WRITE: Quickwrite #12 – Choose one of the two following quotes.  Then spend 3 minutes in your notebook developing your own thoughts.

“There is no good and evil.  There is only power, and those too weak to seek it.” – Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

“Can’t seem to shake these vultures / off my tail / Power made by power being taken / so I keep on running to protect my situation” – John Mayer “Vultures” from Continuum

STUDY:  Critical Lit Theory – Sociological Lenses of Feminism, Marxism, Post-Colonialism through the video clips below

CREATE/SHARE:  Breakout (for whoever is in the same hour w/ the same books) Rooms & Padlet Board creation for BOOK CLUB reads.  Use your Notebook Page #1 to create post-its and to comment on/like the post-its of classmates.  Build together, discuss together, what makes this book tick?  What surprised you? Work within the confines of the first target – no spoilers.  (You received an email with the password for your padlet board.  Links on that email or below. Be sure to SIGN IN to Padlet so your name appears on your posts & commentary).

• 🔗Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• 🔗Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez
• 🔗With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
• 🔗Love, Hate, & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed
• 🔗Wild by Cheryl Strayed
• 🔗Tradition by Brendan Kiely
• 🔗The 57 Bus by Dahska Slater
• 🔗Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
• 🔗The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
• 🔗Paper Towns 1 by John Green
• 🔗Paper Towns 2 by John Green
• 🔗Internment by Samira Ahmed

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

• Target #2 for BOOK CLUB – Tuesday 3/2 (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #2 for class 3/2 (3/4 for 4th hour ONLY)
• Memory Book Short #3 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 3/5
• Don’t forget to check out the feedback from your WRITE CLUB on your CCR papers (use it as needed/wanted to make stronger papers)

PAST DUE:

• Memory Book Short #2 was due 2/19 (submit it in Dropbox submissions in the “memory book shorts” folder)
• Commenting on group members’ CCR papers in both Dropbox/Word and Flipgrid (overdue but some students turned papers in late)

READ/WATCH/WRITE:  Create a notepage in your Writer’s Notebook for notes & thoughts as you watch “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (transcript available on the TEd site right under the video)

STUDY:  Critical Lit Theory / Sociological Lenses (slides & talk-through available on GClassroom)

TO-DO/CREATE & SHARE:  Keep reading, create BOOK CLUB Notebook Page #1, and we’ll be sharing these thoughts in class tomorrow.

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

• Target #1 for BOOK CLUB – Tuesday 2/23 (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #1 for class 2/23 (2/25 for 4th hour ONLY)
• Memory Book Short #3 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 3/5
• Don’t forget to check out the feedback from your WRITE CLUB on your CCR papers (use it as needed/wanted to make stronger papers)

PAST DUE:

• Memory Book Short #2 was due 2/19 (submit it in Dropbox submissions in the “memory book shorts” folder)
• Commenting on group members’ CCR papers in both Dropbox/Word and Flipgrid (overdue but some students turned papers in late)

OFFICE HOURS:  Stop in the zoom between 7:20 & 11:20 am (when you aren’t supposed to be in another call) if you have questions or need assistance.

TO CHECK-IN:  Take the Student Paths survey.  Links and directions on the GClassroom stream.

READ: Your BOOK CLUB book 🙂

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

• Target #1 for BOOK CLUB – Tuesday 2/23 (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #1 for class 2/23 (2/25 for 4th hour ONLY)
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 2/19 (that’s TODAY)

4th Hour ONLY!!

There was NO class Monday for President’s Day – which means. . . . READING DAY 🙂

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

• Target #1 for BOOK CLUB – Thursday 2/25 – 4th hour ONLY (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #1 for class 2/25 – 4th hour ONLY (all other hours this is 2/23)
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 2/19

PAST DUE:

• Read & Notes: “Reading with Critical Theories” – notepage due by next class day 2/16 or 2/17
• WRITE CLUB 2-Type Feedback* – Visit your group Flipgrid and watch/read/listen to your members’ papers.  Next 1) Reply with a short video.  Then 2) Visit each of these two papers in Dropbox/MSWord and leave 5-8 constructive comments.  *See the FLIPGRID WRITE CLUB slides attached to GClassroom for details (in both yesterday’s stream & attached to the assignment located in classwork).  Due no later than end of day Sunday 2/14.
• Read Aloud / Screenshare your CCR (Critical Commentary &  Response) paper in your WRITE CLUB FG (due 2/9)

 

Update Padlet for your independent reading & meet in the zoom at normal time for attendance & instructions.  We will be spending today getting started on our BOOK CLUB books.

DEADLINES & REMINDERS: 4th HOUR ONLY!!

• Target #1 for BOOK CLUB – Thursday 2/25 (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #1 for class 2/25
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 2/19

PAST DUE:

• Read & Notes: “Reading with Critical Theories” – notepage due by next class day 2/16 or 2/17
• WRITE CLUB 2-Type Feedback* – Visit your group Flipgrid and watch/read/listen to your members’ papers.  Next 1) Reply with a short video.  Then 2) Visit each of these two papers in Dropbox/MSWord and leave 5-8 constructive comments.  *See the FLIPGRID WRITE CLUB slides attached to GClassroom for details (in both yesterday’s stream & attached to the assignment located in classwork).  Due no later than end of day Sunday 2/14.
• Read Aloud / Screenshare your CCR (Critical Commentary &  Response) paper in your WRITE CLUB FG (due 2/9)

Virtual SNOW DAY!! (This means we are all remote today.)

Meet in the zoom at normal time for attendance & instructions.  We will be spending our “snow day” reading (either getting started on your BOOK CLUB read or continuing your independent read).

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

• Target #1 for BOOK CLUB – Tuesday 2/23 (see slides on GClassroom for target page #s) & prepare Notebook Page #1 for class 2/23
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 2/19

PAST DUE:

• Read & Notes: “Reading with Critical Theories” – notepage due by next class day 2/16 or 2/17
• WRITE CLUB 2-Type Feedback* – Visit your group Flipgrid and watch/read/listen to your members’ papers.  Next 1) Reply with a short video.  Then 2) Visit each of these two papers in Dropbox/MSWord and leave 5-8 constructive comments.  *See the FLIPGRID WRITE CLUB slides attached to GClassroom for details (in both yesterday’s stream & attached to the assignment located in classwork).  Due no later than end of day Sunday 2/14.
• Read Aloud / Screenshare your CCR (Critical Commentary &  Response) paper in your WRITE CLUB FG (due 2/9)

OFFICE HOURS day!  Stop by the zoom if you need help or have questions or just need a space to get work done.

Update the Padlet board with your independent reading progress to be counted present (do this before class resumes on Tuesday 2/16 or you WILL be counted absent).

DEADLINES & REMINDERS:

• WRITE CLUB 2-Type Feedback* – Visit your group Flipgrid and watch/read/listen to your members’ papers.  Next 1) Reply with a short video.  Then 2) Visit each of these two papers in Dropbox/MSWord and leave 5-8 constructive comments.  *See the FLIPGRID WRITE CLUB slides attached to GClassroom for details (in both yesterday’s stream & attached to the assignment located in classwork).  Due no later than end of day Sunday 2/14.
• Read & Notes: “Reading with Critical Theories” – notepage due by next class day 2/16 or 2/17
• BOOK CLUB – If you are picking up a book from Exit 1, do this Thursday 2/11 from 11am – 3pm or Friday 2/12 from 7am-3pm. (NO SCHOOL on MONDAY 2/15)
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday 2/19

PAST DUE:

• Read Aloud / Screenshare your CCR (Critical Commentary &  Response) paper in your WRITE CLUB FG (due 2/9)
• Choose your book for BOOK CLUB (due 2/11)

READ:  Read Aloud Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krause Rosenthal & Tom Lichtenheld

WRITE:  Quickwrite #11 – your thoughts on Duck! Rabbit!

STUDY: Critical Lit. Theory & Approaches – watch the intro video by “The Nature of Writing”

TO-DO:  Read “Reading with Critical Theories” and create a notepage of what seems important.

Reading With Critical Theories PDF

 

DEADLINES:

• Read Aloud / Screenshare your CCR (Critical Commentary &  Response) paper in your WRITE CLUB FG no later than end of day Tuesday 2/9 (If you’re in 4th hour – this is PAST DUE).
• Choose your book for BOOK CLUB no later than end of day Wednesday 2/10 (or Thursday 2/11 if you are in 4th hour)
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday, February 19th
• WRITE CLUB 2-Type Feedback* – Visit your group Flipgrid and watch/read/listen to your members’ papers.  Next 1) Reply with a short video.  Then 2) Visit each of these two papers in Dropbox/MSWord and leave 5-8 constructive comments.  *See the FLIPGRID WRITE CLUB slides attached to GClassroom for details (in both yesterday’s stream & attached to the assignment located in classwork).  Due no later than end of day Sunday 2/14.
• Read & Notes: “Reading with Critical Theories” – notepage due by next class day 2/16 or 2/17

PAST DUE:

• CCR Paper (due in Dropbox 2/7)
• Your Intro & Goals message in your WRITE CLUB FG (due in Flipgrid 2/5-7)
• Memory Book Short #1 (due in Dropbox 2/5)

Update the reading padlet!!! What have you read lately???

WRITE:  Quickwrite #10 – Choose one (or more) questions from the TableTopics™ questions on the PDF and answer it/them reagarding your independent read.  Go as deatiled as you’d like on just a couple or answer more questions if needed, but work to write the entire time.

TableTopics IR Quickwrite PDF

STUDY:  Critical Lit. Theory BOOK CLUB!*  Overview & schedule, book choices and deadlines, time to check out the info and make personal selections.

WRITE CLUB:  Overview of Flipgrid (digital asynchronous) WRITE CLUB*

DEADLINES:

• Read Aloud / Screenshare your CCR (Critical Commentary &  Response) paper in your WRITE CLUB FG no later than end of day Tuesday 2/9
• Choose your book for BOOK CLUB no later than end of day Wednesday 2/10 (or Thursday 2/11 if you are in 4th hour)
• Memory Book Short #2 window is now open.  Due in Dropbox no later than end of day Friday, February 19th

PAST DUE:

• CCR Paper (due in Dropbox 2/7)
• Your Intro & Goals message in your WRITE CLUB FG (due in Flipgrid 2/5-7)
• Memory Book Short #1 (due in Dropbox 2/5)

* Video overviews  & slide shows available on GClassroom stream

TO DO TODAY:  To check-in today – be counted present – visit your WRITE CLUB Flipgrid* (FG) and leave a message in the topic for intros (see the directions there).

*I sent you this password in an email on Wednesday.

OFFICE HOURS from 7:20 – 11:20 am in the zoom.  Stop in anytime you aren’t supposed to be in someone else’s live call, especially if you have questions or need assistance with the cited commentary & response work.

DEADLINES:

• First Memory Book Short – due in Dropbox as assigned no later than Friday, February 5th (This is TODAY. And while it’s technically in the submissions folder, you will still be able to revise it for the memory book. Just make sure it’s done.)
• Cited Commentary & Response – due no later than end of day Sunday, February 7th (in Dropbox drafts folder & read in Flipgrid – directions & your Flipcode in an email)

NEXT WEEK: We’ll be conducting our first asynchronous WRITE CLUB session/work and introducing critical lit theory.  BOOK CLUBS soon 🙂