MONDAY - Single Period
- Do Now...
- Independently read your DIRT novel for 10 minutes.
- Answer Reader Response - 5 minutes
- Select one of the following reading strategies and respond...
- - Make a connection (text to text, text to self, text to world)
- - Visualize a part of your novel and describe using imagery.
- - Ask a question to clarify your understanding of a part of your novel.
- - Determine/Explain why a part of your novel is important.
- - Make an Inference (logical conclusion) or a Prediction about your novel.
- - Synthesize (put it together)several ideas to create an original idea about your novel.
- Be prepared to share you reader response for a ticket for the next raffle and a participation grade.
- Word Study - Add these words to Vocabulary List VIII
- 7. fidget (fidgeted, fidgeting) - make small movements, especially of the hands and feet through nervousness or impatience.
- 8. trinket - a small ornament or item of jewelry that is of little value.
- Read Aloud Think Aloud - (Pages 44-48)
- Reading Skill Focus: Making inferences and synthesizing information.
- Class Discussion
- Share a "most embarrassing moment" with the class.
- What might be some reasons it is so important that we are accepted by other people?
- Consider the way the teacher responded to Liz's lice problem. Were her actions justified? Provide some evidence as to why or why not.
- Compare Liz's embarrassment in front of her classmates (former idea) with her embarrassment in front of her parents (later idea). How does she use the later situation to her advantage.
- Assessment: On a half sheet of loose-leaf paper with a complete heading answer the following question. This is a classwork grade worth 20 points.
- How might embarrassing moments shape or change personalities for the positive or the negative?
- Do Now...
- New Entry Titled: Things That Really Interest Me
- Create a list of things about which you are currently interested, would like to know more about, or things you have always wondered.
- Sample List
- 1. Current Interests: Music, sports, friends, food, making money, reading.
- 2. Would like to know more: How to develop my psychic abilities; How to tile a floor; How to play the stock market; How to quit smoking; How to become a professional football player
- 3. Wonder about: Where and how does does fresh water get into my home? What exactly are parallel universes? What supplements can I take to extend my life expectancy? What is the future of basketball? What is the best career choice for me?
- Learning Target - To introduce the purposes of this unit which are...
- 1. To develop the skills and habits used in conducting research.
- 2. To use those skills and habits in developing and communicating an evidence-based (CSI) perspective on a topic.
- 3. To write a research paper on a topic of your choice that includes works cited and a bibliography.
- Class Discussion/Mini-Lesson
- Research is different from having an opinion
- The writing of a research paper is repetitive - you will go through the same steps in the process several times before your research paper is complete.
- You may change your point of view as you go through the process.
- A researched understanding and perspective serves many purposes...
- writing a research paper
- developing a position on a controversial issue
- developing business plans
- designing and building a new invention
- informing personal and community decision-making
- writing fictional or historical novels
- giving presentations
- Guided Practice: A Student Research Plan
- With a group or on your own, read the Student Research Plan handout.
- Answer the following questions in your composition notebook. Feel free to ask your teacher for ideas.
- 1. What is column one about?
- 2. How is column two related to column one?
- 3. Explain why column three is titled "Tools and Handout"
- Assessment
- On a half sheet of loose-leaf paper with a complete heading answer the following questions for classwork grade worth 15 points.
- 1. What might be the purpose of today's lesson?
- 2. What are some reasons people use research?
- 3. What will you be writing that will prove you understand how to conduct research?
- 4. How might you explain how to use the Student Research Plan?
- Period 8
- Do Now...
- New Entry Titled: Things That Really Interest Me
- Create a list of things about which you are currently interested, would like to know more about, or things you have always wondered.
- Sample List
- 1. Current Interests: Music, sports, friends, food, making money, reading.
- 2. Would like to know more: How to develop my psychic abilities; How to tile a floor; How to play the stock market; How to quit smoking; How to become a professional football player
- 3. Wonder about: Where and how does does fresh water get into my home? What exactly are parallel universes? What supplements can I take to extend my life expectancy? What is the future of basketball? What is the best career choice for me?
- Learning Target - To introduce and stimulate thinking and interest in the topic the class will use to guide it's research.
WEDNESDAY - Single Period
- Do Now...
- Independently read your DIRT novel for 10 minutes.
- Answer Reader Response - 5 minutes
- Select one of the following reading strategies and respond...
- - Make a connection (text to text, text to self, text to world)
- - Visualize a part of your novel and describe using imagery.
- - Ask a question to clarify your understanding of a part of your novel.
- - Determine/Explain why a part of your novel is important.
- - Make an Inference (logical conclusion) or a Prediction about your novel.
- - Synthesize (put it together)several ideas to create an original idea about your novel.
- Be prepared to share you reader response for a ticket for the next raffle and a participation grade.
- Word Study - Add these words to Vocabulary List VIII
- 9. symmetry (symmetrically, symmetrical) - the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis.
- 10. savor - taste (good food or drink) and enjoy it completely.
- Read Aloud Think Aloud - (Pages 48-50)
- Reading Skill Focus: Determining the important idea in a passage.
- Mini-lesson: Modeling of how to determine important information in paragraphs.
- Group Work
- With a group or on your own, select a paragraph from this section OR you will be assigned a paragraph to read.
- Read the paragraph again.
- Discuss and determine the main idea of that paragraph and be prepared to tell the class what you decided is the important idea within it.
- Class Discussion
- Share out each of the important ideas from each paragraph.
- What might be the overall important idea or lesson to take away from this section of the book? Offer evidence from the book to back up your claim.
- Assessment: On a half sheet of loose-leaf paper with a complete heading answer the following question. This is a classwork grade worth 20 points.
- What are some way you determine what information is important to you each day and what information is not important?
- Do Now...
- New Entry Titled: Terms to Know
- 1. Exploring a Topic - reading two or more texts about something you find interesting or wonder about.
- 2. Areas of Investigation - Smaller topics within a larger topic. (i.e. The planet Mars is a smaller topic within the larger topic of our Solar System.)
- Learning Target: I can explain the reason(s) to Explore a Topic and identify Potential Areas of Investigation within that topic.
- Class Discussion/Mini-Lesson: Exploring a Topic
- Large Topic: Technology
- Brainstorm Areas of Investigation within the larger topic of Technology using https://bubbl.us
- Mr. DeGrandis will give everyone a copy of our brainstorming list tomorrow.
- Small Group Reading Assignment: Read, "The History of Social Networking"
- Reading focus: What do you want to learn more about regarding the history of social networking?
- Your group will be assigned a section of the article to read together.
- Individually, you will then fill out the Exploring a Topic Tool to help you practice exploring Areas of Investigation.
- Demonstration: How to use the Exploring a Topic Tool
- Guided Practice: Fill out the Exploring a Topic Tool on your own based on the section of text assigned by your teacher.
- TIPS: Ask other adults about your question or topic. Ask someone who might work in the area you are interested in.
- NOTE: YOU WILL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THIS FORM ON YOUR OWN. NOW IS THE TIME TO BE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TO USE IT!
- This assignment is due at the end of the double period for a classwork grade worth 100 points.
- Assessment: On a half sheet of loose-leaf paper with a complete heading, answer the following question:
- Create one question about the history of social media that you think you might enjoy exploring. Explain why.
FRIDAY - Single Period
- Do Now... Copy
- Entry Title: Area of Investigation
- Area of Investigation: A question or problem that can be investigated or better understood through research.
- Learning Target: I can explain what my first Area of Investigation might be.
- Mini-Lesson: Modeling of how to fill in the Area of Investigation 1 section of the Exploring a Topic Tool based on our previous class discussion on technology.
- Guided Practice: With a partner or on your own write a sentence you would like to know more about in the Potential Area of Investigation 2. Hint: Word this as a problem or a question.
- Go over tonight's homework.
- Assessment: Complete the My Learning Community assignment.
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