- Begin Independent Reading Before the Bell Rings!
- 1. Start New Entry: See new entry poster for format!!
- 2. Answer Reader Response:
- - 3 Questions about your book
- - 2 Predictions or Inferences
- - 1 Important Idea
- Learning Target
- What are two strategies you can use in order to study vocabulary words in preparation for the vocabulary test on List IV?
- Word Study
- Put the following on your desk...
- - Workbook (p. 139)
- - Colored Marker
- - Composition Book
- - 10 Blank Flash Cards
- 1. You will be graded to day on how much you get done during this period! You can earn up to 100 points!
- 2. You must complete the following by the end of the period...
- - Make ten vocabulary flashcards.
- - Workbook pages 139-140
- 3. When done have a teacher grade your work!
- New Words for Vocabulary List V
- - impersonal (personality, personal, impersonally) not related to feelings or emotions; having no personality.
- - conscious (consciously, unconscious) to be awake or know; sensitive; on purpose
- Learning Target: What are some ways to determine the important events in a novel?
- Read Aloud/Think Aloud
- - Read Chapter 23 (p.223)
- - Focus on Determining Importance
- - Authors use various methods to show us what is important including: repetition order in which events occur, details or speeches by characters and many others.
- - Determining Important Ideas
- Example 1 - Page 224 "Fine. Let them think what they want." Jenna has been uncomfortable with this issue for a while. HS kids often have to battle public reputations in order to understand individual people, and that is not easy. Jenna's decision is a difficult and important one, and it shows she is more mature than she was earlier in the book.
- Example 2 - Page 225 "He's a friend of Michael MacKenzie, right?" These comments reveal Jenna in another light: she has "heard a few things," and she tries to define Joe, but she is judging him just as she did Amy. This shows Jenna to be a complex, believable high school girl.
- Class Conversation
- - Why does Jenna talk to Amy?
- - Why does Amy leave?
- Don't Forget: Quiz Friday on Vocabulary List IV
Wednesday - Single Period
- Do Now: Copy
- - Entry Title: Summarizing
- Summarizing is the skill of giving a brief description of the main points of something.
- Learning Target: Can you and your team summarize the important ideas in a text?
- Summary/Flashback Activity
- - How do you summarize? Identify the most important ideas and put them together.
- - In groups, find examples of prior events that build up to the Flashback Scene in chapter 23.
- - See chapters (Chapters 7, 8, 15 for event leading up to the flashback. check out chapter 23 for the flashback scene.)
- Progress Reports: Have them signed and brought in tomorrow. This is a homework grade worth 100 points!
- Don't Forget: Quiz Friday on Vocabulary List IV
- Begin Independent Reading Before the Bell Rings!
- 1. Start New Entry: See new entry poster for format!!
- 2. Answer Reader Response:
- - 3 Questions about your book
- - 2 Predictions or Inferences
- - 1 Important Idea
- Do Now: Copy
- Entry Title: The Parts of a Single Paragraph Essay About a Novel
- 1. Topic Sentences - Includes the title, author, genre and restates the main idea of the question/prompt.
- 2. Body Sentences - Examples, Textual Evidence and/or Explanations that prove your Topic Sentence is true.
- 3. Closing Sentences - A final sentence that restates (not copies) the Topic Sentence. It make the paragraph "feel" completed.
- Mini-lesson: The parts of a single paragraph essay about a novel.
- Work on paragraphs. Due end of the period.
- Vocabulary Bee
- Homework: Hand in paragraph for a grade. You will be graded on having a beginning a middle and an end to your paragraphs.
- Don't Forget: Quiz Tomorrow on Vocabulary List IV!
Friday - Single Period
Monday - Single
- Do Now
- - Get ready for Vocabulary Quiz
- - Pen or Pencil?
- - Everything off your desk?
- Ten minutes to study before the quiz.
- Take the Vocabulary Quiz
- New Progress Reports!
- Start a New Entry for Vocabulary List V
- Add New Words for Vocabulary List V
- 1. impersonal (personality, personal, impersonally): not related to feelings or emotions; having no personality.
- 2. conscious (consciously, unconscious): to be awake or know; sensitive; on purpose
- 3. tragedy (tragic, tragically): an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as an accident, crime, or natural disaster.
- 4. perspective: a point of view or feeling about something.
- Read Aloud/Think Aloud
- - Finish the Book Chapters 24 and 25 (p.233-245)
- - Focus: Summarizing Information
- - Summarize the conversation between Jenna and her mother. "I can't help feeling he'd be alive if it weren't for me."
- Classroom Conversation
- 1. Why does Jenna feel guilty? Is she guilty?
- 2. Why does her mom feel guilty? Is she guilty?
- 3. How might guilt affect Michael's life?
- 4. What might happen during the rest of the day that begins the last chapter?
- 5. What might happen over the next six months?