- Do Now - Start New DIRT Entry
- Independently read your novel for 10 minutes.
- Learning Objective: Assess your reading comprehension of and understanding of The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry and the concept of irony.
- Answer Reader Response - 5 minutes
- Make one of the following connections:
- - Text to Text: Relate your novel to another book you've read.
- - Text to Self: Relate your novel to an experience you or someone you know may have had.
- - Text to World: Relate your novel to and event happening in anywhere on Earth.
- Hand in your Swallowing Stones essay for partial credit.
- Finish any of the following: Take Home Quiz, Vocabulary Flash Cards, or Words to Know Worksheet. Hand in by the end of Period 8.
- Take "The Gift of the Magi" final test.
TUESDAY - Single Period
- Do Now - Copy
- Entry Title: The Literary Letter
- A Literary Letter tells someone about what you are reading. You can send them to teachers, other students or family members.
- - This is both a letter and a written assignment for class.
- - Has a heading like a regular essay; but it also has a date, greeting and closing like a letter.
- - The body of the letter has three sections.
- Learning Target: To introduce you to the Literary Letters as a way to share what you have read.
- Mini-lesson: Model of a Literary Letter
- Group Work: Chart the parts of a Literary Letter as a class.
- Ticket Out the Door: List one thing you will write about in the body of the letter on a half sheet of paper.
- Have You Done the Following? If not you need to get it handed in ASAP!
- - Gift of the Magi Quiz
- - Gift of the Magi Vocabulary Worksheet
- - Gift of the Magi Test
WEDNESDAY - Double Period
- Do Now - Start New DIRT Entry
- Independently read your novel for 10 minutes.
- Answer Reader Response - 5 minutes
- Make one of the following connections:
- - Text to Text: Relate your novel to another book you've read.
- - Text to Self: Relate your novel to an experience you or someone you know may have had.
- - Text to World: Relate your novel to and event happening in anywhere on Earth.
- Learning Target: Write a rough draft of your literary letter.
- - Independent Work Only
- - Quiet music allowed while you work.
- - No texting allowed!
- - You may work with a partner to share or generate ideas for your letter, but everyone must write their own letters!
- Assessment: Your rough draft is due at the end of this double period. This will be a classwork grade worth 100 points!
- Class Chat: Planning a Holiday Party
THURSDAY - Single Period
FRIDAY - Double Period
- Do Now - Copy
- Entry Title: Book Review
- A book review is like a movie review. The critic/writer, tells his/her opinion about a book they have read in order to help other people decide if the book is worth reading.
- Read Aloud / Think Aloud: Book Review on Swallowing Stones
- Class Conversation
- - What are some important ideas in the review?
- - In what ways did the author have to synthesize (put different information together to create a new idea) McDonald's novel to compose the review.
- Whole Class Instruction: Creating a Literary Letter Rubric
- - A list of criteria used to evaluate your literary letter.
- - We need to come up with a rubric for the Literary Letter.
- Assessment: Compare your Literary Letter to the rubric and identify areas you feel need revision.
- Finalize Holiday Party Plans
- Period 8 - Silent work time. This is because there was little work accomplished yesterday. Behavior and effort during this period will determine if we have our holiday party period 9.
- Holiday Party! (maybe)
