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Friday, Oct 2

9/30/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Six Week Self-Assessment
​Objectives
  • Catch up/review
Agenda
  • Catch up!
  • Watch Movie!
    Review Act 2 Assessment for those who are done.
Independent Learning
Complete the assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • Watch Act 3 and 4 of the Crucible 2
    • ​(Act 3 movie link password = mrrestad)
    • (Act 4 movie link password = mrrestad)
    • and a little something for after you finish watching.
  • Take notes on the following as you watch: Example below
    1. Important Plot Points
    2. ​Impactful Camera Movements or Framed Shots
    3. ​Questions!
  • Study!
Picture

Thursday, Oct 1

9/29/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Act 2
​Objectives
  • Continue developing our skills in analyzing structure of something and supporting how that structure helps contribute to overall meaning.
Agenda
  • Assignment Review/Questions
  • Camera Movement Analysis Examples
  • Act 2/Camera Movement Assessment
Independent Learning
Complete the assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • 112 - Act 2 Assessment - Camera Movement

Tuesday, Sept 29

9/21/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Camera Movement
​Objectives
  • Understand Film structure - how something is created, structural elements and why those choices were made
Agenda
  • Assignment Review/Questions
  • Camera Movement Review: (Needle Scene, sample analysis)
  • Watch Act 2
Independent Learning
Complete the assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • Watch Act 2 of the Crucible (Act 2 movie link password = mrrestad)
  • 110 - Act 2 Cause and Effect
  • 111 - Act 2 Movement Analysis

Monday, Sept 28

9/18/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Act 1
​Objectives
  • Understand structure - how something is created, structural elements and why those choices were made. Film Study #2 - Camera Movements
​Agenda
  • Grading update
  • Assignment check in - Act 1 Assessment
  • Film Study #2 Camera Movements (Video Lecture + Slides) (more resources are posted in Google Classroom)
Independent Learning
Complete these three assignments posted in  Google Classroom.
  • Watch "Grading Practice Video"
  • 109 - Camera Movement Practice
  • 007 - How to study

Friday, Sept 18

9/16/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Redo the "104 - Framing practice" if you got a 2 or lower
​Objectives
  • Practice putting things together for our main learning goal: I can analyze, with support, how structural choices contribute to a text’s overall meaning.
​Agenda
  • Assignment check in - Act 1 character chart, look at Act 1 screenshots.
  • Act 1 assessment and independent learning! Good luck, Holler with questions.
Independent Learning
Complete these three assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • Finish Assignments 100-108
  • 108 - Act 1 Assessment (Your first test test thingy)

Thursday, Sept 17

9/15/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Framing
​Objectives
  • Support - identify and use relevant evidence in writing
​Agenda
  • Assignment check in
  • Writing with Support
  • Review Framing/Blocking Screenshots - Screenshot show and tell
  • ​Begin watching the Crucible! Yay movie time.
Independent Learning
Complete these three assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • Watch Act 1 of the Crucible (Act 1 movie link password = mrrestad)
  • 106 Character Chart
  • 107 Crucible Act 1 Framing Screenshot Analysis
Picture

Tuesday, Sept 15

9/14/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Meaning and Context
​Objectives
  • Understand Film structure - how something is created, structural elements and why those choices were made
Agenda
  • Assignment Review/Questions
  • Film Structure #1 (Video Lecture, and Example #1 and Example #2)
Independent Learning
Complete the assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • 104 - Framing practice 
  • 105 - Framing Screenshot

Monday, Sept 14

9/11/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Textual Development
​Objectives
  • Examine Note-Taking Methods
  • Determine Main Ideas: explicit summary and inferential understanding
Agenda
  • Assignment Review/Questions
  • The right way to take notes. Review the following resources and identify 1-2 strategies that you can use to improve your note taking/memory.
    • Video #1 - Mr. Restad's 6 note-taking tips
    • Video #2 - Crash Course note-taking
      • Cornell Notes
      • Sketch noting
      • Other Methods
  • Context and Meaning: Historical and Thematic (Video Lecture)
Independent Learning
Complete the assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • 102 - Salem Witch Trials Background
  • 103 - Thematic Response

Friday, Sept 4

9/3/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Automatic Thoughts and Goals
​Objectives
  • Responding in writing to academic verbs
  • analyze, with support, how a person’s structural choices contribute to a text’s overall meaning
Agenda
  • Assignment Review
  • Discuss Unit 1 - Textual Development
  • Academic Verbs - Quizlet
  • Poem: Half Hanged Mary
Independence Learning
Complete these three assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • 100 Academic Verbs
  • 101 Half-Hanged Mary

Thursday, Sept 3

9/2/2020

 
DO NOW
  • Daily Check-in
  • Retrieval Practice: Schema and Metacognition
​Objectives
  • Learn about regulating automatic thoughts
  • Differentiate between process and product goals; set goals
Agenda
  • Schedule and resource review
  • Class expectations review 
  • Breakout - in small groups, make a list of your expectations of teachers, other students, and yourself.
    • Choose a group leader by introducing yourself and figuring out whose birthday is closest to today. That group leader is responsible for typing in this Padlet.
  • Syllabus and Grading Policies 

Independence Learning
Complete these three assignments posted in Google Classroom.
  • 005 Responding to Automatic Thoughts
  • 006 Setting Process and Product Goals in Education

Wednesday, Sept 2

9/1/2020

 
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  • Classroom Blog
  • Eng III
    • Open Discolsure
    • 1 Literary Analysis
    • 2 Textual Development
    • 3 Language and Meaning
    • 4 Grammar and Punctuation
    • 5 Argumentative Writing
  • Journalism
    • Newspaper >
      • Blogging about news
      • Senior Podcast Project
      • Person Profile Article
      • Classroom Spotlight
      • In-Depth Journalism
      • Experiential Journalism
      • Gardiner Special
    • Yearbook >
      • YOURbook
      • Weekly Photo Hunt
      • Photojournalism
      • Magazine Cover
      • Yearbook Open Disclosure
      • Reflective Writing
    • Journalistic Writing Unit
    • Design Module
    • Writing Module
    • Photography Module
    • Magazine Feature Assignment
  • About
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