May 24 and 25

Classwork:
Review calendar for completing Cultural Festival essay
Take the following steps to revise your essay:

• Using the essay checklist to make sure you have all the necessary components.
• Using the "Effective Leads" handout to double check your own essay "lead" or "hook."
• Revise essay based on comments on  Google doc

Homework:
Do any or all of the following you have not yet done.

• If you've begun writing your essay, please share it with me.  (case_sar@4j.lane.edu)
• Gather up photos and images from home for your Cultural Festival poster
• Final essay and all photos due Tuesday, May 30th (White Day) Wednesday, May 31st (Red Day)

May 22 and 23

Classwork:
Review calendar for completing Cultural Festival essay
Take the following steps to revise your essay:

• Using the essay checklist to make sure you have all the necessary components.
• Using the "Effective Leads" handout to double check your own essay "lead" or "hook."

Homework:
Do any or all of the following you have not yet done.

• If you've begun writing your essay, please share it with me.  (case_sar@4j.lane.edu)
• Gather up photos and images from home for your Cultural Festival poster
• Final essay and all photos due Tuesday, May 30th (White Day) Wednesday, May 31st (Red Day)

May 19

EQ:  What is the schedule for completing our Cultural Festival posters?


Classwork:
Go for a walk to clear minds and get fresh air after testing.
Work productively on Cultural Festival Essay, including:

• Organizing your interview information by identifying categories (early life, professing life, cultural traits, a big event (war/invention/graduating/etc), family life)
• Building out your paragraphs using information you research (about a country, a war, an event) and your interview information.
• Using the essay checklist to make sure you have all the necessary components.
• Using the "Effective Leads" handout to double check your own essay "lead" or "hook."
• Looking for photographs online related to your topic and saving them onto your Google drive.

Homework:
Do any or all of the following you have not yet done.

• If you've begun writing your essay, please share it with me.  (case_sar@4j.lane.edu)
• Gather up photos and images from home for your Cultural Festival poster 
• Essay rough drafts due Monday (Red Day) or Tuesday (White Day)
• It's ok if it's rough... Try to get all of your ideas and information down and we can work together to organize it.

 

 

May 17 and 18

EQ:  What is the schedule for completing our Cultural Festival posters?


Classwork:
State testing
OR
Cultural Festival essay writing
Calendar of writing activities and due dates handed out.

Homework:

• If you've begun writing your essay, please share it with me.  (case_sar@4j.lane.edu)
• Gather up photos and images from home for your Cultural Festival poster 
• Essay rough drafts due Monday (Red Day) or Tuesday (White Day)
• It's ok if it's rough... Try to get all of your ideas and information down and we can work together to organize it.

May 15 and 16

EQ:  How can I demonstrate my reading comprehension and writing skills?

Classwork:
State testing!  😀
Show what you know, yo!

OR

Cultural Festival essay writing

Homework:

• Make sure you have your Cultural Festival planning document (pink sheet) completed by May 17/18 (at the latest).  
• If you've begun writing your essay, please share it with me.  (case_sar@4j.lane.edu)
• Gather up photos and images from home for your Cultural Festival poster

May 10 and 11

EQ:  How can I demonstrate my reading comprehension and writing skills?

Classwork:
State testing!  😀
Show what you know, yo!

Homework:
Nothing.... unless you're waiting on your Cultural Festival interviewee to respond.  Make sure you have information by next week after testing is complete.

May 9 (Red Day)

EQ:  What can I expect from the Smarter Balanced test?

Classwork: 
Review the tools and look of the Smarter Balanced test, practice using headphones, practice answering some questions.

Homework: 

• Cultural Festival interview - Due May 11
• Turn in Weedflower book to library

May 8 (White Day)

EQ:  How do I correctly punctuate quotations?

Classwork:
1/2 class:  Review rules of punctuation with quotations
1/2 class:  Writing/Planning time for Cultural Festival essay

Homework:

• Complete Quotation Practice sheet
• Turn in Weedflower book to library
• Cultural Festival interview -- due May 10

May 4/5

EQ:  How do I organize my paragraphs?

Classwork:

• Review articles that tell about someone's story or about a culture/tradition
• Note the organization of the writing
• Review paragraphs from biographies and identify writing techniques
• Write a practice paragraph

Homework:

• Completion/Documentation of Cultural Festival interview - May 10 (White Day) or May 11 (Red Day)

May 2/3

EQ:  How do I organize my essay?

Classwork:

• Review Text Structure options
• Choose what works for your essay
• Complete Cultural Festival Essay Planning document

Homework:

• Complete Cultural Festival Interview - May 10/11

April 28 / May 1

EQ:  How do I use a "quote sandwich" to cite evidence from the text?

Classwork:

• Writing time for essay

Homework:
Note upcoming due dates:

• Character Analysis Essay - Due May 2nd (White Day) or May 3rd (Red Day)
• Completion/Documentation of Cultural Festival interview - May 10 (White Day) or May 11 (Red Day)

April 26/27

EQ:  How do I use a "quote sandwich" to cite evidence from the text?

Classwork:

• Review citing evidence using a "quote sandwich."
• Review example of a paragraph using "quote sandwich."
• Writing time for essay

Homework:
Note upcoming due dates:

• Character Analysis Essay - Due May 2nd (White Day) or May 3rd (Red Day)
• Completion/Documentation of Cultural Festival interview - May 10 (White Day) or May 11 (Red Day)

April 24/25

EQ:  How do I use a "quote sandwich" to cite evidence from the text?

Classwork:

• Turn in Weedflower packet.
• Review Cultural Festival Interview Questions.
• Learn how to use a "quote sandwich" to cite evidence.
• Writing time for Character Analysis Essay

Homework:

• Review, brainstorm, and star interview questions.

April 20/21

EQ:  How do I analyze a character in literature?

Classwork:

• Review chapters 24-27 of Weedflower
• Define "analyze"
• Complete planning document for Character Analysis Essay Assignment

Homework:

• Finish Weedflower.
• Complete reading packets

April 18/19

EQ:  What are key plot points in Weedflower?

Classwork:
Turn in Character Presentations (This is the first question of the reading packet that you do on your own paper.)
Turn in or share Poston Chronicle article.
Review chapters 18-23 of Weedflower
Work time on Weedflower packet

Homework:

• Read chapters 24-27
• Reading packets will be due Monday, April 24 (W) or Tuesday, April 25 (R)

April 14/17

EQ:  How can I describe the conditions and lives of the internees at Poston Internment Camp?

Classwork:
Writing time for Poston Chronicle article

Here are resources to help you decide about and write your article topic and details:

• Watch video interviews of Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps.
• Poston Chronicle 
• Read about Poston here.

Homework:

• Read chapters 21-23
• Complete Poston Chronicle article and print or share it with me by Tuesday (White Day)/Wednesday (Red Day)
• Turn in your character presentation.  (This is the first question on the reading packet.  Character Presentation -- 2 quotes about each main character -- should be done on your own paper.)

April 12/13

April 12/13

EQ:  What were the day-to-day conditions of Japanese internment camps, and how can we empathize with the Japanese Americans who lived there?

Classwork:
Review Chapters 16-18
Writing time for Poston Chronicle article
Resources to help you decide about your article topic and details:

• Watch video interviews of Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps.
• Poston Chronicle 
• Read about Poston here.

Homework:
Read chapters 19 through 21

April 10/11

EQ:  What were the day-to-day conditions of Japanese internment camps, and how can we empathize with the Japanese Americans who lived there?

Classwork:

• Turn in Cultural Festival Plan of Action
• Review chapters 13-15 in Weedflower.
• Watch video interviews of Japanese Americans who were relocated to internment camps.
• Poston Chronicle reporter assignment.
• Read about Poston here.

Homework:
Read chapters 16-18 in Weedflower and continue packet.
(Poston Chronicle writing assignment will be done in class.)

April 6/7

April 6/7
EQ:  What is theme and how do we identify it in a novel?
Classwork:

• Review Cultural Festival Project Plan of Action sheet  
• Review Chapters 9-11 in Weedflower
• Determine a theme of the book -- why are the events in the book happening?  What is the cause?
• Popcorn reading Chapter 12

Homework:

• Read through Chapter 15 and continue packet.
• Turn in Cultural Festival Plan of Action sheet.

April 4/5

Hi Students,
I got behind on our class website at the end of last trimester.  I'll try to do better this trimester!  Click on the Classwork and Homework link to see what we did in class and what homework you have.

April 4/5
EQ:  What are key plot points in Weedflower?
Classwork:

• Share Spring Break activities.
• Discuss upcoming cultural festival deadline. (Decide on topic.) 
• Review first 8 chapters of Weedflower (Game).

Homework:

• Read chapters 9-11 and continue work on packet.
• Cultural Festival topic decision (April 10/11)

February 21/22

EQ: What was similar and what was different in the Watsons book and movie?

Agenda:
BRAINSTORM!

Homework
1. Decide how you want to organize your Compare / Contrast essay:
By Topic:  Paragraphs are about themes/topics and you compare/contrast about each topic you choose
By Similarity/Differences - A paragraph ALL about similarities and a paragraph ALL about differences.
2. Complete graphic organizer for essay (just the "chart" side of the purple handout).  NOTE: It's possible your essay organization won't exactly "fit" the chart.  Just use the columns YOU need to get your essay ideas down.
You will have next class period AND next week's classtime to work on your essay.  Email if you have questions.

February 15/16

EQ: How can I be sure I'm fully responding to my reading questions?

Agenda:
RACE response method
Restate the question
Answer the question
Cite evidence
Explain the evidence

Homework
Read chapters 13-15
Answer questions

February 13/14

EQ: How is setting important to a novel?  How is important to you (does your mood/behavior/attitude change depending on  your setting?)

Agenda:
Review questions from chapters 9/10.
Allusions in Watsons (A blast from the past!)
New vocabulary
Read aloud

Homework
Creative Writing
Complete reading packet to turn in

February 9/10

EQ: How are literary devices used to make a novel more interesting?

Agenda:
Review questions from chapters 7/8
Find examples of similes, metaphor, and hyperbole in the story

Homework
Read chapters 9-10
Answer questions in packet

February 7/8

EQ: How does conflict contribute to a novel?

Agenda:
Review questions from chapters 7-8.
Discuss conflict so far in the novel
Find examples of conflict in the story

Homework
Read chapters 9-10
Answer questions in packet

February 2 / 6

EQ: How can I question a novel to better understand it?

Agenda:
Review questions from chapters 5-6.
Higher Level Questions lesson
Read chapter 7 aloud

Homework
Read chapters 7-8
Answer questions 3-5

January 31/Feb 1

EQ: How does an author use point of view to tell the story and to help us empathize with characters?

Agenda:
Review questions from chapters 1-4.
Point of View lesson
Task:  Rewrite scene from another point of view

Homework
New reading packet

• Define vocabulary
• Read chapters 5-6 
• Answer questions 1&2

January 27/30

EQ: Who are the characters in Watsons?

Agenda:
Review quiz
Discuss questions 1-4 in reading packet
Complete Character Analysis chart

Homework
Read to page 63
Answer questions 5-6 in reading packet

January 25/26

EQ:  Who are the characters in Watsons Go to Birmingham?

Agenda:
Grammar Quiz
Begin Character Analysis chart for Watsons Characters


Homework
Define vocab in packet
Read Watsons chapters 1-2
Answer questions 1-4

January 23/24

EQ: How can I prepare for my quiz?

Agenda:
Review Comma Splices homework
Hand back worksheets on parts of speech, types of sentences, and comma splices
Questions? 




Begin reading Watsons Go to Birmingham 😀

Homework
Study for Quiz (look at pink half sheet (contents below) and make sure you know everything :)

Identify the following parts of speech in sentences:

·       Noun ·       Verb ·       Adjective ·       Adverb

·       Preposition ·       Interjection ·       Conjunction ·       Pronoun

Identify and create

·       Sentences that meet the FIVE requirements of a complete sentence.

·       List those requirements here:

1.     _____________________________________________________________________

2.     _____________________________________________________________________

3.     _____________________________________________________________________

4.     _____________________________________________________________________

5.     _____________________________________________________________________

Identify and create

·       Opening Adverb sentences

·       Opening Adjective Phrase sentences

·       Sentences using appositives

Identify and Fix

·       Comma Splices

January 19/20

EQ: How can I avoid run-on sentences?

Agenda:
Review Types of Sentences homework.
Review and practice Comma Splice sentences and how to avoid them

Homework
Pink Handout - Avoiding Comma Splices

January 17/18

EQ: How can I vary my sentences?

Agenda:
Review "Making Sentences" homework (and turn in)
Review Adverbs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14fXm4FOMPM
Review Adjectives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuuZEey_bs

Learn and practice 2 types of sentences

• Opening Adverb
• Opening Adjective Phrase

Homework
Blue handout -- "Types of Sentences"

January 12/13

EQ: How can I use parts of speech to vary my sentences?

Agenda:
Parts of speech quiz
Expanding sentences using adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjuntions

Homework
Yellow handout -- Making sentences

January 11 - Red Day

EQ: What makes a complete sentence?

Agenda:
The 5 requirements of a complete sentence - notes
Parts of Speech review

Homework
Study for Parts of Speech Quiz

January 10 - White Day

EQ: What are the parts of speech?

Agenda:
Review sentence fragments vs. complete sentences.
Parts of speech handout

Homework
Study for parts of speech quiz

January 7 - White Day

January 7

EQ: What makes a complete sentence?

Agenda:
The 5 requirements of a complete sentence - notes
Practice identifying sentence fragments and complete sentences

Homework
Blue sheet - Sentence Fragments (Front side only)