Practicing Better Questions with Listenwise podcasts

Big Ideas: What is human nature?

Reading: Today we will read for 

Agenda:

1. I will assign each group a podcast.
2. You will create leveled questions for the podcast.
3. Your group will decide on which questions for each level are the best and submit them via Google Form.
4. You will have the rest of the time to finish any reading or notes you may have before our discussion tomorrow.

Success Criteria:

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Homework:

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Creating Better Questions

Big Ideas: How can we ask better questions?

Reading: Today we will read for 10 minutes.

Agenda:

1. Introduction to Costa's Levels of Thinking
2. Transforming questions from one level to the next
1. In the text (one page)
2. Through the text (many pages)
3. Outside the text (many pages + outside knowledge)
3. Start a new English Journal
1. English Journal #6 Costas level of questions
2. Create a TABLE with 3 columns and 2 rows
3. With a partner write different levels of questions for chapter 5.
4. Group activity
1. Add your group's questions to this wall.

Success Criteria:

1. I can tell the difference between different levels of questions.
2. I can write questions at each level.
3. I can build strong content knowledge.

Homework:

1. SAT letter D is due 100% on Monday.
2. Our discussion of chapter 6 will be on Thursday.

Chapter 5 Discussion

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

Reading: Today we will read for 5 minutes. If you get here early you will have extra time to read.

Agenda:

1. Meet in your small groups. Push the discussion deeper and open the book frequently.
2. I will be checking your notes today.
3. Submit your group's best TQEs.
1. Period 1
2. Period 6
4. Try to use the sentence frames below.
   

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify Golding's most important words and sentences.
2. I can ask questions that deepen a conversation.
3. I can learn from my classmates.

Homework:

1. Your next book review will be on November 9th.
2. You should be working on finishing your SAT letter D vocabulary.

Finish things up

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

Reading: I hope you are enjoying the book you are reading.

Agenda:

1. Fill out this Google Form to provide feedback about the class.
2. We will finish the writing assignments for The Rose.
1. Finish the second set of variations.
2. With a random partner rewrite The Rose in inverted order (what is last comes first).
3. Each partner should write a sentence.
4. This assignment will be done on paper.
3. iTime: Interruption

Success Criteria:

1. I can identify what I am good at and not good at in this class.
2. I can invert a narrative and vary my sentences.
3. I can replace negative thoughts with positive ones.

Homework:

1. Read chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies in preparation for our discussion on Monday.
2. We will discuss chapter 6 on Thursday.

Catch up day

Big Ideas: What is human nature?

Reading: Fill out the reading progress form.

Agenda:

1. Have you done the following?
1. Watched the writing videos I posted and revised your narrative?
2. Filled out the Google Form to receive a regrade?
3. Did you start your new vocabulary?
4. Start reading chapter 5 and taking notes?

Success Criteria:

1. I understand how to revise my narrative.
2. I have started on my new vocabulary.
3. I am getting better at understanding how to take notes on a novel.

Homework:

1. Read chapter 5 of Lord of the Flies in preparation for our discussion on Monday.
2. We will discuss chapter 6 on Thursday.