Link Crew is Here Today!

Essential Question: How can I prioritize what is most important?
Goal: to learn how to decide what is most important in your day

Read: Make sure you finish 1/3 of your book

Link crew was here today to do a fun activity with the class.

Homework:
1. Read. Yes. Seriously.
2. Finish your vocabulary chart

Literature Circles Week 3- Midway

Essential Question: What does it take to survive?
Goal: to help each other better understand the novel you are reading
Read: You should be reading a book for pleasure at home

Our goals for today are to help each other better understand the novel and to make sure we refer to the text.

BIBB = Bring It Back to the Book

Homework:
1. Relax a little
2. Work on your vocabulary

Signposts Centers

Essential Question: What does it take to survive?
Goal: to gain a better understanding of the signposts
Read: you should be finished with 1/3 of your book by this weekend

Then we will rotate through centers to practice the six signposts.

Open each of these PDFs using the Kami Chromebook extension. Highlight and annotate the articles.

Again and Again
Aha Moment
Words of the Wiser
Memory Moment
Contrasts and Contradictions
Tough Questions

Lit. Circles Unit 2 Week 3

Essential Question: What does it take to survive?
Goal: to go deeper in our understanding of our Lit. Circle novels
Read: You should finish 1/3 of your book by this week

Literature Circle Work Day:

Ender's Game:

• Dig deep into Violet and Ender's fears that they are becoming like Peter
• Did you notice the role of Artificial Intelligence in these chapters?
• Which characters step outside the box? Manipulate others?

Lord of the Flies:

• Dreams vs. Reality
• Weak vs. Strong
• Civilization vs. Savagery

Watership Down

• Trickster characters
• What is the problem with Cowslip's warren?
• Where does the title of each chapter come from?
• Conformity vs. Originality

Today I will meet with:

1. Nadia
2. Alana
3. Jaelynn
4. Taliyah
5. Lauren
6. Peter
7. Ryan

Homework:

1. Work on your Lit. Circle work every day

2. Work on your vocabulary

Group Project and Signposts

Essential Question: What does it take to survive?
Goal: to gain a better understanding of the Signposts

Read: Fill in the Reading Progress form

First, you will have 15 minutes to finish your group project.

Then we will rotate through centers to practice the six signposts.

Open each of these PDFs using the Kami Chromebook extension. Highlight and annotate the articles.

Again and Again
Aha Moment
Words of the Wiser
Memory Moment
Contrasts and Contradictions
Tough Questions

Lit. Circle Work

Today you will work on your Lit. Circle assignment. Make sure you use your time wisely.

Survivor Guilt

Agenda:
1. Play welcome video.


2. Read silently for 10 minutes
3. Play text annotation video

4. Students should silently read the selection about Survivor Guilt
5. Students should annotate the text and write a summary
6. Students should complete the assignment on NoRedInk

Whole Class discussion

Essential Question: What does it take to survive?

Goal: to join together what we have been learning from our different books

Agenda:
1. Read Silently and fill out reading progress form

Whole class discussion about survival. We will also choose our new jobs for Lit. Circles and assign the readings for next week.

You can work on your vocabulary if we have time.
Homework:
Begin you Lit. Circle reading for next week

Lit. Circle Prep Day Unit 2 Week 1

Essential Question: What does it take to survive?

Goal: to begin thinking about the novels for our Lit. Circles

Agenda:
1. Read Silently
2. Divide up the roles for our first Lit. Circle with our new novels.

Today you will have the entire period to begin your Lit. Circle work. It is very important to stay focused during this period and not waste time.

Things you should do on Lit. Circle prep days:

1. Take time to read, highlight, and annotate
2. Clarify your thoughts and ideas; ask me questions if you need to
3. Begin your Lit. Circle write-up

Homework:
1. Read your Lit. Circle book
2. Work on your Vocabulary: due on Friday

Starting the Next Unit

Essential Question: What does it take to survive? What decides who lives and who dies?

Goal: to understand the parts of a good argument

Agenda:
1. Read Silently
2. To read and annotate our argument mentor text

Read “The Cost of Survival” together and annotate its parts. Write a summary of the article of the article in your English Journal.

The Cost of Survival TEXT

Begin working on the chart to help us think about the essential question for this unit.

Homework:
1. Read your Lit. Circle book
2. Work on Vocabulary

Plan for literature discussion

Essential Question: What does it mean to be American?

Goal: to plan for our first Literature Circle discussion


Agenda:
1. Read silently and Reading check-in
2. Plan for discussion tomorrow.


This week we will have a test on Stargirl. Therefore, you should be finished with the book by Friday. 

Today, you will divide up the Literature Circle jobs amongst the members in your group. Each person should have a job. I will give you time to read and prepare for our discussion tomorrow. 

This will be a fishbowl discussion where I will ask for volunteers to participate in the discussion and the rest of the class will be observers. We will rate and discuss our discussion at the end of class.

Things Due This Week:
1. Finish all of Stargirl by Friday (Google Classroom)
2. Finish all Stargirl work by Friday (Google Classroom)
3. Stargirl Test on Friday
4. Finish New SAT: Multiple Meanings List #1 by Thursday (Vocabulary.com)

Lit Circles Final Role

Watch these videos about the Notice and Note Signposts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn31z6NFSAA&list=PLxtOcXo5X69iarE5hLGFKYo8M18dG-od0

Today you should read the next two chapters of Stargirl. After you read you need to find at least two examples of the Signposts from the videos above and write about them. I have included an image below to help you.