E-Learning Day.
ATTENDANCE: Add a post-it to update your independent reading in the padlet (directions in GClassroom today if you need a refresher how-to).
Read something awesome – try for at least 20 minutes of reading.
PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts – make sure it’s complete.
E-Learning Day.
Answer the attendance survey on GClassroom. Check out the tutorial video posted about your MLA formatted Works Cited page. Be sure yours is correct. Use today as “lab” time to finish up cited commentaries and/or memory book shorts.
DEADLINES:
Caught up? Read something awesome!
E-Learning Day.
Answer the attendance survey on GClassroom. Then, read the piece “Reading as a Writer” by Don Murray (attached in the class stream) creating a note-page in your writer’s notebook. What’s important here? What’s worth writing down?
PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts – make sure it’s complete.
E-Learning Day.
Answer the attendance survey on GClassroom. Use today as “lab” time to write a draft of your cited commentary paper.
DEADLINES:
E-Learning Day.
Answer the attendance survey on GClassroom. Use today to make sure you have a draft of you indelible moment paper in Dropbox (it should be an MSWord doc in your drafts folder). Then, use the Mrs. C’s 5-Word Focus slide (also on classroom today) to do some quick revision that will improve your word choice.
Read something awesome!
Book Talk & Indie Read
OVERVIEW: Critical commentary paper example and details on part III of assignment. Get writing!
WRITE CLUB: Meet your new group and share QW#16 from yesterday – find out what you all want out of WRITE CLUB this semester.
DEADLINES:
IMPORTANT E-LEARNING INFO: IF school is called for weather, there will be e-learning on those days. This is not quite the same as our full remote schedule, but also isn’t a “snow day” of nothing (it does count as a school day). For E-learning, check the GClassroom stream for instructions on how to check in, what to work on, and how to contact teachers for live/email assistance.
Read Aloud & Indie Read
RECAP: Yesterday’s notetaking on “Clues to a Great Story”
STUDY: Read Like a Writer – add the slide to your notebook (hardcopy) and practice reading like a writer with the text from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (taped into the notebook – work there)
PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30 (You’ll need this draft later this week!!)
IMPORTANT E-LEARNING INFO: IF school is called for weather, there will be e-learning on those days. This is not quite the same as our full remote schedule, but also isn’t a “snow day” of nothing (it does count as a school day). For E-learning, check the GClassroom stream for instructions on how to check in, what to work on, and how to contact teachers for live/email assistance.
Indie Read.
WRITE CLUB data analysis: work w/ a group to notice trends in the data from the WRITE CLUB survey at the top of the semester
Quickwrite #16: What do YOU want out of WRITE CLUB this semester?
DEADLINES:
Indie Read.
Quickwrite #10: random picture (if you missed class, see Mrs. C for a picture)
WATCH/NOTES: “Clues to a Great Story” – TED Talk by Andrew Stanton
PAST DUE: Draft/Writing #2 – Indelible Moment was due in Dropbox Drafts no later than end of day Sunday 1/30 (yesterday)
Indie Read w/ padlet check-in (add a new post-it to the top of your column to show your reading progress).
Take the quick Illinois CTE survey (find it in today’s GClassroom stream).
RESEARCH TIME: 1. think about what big idea/question you want to explore (within the range of topics mentioned in the source materials) 2. reread / extend your reading to more sources 3. make notes as needed to both collect & further your thinking 4. decide on a topic/issue that you will use for focus 5. know which 2-4 sources have the most potential for citing and be familiar with them
DEADLINES:
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