Adding to our Google Sites Portfolio

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. You should be in the last part of your book. Next book review is Oct. 1st

Agenda:

1. Vocabulary Jam for SAT letter B
2. Capacities of a Literate Individual: Building Strong Content Knowledge
1. Create a new section on the Capacities page of your Google Site Portfolio in GOOGLE DRIVE.
2. Paraphrase what it means to build strong content knowledge.
3. Add a Bookshelf page to your Google Site portfolio. Create a section for each of the books you have read so far.
4. Quizlet Live Review game
5. What do you need to work on right now?

Success Criteria:

1. I have turned in my narrative.
2. I understand what it means to build content knowledge.
3. I am caught up on my assignments.

Homework:

1. No new vocabulary for the next two weeks. :)
2.  Make sure you are reading your book at home.

Revising our narratives

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form.

Agenda:

1. You will receive a B if you do the following:
1. The sequence of events in your narrative builds to create a complete narrative.
2. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and reflection to develop events and/or characters.
3. Use precise words and phrases to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.
2. If you do less than this, you will receive lower than a B and if you do these things excellently (plus more), you will receive an A.
3. How do I identify errors in my narrative?
1. Use the following Addons for Google Docs
1. Listen to your narrative with Speakd.
2. Grammar and Style check by Crio
4. Review how to punctuate dialogue.
1. Watch this video
2. Or read this document
5. Add words to your narrative from your vocabulary lists.

Success Criteria:

1. I improved my narrative by fixing:
1. My grammar and spelling mistakes
2. The punctuation of the dialogue
3. I added more precise vocabulary
4. I looked for gaps in my narrative
5. I  have a clear reflection at the end

Homework:

1. No new vocabulary for the next two weeks. :)
2.  Make sure you are reading your book at home.

Catch up day

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. You should be in the last part of your book. Next book review is Oct. 1st

Agenda:

1. Are you done with your narrative? Today you should finish your rough draft.
2. Have you recorded your Flipgrid video?
3. Are you missing any vocabulary assignments?
4. Do you have work from other classes to complete?

Success Criteria:

1. I can write a narrative about an experience where someone shaped me.

Homework:

1. No new vocabulary for the next two weeks. :)
2.  Make sure you are reading your book at home.

Beginning your rough draft

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. You should be in the last part of your book. Next book review is Oct. 1st

Agenda:

1. Start your narrative.
1. We will use this sample passage from Stargirl as our model.
2. Start your narrative on document SG005 in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
3. Following the model, we will begin with a narrative section and then include dialogue.
2. I will assign you a writing group. You will decide who has the best introduction to their story. You will submit that person's writing to the class so that we can vote on it.

Success Criteria:

1. I can create a narrative with an exposition, rising action, climax, and a reflection.
2. I can learn from a model text how to create my own narrative.

Homework:

1.  No new vocabulary for the next two weeks. :)
2.  Make sure you are reading your book at home.

Planning our narratives

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes. You should be in the last part of your book. Next book review is Oct. 1st

Agenda:

1. Grade your vocabulary from last week. No new vocabulary this week.
2. Finish outlining the sample passage from Stargirl. Use your plot diagram from last week.
3. Create an outline for your narrative. Turn your paper over and diagram the flow of your narrative.
4. Start your narrative.
1. We will use this sample passage from Stargirl as our model.
2. Start your narrative on document SG005 in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.

Success Criteria:

1. I finished my vocabulary.
2. I can create a narrative with an exposition, rising action, climax, and a reflection.
3. I can learn from a model text how to create my own narrative.

Homework:

1.  No new vocabulary for the next two weeks. :)
2.  Make sure you are reading your book at home.

iTime Setting Goals

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. What is a SMART goal?
1. Open your Google Site (it is in GOOGLE DRIVE).
2. Create a new page called Goals
3. Create two columns: This Year and Lifetime
2. Take a class picture to remember how we all started off the year.
3. Complete the This Is Now page. We will look at this again at the end of the year.
4. Stargirl Quizizz

Success Criteria:

1. I can set short term and long term SMART goals
2. I can recall what happened in the novel Stargirl 

Homework:

1. Submit your Character Monologue on Flipgrid.
2. Work on your NoRedInk assignment
3. Make sure you are reading at home

Nonfiction Narrative

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form. Today we will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. English Journal #6: Nonfiction Narrative Brainstorming
1. You will write a personal narrative about an event where you or another person was shaped by a group or individual.
2. In our English Journal we will brainstorm ideas to write about.
2. Take out a piece of paper. We will visually represent the arc of a narrative.
1. We will use this sample passage from Stargirl.
3. If we have time we will begin our narrative.
1. Go to GOOGLE CLASSROOOM and open the nonfiction narrative document. 

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify an event from my life that would make a good nonfiction narrative.
2. I understand the arc of a narrative.

Homework:

1. Submit your Character Monologue on Flipgrid.
2. Work on your NoRedInk assignment
3. Make sure you are reading at home

Prepositions, Monologues, and Complex characters

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: We will read for ten minutes.

Agenda:

1.  NoRedInk Preposition assignment or Vocabulary.
2. Work on your Character Monologue
3. Class discussion: Are Leo and Stargirl complex characters?
1. In the best stories, the main characters are interesting and complex. You can identify complex characters in the following ways: they show multiple or even contradictory traits; they struggle with conflicting motivations, or reasons for acting as they do; they change or learn something by the end of the story.
2. Post your ideas on the Padlet wall. Make sure you sign-in. 

Success Criteria:

1. I know how to identify a preposition.
2. I can explain another character's point of view.
3. I can make an argument about whether a character is complex.

Homework:

1. Submit your Character Monologue on Flipgrid.
2. Work on your NoRedInk assignment
3. Make sure you are reading at home

Lots to do today...

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for ten minutes.

Agenda:

1. Finish partner summary from yesterday. 
2. Work on NoRedInk assignment. Ask me for the code.
3. Character monologue in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
1. Submit your Character Monologue on Flipgrid.
4. Class discussion: Are Leo and Stargirl complex characters?

Success Criteria:

1. I can summarize what happened in Stargirl.
2. I understand how to identify a preposition.
3. I can create a monologue that shows a character's point of view on an event from the novel.

Homework:

1. You should be reading every night. Your next book review will be due on October 1st.
2. Are you working on your vocabulary for this week?

Summary and Prepositions

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for ten minutes while I grade your vocabulary.

Agenda:

1. Finish Plot Analysis document in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
1. Use the plot analysis to write a summary of the novel. You will complete this summary with a partner.
2. Work on Prepositions NoRedInk assignment. You can test out of a subject if you think you already know it.
3. Play vocabulary Jam.

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify a preposition in a sentence.
2. I understand the plot of the novel Stargirl and I can summarize it.
3. I can remember my vocabulary from the previous list.

Homework:

1. Make sure you are reading your book at home. The next book review is on October 1st.
2. Are you working on your vocabulary?

Link Crew Lesson

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form.

Agenda:

1. I will collect your notes from the last three days. Take this survey about the TQE process.
   
   
   
   
2. Link crew will be in class today.

Success Criteria:

1. I turned in notes that demonstrate I understood the end of the book.
2. I am almost at 50% for my vocabulary unit.

Homework:

1. Start your new vocabulary list, SAT words with the letter B
2. Did you miss a discussion or not talk as much as you wanted? Record a 2 minute video with your best thoughts, questions, and epiphanies.

TQE Method Day 3

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read Stargirl instead of our independent reading books. We need to practice a new routine together.

1. Today we will discuss the end of the novel. We will also have to pause because Mr. Jimenez will be talking to our class.

Agenda:

1. Today we will continue a new process for class discussions. You will be graded ONLY on HOW MUCH you contribute to the discussion.
1. Read the assigned reading and take notes however you want. Here is a suggested way to take notes:
   
2. Small group discussion. Use these questions stems to guide your discussion. Start on the left and move to the right.
   
3. Submit your groups top two THOUGHTS, lingering QUESTIONS, or EPIPHANIES to the Padlet wall. Use the author's name! (Spinelli)

Success Criteria:

1.  I contributed to my group's discussion.
2.  I was able to take notes on the reading.
3.  I helped create our group's Thoughts, Questions, or Epiphanies.

Homework:

1. Read the the PDF from 121 to the END
2. Start your new vocabulary list, SAT words with the letter B

TQE Method Day 2

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read Stargirl instead of our independent reading books. We need to practice a new routine together.

1. Today we will discuss up to page 157 in Stargirl
1. Read the the PDF from 121 to the END for tonight.

Agenda:

1. Today we will continue a new process for class discussions. You will be graded ONLY on HOW MUCH you contribute to the discussion.
1. Read the assigned reading and take notes however you want. Here is a suggested way to take notes:
   
2. Small group discussion. Use these questions stems to guide your discussion. Start on the left and move to the right.
   
3. Submit your groups top two THOUGHTS, lingering QUESTIONS, or EPIPHANIES to the Padlet wall. Use the author's name! (Spinelli)

Success Criteria:

1.  I contributed to my group's discussion.
2.  I was able to take notes on the reading.
3.  I helped create our group's Thoughts, Questions, or Epiphanies.

Homework:

1. Read the the PDF from 121 to the END
2. Start your new vocabulary list, SAT words with the letter B

TQE Method

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read Stargirl instead of our independent reading books. We need to practice a new routine together.

1. Today we will read to page 157 in Stargirl
1. Read the the PDF up to page 114-121 for HW

Agenda:

1. Today we will begin a new process for class discussions. You will be graded ONLY on HOW MUCH you contribute to the discussion.
1. Read the assigned reading and take notes however you want. Here is a suggested way to take notes:
   
2. Small group discussion. Use these questions stems to guide your discussion. Start on the left and move to the right.
   
3. Submit your groups top two THOUGHTS, lingering QUESTIONS, or EPIPHANIES to the Padlet wall. Use the author's name! (Spinelli)

Success Criteria:

1.  I contributed to my group's discussion.
2.  I was able to take notes on the reading.
3.  I helped create our group's Thoughts, Questions, or Epiphanies.

Homework:

1. Read the the PDF up to page 114-121 for HW
2. Start your new vocabulary list, SAT words with the letter B

Connotation quiz and concept map

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for five minutes. You should be done with your book by the 28th.

Agenda:

1. Today we will take a Connotation and Participle quiz in GOOGLE CLASSROOM. You will have ten minutes.
2. Start your new vocabulary list, SAT words with the letter B
3. Concept Map for Stargirl. You need to group and make connections between the following words and concepts from Stargirl.
1. Leo
2. Stargirl
3. Archie Brubaker
4. Kevin
5. Dori
6. Cinnamon
7. Hillari
8. Wayne
9. Evelyn Everybody
10. Mica High Students
11. Ron Kovac
12. Ukulele
13. Hot Seat
14. relationships
15. Happy Birthday
16. Observation
17. Kindness
18. Newspaper
19. Cheerleader
20. Pocket Mouse
21. imitate
22. influence
23. oratorical
24. jury
25. tomato
26. shun
27. conformity
28. wisdom
29. desert
30. individuality

Success Criteria:

1. I can make connections between characters, events, and themes in Stargirl.
2. I can analyze why an author chooses particular words in a passage.
3. I can add a participle to the beginning of a sentence.

Homework:

1. Your next book needs to be done by the 28th.
2. Start your new vocabulary list, SAT words with the letter B

Making connections in Stargirl

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for five minutes.

Agenda:

1. Play a review game. How much do you remember?
2. Concept Map for Stargirl. You need to group and make connections between the following words and concepts from Stargirl.
1. Leo
2. Stargirl
3. Archie Brubaker
4. Kevin
5. Dori
6. Cinnamon
7. Hillari
8. Wayne
9. Evelyn Everybody
10. Mica High Students
11. Ron Kovac
12. Ukulele
13. Hot Seat
14. relationships
15. Happy Birthday
16. Observation
17. Kindness
18. Newspaper
19. Cheerleader
20. Pocket Mouse
21. imitate
22. influence
23. oratorical
24. jury
25. tomato
26. shun
27. conformity
28. wisdom
29. desert
30. individuality
3. Today we will read to page 145 in Stargirl.
1. Listen to the audio up to 3:24:00
2. Read the the PDF up to page 105

Success Criteria:

1. I can make connections between characters, events, and themes in Stargirl.
2. You know why Stargirl is being shunned.
3. You understand why Leo is feeling conflicted.

Homework:

1. Your next book needs to be done by the 28th.
2. Finish your vocabulary to 100% by Monday.

Thursday

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form.

Agenda:

1. Finish the Connotation and Denotation assignment in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
1. Today we will look for words that help us understand how the school feels about Stargirl when she first comes to Mica High.
2. Concept Map for Stargirl. You need to group and make connections between the following words and concepts from Stargirl.
1. Leo
2. Stargirl
3. Archie Brubaker
4. Kevin
5. Dori
6. Cinnamon
7. Hillari
8. Wayne
9. Evelyn Everybody
10. Mica High Students
11. Ron Kovac
12. Ukulele
13. Hot Seat
14. relationships
15. Happy Birthday
16. Observation
17. Kindness
18. Newspaper
19. Cheerleader
20. Pocket Mouse
21. imitate
22. influence
23. oratorical
24. jury
25. tomato
26. shun
27. conformity
28. wisdom
29. desert
30. individuality
3. Today we will read to page 133 in Stargirl.
1. Listen to the audio up to 3:07:00
2. Read the the PDF up to page 96

Success Criteria:

1. I know the difference between Connotation and Denotation.
2. I can explain how word choice helps us understand a character.
3. I understand how different parts of the novel are connected.
4. I understand what happened in Stargirl today.

Homework:

1. Your next book needs to be done by the 28th.
2. Finish your vocabulary to 100% by Monday.

Wednesday

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today we will read for five minutes.

Agenda:

1. Finish participle practice from yesterday.
2. Fill out the next section of the Plot Analysis. Today we work on the Turning Point part of the document. It is in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
3. Today we will read to page 121 in Stargirl.
1. Listen to the audio up to 2:50:00
2. Read the the PDF up to page 88

Success Criteria:

1. I add a participle in front of a sentence.
2. I understand the changes happening in the book.
3. I know how Stargirl gets her information and what her family is like.

Homework:

1. Finish the colored section for the connotation and denotation document in GOOGLE CLASSROOM.

Connotation and Denotation

Big Ideas: How do individuals and groups shape our identity? How do we become a confident individual?

Reading: Today you will start your second book. We will turn in our first book review.

Agenda:

1. Turn in your first book review. Fill out your reading log with your new book.
1. Period 1
1. ID: 18972684
2. Key: brubaker1
2. Period 6
1. ID: 18972747
2. Key: brubaker2
2. Speed discussion: What do you think?
1. Leo is really in love VS. Leo just has a crush. Why is Leo attracted to Stargirl?
2. How is Leo being shaped? What changes do we see?
3. Is Stargirl annoying? Would you be her friend? What positive quality would you want to influence you?
3. Word choice: Connotation and Denotation on GOOGLE CLASSROOM.
1. Connotation is the definition of a word. 
2. Denotation is the emotion behind the word.
3. Authors frequently choose words because of their denotation.
4. Participle practice in English Journal #5
   
5. Today we will read to page 109 in Stargirl.
1. Listen to the audio up to 2:33:00
2. Read the the PDF up to page 78

Success Criteria:

1. I can analyze how a character develops over the course of a text.
2. I know the difference between Connotation and Denotation.
3. I can create my own sentence with a participle.
4. I understand what happened in Stargirl today.

Homework:

1. Your next book needs to be done by the 28th.
2. Finish your vocabulary to 100% by Monday.