Read aloud & Indie read. Book club target #3. Notebook entry: Work with table topics questions in groups. Talk about the books and answer the questions.
Keep reading – target #4 is Monday 11/25! (perfect time to catch up if you’re behind)
Read aloud & book talk. Study: Read Like a Writer (RLaW) tips & practice. Notebook Clip-in: Read & annotate “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros with RLaW techniques.
Deadline: Book club target #2 tomorrow ❤
Upcoming: Book talks THIS Thursday – NEXT Tuesday. Sign up and be ready! Don’t forget to record your FLIPGRID 🙂
Read aloud & Indie read. Quickwrite #23: n-word (your thoughts) Study: language use “the n-word” watch video clips from Black-ish, Dear White People, and Ta-nehisi Coates “When Every Word Doesn’t Belong to Everyone” Finish video clips from The Art of Rap as background to thinking about the rhetoric of rap.
Upcoming: Book talks THIS Thursday – NEXT Tuesday. Sign up and be ready! And don’t forget your FLIPGRID 🙂
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #24: “Poem for an Inked Daughter” or Excerpt from All American Boys – read & respond, reflect, or imitate (just write your own). Time for book club reading.
Deadline: Target #3 TOMORROW! Read.
Book talk & Indie read. Student Book talk information & signups. Book Club #2 formation. Group scheduling of targets #1 – 4.
Upcoming: Book Talks THIS Thursday – NEXT Tuesday. Signup, record your Flipgrid, be prepared.
Book talk & Indie read. Student book talk Info, Flipgrid, & Sign-ups. Study: Rhetoric of Rap intro w/ bkgd video excerpts from The Art of Rap.
Upcoming: Book talks THIS Thursday – NEXT Tuesday. Sign up and be ready!
Book trailers & Indie read. Book club target #2: choose an important passage (up to today’s target), copy it word for word, explain why you chose it (what significance does it have?).
Keep reading for the next target!!
Book trailers & Indie read. Quickwrite #23: “We Need Diverse Books” video. Book Club #2: book browse & select.
Writing assignment info: Please update your document names of the pieces you’ve already written to “Piece1.docx” & “Piece2.docx” accordingly. That way, when you work on “Piece3” & “Piece4” we can keep them all straight in Dropbox. (Also note – if your papers aren’t really social justice focused, you will want to reconsider them as they won’t fit in work as a whole).
Deadline:
Book trailers & Indie read. Study: Infinite Possibilities: Tips on Revision & a look at more student revision examples.
Unlimited Power – Manipulation
Deadline: Submission #2 in Dropbox Submissions folder (properly labeled) & audio/video in FLIPGRID (info on the submission sheet) no later than Sunday 11/17 at 11:59pm
If you haven’t already:
Notes: Video “The Benefits of Reading Books – 15 Reasons Why You Should Read More” Reading time for Book Club selections.
Deadline: Target #2 tomorrow! Read, read, read.
