December 9/12

EQ: How can I improve the ending of my journal writing?

Agenda:
Print and assemble your Immigration Journal

Homework
No homework

December 6/7

EQ: How can I improve the ending of my journal writing?

Agenda:
Review of symbols and themes that ran through Letters from Rifka.
What ideas/objects/symbols did you include at the start of your character's journey?
Incorporate one of those ideas into your story ending.

Homework
Run-on sentence pre-assessment (blue sheet)

November 30/December 1

EQ: How can I add edit my writing?

Agenda:

• Incorporate feedback into your rough drafts.   
• Apply feedback to all your writing.  (Ex. If feedback says capitalize A in America, look for ALL instances of proper nouns that are not capitalized.)
• Continue to incorporate descriptive language into your writing:

• Similes
• Metaphors
• Sensory language
• Ba Da Bing!

Homework
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #3 (Ellis Island experience), please complete it for homework.

November 28/29

November 28/29

EQ: How can I add more descriptive language to my writing?

Agenda:
Exercise on descriptive writing - Show Not Tell.

• Similes
• Metaphors
• Sensory language
• Ba Da Bing!

Continue journal entry 3

Homework
For anyone who has not completed Journal Entry #2 (boat ride), please complete it for homework.

November 22/23

November 22/23

EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on Ellis Island?

Agenda:
Exercise on avoiding run-on sentences.
Continue journal entry 3

Homework
Check over reading packet for completion and quality and turn in Monday
(White Day will turn in reading packet on Thursday (not Tuesday) because we missed a class period due to Immigration Simulation)

November 18/21

November 18/21

EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on Ellis Island?

Agenda:
Complete journal entry #2
Begin journal entry 3

Homework
Read Letters From Rifka - complete the book and reading packet

November 16/17

November 16/17

EQ: What experiences will your immigration character have on the ship to America?

Agenda:
Vocabulary
Continue journal entry #2

Homework
Read Letters From Rifka pages 89-110
Answer questions 7-11 in packet #2

November 14/15

November 14

EQ: What adventures/obstacles does Rifka have on the ship to America and what adventures/obstacles might my immigration character have on the ship to America?

Agenda:
Review Rifka's experiences on the ship to America
Vocabulary for Rifka packet #2

Homework
Finish reading packet #1 (Question 20)
Begin reading packet #2 (Complete questions 1-6)
(Remember to answer all questions in complete sentences.)

November 10

November 10 (White Day)

EQ: What adventures/obstacles might my immigration character have?

Agenda:
Listen to sample journal entries
Continue writing rough draft of Journal Entry #1 (from home to port city)

• Explaining your push and pull factors
• Using sensory language (describing what you felt, heard, saw, smelled) on your journey
• Describing obstacles you had along the way to your port city (where you'll board a ship for America)

Homework
Complete Journal Entry #1 (journey from home to port city)
Review Checklist (yellow 1/2 sheet) to make sure you have all requirements included

November 9

November 9 (Red Day)

EQ: What adventures/obstacles might my immigration character have?

Agenda:
Listen to sample journal entries
Continue writing rough draft of Journal Entry #1 (from home to port city)

Homework
Complete rough draft of Journal Entry #1

November 8

November 8 (White Day)

EQ: What adventures/obstacles might my immigration character have?

Agenda:
Sensory language brainstorming
Begin writing rough draft

Homework
Continue reading Rifka to page 65.  Answer questions 6-19.

November 7

November 7 (Red Day)
EQ: What character traits might my immigration character have?

Agenda:
Building a character for the Immigration Simulation
Choosing a home country for your character
Choosing a name for your character
  
Homework
Continue reading Rifka to page 65.  Answer questions 6-19.

November 3/4

EQ: What are push and pull factors in immigration?

Agenda:
Read aloud of Letters from Rifka
Identify Push/Pull factors for Rifka's family
Model using words in the question to answer comprehension packet in complete sentences
  
Homework
Continue reading Rifka to page 40.
Answer questions 1-5 in packet.

November 1/2

EQ: What do I need to know to help me understand Letters from Rifka?

Agenda:
Reader's Theater -- Interview with author Karen Hesse
Vocabulary game - "Password"
  
Homework
No homework

October 28/31

EQ: How can I correctly use apostrophes?

Agenda:
Read apostrophes rules sheet.
View cartoons on correct use of apostrophes and analyze the meaning of each sentence.
Ex.

• The girls like spaghetti.
• The girl's like spaghetti.

Create cartoon showing correct use of apostrophes.
  
Homework
No homework

October 26/27

EQ: How can I revise my essay to improve it?

Agenda:
2nd day of revising essay
Using checklist, make edits to essay
Have partner peer edit essay
If finished, work with Sarah on expanding introduction and conclusion.
 
Homework
Final essay and completed essay checklist due Friday Oct 28 (Red Day) /Monday Oct 31 (White Day)
(Class time for revising essay is available Wednesday Oct 26 and Thursday Oct 27)

October 24/25

EQ: How can I revise my essay to improve it?

Agenda:
Using checklist, make edits to essay
Have partner peer edit essay
 
Homework
Final essay and completed essay checklist due Friday Oct 28 (Red Day) /Monday Oct 31 (White Day)
(Class time for revising essay is available Wednesday Oct 26 and Thursday Oct 27)

October 20/21

EQ: How does Chris show he has the "heart of a chief"?

Agenda:
Write rough draft of essay.
Remember:  Rough draft should contain 4 paragraphs: 

1. Introductory paragraph
2. Body paragraph for characteristic #1 (paragraph should contain evidence from the text that Chris displays that characteristic)
3. Body paragraph for characteristic #2 (paragraph should contain evidence from the text that Chris displays that characteristic)
4. Conclusion

Homework
Complete rough draft. 

Calendar for completing your essay:

October 18/19          Develop your writing plan and begin rough draft

October 20/21          Continue your rough draft (Complete rough draft for homework)

October 24/25          Mini-lesson on using a hook in intro. paragraph.  Edit introductions in class.

October 26/27          Peer edit, complete writing check list, and revise essay if needed for homework 

October 28/31          Final essay due at the beginning of class.

October 18/19

EQ: How does Chris show he has the "heart of a chief"?

Agenda:
Complete writing planning document
Begin typing rough draft of essay

Homework
None.

Calendar for completing your essay:

October 18/19          Develop your writing plan and begin rough draft

October 20/21          Continue your rough draft (Complete rough draft for homework)

October 24/25          Mini-lesson on using a hook in intro. paragraph.  Edit introductions in class.

October 26/27          Peer edit, complete writing check list, and revise essay if needed for homework 

October 28/31          Final essay due at the beginning of class.

October 13/17

EQ: What does "Heart of a Chief" mean?

Agenda:

• Review Chapters 12-13
• Popcorn read Chapter 14

Homework
Finish the book and finish the reading packet.  Turn in pack on Tuesday Oct 18 (Red Day) /Wednesday Oct 19 (White Day)

October 10/11

EQ: How can I demonstrate my ability to cite evidence?

Agenda:

• Announcements:
• Panel Discussion at the UO Longhouse on Native American Mascots
• http://jsma.uoregon.edu/events/panel-conversation-native-american-mascots-sports-%E2%80%93-challenging-persistence-and-reinforcement
•  It's Indigenous People's Day today in Eugene and other places.  Read about it here.

• Review Chapters 9-11 of Heart of a Chief 
• Read Chapter 12 (read aloud) 

Homework
Finish Chapter 12 and answer questions.  Read Chapter 13.  (Chapter 13 answers do not need to be completed. You will have class time.)

October 6/7

EQ: How can I demonstrate my ability to cite evidence?

Agenda:

• Debrief Philosophical chairs 
• Review Chapter 1-4 packets and proficiency scores on 2 standards.  (The new standard is "Citing textual evidence to support your analysis."
• Independent reading time for chapters 10 and 11.

Homework
Read Chapters 10 and 11 and answer questions.

October 4/5

EQ: Should Native American mascots be banned?

Agenda:
2 videos and a reading on the issue of Native American mascots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-tbOxlhvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nARu8hoc1Qw

Reading: 
http://magazines.scholastic.com/news/2014/08/Insult-or-Honor

Philosophical Chairs Discussion on Native American mascots

Homework
Read chapter 9 and answer questions

September 30/Oct 3

EQ: How can I find the theme and why is it important?

Agenda:
Review chapters 5&6
New signposts!  Have you seen them? 

• Words of the Wiser
• Memory Moments

Begin reading Chapter 7 - buddy reading

Homework
Read Chapters 7&8 and complete Chapter 7 questions.

September 28/29

EQ: How can I use a topic sentence to organize my paragraphs?

Agenda:
C-Notes on topic sentences

Practice creating topic sentences


Homework
Read Chapter 6 and complete questions in packet.

September 28/29

EQ: How can I use a topic sentence to organize my paragraphs?

Agenda:
C-Notes on topic sentences

Practice creating topic sentences


Homework
Read Chapter 6 and complete questions in packet.

September 28/29

EQ: How can I use a topic sentence to organize my paragraphs?

Agenda:
C-Notes on topic sentences

Practice creating topic sentences


Homework
Read Chapter 6 and complete questions in packet.

September 26/27

September 26/27

EQ:  How can signposts improve our understanding of literature?

In Class
Reviewed 2 types of signposts:

• Contrasts and Contradictions
• Aha! moments

 Recorded 2 signposts for chapters 1-4.
 Began reading chapter 5.

Homework
Finish chapter 5 and answer questions in packet.

September 22/23

September 22/23
EQ:  What can we learn about what it is like to be Native American today in America from this novel?

In Class
Review Chapter 3
Read Chapter 4

Homework
Answer in packet:  "What do you learn in the novel about being Native American in America today?"
Use quotes from the text to support your answer

The entire packet except for the last page should be completed by your next class period.  You will turn it in and get a new packet for the next part of the novel.

September 20/21

September 20/21
EQ: How can fictional characters help us understand real people?

In Class:
Heart of a Chief character analysis review
Reading questions - Chapter 2

Homework: Read Chapter 3 and complete reading questions

September 16/19

September 16/19
EQ: How can fictional characters help us understand real people?
In Class:
Hand out new novel, Heart of a Chief
Read prologue and beginning of Chapter 1

Homework: Read Chapters 1&2 and "present" the characters you meet in the chapters.  (See blue packet for directions on how to "present" characters.

September 14/15
EQ:
How has our country's history affected Native Americans?
In Class
Share information learned from article
Watch video clips (TEDx talks):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Re-KrQNa4 (first 5min 30sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIzYzz3rEZU (first 6 min 40sec)

Homework
Write a paragraph describing 3 things you learned about Native American history or current issues.  (Three things total -- can be something historical and/or current issues)

September 12/13
EQ: How has our country's history affected Native Americans?
In Class
In table groups, read assigned section article from:
http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/

Homework: none

September 8th/9th
In Class

• Reviewed Classroom Procedures 
• Discussed "letter" assignment

Homework

• Write a letter about you - Due Sept 12 (Red Day)/Sept 13 (White Day)