SHARE: Breakout rooms to share what rap/hip-hop songs you picked for analysis & why.
WRITE: Quickwrite #14 – We Need Diverse Books Campaign Video
BOOK CLUB #2: Choices, Info, Check out the slides & Choose your book! (slides & Gform to choose on the GCLassroom stream TODAY!)
DEADLINES: Your rap annotation (WRITING 5) due by end of day Sunday 11/15 (this is an EXTENSION to the previous due date!!!) – to submit just move it to our shared submissions folder.
UPCOMING: No School Wednesday in observance of Veteran’s Day. OFFICE HOURS on Friday. Check GClassroom for Friday’s activity/check-in – thinking about your own writing process.
Sign into the reading padlet as usual – link on the right hand side of this site w/ code mceng5 – and post your progress there. This will be checked for attendance purposes!
OFFICE HOURS: Mrs. C will be in the zoom all day (9am – 12pm & 12:30-2pm) if you need help, have questions, or just want to stop by. See me if you need help posting in padlet or need help with Dropbox.
STUDENT PATH SURVEY: Go to mystudentpath.com Follow these directions LINK HERE (also on the GClassroom stream today) to complete the survey. Thanks!
REMINDERS/DEADLINES: WRITING 5 (your rap annotation) start working on it. We’ll visit them again on Monday 11/9 so be sure to have something done by then.
WRITING 5 – Annotation You can find a video of the steps to completing this assignment on today’s GClassroom stream. Watch it to clarify the directions, see how to do the annotating in MSWord, and how to resave your work. Get analyzing & annotating!
NEXT WEEK: We’ll keep working on our rap annotations and make choices for BOOK CLUB #2.
Sign into the reading padlet as usual – link on the right hand side of this site w/ code rc101 – and post your progress there. This will be checked for attendance purposes!
OFFICE HOURS: Mrs. C will be in the zoom all day (9am – 12pm & 12:30-2pm) if you need help, have questions, or just want to stop by. See me if you need help posting in padlet or need help with Dropbox.
STUDENT PATH SURVEY: Go to mystudentpath.com Follow these directions LINK HERE (also on the GClassroom stream today) to complete the survey. Thanks!
REMINDERS/DEADLINES: Write your own “Ten Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to _______________” due anytime between Friday 11/6 and end of day Monday 11/9.
STUDY: Revision – a study of what to do with comments/feedback. A full class look at a student’s memory book paper, teacher feedback, and revision. Join the padlet board “Revising from Commentary: A Study”. And a slide review on “Manipulation & Control in Writing.” Then a look, in your WRITE CLUB groups, at some other student examples.
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Write your own “Ten Things I’ve Been Meaning to Say to _______________” due anytime between Friday 11/6 and end of day Monday 11/9.
UPCOMING: Office Hours (stop by to ask questions or get help) & Student Paths Survey (about your plans after high school) on Friday. Next week, reading like a writer and a look at the art of hip-hop/rap.
STUDY: More thoughts about what rappers do. Watch the video below:
WORK: Let’s work with the rap lyrics you brought to class today to find where the writer appeals to emotion, uses logic, and establishes credibility. Look at the ways the write does this and annotate examples. What kinds of “moves” does the writer make? How do they use rhyme, rhythm, etc. to build their rap?
Open your Word doc lyrics (in your Dropbox Drafts folder) and use MSWord’s highlighters and the ability to comment by using the review tab (new comment) to make notes in the margins. What do you find? (Examples in the zoom call and time to work today).
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: WRITING 5 (your rap annotation) start working on it. We’ll visit them again on Monday 11/9 so be sure to have something done by then.
WRITING 5 – Annotation You can find a video of the steps to completing this assignment on today’s GClassroom stream. Watch it to clarify the directions, see how to do the annotating in MSWord, and how to resave your work. Get analyzing & annotating!
PAST DUE: WRITING 4 (book review was due 11/2) & Flipgrid videos (3 – intro, impact, & wrapup) for BOOK CLUB #1 (added to Skyward completion scores later this week)
UPCOMING: Office Hours (stop by to ask questions or get help) & Student Paths Survey (about your plans after high school) on Friday, more work on rap analysis, and BOOK CLUB #2 choices next week.
IF TIME ALLOWS: Example of where this next writing assignment is going (or we’ll do this Wednesday)
PAST DUE: WRITING 4 (was due 11/2) & Flipgrid videos (3 – intro, impact, & wrapup) for BOOK CLUB #1 (added to Skyward completion scores later this week)
WRITE: Quickwrite #12 – Watch the music videos below and respond or comment in your notebook (disclaimer for language). Work to write some comments during each video and then add a commentary that brings them together.
NOTEBOOK/BOOK CLUB #1: WRAP-UP
What’s worth talking about?
Favorite character? Why?
Most powerful or your favorite part? Why?
Why does this book matter? What can it help us learn about the world or ourselves?
BREAKOUT ROOMS: With others in this hour who read your book, discuss some of the work you just did in your notebook. Let’s talk about the book!
ASSIGNMENTS/DEADLINES:
Visit Flipgrid.com (link on the right) and use our usual join code. Then, locate the topic BC#1 YOUR BOOK WRAP-UP Add a response here. In less than 5 minutes share the info from today’s notebook entry. Due by classtime Monday 11/2.
Writing #4 – the review. This one combines the topics we’ve been talking about recently, your book club read, and today’s focus on reviews. Due no later than end of day Sunday 11/1.
READ/STUDY/SHARE: WRITE CLUB today with this week’s draft (either a QW expansion or a MB chapter)
Read your papers!
Bless, Address, Press
Give feedback including specific “good stuff,” readerly questions, and “what-if” suggestions
TO DO: Think about revising papers in your Dropbox. Focus on beginnings, endings, and Mrs. C’s 5-Word-Focus.
ASSIGNMENT: Read REVISION handouts/excerpts and make just onenotebook page about revision for Thursday 11/5
EXTRA: Another round of Book Pass & Book Trailers up on today’s GClassroom stream in case you are looking for your next read.
UPCOMING:
Comments on your first submission will be headed back to you soon – starting with College Apps & then QW or MB chapters. Check the video & “Feedback Manifesto” (on GClassroom stream later today) about receiving feedback and I’ll email you when your paper is back in Dropbox (with feedback).
Make time to enjoy some reading with the break offered by Student Progress (Parent-Teacher) Conferences and Election Day.
READ: Read aloud – The Undefeatedby Kwame Alexander & Black Girl Magic by Mahogany L. Browne
BOOK CLUB #1: Breakout rooms for about 20 minutes of reading
STUDY: Reviews – How do they operate? Discussion & Examples.
DEADLINE/ASSIGNMENT:
FINISH your BOOK CLUB read for Wednesday!!
Writing #4 – the review. This one combines the topics we’ve been talking about recently, your book club read, and today’s focus on reviews. Due no later than end of day Sunday 11/1.
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