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."

Monday, October 19, Day 29

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 FREESTYLE WRITING

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."

Wednesday, October 13, Day 26

Today’s Agenda

 One-Minute Thought On Peace

 Notebooks Ready??

Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

Special Treatment For Our Visitors

 Reminder About Jobs

 Return Any Papers

Jokes by the TA

 Reminder About Slants

Our lessons for the past week:

* Transitions

* Socratic question

* Character bookmarks

* 5-second page summaries

* Participles

* 4-sentence recipes

* Presenting your writing

* Self-assessments

TODAY’S LESSON

Double Period

Mini - Lesson 1 

(10 minutes)

Three Key Questions

after Reading a Text:

1) What does it say?

2) What does it mean?

3) What does it matter?

These are questions you can ask yourself, 

and they are also good questions 

for the Teacher Assistant to ask

during a discussion.

Let's read Ch. 8

and then do three sticky notes,

answering those three questions.

Mini - Lesson 2

(10 minutes):

Using a multi-layered time-line

to keep track of what happens

in a novel

First layer: What happened

Second layer: What questions do I have?

Third layer: What predictions can I make?

Tuesday, October 12, Day 24

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

Reminder About Jobs

Return Any Papers

Jokes by the Teacher Assistant

 Reminder About Slants

Skit??

Today’s Lesson:

USING TRANSITIONS

To access the lesson, 

let's go to "Writing Textbook" at the top of this page,

then click on "Transitions".

* 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."

Thursday, October 7, Day 22

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

Today’s Lesson:

Questions for a Socratic Seminar

I'm hoping you will learn how to ask questions

that push your classmates to show their wisdom.

Have you learned how to ask good questions in the past?

Do you know someone who asks questions 

that enable you to show your wisdom?

Why would a teacher teach by mainly asking questions?

Have you had a teacher who does this?

* 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."

Wednesday, October 6, Day 21

Today’s Agenda

One Cracker For A Small Snack

 One-Minute Thought On Peace

 Notebooks Ready??

Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

Special Treatment For Our Visitors

 Reminder About Jobs

 Return Any Papers

Jokes by the TA

 Reminder About Slants

TODAY’S LESSON

Double Period

Mini - Lesson 1 

(10 minutes):

Using a "Character Bookmark"

to keep track of different characters, 

what they look like 

and how they behave.

I'm hoping you will learn today

about a good way to keep the characters

of any novel straight in your mind. 

How did you keep track of characters last year?

How about in your fun reading books?

What are some techniques you have used?

On your bookmark,

each time something really new about a character is revealed, 

write the page number and a brief note about it.

Let's practice it for a few minutes now, 

recording the names of the chief characters 

and the pages where they were first introduced. 

Then, let's practice using the bookmark during silent reading today.

TODAY’S LESSON

Double Period

Mini - Lesson 2

(10 minutes):

5-second page summaries 

See if you can do it!

Challenge yourself to make an accurate 5-second summary 

of each page in TKAM.

Today I hope you learn 

how important and easy it is

to write a good summary of a page in just 5 seconds.

Have you done this sort of thing before --

quick brief summaries of what you've read?

 

Let's do some 5-second summaries in class.

How did you do?

Tuesday, October 5, Day 20

Today’s Agenda

One Cracker For A Small Snack

One-Minute Thought On Peace

Notebooks Ready??

Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

Special Treatment For Our Visitors

Slide Show? Schooltube?

Teacher’s Mailbox

Reminder About Jobs

Return Any Papers

Jokes

Go Over Any Homework Due Today

 Reminder About Slants

Skit??

Poem Of The Week?

Today’s Lesson:

Using participles to lengthen sentences

Let's study the participles on p. 68 and 70 of TKAM.

 

* 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."

Monday, October 4, Day 19

Today’s Agenda

 

One-Minute Thought On Peace

Notebooks Ready??

Teacher Assistant:

90 Seconds For Book Talk, Vocab

 CHECK TKAM NOTES

Homework Assignment

Special Treatment For Our Visitors

Slide Show? Schooltube?

Reminder About Jobs

Return Any Papers

Jokes

 Reminder About Slants

Today’s Lesson:

1) The 4-sentence recipes,

2) An impressive way to "present" your writing, 

3) Impressive self-assessments.

Isn't it great to make a good impression on someone?

Think of a time when you wanted to make 

-- and maybe did make -- 

a good impression.

How did it feel?

Today, I hope I can convince you of the importance 

of making a good impression with your writing. 

Make your essay so impressive

(especially the first part)

that a reader might say, 

"Wow! This is a really impressive-looking piece of writing!"

What have you learned  in the past

about making a good impression with your writing?

Here's what wee will learn today:

How to write an impressive title, and subtitle, and heading. 

How to use a recipe to carefully build

and opening and closing paragraph. 

And how to write an impressive self-assessment. 

We will click here for how to do a proper heading.

We will click here for how to write the 4-sentence recipe. 

We will click here for how to do an impressive self-assessment.

 DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

* 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."