:
- Warm Up (8)
- Community Circle (10)
- Intro. Unit 2 | Reading Fiction (2)
- Entry 14 | Plot Structure (20)
- Character
- Setting
- Conflict
- Climax
- Resolution
- Moral
- Notetaking: Disney Shorts (50)
- First Entry: Teacher Models
- Second Entry: Whole Class
- Third & Fourth Entry: Small Group
HW: none
Tuesday | October 1, 2019
Tuesday | October 1, 2019
Warm Up:
- Under yesterday's Warm Up entry, write today's date.
- In 5+ sentences explain:
- What is the best story you ever read? (It can be a book, a website, a newspaper or magazine…)
- Why was it the best thing? Describe it!!!
Agenda:
- Warm Up (8)
- Complete Notetaking: Disney Shorts (22)
- Reading Survey (10)
- Entry 15 | How to Choose a Just Right Book (10)
- Choosing your Book (30)
- Table Talk: Check in about the Book you chose! (10)
HW: none
Wednesday | October 2, 2019
Wednesday | October 2, 2019
Warm Up:
- Under yesterday's Warm Up entry, write today's date.
- In 5+ sentences explain:
- If you have picked a book - what interests you about it?
- If you have not picked a book - would you consider reading a book that other people in class are reading, so that it’s more like a Book Club? Why or why not?
Agenda:
- Warm Up (10)
- Login: Google Classroom | What is title and author of your book?
- Senior Assembly | Free time
HW: none
Thursday | October 3, 2019
Thursday | October 3, 2019
Warm Up:
- Under yesterday's Warm Up entry, write today's date.
- In 5+ sentences explain:
- If you could throw a surprise party for someone, who would it be and why??
Agenda:
- Warm Up (8)
- Flipgrid: Introductions!! (1 h 22)
- Introduce yourself in 90 seconds or less
- Share the title and author of the book you are reading
- Once you finish, reply back to at least five other students
HW: none
Friday | October 4, 2019
Friday | October 4, 2019
Warm up:
- Under yesterday's Notebook entry, write today's date.
- In 5+ sentences:
- What do you of think Flipgrid? Use interesting vocabulary to describe what you think about Flipgrid.
- How do you think you did on your Flipgrid Introduction yesterday? What did you learn about Flipgrid as you recorded your Introduction?
Agenda:
- Warm Up (10)
- Creating Reading Schedule (20)
- 10 Minute SSR
- Calculate Weekly Reading Schedule, based on SSR
- Flipgrid: Whiteboard Practice | Image of Book (1 h)
- Brainstorm image and description first, on scrap piece of paper.
- Create image in Flipgrid, using Drawing Tool.
- Using Text Tool, add title of book and the author to your image
- Once Steps 1-3 are complete, record your voice, speaking over the image and include:
- A greeting and your name: "Good morning! Ms. Elahi here."
- Description of image: use interesting vocabulary: "Blue waves symbolize the water and yellow lines represent the earth."
- A closing: "Thank you! Hope you enjoy it!"
HW: none