Past Lessons

Monday, November 4, 2013

Period 9 - Week 10

MONDAY - Double Period


  • Begin Independent Reading Before the Bell Rings!
  •      1. Start New Entry:  See new entry poster for format!!
  •      2. Answer Reader Response:  
  •           - 3 Connections
  •           - 2 Questions or  Inferences
  •           - 1 Author's Purpose Question

  • Learning Target: Can you explain the symbolism of The Ghost Tree and describe Michael and Joe's friendship using evidence from the novel?

  • Word Study  
  •   Add these to Vocab. List IV!
  •      5.  intention (intent, intently, intentional, intentionally): done on purpose, a plan, a desire.
  •      6.  hypocrite (hypocrisy, hypocritical): claiming to have beliefs about something and your personal behavior is the opposite.

  • Read Aloud (Chapters 18 & 19 on pages 175-193)
  •    Focus: Determining Important Ideas (page 176) "Joe's drinking had gotten worse..."
  •    Compare how Joe has been characterized through out the book with this passage.

  • Class Conversation 
  •    1.  Symbolism of the Ghost Tree
  •    2.  Michael and Joe's Friendship Assignment



TUESDAY - Single Period 
  • Do Now
  •     - Start a new entry titled: Michael and Joe
  •     - Describe Michael and Joe's friendship using at least one text-based detail to support your answer.

  • Learning Target: Can you explain the symbolism of The Ghost Tree and describe Michael and Joe's friendship using evidence from the novel?

  • Update Plot Chart


WEDNESDAY - Double Period
  • Complete Update of Plot Chart
  •   -  Get out your plot chart.
  •   - Get out the storyboard of your chapter.
  •   - Be prepared to share the plot of your chapter.

  • Word Study
  •     Add these two new words to Vocabulary List IV!
  •    7. remorse (remorseful, remorseless): a feeling of deep regret or guilt about something you did wrong.
  •    8. preoccupy (preoccupied, preoccupation, unoccupied, reoccupied): when you are focused on a single thought or activity

  • Learning Target: Can you explain how predictions help you understand or remember what you read?

  • New Entry: Predictions Can Help
  •   - Predictions = Inferences
  •  - Inferences =  Logical Conclusions
  •  - Therefore: Predictions = Logical Conclusions
  • This thought process help you remember events of the narrative and better understand it.
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  • Example
  •   - Prediction:  Joe hates Amy because she is not interested in dating him.
  •   - Inference
  •        - Example 1: Amy pushing Joe away at the theater. Textual Evidence: "But then she [Jenna] saw Amy stiffen, jerk her leg away from the boy's grasp, and press herself even closer to the wall. (p.88)
  •        - Example 2: Joe's overreaction at the accident. Textual Evidence: Before Michael realized what was happening, Joe jumped onto the hood of the Tercel and began to stomp on the windshield, alternating his feet, sometimes crashing down with both at once. (p. 182)


  • Read Aloud
  •    Chapters 19 & 20 - p.176-201

  •    Focus: Making Inferences
  •    1.  What opinions does Jenna have about Michael and Joe?
  •    2.  What is the effect of reading about the same event from two different points of view?
  •    3.  What do you think will happen in Swallowing Stones?
  •    4. How might making predictions help you understand or remember what you read?



THURSDAY - Single
  • Do Now: Take out your character chart.
  •   
  •  Learning Target: How do you Determining Important Ideas

  • Whole Class Instruction - Comparing Jenna and Michael
  •    - Mini-lesson on Character Traits
  •    - Create  a Compare and Contrast Chart
  •    - Check Yourself:  Complete p. 83 in workbook

  • Homework: On a sheet of paper with a complete heading, answer the following question to hand in tomorrow for homework:  How do you think the novel, Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald might end?




FRIDAY - Double Period
  • Begin Independent Reading Before the Bell Rings!
  •      1. Start New Entry:  See new entry poster for format!!
  •      2. BEFORE You Start Reading:  Make a prediction (a type of inference) about what you think is going to happen in the next section of your novel.
  •      3.  Begin reading.  When done...
  •      2. Answer Reader Response:  
  •           - Look at your prediction.  Explain why your prediction was right or wrong and explain why.
  • Independent Reading 

  • Add these to Vocab. List IV!
  •      9.  furtive (furtively): attempting to avoid attention because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble.
  •      10.  persistent (persistently): continuing firmly in course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition.

  • Read Aloud: Chapters 21 and 22 (p.205-220)

  • Class Conversation: Determining Importance
  •       -  Imagine you are the police investigating Charlie Ward's death. What information do you think is important to the case?
  •      -  How did you decide that these things are important?

  • Raffle!