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Wednesday, May 31

5/30/2023

 
DO NOW:
  • daily check-in
  • Prep for group discussions (~10 minutes)
    ​
LEARNING GOALS
  • Discuss narratives
AGENDA
  • Hold small group discussion on your book. As you disucss, add in your group's ideas to your role assignment for the week.
  • Fill out the LitCircles Overall Participation Form
  • Weekly grades are based on your role submissions to your folder and your contributuons to your group discussion.

Questions for final week:
  • Start your discussion just by talking about what you liked/found interesting about the book.
Then, discuss these questions as a group. Be sure to write down observations or connections you and your group make during the discussion at tge bottom of your paper.
  1. How do characters change, grow or evolve throughout the course of the story? What causes these changes?
  2. What was the climax? How did you feel at this point? Why?
  3. How did the story end? What was the resolution and why do you think the author decided to end it here?
  4. What was the point? What was the main theme or message you took away from this novel?

Tuesday, May 30

5/26/2023

 
Last day to read!
  1. How do characters change, grow or evolve throughout the course of the story? What causes these changes?
  2. What was the climax? How did you feel at this point? Why?
  3. How did the story end? What was the resolution and why do you think the author decided to end it here?
  4. What was the point? What was the main theme or message you took away from this novel?​

Friday, May 26

5/26/2023

 
DO NOW:
  • daily check-in
    ​​
LEARNING GOALS
  • Write action in narratives
  • Write a resolution

AGENDA
  • Writing Action
    • Be specific
    • Slow it down
    • Look for details
  • Writing a resolution ideas
    • End with an Image
    • End with an action
    • End with dialogue
    • End with reflection
  • Revision Tips - Kill your darlings 
    • Align Things
      •Make sure you are doing the things necessary for the assignment. (Look at rubrics and success criteria. See below or on the Narrative assignment document)
    • Add things
      •stronger details, more description, another event or observation
    • Remove things
      •doesn’t support narrative flow
      •not relevant detail
    • Refine ideas
      •What is my focus?
      •Selecting more accurate details or events
    • Reorganize
      •Should an idea be brought up earlier or later?
      •Do paragraphs clearly build towards something?
      •Do your sentences flow?

Thursday, May 25

5/25/2023

 
READ A BOOK! READ SOMETHING! BE LIKE MALCOM X: "My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

OR RAY BRADBURY: “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

​
Questions for final week:
Answer these questions independently, make sure to support your responses with references to the text.
  1. How do characters change, grow or evolve throughout the course of the story? What causes these changes?
  2. What was the climax? How did you feel at this point? Why?
  3. How did the story end? What was the resolution and why do you think the author decided to end it here?
  4. What was the point? What was the main theme or message you took away from this novel?

Wednesday, May 24

5/24/2023

 
DO NOW:
  • daily check-in
  • Prep for group discussions (~10 minutes)
  • Senior Advocate sign up: https://bit.ly/AdvocatesignupRound2
    ​

LEARNING GOALS
  • Discuss narratives
AGENDA
  • Hold small group discussion on your book. As you disucss, add in your group's ideas to your role assignment for the week.
  • Fill out the Literature Circles Reflection Form.
  • Weekly grades are based on your role submissions to your folder and your contributuons to your group discussion.

Questions for final week:
Answer these questions independently, make sure to support your responses with references to the text.
  1. How do characters change, grow or evolve throughout the course of the story? What causes these changes?
  2. What was the climax? How did you feel at this point? Why?
  3. How did the story end? What was the resolution and why do you think the author decided to end it here?
  4. What was the point? What was the main theme or message you took away from this novel?

Tuesday, May 23

5/22/2023

 
Reed. Reid. Rhead. Reedh. Reiduh. Rita.

Stuco elections: bit.ly/23bshelect

Monday, May 22

5/19/2023

 
ReAd YoUr BoOk!

Friday, May 19

5/19/2023

 
DO NOW:
  • ​​daily check-in
  • Read example narrative 
LEARNING GOALS
  • Write Narratives that develop real life experiences by
    • using carefully chosen details
    • sequencing events
    • using effective techniques
AGENDA
  • Draft first version of your reflective narrative. 
    • Focus on SHOWING details and observations, not just telling what happened. 
    • Other narrative examples

Thursday, May 18

5/17/2023

 
read​readreadreadreadreadreadreadreadreadreadreadread

Wednesday, May 17

5/17/2023

 
Remember, May 19th at 3:15 is the absolute last day to turn in any missing or redone work.

DO NOW:
  • daily check-in
  • Prep for group discussions (~10 minutes)
LEARNING GOALS
  • Discuss narratives
AGENDA
  • Hold small group discussion on your book. As you disucss, add in your group's ideas to your role assignment for the week.
  • Fill out the Literature Circles Reflection Form.
  • Weekly grades are based on your role submissions to your folder and your contributuons to your group discussion.

Tuesday, May 16

5/16/2023

 
reeeeeeeeead.

Monday, May 15

5/12/2023

 
REMEMBER, FRIDAY AT 3:15 IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN IN ANY MISSING, LATE, OR REDONE WORK.

Reading Day
Picture

Friday, May 12

5/12/2023

 
REMEMBER, NEXT FRIDAY AT 3:15 IS THE LAST DAY TO TURN IN ANY MISSING, LATE, OR REDONE WORK.

DO NOW:
  • Friday Growth Practice - Week 14
  • daily check-in
  • Read example narrative.
LEARNING GOALS
  • Plan a narrative using a plot diagram
AGENDA
  • Sensory writing 5.4 in Google Classroom.
    • Video
  • Plan out structure to narrative using the plot diagram graphic organizer (handed out in class)

Thursday, May 11

5/11/2023

 
DO NOW
  • Take 3 words and write them in a sentence and draw a picture to represent that word
    • Puissance, alacrity, crapulous, confer, sallow, aplomb, effulgent, obsequious, insolent, progeny, estrangement, surreptitious, corporeal, disingenous, partisan, exoteric, derisory, semiotic, shambolic, accrete
AGENDA
Reading day. 
Picture

Wednesday, May 10

5/10/2023

 
Remember, May 19th at 3:15 is the absolute last day to turn in any missing or redone work.

DO NOW:
  • daily check-in
  • Prep for group discussions (~10 minutes)
LEARNING GOALS
  • Discuss narratives
AGENDA
  • Hold small group discussion on your book. As you disucss, add in your group's ideas to your role assignment for the week.
  • Fill out the Literature Circles Reflection Form.
  • Weekly grades are based on your role submissions to your folder and your contributuons to your group discussion.
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