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