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