Wednesday, Nov. 30 Agenda

•Bell Ringer:  Night

•Finish 42-46

•Journal on today’s section

•When you finish this, read your own book, finish reviews, read reviews of your project, or work on your project while we wait for all to catch up

•Ch 1-3 Small Group Discussion (post on 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10)

•Project work time (Final Version of Project due FRIDAY!!  Extra Credit: Monday!)

Tuesday, Nov. 29 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Peer Review Time

•Make sure you have reviewed each of your classmates’ projects  (from your smaller group) and answered the questions for each one (shared with them and me)

•When you have reviewed them all (in your group), read through the reviews on your project

•Start making adjustments and changes to help your project be the best it can be (WORK ON YOUR PROJECT, USE THE RUBRIC).

FINAL PROJECT DUE FRIDAY!!!

Extra credit (getting it to your target audience) due Monday!

•Read your book if you finish your project before we move on.

•Read 34-46

•WHILE READING: In notes: More details added to list of what needs more detail, what you need to see or hear more of to get a deeper understanding of history and the human experience

Monday, Nov. 28 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Go to page 32-33 Start at, “How was it possible…” read to “His voice broke” (pg33). 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. –bring to me when done

•Pg. 32 “How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (Elie’s question)

•Pg. 33 Dad response: “The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…”

•If you haven’t shared the link to your project with me, do it as soon as your entry is done (let me know how complete it is); if you are presenting ‘live’, put your name on the board. –email link to me (with % complete)

•If your project isn’t done, work on it NOW!  If you are ready for others to see it, read your book as long as you have done bullet #2

•Peer Reviews of Presentations: reviews due at end of work time tomorrow

•FINAL version of project  (the one I will grade) due Friday

Tuesday, Nov. 22 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Reading –pg 23-34

•Journal on today’s section –bring journal to me when done

•Bell Ringer: In Writer’s Notebook: What in the book do you still need more clarity on? What would you like to see pictures of, have more information on, or hear a different account? (Post one idea from this list to Schoology discussion)

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

•Fill out Project Explanation Questions: Complete sentences; questions shared with you through Google Drive; type answers 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?

•Make sure your project is shared with me –if it isn’t done, WORK ON IT OVER BREAK!!! COMPLETED FIRST DRAFT looked at on MONDAY by the class.

Monday, Nov. 21 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Sighet before the war Pics

•Reading Pg. 12-23

•Journal on this section

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

• Research Time

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

•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?

•First Draft Due Tomorrow (shared digitally w/me)

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

Friday, Nov. 18 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Finish 7-11

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

•Journal from today

•We know that this is a story about the author’s experience in Auschwitz, but at the beginning he talks about things that could have spared them that future.  What details so far could have saved them from going to the camps? (give at least two details) Bring your answer up to me when you are done and then work on your notes/project.

•Emigrate: leave one’s country to settle in another

•Research: First draft project DUE Tuesday!!

•On Schoology: what are events, people, ideas, etc. that you would like more details of, or images of to fully understand

•Ex: how did they section off parts of town to be a ghetto

•Sighet before the war Pics

Thursday, Nov. 17 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Continuing Preface of Night

•Discuss a few of the questions of the preface

•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

•Target Audience Form: Make sure you fill this out (link on the blog) as soon as you know your target audience.  Since you should be done with notes at the end of class on today, you should have this filled out by then too

•You will ‘present’ to the class and (possibly) somehow share your information to the specific group you are targeting.

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

•Begin Reading Night (3-7)

Wednesday, Nov. 16 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Discuss reactions to the quote

•Background on the Holocaust (post to Schoology, then work on notes)

•Rubric and Project Explanation

•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

•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

•Target Audience Form: Make sure you fill this out (link on the blog) as soon as you know your target audience.  Since you should be done with notes at the end of class tomorrow, you should have this filled out by then too

•Night Preface: answer questions while you read

Target Audience Form

Once you have figured out who you want to target with your information (who most needs awareness of the specific issue you have focused your research on), you need to fill out the target audience form.  Remember, you aren't targeting EVERYONE, you need a more specific category (ex: teens, people over 18, parents, people with a mental health issue, etc).

Target Audience Form Link

Tuesday, Nov. 15 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: RESEARCH TIME: What is your social issue? Write it on the board with your name ASAP

•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

•NOTES TIME!

•Movie? (depending upon where people are with notes)

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

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

•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. –this answer should be two paragraphs (at least a half page of content)

Monday, Nov. 14 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Final Work Time on Paper (20 minutes)

•MLA format

•Works Cited Reminder

•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.

•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?

•Research Time

•Notes on ONE of your first five sources

•Use your questions 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!!!

•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 shared with me)

•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 a few days ago)

Friday, Nov. 11 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop

•Edit and Revise body paragraphs, intro and conclusion

•Rubric for paper (due Monday)

•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: pick a specific focus area (sign up on board)

•You need to self edit and revise.  I am expecting a solid piece of writing.  You need to make sure you are looking for capitalization, punctuation, spelling, fluency, as well as the analysis stuff that I commented on.

•Works Cited Page

•You need a works cited page, it will only have one entry (for OMM)

Thursday, Nov. 10 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: If you have a rough draft (or a second draft) of all four body paragraphs, print them out

•Writer’s Workshop time

•Peer Edit: you can only edit if your body paragraph rough draft is complete.  Switch printed off copies with someone else and then edit their paper and fill out the form online

•Write your Intro and Conclusion (you can do this before or after peer editing) if you didn’t yesterday

•Self Edit: Fix the issues noted by Mrs. Johnson and a peer and then print out the new draft.  Self edit this second draft, marking all areas you need to fix or add to.

•Final draft due on Monday.  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?)…

•Pt. 2 of Book Final Assessment: Create a research focus question and begin finding articles, sites, etc with information to help answer your question (directions on the OMM Theme document shared with you)

You should have at least 8 research questions and 5 potential sources on your notes document by the end of class today!!

Wednesday, Nov. 9 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Craft Lesson Section: An introduction to a paper should have… A conclusion to a paper should have…

•Intros and Conclusions Notes- put the sheet in your craft lesson section and then follow the steps as you write your intro and conclusion rough drafts

•Writer’s Workshop:

•Read through my comments, add comments if you have questions

•Finish Rough Draft Body Paragraphs (if necessary)

•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?)…

•Write Introduction and Conclusion

•Fix Body Paragraphs or Print out for Peer Edit (see info below)

•A bit more of movie if… most have at least three body paragraphs done

•At the ABSOLUTE minimum, you should have a rough draft of all four body paragraphs ready to print out when class starts tomorrow

Tuesday, Nov. 8 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Outline and one body paragraph check

•Work on your body paragraphs unless you have your three body paragraphs that were planned from your outline done (body A, B, C)

•Discussion of Social Values paragraphs

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

•Post on Schoology 

•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

Monday, Nov. 7 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Find your pieces of textual evidence you are using for your paper, then put into outline format

•Thesis and next steps

•Thesis as first sentence on rough draft portion of document

•Your evidence must prove the ENTIRE thesis (theme)

•TIQA- the analysis is the most important part: HOW does the evidence prove/show your theme?

•Need to have one body paragraph (rough draft) done by tomorrow!

Friday, Nov. 4 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?

•Collect chronolog sheet and perspective journals

•Theme and Social Issue in the book (posting, meeting with group) –while you are talking, I’m checking the last two WN entries

•Theme Essay Writer’s Workshop

•Assignment shared with you in Google Docs

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

•Paragraph format: TIQA

Thursday, Nov. 3 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Read section 5 and 6

•WN Entry: Slim says to George, “Ya hadda” when talking about Lennie.  Do you agree? What would make you say yes he did, what would make you say no he didn’t and in the end, which would you say more, that this was his only option or that there were others?

•Perspective Journal (sections 5 and 6 together as one full page)

•Connecting brainstorming to Big Ideas and Themes of the book (What issues are faced today that are mentioned, dealt with, experienced, etc in the book?)

•For each issue, write what theme or themes can connect to it

•Social Issues today

•Work/reading time (need all OMM work (other than theme sheet) by tomorrow)

•Perspective Journals due tomorrow

Wednesday, Nov. 2 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Posting more Big Idea Examples on Schoology (need to put an example that isn’t already there (or add more detail to one that already is by replying to it) in two big idea discussions)

•Reading Section 4

•Characters vs. Society: for the four characters we read about in section 4, how do we see them in conflict with society? What part of society, how is it seen, specifically in what we just read. (add to notes)

•In this chapter, we learn more about Lennie, Crooks, Candy, and Curley's wife. What similarities do these four characters share? Bring up when done.

•Theme examples: First post an example from section 4 (66-83) on to Schoology.  Then you need to bring your theme sheet up.  You should have at least one example for each theme from pages 38-65 and one from 66-83 for all as well. (Use Schoology as a resource to help you if needed) Bring to me when done.

•In this chapter, we see how some people can be cruel to other people. Find two or three examples--why do the characters need to be so cruel in these examples? Or, are they just ignorantly prejudiced and not really being consciously cruel?  Bring up when done.

•Section 4 Perspective Journal: can be Lennie, Crooks, or Candy –NOT George

•Connecting brainstorming from yesterday to Big Ideas and Themes of the book (What issues are faced today that are mentioned, dealt with, experienced, etc in the book?) 

Tuesday, Nov. 1

•Bell Ringer: Section 3 quiz: On my blog; and perspective journal 4 check

•Open NOTES not open book

•2 extra credit questions (if you get them right on the first try), some questions count, some don’t…

•Copy and past the WHOLE quiz with your answers into a doc and share with me

•Perspective #4 if not done, Book Completion Sheet if not done, read your book

•Some of the movie

•In WN: Start to brainstorm how any ideas from the book are still seen today.  What issues are faced today that are mentioned, dealt with, experienced, etc in the book?

•Reading time (own book, completion sheet due tomorrow but must have by Friday for any points)