Tuesday, 10/15/13

1. Tuesday, 10/15/13 Good morning! Please remember to get your folder. Take out everything from your folder and place it into your binder before you do anything else. Agenda Targets First Five: Mon. & Tues. Vocabulary DOL Grammar Narrative Perspective Review & Practice Benchmark Review Reminders Target Check: 10/25 (Narrative Perspective)- Turn it in early for bonus points! Gathering Blue C. 1-5 Due TOMORROW

2. Q2 Learning Teams- 1stBlock • Billy, Bryan W., Kalyn, Jasmine, Lexi • Jeffrey, Nathan, Charlie, Tanner • Brian P., Landon, Hailey, Tori, Madison • Brandon, Peyton, Isaac, Ryan • Hunter, Isaiah, Logan, Julia, Kyri

3. Q2 Learning Teams- 2nd Block • Sydney, Kiara, Courtney, Kaylee, Emory • Hailie, Chloe, Grant, Justin, Alek • Shea, Jared, Dutch, Aaron, Kayla • Summer, Rena, Garrett, Alex, Andrew • Logan, Mariah, Cameron, Jordyn, Christen

4. New and Improved Daily Work! • Target Time • You will have the first 15 minutes of class every day to work on targets, Study Island, or silent reading. • This will provide an opportunity to get help when you need it. • Yes, you saw Study Island up there. You have all been assigned topics to work on in Study Island. These are based on your benchmark results. • First Five & Vocabulary • We will work on these in your teams. • DOL & Grammar • You may get comfy for these every day.  • Activity • This is the part where we have our EQ, activity, and wrap up for the day.

5. First Five

6. First Five

7. Vocabulary • Antagonist • Ex. The two senators became Vitter antagonists when hey disagreed on the direction of the state legislation. • BONUS • Can you think of an example of antagonists? • How is the term antagonist used in literature?

8. DOL • We read the poem adams dying and then we started the novel the silent storm in English class. • One of Picassos most famous paintings three musicians are at the Philadelphia museum of art.

9. Grammar • Prepositions • A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence. In order to be a preposition, the word must have an object. • To determine if a word is a preposition, insert the word what or whom after the preposition. This will tell you if the preposition has an object. If a noun or pronoun answers the question what or whom, then the word is a preposition. • Underline each preposition in the following sentences. • 1. The dog jumped onto the couch. • 2. I’m going to the movies with Emily tonight. • 3. Please don’t wait until Sunday to start your paper. • 4. There will be no talking during the presentations. • 5. Will you sit beside me at the assembly? • 6. We went inside when it started raining.

10. Narrative Perspective • EQ: How does narrative perspective impact the delivery of a story? • SU: What do you already know about narrative perspective? • 1st person • 2nd person • 3rd person • 3rd person omniscient • 3rd person limited • 3rd person objective • Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGMlrRSALY

11. Narrative Perspective Practice • Read the passage with your group. • Determine the point of view. • Explain your answer and share the clues that you used to determine the narrative perspective.

12. The Abominable SnowmanBy R.A. Montgomery You are a mountain climber. Three years ago you spent the summer at a climbing school in the mountains of Colorado. Your instructors said that you had natural skills as a climber. You made rapid progress and by the end of the summer you were leading difficult rock and ice climbs.

13. Outside the BoxBy Dan Allosso Three shots like thunderclaps rang out from surround speakers in the basement rec room. A white controller jumped in Reid Anderson’s hand each time he squeezed the trigger. Tactile feedback. A speaker in the controller made snapping sounds like the action of a pistol. Reid felt this more than he heard it. The shots made his ears ring.

14. Teen IdolBy Meg Cabot I witnessed the kidnapping of Betty Ann Mulvaney. Well, me and the twenty-three other people in first period Latin class at Clayton High School (student population 1,200). Unlike everybody else, however, I actually did something to try and stop it. Well, sort of. I went, “Kurt, what are you doing?” Kurt just rolled his eyes. He was all, “Relax, Jen. It’s a joke, okay?”

15. I Am Number FourBy Pittacus Lore The man brings his legs over the front of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, this time closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers, and in that instant the blade of a sword, long and gleaming, made of a shining white metal that is not found on Earth, comes through the door and sinks deeply into the man’s chest.

16. Glinda of OzBy Frank L. Baum Ozma took the arm of her hostess, but Dorothy lagged behind. When at last she rejoined Glinda and Ozma in the hall, she found them talking earnestly about the condition of the people, and how to make them more happy and contented– although they were already the happiest and most contented folks in all the world. This interested Ozma, of course, but it didn’t interest Dorothy very much, so the little girl ran over to the big table on which was lying open Glinda’s Great Book of Records.

17. Wrap Up • Write your own answer to our EQ: • How does narrative perspective impact the delivery of a story? • Future: We’ll practice more this week. • Don’t Forget: We still have one more thing to do!

18. Benchmark Review • Let’s review the benchmark. • What were the correct answers? Why???

19. Wednesday, 10/16/13 Good morning! Please remember to get your folder. Take out everything from your folder and place it into your binder before you do anything else. Agenda Targets First Five Vocabulary DOL Grammar Gathering Blue C. 1-5 Lit. Study Groups- Job Teams Reminders Target Check: 10/25 (Narrative Perspective)- Turn it in early for bonus points!

20. First Five

21. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective TeensBy Sean Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens Habit 1: React - Blame all of your problems on your parents, your stupid teachers or professors, your lousy neighborhood, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or something or somebody else. Be a victim. Take no responsibility for your life. Act like an animal. If you’re hungry, eat. If someone yells at you, yell back. If you feel like you’re doing something you know is wrong, just do it.

22. Vocabulary • Pretentious • Ex. The pretentious home and cars gave Gatsby a false sense of importance. • BONUS • If someone were pretentious, would he or she like lavish things? • If someone were pretentious, would he or she frequently be showy? • If someone were pretentious, would he or she be discreet?

23. DOL • Before 230 pm mslopez will have chose the students who will appear in the play beauty and the beast. • His flowers have growed good, because he has kept his garden free of all harmful insects.

24. Literature Study Groups • After much careful thought and consideration, I have decided to allow you to select your own literature study groups. Each group will need 4-5 members. No, you may not have more than 5 members under any circumstance.  • When you have a group, each member should select a DIFFERENT job for every reading assignment. You will receive an individual grade for your assignment each week, so do a good job! • Here’s how this is going to work… • Reading guides will be due by Wednesday and reviewed as a class, as usual. • Lit. study group members will have the opportunity to work with other classmates who have the same assignment on Wednesday to prepare their presentation to their group for Thursday. • On Thursday, lit. study group members will meet. Each group member will present their information to the group. • Following the lit. study group meeting, each member will complete their own reading response (writing assignment) from the reading for the week. • Be prepared to begin this process this week. Make sure those reading guides are complete and you pull your weight with your group!

25. Thursday, 10/17/13 Good morning! Please remember to get your folder. Take out everything from your folder and place it into your binder before you do anything else. Agenda Targets First Five Vocabulary DOL Grammar Lit. Study Groups Reminders Target Check: 10/25 (Narrative Perspective)- Turn it in early for bonus points!

26. Vocabulary • Intuitive • Ex. My mother’s talent with decorating is completely intuitive; she’s never taken a decorating course. • BONUS • What is an antonym for intuitive? • Why is the example sentence a good example of the use of a semicolon?

27. First Five

28. The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human BodyBy Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen It all began when Ms. Frizzle showed our class a film strip about the human body. We knew trouble was about to start, because we knew Ms. Frizzle was the strangest teacher in the school.

29. DOL • If I had knowed that you were hear you could of spoke about your trip to Haiti. • Have you swam acrost forest lake before asked Sam.

30. Grammar • Listing Prepositions • A preposition is a word that shows the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in the sentence. • Ex. The skier came out of the gate and raced down the hill. • YouTube: "Preposition" by The Bazillions • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5HSxbz50Lw • http://www.schooltube.com/video/d177636a19e28f776d78/ • List as many prepositions as you can in the space below. *Word Splash*

31. Grammar • Sentence War • Your team will be given a list of prepositions. Use as many of them in complete sentences as you can. The team that successfully uses the most prepositions wins!

32. Gathering Blue C. 1-5 • How are literary devices utilized to establish character and plot development in Gathering Blue? • Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. • SU: Table Texting • Write one question you have about Gathering Blue. It can be something you have wondered about, relate to the characters, or pertain to the plot of the story. • Pass the papers around to answer the questions of your classmates.

33. Gathering Blue C. 1-5 • Reading Guide Review

34. Lit. Study- Job Teams • Today, you will work with all of your classmates who have the same job for this week. This is an opportunity for you to work together and help each other. • Your job team has a folder with more directions, examples, and materials to use. • Be prepared to share your work with your lit. study teams tomorrow.

35. Wrap Up • Job Team Status Report • Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper: • 1. What went well today? • 2. Do you have any questions about how to prepare for meeting with your lit. study group tomorrow? • Ticket Out the Door: BG Reading Guides C. 1-5

36. Friday, 8/30/13 Good morning! Please remember to get your folder. Take out everything from your folder and place it into your binder before you do anything else. Agenda First Five DOL, Vocabulary & Grammar Quiz Gathering Blue Reading Response Reminders Target Check: 10/25 (Narrative Perspective)- Turn it in early for bonus points!

37. First Five

38. DOL, Vocabulary & Grammar Quiz • Are there any final questions before you get your quiz? • Quiz Time • Corrections

39. Lit. Study Group • Meet with your lit. study group today. • Each person will present their information to the group. • Before we begin….

40. What Makes a Good Dicussion (p. 27) • Empathetic Listening: Give your complete attention to the speakers, showing the students in your group that you value their contributions. • Use positive body language • Make eye contact • Responding to Group Members: Expand on other group members’ ideas by sharing your thoughts and feelings about what they contributed to the conversations. • Clarifying: Ask questions to understand each other’s ideas better. • Tell me more about. . . • What do you mean. . .? • Why do you think. . .? • Sharing ideas and justifying opinions: Share parts of the book that demonstrate the core content that you are addressing and explain why they are important. Justify your opinions. • I think . . . is a good example of a metaphor because. . . • I wonder if the relationship between these two characters would have changed if they had . . . • I was surprised that the plot changed course because I was expecting . . . • This part reminds me of . . . because . . . • I don’t understand why the author keeps on repeating this word . . . • I like this section of writing because . . . • I noticed. . . because . . . • I wish . . . because . . . • I think this story is really about . . . because . . . • Self-reflection: Consider what has been done well, and make decisions about what needs to be improved. Set goals for the future.

41. Participation Rating • Expert Participant • Brings reading material with passages clearly identified • Brings thoughtful written comments • Contributes significantly to discussion • Keeps the discussion going • Listens and responds thoughtfully • Builds on others’ comments • Makes insightful connections to other readings and/or experiences • Discusses author’s style/literary elements, when appropriate • Active Participant • Brings reading material with passages identified • Brings written comments • Contributes appropriately to discussions • Listens actively and responds adequately • Makes connections to other readings and/or experiences • Discusses author’s style/literary elements (when appropriate) • Willing Learner • Brings reading material • Understands purpose of reading circle • Brings some written notes • Contributes to discussions occasionally or when prompted • Sometimes listens and responds appropriately • Occasionally asks questions • Shares ideas when asked • Reluctant Reader • Not prepared for discussion • Forgets written comments or reading material • Conversation off-task • Seldom listens q Rarely responds to group • Reluctant to ask relevant questions • Unwilling to share ideas

42. GB Reading Response C. 1-5 • What character and/or situation in Gathering Blue remind you of someone and/or situations in your own life? How are they similar and how do they differ?

43. Literature Response Rating • Beginner • Response shows a minimal understanding of the response prompt • Response uses no information from class discussions and/or text as support • Errors in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization that interfere with communication • Learner • Response shows a basic understanding of the response prompt • Response uses limited information from class discussions and/or text as support • Some errors in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization that do not interfere with communication • Skillful • Response shows an understanding of the response prompt • Response uses information from class discussions and/or text as support • Few errors in spelling, punctuation, and capitalization • Expert • Response shows an in-depth understanding of the response prompt • Response is insightful, well developed and includes information from class discussions and/or text as support • Control of spelling, punctuation, and capitalization

44. Weekly Wrap Up • Your reading response will be your wrap up for your lit. study this week. • Turn it in as your TOTD. • Next Week • Study Island • Gathering Blue C. 6-9 • Have a good weekend!