Learning Target:
- Use a Venn diagram to identify similarities and differences
- Cite examples from the text to support your ideas
Work Collected:
- Weekly reading for 11/24 (via Google Classroom)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Finish ch. 3
- Outsiders parent permission slip
Summary of Class:
- Read for fifteen minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Review The Outsiders calendar and due dates
- Groups: Venn diagrams
- similarities and differences among Socials and greasers
- HW: Read at least ch. 3 over the weekend
Learning Target:
- Meet the characters of The Outsiders
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 90 mins. (weekly goal due Tuesday)
- The Outsiders: finish ch. 1 and 2
- Give your parents The Outsiders letter
- Handouts: The Outsiders book, bookmark, and worksheet
Summary of Class:
- Materials for The Outsiders: book, bookmark, and worksheet
- Review reading signposts (on bookmark)
- Listen to chapter 1
- HW: Finish ch. 1 and 2 for Tuesday
- Check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
Learning Target:
- Listen to other themes for a text and how they are developed throughout the story
- Use context clues to determine the meaning of slang words from the 1960s
Work Collected:
- Theme t-charts
- Formative assessment: Note card with theme information
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Give your parents The Outsiders letter
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Groups essays
- Read through yesterday's draft and add transitions
- Share out to the class
- Turn these in with each person's t-chart worksheet
- Notecard: reflect on group work + define "theme"
- Introduction to The Outsiders
- Publishing information
- Examples of slang: use context clues to determine meaning
Learning Target:
- Write an essay that analyzes how a theme is developed throughout a text
Work Collected:
- Group essay
- T-chart worksheet checked in class
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
Summary of Class:
- Library: Return/renew/browse/check out books, then read
- Check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Theme review
- Groups essays: Choose a theme from your group's short story and write an essay analyzes how we learn this lesson throughout the story--due by the end of the period
Learning Target:
- Rock the Iowa Assessments
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Completed t-chart due tomorrow for your 2 stories
- Handout: The Outsiders parent letter
Summary of Class:
- Iowa Assessments: Reading, Part 2
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Reminders for tomorrow's homework (t-chart worksheet)
- The Outsiders parent letter (bottom signature due back 12/1)
Learning Target:
- Rock the Iowa Assessments
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Short stories t-charts due Wed.
Summary of Class:
- Iowa Assessments: Reading, Part 1
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Work time for short stories
Learning Target:
- Demonstrate understanding of Greek and Latin roots
- Analyze how a theme is developed throughout a text
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Short stories t-charts due Wed. 11/18
Summary of Class:
- Vocab quiz #5
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Short stories
- Finish reading and discussing with group members
- Use the structure in the picture for filling out your t-chart
- If not done in class, this is homework (due Wed. 11/18)
Learning Target:
- Demonstrate understanding of Greek and Latin roots
Work Collected:
- Vocabulary squares (Mrs. Boyden checked these in your notebook)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Review for tomorrow's word roots quiz
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Study vocab while Mrs. Boyden checks your 4 vocab squares in your notebook
- Kahoot review game
Learning Target:
- Analyze how a theme is developed throughout a text
- Identify examples from the text to support your ideas
Work Collected:
- First quarter reading ladder (turned in via Google Classroom)
- Vocab squares (checked in notebook during class)
- Theme t-chart worksheet
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Review for Friday's vocab quiz
Summary of Class:
- Library: Return, renew, browse, and check out books, then read
- Check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Continue working with groups on short stories
- Reminder for directions: see yesterday's email from Mrs. Boyden
- Fill out your worksheet--you should be finished with story #1 and working on story #2
- There will be time on Friday to finish the second story
- Tomorrow: Kahoot review game for Friday's vocab quiz
Learning Target:
- Analyze how a theme is developed throughout a text.
- Identify examples to support your ideas.
Work Collected:
- Reading progress spreadsheet for week 3 (via Google Classroom)
- Theme t-chart worksheet
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Reading ladder due tomorrow
- 4 vocab squares due tomorrow (vocab quiz on Friday)
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Reminder: Reading ladder + 4 vocab squares due tomorrow
- Short stories + theme
- See directions in today's email from Mrs. Boyden
Learning Target:
- Define "theme" and identify examples from a text to support a theme
Work Collected:
- Theme t-chart (in suspense packet)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Reading ladder due Wed.
- 4 vocab squares due Wed.
- Vocab quiz Fri.
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet (reminder: weekly goal due tomorrow)
- Vocab groups: finish vocab squares (one per root due Wed.)
- Introduction to theme
- Notes
- Mrs. Boyden read the children's book Little Blue Truck
- Complete a t-chart for the story's theme
Learning Target:
- Learn new words and their Greek/Latin roots
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Q1 reading ladder due Wed. 11/11
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Q1 Reading Ladder
- Google Classroom: top assignment--open Google Doc
- Step 3: use spreadsheet from Q1 to find the numbers
- Step 4: 2 goals for second quarter
- Completed spreadsheet due Wed. 11/11
- Vocabulary
- Actively study words (more than just memorizing definitions)
- Strategy: vocabulary squares
- For each root: pick one word you don't know as well to study more in depth
- Fill out one set of vocabulary squares for each word (so at least 4 total)
- Use vocabulary.com to learn the word (this site does a good job explaining the word and how to use it)
- Use your laptop's dictionary to see the word parts (it lists the "origin" at the bottom that identifies prefixes, roots, and suffixes)
- Reminder: quiz next Friday
Learning Target:
- Recognize elements of suspense in a video clip
- Compare two different versions of a story
Work Collected:
- "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" worksheet + suspense notes (circles worksheet)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Q1 Reading Ladder due Wednesday
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- If you needed a new rate, enter that in the blue box
- Video: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" remake
- note differences from original
- complete worksheet--due at the end of class (staple suspense notes behind)
Learning Target:
- Reflect on your reading progress from first quarter
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Q1 reading ladder due Wednesday
Summary of Class:
- Library: book fair, renew/return/browse/check out books
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Q1 Reading Ladder
- See Google Doc in Google Classroom
- Due next Wednesday
- Vocabulary
- Cut out, fill out, and glue in roots foldable
- Write down 6 words per root: 3 faimliar words and 3 unfamiliar words
Learning Target:
- Recognize elements of suspense in a video clip
Work Collected:
- Weekly reading for week 2 (turned in via Google Classroom)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Complete the orange box for week 2
- Google Classroom: add your spreadsheet and click to turn it in
- Suspense
- Review yesterday's work
- Look up the definition of suspense
- Watch the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and take notes on elements of suspense
- Note: we will watch the remake later this week
Learning Target:
- Learn new Greek and Latin roots and their meanings
- Identify characteristics of scary stories
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins. (weekly reading goal due tomorrow)
- Handout: characteristics of scary stories
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Word roots
- Group wort + guess meanings
- Watch video clip
- Add 4 new roots to quizlet study set
- Intro to scary stories
- Notebooks: write about fears and share in groups
- Worksheet: characteristics of scary stories
Learning Target:
- Demonstrate understanding of Greek and Latin roots and words that use their meanings
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least one hour this weekend
Summary of Class:
- Word roots quiz
- Read
- Check into your reading progress spreadsheet
Learning Target:
- Write effective book blog comments
Work Collected:
- Book blog comments (via Google Classroom)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Review for tomorrow's vocab quiz
Summary of Class:
- Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Book blog comments
- Finish commenting on 4 students' blogs (2 students you sit with + 2 others you choose)
- Take screenshots of these comments (command + shift + 4, then draw a box around what you want)
- Google Classroom: open the Google Doc for book blog comments
- Type the names of the 4 students whose blogs you read and commented on
- Paste your screenshots next to each name
- Turn in your Google Doc
- Review for vocab quiz + Kahoot game
Learning Target:
Work Collected:
- Weekly reading for week 1 (spreadsheet turned in via Google Classroom)
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
- Review for Friday's vocab quiz
Summary of Class:
- Library: renew/return/browse/check out books, then read
- Check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
- Split your reading over Tuesday and Wednesday
- Complete the oranage box for week 1
- Google Classroom: add your spreadsheet and turn it in
- Vocab groups: finish "Vocabulary squares"
Learning Target:
- Learn how to check out e-books
Work Collected:
Work Assigned/Handed Out:
- Read for at least 30 mins.
Summary of Class:
- Mrs. Kragenbrink visited class and showed us how to check out e-books on our laptops as well as on your own personal device
