Thursday, October 21, Day 32

Today’s Agenda

 

One-Minute Thought On Peace

Notebooks Ready??

Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

 
Homework Assignment

 

Special Treatment For Our Visitors

Reminder About Jobs

Return Any Papers

Jokes?

 Reminder About Slants

 

OUR LESSONS FROM THE PAST WEEK

* Three Key Questions

* Bringing something to the table

*The 4-sentence recipe

* An impressive way to "present" your writing

* Impressive self-assessments

* Keeping Good Notebooks  * Reading journals
* Particples
*Freestyle Writing
5-second page summaries
Character bookmarks

 

 

TODAY'S LESSON:

1) SOCRATIC SEMINAR --

TRACKING THE SPEAKER

Discussion of Chapters 8,9,10 in TKAM

 (12 minutes)

 

2) Making a graphic organizer 

for an essay

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, October 20, Day 31

Today’s Agenda

1-Minute Thought about Peace

 Notebooks Ready?

 Homework assignment

 Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

 Special Treatment For Our Visitors

 Slide Show? Schooltube?

 Teacher’s Mailbox

 Reminder About Jobs

Jokes by the Teacher Assistant

 Reminder About Slants

Our lessons for the past week:

* Three key questions
* Using a multi-layered timeline
* Transitions

* Socratic question

* Character bookmarks

* 5-second page summaries

* Participles

* 4-sentence recipes

* Presenting your writing

* Self-assessments

 

Today’s Lesson:

Reviewing 

three key questions

and
using a multi-layered time-line

 * In Notebooks,

Write Covered Topics In Margin.

When All Is Quiet, Teacher Assistant Stands and Says:

"Rise, Push In Chairs, And Leave Quietly With Thanks."

Tuesday, October 19, Day 30

Today’s Agenda

1-Minute Thought about Peace

 Notebooks Ready?

 Homework assignment

 Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

 Special Treatment For Our Visitors

 Slide Show? Schooltube?

 Teacher’s Mailbox

 Reminder About Jobs

Jokes by the Teacher Assistant

 Reminder About Slants

 Skit??

CHECK READING BLOGS

CHECK ESSAYS FROM LAST NIGHT

Our lessons for the past week:

* Three key questions
* Using a multi-layered timeline
* Transitions

* Socratic question

* Character bookmarks

* 5-second page summaries

* Participles

* 4-sentence recipes

* Presenting your writing

* Self-assessments

Today’s Lesson:

LOOKING FOR THEMES

AS WE READ

 * In Notebooks,

Write Covered Topics In Margin.

When All Is Quiet, Teacher Assistant Stands and Says:

"Rise, Push In Chairs, And Leave Quietly With Thanks."