Thursday

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal:

Reading: Today you will

Agenda:

1. Meet with other people who have the same questions as you do.
1. You need to get an idea that you don't already have.
2. Google Classroom discussion. What have you noticed about your topic so far? What questions are getting answered by the novel?
1. The novel is helping me to answer the question:____? First of all,...
3. Take some time to research your topic:
1.  Entertainment/Media
2.  Happiness

Homework:

1. 
   

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Sieve and the Sand Day 3

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: demonstrate an understanding of the chapter by creating two new sticky notes

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th. Copy down your questions for your investigation on an index card.

Agenda:

1. Reading Quiz for pages 86-95
2. Create sticky notes for what we have read so far in Sieve and Sand.
1. I will model again what this looks like.
2. You will be submitting one of your notes for feedback today.

1. Google Classroom discussion. What have you noticed about your topic so far?

Homework:
1. None

Block Day

Games:

1. Quixx Dice Game
2. Code Names
3. Sushi Go! longer video
4. Tsuro
5. Five Minute Dungeon longer video

The Sieve and the Sand

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: demonstrate an understanding of the chapter by creating two new sticky notes

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th. Copy down your questions for your investigation on an index card.

Agenda:

1. Reading Quiz
1. For this quiz you may not talk or open your books. If you all write the same answer, I will know you cheated. If you try to use your book, I will know you cheated.
2. Create two new sticky notes for this section. Submit them to Google Classroom
3. Continue to conduct research on your topic. Make sure you use your questions to focus your research.

Homework:
1. None

What do you need help with?

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: identify what you need more help with

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th. Copy down your questions for your investigation on an index card.

Agenda:

1. What do we need time for today?
1. Digitize sticky notes
2. Do research for your topic
2. Start part two of F451
1. I will model what you should be looking for when you read
2. Make sure you read with a purpose. What question are you trying to answer?
3. Copy your questions on an index card that you keep in your book
4. Read pages 71-86

Homework:

1. No vocabulary this week
2. Make sure you read F451 tonight. Quiz on Friday.

Socratic Seminar and Catch up Day

Agenda

1. Enjoy a special treat and have a conversation.
2. Catch up on work
1. Socratic seminar preparation
1. Do you have your questions?
2. Did you find quotes with the first part of the quote and page number?
3. Did you highlight follow up questions on the sheet I gave you?
2. Digitize sticky notes
3. English Journal
4. Google Classroom discussion
5. Google Keep first note on Google Classroom

Friday

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: connect what you have been reading to what you are studying independently.

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th.

Agenda:

1. Prepare for our Socratic Seminar tomorrow.
1. Generate questions for our discussion. Use the types of questions document on Google Classroom.
2. Collect quotes that you will use as evidence.
2. Discuss the questions you came up with last night.
3. Examine an example of the English Journal you wrote yesterday.
4. Finish digitizing your sticky notes.

Homework:

1. Finish your vocabulary by Monday.
2. Read F451 pages 48-58

Socratic Seminar Prep

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: connect what you have been reading to what you are studying independently.

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th.

Agenda:

1. English Journal: Making Connections 
1. How can you connect what you are learning outside the book to what is happening inside the book?
1. The general argument made by author X in her/his work, _______________, is that _______________. More specifically, X argues that _______________. She/he writes, “ _______________.” In this passage, X is suggesting that _______________. In my view, X is wrong/right, because _______________. More specifically, I believe that _______________. 
2. The novel Fahrenheit 451 makes some of the same points. For example, ___________. X says, "____" This quote illustrates that...(Make a connection to the article cited above.)
2. Prepare for our Socratic Seminar tomorrow.
1. Generate questions for our discussion. Use the types of questions document on Google Classroom.
2. Collect quotes that you will use as evidence.

Homework:

1. Finish your vocabulary by Monday.
2. Read F451 pages 48-58

Making Connections

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: connect what you have been reading to what you are studying independently.

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th.

Agenda:

1. English Journal: Making Connections 
1. How can you connect what you are learning outside the book to what is happening inside the book?
1. The general argument made by author X in her/his work, _______________, is that _______________. More specifically, X argues that _______________. She/he writes, “ _______________.” In this passage, X is suggesting that _______________. In my view, X is wrong/right, because _______________. More specifically, I believe that _______________. 
2. The novel Fahrenheit 451 makes some of the same points. For example, ___________. X says, "____" This quote illustrates that...(Make a connection to the article cited above.)
2. Meet with the people who are studying the same topic as you. Create new sticky notes.

Homework:

1. Finish your vocabulary by Monday.
2. Read F451 pages 48-58

Tuesday

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: connect what you have been reading to what you are studying independently.

Reading: You should have your new book.  Book 4 will be due on April 27th and Book 5 will be due on May 18th.

Agenda:

1. Check your vocabulary. 100% will be due next Monday.
2. Begin tonight's reading: pages 48-58.
3. Turn in your book review on Turnitin.com
4. Practice a quote sandwich with the quote on page 52.
5. How can you connect what you are learning outside the book to what is happening inside the book?
1. The general argument made by author X in her/his work, _______________, is that _______________. More specifically, X argues that _______________. She/he writes, “ _______________.” In this passage, X is suggesting that _______________. In my view, X is wrong/right, because _______________. More specifically, I believe that _______________. 
2. The novel Fahrenheit 451 makes some of the same points. For example, ___________. X says, "____" This quote illustrates that...(Make a connection to the article cited above.)

Homework:

1. Finish your vocabulary by Monday.
2. Read F451 pages 48-58

Monday

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: to finish your vocabulary and book review

Reading: Read your own book today. We will continue F451 tomorrow.

Agenda:

1. We will start our book review today. You will find the assignment on GOOGLE CLASSROOM Create a blank Google Doc.
2. Your book review should have four paragraphs.
1. 1st paragraph: The novel TITLE by AUTHOR is about...[WRITE A PARAGRAPH THAT INTRODUCES THE MAIN CHARACTER, SETTING, AND CONFLICT. HOW AND WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THIS BOOK?]
2. 2nd paragraph: The story begins with CHARACTER...[WRITE AN 8-10 SENTENCE PARAGRAPH THAT SUMMARIZES THE PLOT WITHOUT SPOILERS]
3. 3rd paragraph: CHARACTER learns... Along the way, he/she has to deal with...[WRITE A PARAGRAPH THAT EXPLAINS THE MAIN IDEAS AND THEMES THAT COME UP IN THE BOOK].
4. 4th paragraph: Overall, I thought the book was...[WRITE A SHORT PARAGRAPH THAT EXPLAINS WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THE BOOK AND WHO ELSE WOULD LIKE THE BOOK].

Homework:

1.  Finish your book review.
2.  Finish your vocabulary.

Thursday

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal:

Reading: Read your own book or F451

Agenda:

1. Fahrenheit 451 quiz
2. Discuss the parts you didn't understand.
3. Continue your research about your guiding question.
4. Participate in an online discussion.

Homework:

1. Don't forget to work on your letter M vocabulary.

Sticky notes

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: to identify passages from F451 that fit your guiding question.

Reading: Make sure you read F451 each night.

Agenda:

1.  Start annotating your text with sticky notes. Make sure you focus on the questions you are trying to answer.
1. Include the page number, characters involved, and a brief note.
2. Use the I notice and I wonder strategy.

Homework:

1. Read the next 10 pages of the book.
2. Work on your vocabulary.

Starting your research

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: you can find one source that gives you new information about your topic.

Reading: Your book review is this Friday.

Agenda:

1.  Research time. We will use Google Keep to keep track of our research.
1. Start simple. Find a TED video. Look up your topic on Wikipedia, Newsela, or Google News.
2. You are looking for information and ideas that you don't already know or deepen what you only have intuitions about.
2.  Read the next fifteen pages of F451. Be ready for a quiz.
1. You should start looking for passages that help you answer your guiding question. Use sticky notes to keep track of what you notice.

Homework:

1. Work on your vocabulary.
2. Read F451

Do you know how to question effectively?

Essential Question: For this unit, you choose your own question to investigate.

Goal: create a research question to guide your investigation for our Fahrenheit 451 unit.

Reading: Today you will

Agenda:

1. Next SAT vocabulary list. 50% is due by Monday.
1. https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/151399
2. How do I learn to generate questions to guide my research?
1. Clear, focused, and complex
2. Open the Guiding Questions document in Google Classroom
3. Read the first 10 pages of F451. Be ready for a quiz tomorrow.
1. Read to the words "moving also toward a new sun"
2. CLICK HERE for the Ebook

Homework:

1. Work on your vocabulary.
2. Read F451