Wednesday

Essential Question: Why do words and actions in some time periods produce meaningful change-and in others do not?

Goal: to work in small groups.

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. 4Rs activity
1. Today you should finish the Relate and Respond section.
1. Relate: What themes and ideas are in Chavez's speech that are also in MLK's writings?
2. Respond: Why was Chavez able to create change like MLK? What words or phrases does he use to motivate his audience?
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2. Answer the comprehension questions after the Chavez article.
3. How to include quotes for your essay.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due Thursday or over break.

Tuesday

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to work in small groups.

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Two poems video using Adobe Spark
1. Split your group into two parts
2. Choose one of the two poems
3. Create a video that has the following items
1. Every stanza from the poem
2. A picture for each stanza
3. A recording of your voice reading the stanza
4. Every person in the group must contribute to the video.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due Thursday or over break.

Group Work Day 4

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to work in small groups.

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Read the Cesar Chavez nonfiction article on pg. 323 CLICK HERE FOR THE ARTICLE
1. 4Rs Activity
1. fold a piece of paper into four sections
2. label each section
1. Read - jot down the most important ideas using bullets
2. Retell- use the four sentence precis model to write a summary
3. Relate- connect the text to the two speeches by MLK
4. Respond- Write down your thoughts about the text

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due Thursday or over break.

Small Group Work Day 3

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to work in small groups.

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Two poems video using Adobe Spark
1. Split your group into two parts
2. Choose one of the two poems
3. Create a video that has the following items
1. Every stanza from the poem
2. A picture for each stanza
3. A recording of your voice reading the stanza
4. Every person in the group must contribute to the video.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due Thursday or over break.

Small Group Work Day 2

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to work in small groups.

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Watch Words Meant Everything - due TODAY
1. CLICK HERE for the video
2. Answer the Comprehension Check questions
3. Complete Analyze the Media in your English Journal. Start a new journal for this assignment.
4. Complete Writing to Sources in your English Journal. Start a new journal for this assignment.
2. Read the two poems starting on page 314
1. Answer the comprehension questions. Annotate where you found the answers.
2. Complete the analyze craft and structure on page 319.
3. While you work I will be meeting with small groups to work on the essay.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due Thursday or over break.

Small Group work day 1

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to work in small groups.

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Small group work
1. Start on page 304-307. Decide how you will work together as a small group.
2. Watch Words Meant Everything
1. CLICK HERE for the video
2. Answer the Comprehension Check questions
3. Complete Analyze the Media in your English Journal. Start a new journal for this assignment.
4. Complete Writing to Sources in your English Journal. Start a new journal for this assignment.
5. If you have time read and annotate the poems starting on page 312.
3. While you work I will be meeting with small groups to work on the essay.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due Thursday or over break.

Begin Informative Essay

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to decide on the focus for our informative essay

Reading: Your next book review will be on March 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Install the Easybib addon for Google Docs
2. Learn one new sentence type.
1. You can join sentences using a semi-colon
1. This car looks as if it has been wrecked; therefore it's not a good buy.
2. Here is a new semi-colon pattern you may not know.
1. Bill played a musical number; Joan, Beethoven.
2. The mother and child each had a goal; hers, educational; his, recreational.
3. For many of us, the new math teacher was a savior; for others a pain.
4. His mother told him to rent a car; his sister, to pack the suitcases.
3. Start your informative essay.
1. We will decide what to focus on for this essay.
2. We will write the introduction and the first body paragraph.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 50% due next Monday.

BARR Activity: Reflective Listening

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to close read a historical speech and identify the words which provoke, calm, and inspire

Reading: Fill out the READING PROGRESS UPDATE FORM

Agenda:

1. 1. How do you practice the Golden Rule when listening to others? It's called reflective listening.
   2. Practice listening skills with inside/outside partner activity
   3. English Journal Reflective Listening Skills
   1. When practicing the responding skills I felt..The hardest skill for me to use was...because...It was challenging to...I think that Why? questions make a person feel...Overall, I learned...
   2. Copy and paste your English Journal to the discussion on Google Classroom.
   3. You must respond to your random partner for the day. Respond by paraphrasing, reflecting, clarifying or asking an open-ended question. Here are some sentences to help you do that effectively:
   1. It seems like you...I also thought...
   2. It sounds like you felt...because...Am I right? I felt...
   3. Did I understand your post correctly? Are you saying...? When doing the activity I felt...
   4. What did you do when...? During the activity I...

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due next Monday.

Informative Essay Day 2

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to close read a historical speech and identify the words which provoke, calm, and inspire

Reading: Your book is due Mar. 2nd.

Agenda:

1. Finish your research about the speech.
2. Summarize the research you discovered on GOOGLE CLASSROOM. Reply to your random partner.
3. Work on the introduction to your essay.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 50% due next Monday.

Informative essay and Google Keep

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to research how people reacted to MLK's "I Have a Dream Speech."

Reading: Your book is due Feb. 2nd, this Friday.

Agenda:

1. Learn the basics of Google Keep. You will use this to keep track of your research.
2. Look up how people at the time reacted to MLK's famous speech.
3. Take notes on the information you find.
4. Learn how to integrate information from other sources into your own writing.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 100% due next Monday.

Kennedy's Calming Words

Essential Question: How can words inspire change?

Goal: to analyze how Kennedy calms a crowd who is feeling angry and hopeless.

Reading: Your should choose a new book this week.

Agenda:

1. Grade your new vocabulary.
2. Watch Kennedy's speech. Answer the comprehension questions.
1. Ask yourself the questions the audience is probaby asking.
1. Is peace the cowardly option?
2. Does the speek effectively create hope and quell anger?
3. Fill out the Essential Question tracker. Here is the TEXT of the speech.

Homework:
1. Work on your vocabulary. 50% due next Monday.