Tuesday, Nov. 25 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Fill out Project Explanation Questions: Complete sentences, either hand write or type and share with me

•What is your target audience (GROUP)?

•Why did you pick the way you did to convey your information to your group? (Why is this most applicable to your group?)

•Why do you believe the issue you focused on is important and specifically to the group you picked?

•Time to work on project (if it isn’t done), or read (you need to finish a book for this quarter as well)

•Make sure your project is shared with me

•Finish OMM Movie

Monday, Nov. 24 Agenda

•Work time for Research Project

•Due tomorrow

•Extra Credit: somehow prove to me that your project reached its target audience (more than just our class): due Monday (after Thanksgiving)

•If you finish working on your project, or need a break:

•Read your independent book

Friday, Nov. 21 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Go to page 32-33”How was it possible…” to “Today everything is possible…” Answer Ellie’s question and react to what his dad said about the world.  Do you think this is true today? Could this still happen? Defend your answer with details, explaining your thoughts.

•Research Time

•Individual meeting with Mrs. Johnson about the project during work time

Thursday, Nov. 20 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: On my blog: What are the two most important points/pieces of information/phrases/quotes from what we read yesterday? Write the point and then a short explanation of why.

•AoW Discussion: Reflection due tomorrow

•Reading –pg 23-34

•Research: DUE Tuesday!! Check shared documents for the Rubric.  Tomorrow you will show me your presentation and go through the rubric

•When you turn in your project, you will have a sheet explaining these questions:

•What is your target audience (GROUP)?

•Why did you pick the way you did to convey your information to your group? (Why is this most applicable to your group?)

•Why do you believe the issue you focused on is important and important specifically to the group you picked?

•In order to leave, I need you to write an explanation of where you are in your presentation work and what SPECIFICALLY you need to do in order to complete your presentation by Tuesday.

Important Information from Night pg 12-23

•What are the two most important points/pieces of information/phrases/quotes from what we read yesterday? Write the point and then a short explanation of why.

Wednesday, Nov. 19 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: What details so far could have saved them from going to the camps? Bring your answer up to me when you are done and then read your own book until we move on.

•Read more

•Journal on today’s section

•Social Awareness Project

•Your notes should be done

•You now have an issue that you are focusing on that is important to some specific group today

•You need to know what group you are targeting and what mode of conveying information will best target that group

•Begin/Continue creating your ‘presentation’ of information, citing your sources

•You will present to the class and/or somehow share your information to the specific group you are targeting. (DUE TUESDAY)

•You should have a book that you are reading, if you need a break, read.

Tuesday, Nov. 18 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Read and react to the quote (half a page, in writer’s notebook)

•For many students, Night is their first exposure to Auschwitz…Night grabs the attention of students and never lets go until the end. Like Catcher in the Rye, it is a coming of age story. Like Antigone or Oedipus, it forces students to grapple with universal questions of good and evil. Like 1984 and Brave New World, it asks what kind of society do we live in, what kind of social system have we devised? And above all else, Night asks us to consider what it means to be human." — From Bearing Witness by Beth Aviv Greenbaum

•What do you notice about it/what do you think it means or parts of it? What do you agree with? What confuses you? What are you thinking about the book? Etc.

•Begin Reading Night (3-11)

•From what we read today, pick an image, phrase, line, passage (paragraph or section) or idea and journal on it.

•Journal from today

•All responses should be honest

•How does the part you chose affect you? Emotionally, intellectually, etc?

•What do you observe in the book?

•What do you connect or associate with this?

•What do you question?

•What do you think about it?

•You need to have some piece of textual evidence written at the top of your entry and that is what you then journal on.

•Textual Evidence = something from the text

•Research Time

•All notes should be done ASAP!!!

•One week and this project is due!!!

•You will either present your information to the class or share it with the group you feel most needs to know about your issue.

•If you are done with notes, start creating the project.

•Don’t forget to cite your sources –give credit to where your information comes from in your presentation

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Monday, Nov. 17 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: AoW Close Read=Wed, Reflection=Friday

•Research Time: Where are you in this schedule?

•Research questions and compile a list of potential resources

•Read your sources, thinking of the big social issue that your theme connects to. Take notes while reading as to how your sources give you information about your social issue

•Figure out what group of people most needs the information about this issue, figure out how to best get information out to them

•Put together a ‘presentation’ of information, bringing social awareness to the issue that you have focused on

•You need to have all notes taken by the end of class Wednesday, at the ABSOLUTE latest

•Your project is due next Tuesday, so you should be thinking about how you want to convey your knowledge and who most needs it

•Background on the Holocaust

•Night Preface: answer questions while you read

•Night

•Discuss the first two questions of the preface

Holocaust Background

At this point in time, you have probably studied the Holocaust a few times in school and been exposed to books or movies that occur in this time (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Book Thief, etc.).  We are going to be reading the book Night by Elie Wiesel, which will give us insight to an individual who lived through this horrendous time period.

With a partner, you need to brainstorm all that you know about the Holocaust (time, people, places, etc.).  You need to post that brainstormed list as a comment to this post and we will use the lists as we begin to discuss our next book.

Friday, Nov. 14 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Research Info

•RESEARCH TIME: What is your social issue? Write it on the board with your name ASAP (if you didn’t at the start of the block)

•You need to keep thinking of the questions on the document I shared with you to get you to the point when you can begin compiling your research into a ‘presentation’ of information

•Note Taking

Thursday, Nov. 13 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Collect final drafts (with works cited page), collect books if your paper is done

•Research Time

•OMM Theme Instructions document in Drive

•Look at Part 2

•Where are you in research?

•What gets you points at the end of work time:

•20+ potential sources on document shared with me by today (you should have shared this with me last week)

Wednesday, Nov. 12 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Reminders on what to do

•Paper:

•If you aren’t done with your first draft, you need to keep working on it.

•You need to meet with me if you have a second draft of your body paragraphs, an intro and a conclusion

•Works Cited Page

•Before you turn in your paper, create a works cited page and turn it in as the last page in your paper

•Research Time

•Use your questions (most need to make more) as jumping off points for your research of how your theme is seen today: don’t only use the questions, search other concepts that come up as you find sources!!!

•How is the theme you focused on reflected in today’s society? What does this theme and the examples from today say about today’s society?

•Create a HUGE list of potential sources –your end goal is to have a larger point about your theme today, not just that it exists (this list needs to be saved with me)

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Friday, Nov. 7 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Create a research focus question and begin finding articles, sites, etc with information to help answer your question

•Researching your questions

•Work time on draft or research

•Peer Editing

•Final draft due on Tuesday.  Make sure I have read through it (and commented on it) before you feel it is ready.  Remember, you need an intro, body (with paragraph on society during the GD) and a conclusion.

•Try to think of this for your society paragraph: We can say that people during the GD were    or valued    because of (what details from your paper?)…

•Research goal: Present (many ways possible, you pick the best that fits your audience) your ideas about your research questions. Answers the questions and applies to the audience that most connects to the theme/issue. Need to provide social awareness of this issue that is also seen in the book.

By Monday you should have the peer editing form filled out.

Meet with me on something specific from your paper on Monday!

Final Draft due Tuesday.

Research Questions due today.

20+ Potential Sources due Tuesday

Tuesday, Nov. 4 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Collect cause and effect sheet, book completion sheets

•Discussion of Social Values paragraphs

•What do your quotes and theme show about society’s values during the Great Depression 

•Try to write one for me (together)

•Finish rough draft

•3 paragraphs showing the theme of the book (or two with two pieces of textual evidence in each)

•1 paragraph explaining what the theme of the book and your examples show about the society’s values during the Great Depression

Your rough draft of all body paragraphs should be done by the end of the block (or at least by the beginning of the class on Wednesday)

Monday, Nov. 3 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: In writer’s notebook: In the end of the book, George says that he sort of knew they would never get the farm but told Lennie about it anyway.  Does he really believe this? Why would he continue telling Lennie of the farm if it isn’t a reality?

•Big events of the book: Cause and Effect

•Thoughts on the end

•Theme Essay Writer’s Workshop

•Picking Quotes: need the three or four BEST for theme

•Paragraph format: TIQA: Should have one rough draft body paragraph done by the end of the block