- Do Now: Independent Reading Time
- Read your independent reading book for 15 minutes.
- Start a new DIRT Day Entry and use proper Comp Book Format! See poster.
- Write down at least 10 thoughts as you read!
- Learning Targets
- 1. I understand what a role play is.
- 2. I understand the basic steps in courtroom procedure.
- Read Aloud/Think Aloud (Pages 131-137)
- We will be finishing the chapter titled, "Being Stupid." Click the link to download a copy if you need one!
- Focus: Asking questions and Theme.
- Classroom Conversation
- What questions do you have about this text?
- Why did Soto include the dog at the end of the story?
- Why don't we learn what happens in the attempted burglary?
- Whole Class Instruction: Role Playing Courtroom Procedures
- Last Ramp-up class you coded this text for important details that you might use in a trial.
- Today you will role play the trials of Gary, Scott and Ronnie as if they had been arrested.
- Important Things to Remember:
- Many of you will act as characters, some will be attorneys.
- The class will follow the rules of courtroom procedures.
- I will be the judge.
- As judge I will prompt you on proper courtroom procedures.
- People in court are always on their best behavior or they can be fined (stay after class), or go to jail (detention) if they are disrespectful or rude to anyone in the courtroom.
- One one group role plays their scene, the rest of the class will be the jury.
- Here are the proper courtroom procedures...
- Role Playing a Trial: Proper Courtroom Procedures· Judge reads the charges· Prosecutor gives opening speech· Defense attorney gives opening speech· Prosecutor calls witnesses· Defense attorney cross-examines witnesses· Defense attorney calls witnesses· Prosecutor cross-examines them· Prosecutor gives closing speech· Defense attorney gives closing argument· Jury decides verdict and sentence
TUESDAY - DOUBLE - ELA
- Be sure to sit with a partner for class!
- Do Now - Think
- Get Your Comprehension Questions from your teacher.
- Entry Title: The Dance
- Summarize what happened at the dance in your Composition Book. You may use your Comprehension Question Responses to help you.
- Learning Target: I can summarize the main events in a text and explain how these main events are connected to the central conflict of the text.
- Review what has happened so far in the story.
- Read Aloud from the Stage 5 epigraph to the end of the story.
- In your Composition Book, write down at least three questions you have about Stages 4 & 5.
- Share Out and Post Questions.
- PERIOD 8
- Quick Write
- Answer the following question on loose-leaf paper with a complete heading and use TREES to structure your response!
- What is the central idea of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"? Cite at least four pivotal moments in the text that show how the conflict develops throughout the story.
- Due: This Quick Write is due at the end of the period for a Classwork Grade worth 25 points!
WEDNESDAY - Single - Ramp-up
- Do Now - COPY
- Entry Title: Courtroom Procedures
- Role Playing a Trial: Proper Courtroom Procedures· Judge reads the charges· Prosecutor gives opening speech· Defense attorney gives opening speech· Prosecutor calls witnesses· Defense attorney cross-examines witnesses· Defense attorney calls witnesses· Prosecutor cross-examines them· Prosecutor gives closing speech· Defense attorney gives closing argument· Jury decides verdict and sentence
- Learning Target - I can be a productive member of a group that is working on a role play in order to practice proper courtroom procedures.
- Things to Do:
- 1. Your teacher will assign your team as the prosecutors or the defense.
- 2. Mark the text with all evidence to support your side of the case.
- 3. Help the prosecutor and the defense attorneys write their opening speeches.
- 4. Determine which witnesses you will want to question.
- 5. Help attorney write questions for the witnesses.
- 6. Help attorney write cross-examination questions.
- 7. Help the attorney write their closing remarks.
- Your Grade will be determined by the number of team members who are on task during the period. Your team will receive a group score and each member will receive an individual score.
THURSDAY - DOUBLE - ELA
- Be sure to sit with a partner for class!
- Do Now - Think
- Entry Title: The Dance
- Summarize what happened at the dance in your Composition Book. You may use your Comprehension Question Responses to help you.
- Learning Targets
- SL9.10.1c: Propel conversations by posing and responding to questions that relate the current discussion to broader themes or larger ideas; actively incorporate others into the discussion; and clarify, verify or challenge ideas and conclusions.
- Mini-Lesson: What are the characteristics of a good class discussion? Go over the Class Discussion Guidelines with the class. Then chart answers to these questions.
- How should people be seated?
- What are some things students might do?
- What are some things the teacher might do?
- What might it mean to move a discussion forward?
- What are some ways to ask and answer questions during a class discussion?
- What are some ways to relate the discussion topic to larger issues and ideas?
- How might you encourage others to join the discussion?
- Guided Practice
- 1. Read over the list of Discussion Questions with a partner. (See below)
- 2. Go into the text and find support for your answers.
- 3. Participate in Part I of the the mock discussion - not graded.
- Assessment
- Participate in Part II of the class discussion for a classwork grade worth 50 points.
- What are some things happening to Mirabella?
- What are some things the girls are learning to do?
- What might happen to Mirabella?
- Describe purebred girls.
- Provide evidence that Jeannette isn’t sad about no longer being a wolf.
- What exactly happened at the dance?
- How might the scene at the dance reveal the differences between Mirabella, Claudette and Jeanette?
- What are your thoughts about Mirabella being expelled?
- What life lessons is Jeannette learning at St. Lucy’s?
- What is the central idea – or theme - of this short story?
- What are some ways the author develops this theme from the beginning of the text to the end?
- What do you think of this discussion process? What are some reasons it is good? What are some reasons it doesn't work for you?
Discussion Questions
FRIDAY - Single - Ramp-up
- Do Now: Independent Reading Time
- Read your independent reading book for 15 minutes.
- Start a new DIRT Day Entry and use proper Comp Book Format! See poster.
- Write down at least 10 thoughts as you read!
- Learning Target - I can be a productive member of a group that is working on a role play in order to practice proper courtroom procedures.
- Things to Do:
- 1. Your teacher will assign your team as the prosecutors or the defense. (See cast list handout)
- 2. Mark the text with all evidence to support your side of the case.
- 3. Help the prosecutor and the defense attorneys write their opening speeches.
- 4. Determine which witnesses you will want to question.
- 5. Help attorney write questions for the witnesses.
- 6. Help attorney write cross-examination questions.
- 7. Help the attorney write their closing remarks.
MONDAY - DOUBLE - ELA
- Do Now - COPY into Vocabulary List 9
- 5. barbarity (barbarian, barbarous) - crude or unsophisticated
- 6. languid (languidly) relaxed.
- 7. hirsute - covered in long, stiff hairs
- 8. sinewy - muscular; strong
- 9. ostracized - excluded, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, or privileges.
- 10. bilingual - a person who can speak two languages.
- 11. interred - (intern) - to place in the earth or a tomb.
- 12. disoriented (disorient) - confused.
- Learning Targets
- I can identify and use vocabulary in context.
- I can create study aides that will help me memorize definition of vocabulary words.
- Create Vocabulary Flashcards for List 9
- Complete Vocabulary List 9 Study Guide
- Homework: Complete 12 Sentences Using Vocabulary Words - Due Monday
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