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Remember, today is the last day to turn in your Reserach paper without being assigned lunch detention until it's done. May 19th is the absolute last day to turn in any missing or redone work.

DO NOW:

Friday Growth Practice - Week 13
daily check-in

LEARNING GOALS

Plan a narrative using a plot diagram

AGENDA

Read three student narrative examples and consider the following questions.
- What does the author use as an intro/exposition
  What’s the rising action (what is building)?
  What’s the climax?
  What message is the author trying to convey to their reader?
  Find one use of sensory or descriptive imagery.
Select narrative topic and begin planning out structure to narrative using the plot diagram graphic organizer (handed out in class)

Thursday, April 27

4/27/2023

I'm out for a committee meeting at the Lincoln Center today. Be good for the sub and have a great Thursday.

DO NOW:

Daily Check-in

LEARNING GOALS

Identify and address a social, cultural, historical, or personal background of a narrator

AGENDA

finish their assignment #5.1 in Google Classroom
Discuss with your book groups and set a reading schedule for their chosen novel for the next 4 weeks.
After figuring out your reading goals, begin reading your novels
- If you were gone yesterday, your groupmates should be able to bring them up to speed with roles in reading their chosen novel. I’ve also placed your books in the bins at the front of the class, if they had selected one.

Wednesday, April 26

4/26/2023

DO NOW:

Daily Check-in
If you didn't fill this out, do it today. Lit Circles Book Survey

LEARNING GOALS

Identify and address a social, cultural, historical, or personal background of a narrator
Connect that background to writing choices (voice, tone, style, plot, setting)
Identify the effect or impact of those choices on a passage or text

AGENDA

Finish “Little Woman from Lame Deer” in I Am Where I Come From (p. 117) As you read, take notes on the following:
- Observe what you find interesting or confusing
- Look for theme/point of story
- Look for elements of style (word choice, plot, voice, mood, figurative language, imagery)
Finish on 5.1 in Google Classroom.

Tuesday, April 25

4/25/2023

DO NOW:

Daily Check-in
Lit Circles Book Survey

LEARNING GOALS

Identify and address a social, cultural, historical, or personal background of a narrator
Connect that background to writing choices (voice, tone, style, plot, setting)
Identify the effect or impact of those choices on a passage or text

AGENDA

Read “Little Woman from Lame Deer” in I Am Where I Come From (p. 117) As you read, take notes on the following:
- Observe what you find interesting or confusing
- Look for theme/point of story
- Look for elements of style (word choice, plot, voice, mood, figurative language, imagery)
Work on 5.1 in Google Classroom.

Monday, April 24

4/24/2023

DO NOW:

daily check-in
Review "Spitwads"

LEARNING GOALS

Identify and address a social, cultural, historical, or personal background of a narrator
Connect that background to writing choices (voice, tone, style, plot, setting)
Identify the effect or impact of a passage or text
Analyze the effectiveness of those choices.

AGENDA

Finish discussing Spitwads. Groupwrite a paragraph.
- Identify and address a social, cultural, historical, or personal background of a narrator.
- Connect that background to writing choices (voice, tone, style, plot, setting)
- Identify the effect or impact of a passage or text
- Analyze the effectiveness of those choices.
Discuss books for literary circles.
Look at Narrative Project in Google Classroom.

Friday, April 21

4/21/2023

DO NOW:

daily check-in
Week 12 - Friday Growth Practice

UNIT 5: NARRATIVE LEARNING GOALS

Analyze how style and content contribute to the effectiveness of the text.

AGENDA

Discuss Art, style, and effectiveness (slides)
Read and discuss "Spitwads"

Thursday, April 20

4/20/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Cold Recall - On your own, take 4-5 minutes to try and remember our words of the day so far and thier definitions.

LEARNING GOAL

Write Conclusion

AGENDA

Complete this reserach project reflection. If you are done, do one of the following:
1. Study vocabulary words for tomorrow
2. Read a book
3. Work on homework for other classes
4. check out these potential books to read for our last unit on narratives. You will be choosing one to read in the final month of school. They are sitting on the front table for you to check out.
- Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
- A River Runs Through It - Norman McClean
- Into Thin Air - John Krakauer
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Truth and Bright Water - Thomas King
- The Things They Carried - Tim O’brien
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
- In Cold Blood* - Truman Capote
- There There* - Tommy Orange
- *In Cold Blood and There There both require parental approval to read due to graphic content.
If you aren't done with your reserach project, continue working. Be sure to turn it in on Google Classroom AND Turnitin.com

Wednesday, April 19

4/18/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in

LEARNING GOAL

Works Cited

AGENDA

Finish and turn in your research project on turnitin.com AND Google Classroom. See login details on the assignmennt 4.8.

Tuesday, April 18

4/17/2023

WORD OF THE DAY!
shambolic: (adj) chaotic, disorganized, or mismanaged
The contractor's shambolic accounting led to an audit this tax season.

DO NOW

Daily Check-in

LEARNING GOAL

Works Cited

AGENDA

Research paper! That's all! Two days left.

Monday, April 17

4/14/2023

WORD OF THE DAY!
semiotic: (adj) relating to signs and symbols
The gestures, images, and objects notated in his scripts share a semiotic importance equal to the spoken text.

DO NOW

Daily Check-in

LEARNING GOAL

Works Cited

AGENDA

Compile our Works Cited Page
- Full citations (slides, video)
- Using Google Citations (video)

Friday, April 14

4/14/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Friday Growth Practice - Week 11

LEARNING GOAL

Write Conclusion

AGENDA

Finishing Drafting and edit Part 4. Early bird deadline for finished papers is today.
Regular Dedline for Final paper is due Wednesday the 19th.
We will discuss works cited pages on Monday.

Thursday, April 13

4/12/2023

DO NOW

Daily Check-in
Cold Recall - On your own, take 4-5 minutes to try and remember our words of the day so far and thier definitions.

LEARNING GOAL

Write Conclusion

AGENDA

Begin, drafting Part 4. Full draft is due Wednesday the 19th.
Deadlines
- Early Bird: This Friday
- Regular: Wednesday the 19th
- Stick: Friday the 28th
- Dropdead: May 19th

Wednesday, April 12

4/12/2023

WORD OF THE DAY!
derisory: (adj) ridiculously small or inadequate
The derisory meal hardly filled up the prisoner of war.

DO NOW

Daily Check-in

LEARNING GOAL

Plan conclusions.

AGENDA

Read this conclusion and make a list of the things you see that make it a strong argument or good writing in general.
Fill out this graphic organizer (passed out in class) to plan your conclusion.

Tuesday, April 11

4/11/2023

WORD OF THE DAY!
exoteric: (adj) intended for or likely to be understood by the general public
The exoteric joke trancended the school's cliques and provided laugther to all.

DO NOW

Daily Check-in

LEARNING GOAL

Revise and edit

AGENDA

Compile all of your sections so far and attach it to 4.8 -Final Reserach Paper so I can print these for you to read and workshop with a partner.
- THINGS TO LABEL FOR IN INTRO:
  1. 2-3 main ideas someone would need about the topic are explained
  2. Topic importance is clear
  3. There is a research statement covering what the rest of the paper will cover
- THINGS TO LABEL FOR IN PERSPECTIVES:
  1. Clear topic sentences
  2. Signal Phrases
  3. Cited Evidence
  4. Analysis
  5. Transitions

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