Book trailers & Indie Read w/ padlet check-in.

Quickwrite #10: “‘Cuz he’s Black” by Javon Johnson – watch & respond

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 152.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the page 143.

TO DO: Stay caught up with notebook entries and reading!

Indie Read.

Notebook: RLaW practice w/ All American Boys excerpt*. (Use the Read Like a Writer sheet that we taped in our notebooks as a guide and see what you can find.)

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the page 123.

*I’ll post this later today as a PDF. I gave out physical copies to work with in the classroom.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 113.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 92.

REMINDER: Stay caught up on work in your notebooks. If you have missed class, be sure to check previous posts on the website (just the ones labeled “English 9/10” to figure out the entries you haven’t done yet). Or check out the English 9/10 Notebook Checklist tab above.

Book Talk & Indie Read – w/ a padlet board check-in (see GClassroom if you need more detailed instructions).

Quickwrite #9: Identify? (In All American Boys who do you more strongly identify with – Quinn or Rashad? Why? What connections do you have? If you don’t know, explore that in your writing.)

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 70.

REMINDER: Stay caught up on work in your notebooks. If you have missed class, be sure to check previous posts on the website (just the ones labeled “English 9/10” to figure out the entries you haven’t done yet). Or check out the English 9/10 Notebook Checklist tab above.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the middle of page 57

REMINDER: Stay caught up on work in your notebooks. If you have missed class, be sure to check previous posts on the website (just the ones labeled “English 9/10” to figure out the entries you haven’t done yet). Or check out the English 9/10 Notebook Checklist tab above.

Indie Read.

Quickwrite #8: 1st Impressions of All American Boys – a quick dive into how you feel about the book so far… liking it? predictions? what are you thinking 15 pages in?

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the bottom of page 34.

REMINDER: Stay caught up on work in your notebooks. If you have missed class, be sure to check previous posts on the website (just the ones labeled “English 9/10” to figure out the entries you haven’t done yet). Or check out the English 9/10 Notebook Checklist tab above.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #7: Cartoon Cop Images (you can find this slide on today’s GClassroom) – choose any image and see where it takes you. Write something real or make something up = you can’t be wrong; it’s YOUR notebook.

Watch the video below as an intro for the book we’ll be reading in class over the next couple of weeks.

Start All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the break on page 15.

REMINDER: Stay caught up on work in your notebooks. If you have missed class, be sure to check previous posts on the website (just the ones labeled “English 9/10” to figure out the entries you haven’t done yet).

Video “The Book was Better” – John Green of vlogbrothers

Book/movie Trailers & Indie Read with a padlet board check-in. If you missed class, details, directions, and password (in case you forgot it) on GClassroom today.

Quick discussion: Reader/Writer Connections

TO DO: Read something awesome 🙂