Tuesday, June 5 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Read “Ambush” p 131, then in WN: Compare “Ambush” to “The Man I Killed.” How are they similar, how different? Why did he write about basically the same thing twice? Which do you like more? Why?

•Explain One Pager on The Things They Carried

•Career Project work time

•YOU MUST MEET WITH ME TODAY if you didn’t yesterday

•LOOK AT YOUR RUBRIC TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the careers, or explain why, based on the above information, this one career is the best for you)

•Don’t forget that your paper needs an introduction and a works cited page.  Use the rubric to check that you are prepared to hand in your paper tomorrow!!

•You need to meet with me about a portion of your paper: if you have questions on a comment I made, or if you want me to check through a paragraph, or if you want to take a look at what you have created for the artifact(s), those would be good choices to meet about.

•Book Completion sheet due today!!

Monday, June 4 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Library Talk

•“The Man I Killed” p124

•In Writer’s notebook: How do Kiowa and Tim react to bad situations? Why did the narrator keep repeating the same things? Why did he make up all of this background for the dead man?

•Career Project work time: Intro example

•YOU MUST MEET WITH ME TODAY or TOMORROW

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the three)

You should be working on or revising your body paragraphs or reading your book for your book completion sheet {DUE TOMORROW} (or working on missing work if you have any) [if you have nothing English related to do, come to me and I will give you a task]

Thursday, May 31 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Discussion on “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, writing when done with discussion

•English Use Artifact created by you…

•Career Project work time: ROUGH DRAFT DUE TODAY!!

•Another site to use, especially for skills needed: onetonline.org

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the two-three) or explain why the one career is the only one for you

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information)

•REMINDER: Your book completion sheet is also due on TUESDAY!!  Make sure you are finishing up those nine sentence starters with a shorter paragraph each

Wednesday, May 30 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the two or three) or WHY you know this is the only career for you

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information)

•Career Project work time: ROUGH DRAFT DUE End of block TOMORROW OF ALL BODY PARAGRAPHS (in order to have comments on them/be where you should be in the process)!

•Finish “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”

Tuesday, May 29 Agenda

•Bell Ringer- Finish “Sweetheart…”pg 91-end

•Career Project work time

•Finish Notes (HOMEWORK IF YOU AREN’T DONE BY END OF HOUR!!): again the MOST IMPORTANT PART is the ENGLISH SKILLS section

•Career Cruising site has LOTS of information when it comes to the day in the life part as well as the basic info

•Onetonline.org has lots of the skills information

•Body paragraphs: can be in any order that you feel works for your paper’s organization

•Basic info of career

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•End body para, which is the best choice and why (compare/contrast the two or three if you have them)

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information): I need to see questions TODAY!! (at least 10)

Thursday, May 24 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: How to Tell a True War Story

•While reading, mark with postits to have a discussion

•In Writer’s Notebook: Answer these questions about the story:

•What could the water buffalo represent? Why? (pg 79)

•What is true in all war stories, according to the author, even if the events are not? (82, 83, 85)

•Read the last line on page 85.  What does that mean? Who is he talking about (specific and general)?

•Bring these answers and what you marked with postits up to me when completed! Then work on your research notes

•Work Time on Career Notes

•At least two sources (starting points if career cruiser, etc) per career

•Reminder of requirements

•Basic info of career

•Preparation, what the job consists of, etc.

•Benefits and drawbacks

•Reading and Writing needs

•Speaking and Listening needs

•Day in the life

•Skills, tasks, etc.

•You need to contact at least one person in one of your careers.  If you contact more, that means you have to do less research (day in the life and reading/writing/speaking/listening information)

•You need to give me your interview questions ASAP (you should have at least 10, and they should be based of the information you need for the project that you haven’t found in your online research)

•Artifacts (if you are only researching one or two careers)

Wednesday, May 23 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: What should a war story have in it? List as many characteristics as you can –characters, events, items, places, etc.

•Work Time on Career Notes

•At least two sources (starting points if career cruiser, etc) per career

Career Expo!

Tuesday, May 22 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: At the end of "On the Rainy River," the narrator says, "I was a coward. I went to the war." What does he mean by this? Do you agree? You will write three paragraphs: first: explaining how this could be true, second: how this could be false and third: which do you most agree with and why?

•Bring this up to me when you are done

•When done, read your book or work on your book completion sheet

•Work Time on Career Project

•At least two sources (starting points if career cruiser, etc) per career

•What are stories for?

•What Tim says…

•As you read, highlight Tim’s comments for important details that connect to ‘storytelling’/what stories are for and the ‘truth’ of “On the Rainy River” 

Monday, May 21 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Finish reading to 56, then: Post 3 comments (based on your post its) on the discussion board

•Questions from “On Rainy…” on Schoology: answer them on the sheet of paper from Friday

•Read the posts from classmates, respond to at least two

•Finish “On the Rainy River” Questions (I will be checking posts while you work on answering the questions)

•Once this is done, turn in your answers to the questions and finish reading the section

•Career Interest Survey (linked on Schoology) –they are basically the same, just pick the one you like best (one from MN colleges, one from WI tech colleges)

•Career Project- Final Project for the Class –due 6/6

•1-3 careers

•Interview with someone in one field

•Paper with research and examples of writing/reading/communicating done in the careers

Friday, May 18 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Check notes on “Love” and “Spin”: Post-it check –while waiting, read your own book (book completion sentence starters due on the 4th)

•If you finished the two stories, read your independent book or fill out the book completion sheet (grab one from the last folder in the crate, ask questions if you have any).

•Discuss the stories with small group

•Post your group’s best ideas, insights, and answers to the three most important questions (in your group’s opinion); also what you believe the purpose of the chapters would be on Schoology (the “Love” and “Spin” questions board)

•When you finish, read your independent book

•Read “On Rainy…” in book (You read this in 10th grade, so this should be an easier task…)

•1. What were Tim’s options once he received his draft notice?

•2.  Who did he hold responsible for his situation?

•Read 46-56 (“What would you do?”) –as you read, mark things in the book with post-its: questions, comments, connections, ideas about the question “What would you do?”

Wednesday, May 16 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: 25 minutes reading INDEPENDENT BOOK

•Finish background notes

•Take out a sheet of paper.  Make two columns, one for LITERAL the other for FIGURATIVE, as we read, fill this out

•Read “TTTC” 1-16

Tuesday, May 15 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: What do you carry? –Google Form linked on Schoology

•Get The Things They Carried/ collect Night

•Notes Check: 

•finish preview notes if you aren’t done

•If you are done, read your independent book

•Small Groups:

•Read the blog posts from each member of your small group.  You need to write a comment on all of them (THIS COMMENT NEEDS TO BE MORE THAN GOOD JOB…it needs to connect their thoughts with yours)

•Discuss your insights from Monday (your thoughts on the WN bell ringer)

•Discuss the notes on the videos

•What is this book going to be about? How did you come to that opinion?

•What do you know about Vietnam and the Vietnam war? Bullet points or sentences in your Writer’s Notebook section

•Vietnam Background –notes 

Monday, May 14 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: In Writer’s Notebook: Answer this question in one paragraph: Do you think that all stories are somewhat autobiographical?  In other words, when people write, are they always putting their own experiences and life in their novels? Why do you think this?

•Things to work on while interviews are going on:

•LINKS ON MY EDUBLOGS BLOG: THIS SHOULD LEAD TO A POST ON YOUR BLOG!!!!

•The Things They Carried preview notes: check your shared documents for an assignment to get us ready for the next book

•Document shared with you on Drive with three videos, need notes shared with me (or shown if on paper)

•Independent Book Reading: You need to read one book for an end of semester assignment and any others beyond that can be extra credit.  You will get the book completion form (a different one from last semester) FRIDAY

Friday, May 11 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Collect journals –need page ranges for each (or at least a number 1-11)

•How to revise essay test: SUGGESTING MODE ONLY!!!

•Order: Alex, Tanner, Hunter, Ericka, Evan C., Tony, Tim, Caleb, Rylee, Cody, Madison, Ryan, Ben, Evan H., Mat, Brianna, Jordan, Kali, David

•Things to work on while interviews are going on:

•Revision of essay test: due by the end of interview time

•The links and your post about your thoughts and connections while reading/viewing the resources

•The Things They Carried preview notes: check your shared documents for an assignment to get us ready for the next book

•Reading your independent book (the first one for the assignment, or additional books for Extra Credit) 

Thursday, May 10 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Essay test: either print out or pull up your outline

•As you are writing the essay, make sure you are writing in sentences and paragraphs that demonstrate your best writing abilities.  Make sure you follow TIQA with your evidence

•Throughout the novel Night, Elie explains his relationship with his faith.  Using examples from the book, explain how Elie’s faith changes due to his experiences during this time.

•How does the book Night help us to better understand the importance of relationships? What are the different types of relationships seen in the book and how do they affect people?

•What is the overall feeling or tone of the book Night and how is that feeling created?

•Presentations will be in the hall, when you aren’t presenting, you will be working QUIETLY on these things:

•THE LIST IS ON MY MOST RECENT EDUBLOGS POST (http://mrsjohnsoncontemplit.edublogs.org)

•JOURNAL COLLECTION end of block: You should have 11 entries, they need to be in order and LABELED

Wednesday, May 9 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Essay test Tomorrow

•Throughout the novel Night, Elie explains his relationship with his faith.  Using examples from the book, explain how Elie’s faith (or others’) changes due to his experiences during this time.

•How does the book Night help us to better understand the importance of relationships? What are the different types of relationships (or pick one) seen in the book and how do they affect people?

•What is the overall feeling or tone of the book Night and how is that feeling created?

•Outline check –everyone must come over to me and we’ll talk about your outline

•Make sure outline is complete (WITH TEXTUAL EVIDENCE)

•Do the intro and conclusion section of the outline

•You need an outline on its own sheet of paper that follows the format exactly (not on the notes sheet, labelled correctly, etc.)

•Make sure you show me before you move on to working on your research interview project

•When you are done fixing your outline, work on your presentation, organize/catch up on journals, or read your independent book

•Order of interviews: 

1.Tanner

2.Hunter

3.Ericka

4.Evan C.

5.Alex

6.Tony

7.Tim

8.Caleb

9.Rylee

10.Cody

11.Madison

12.Ryan

13.Ben

14.Evan H.

15.Mat

16.Brianna

17.Jordan

18.Kali

19.David

20.Reis

•Final work time on Research Interview Project

Tuesday, May 8 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Preparation for Night Assessment: Essay question options for the essay Thursday/Friday!

•Pick one of the three

•Throughout the novel Night, Elie explains his relationship with his faith.  Using examples from the book, explain how Elie’s faith changes due to his experiences during this time.

•How does the book Night help us to better understand the importance of relationships? What are the different types of relationships seen in the book and how do they affect people?

•What is the overall feeling or tone of the book Night and how is that feeling created?

•Start brainstorming a thesis and where you can find textual evidence to support the thesis

•Outline creation: Essay test Thursday/Friday

•Read 107-end

•Final Journal Entry (All journals will be collected on Thursday)

•3-11, 12-23, 23-34, 34-46, 47-54, 54-65, 66-77, 77-82, 82-91, 92-107, 107-end

•Work time on Research Presentation

•Work on your presentation or read your book with any time left (if you aren’t done with the presentation, use the time BUT GET THE BODY of the OUTLINE DONE FIRST)

•Essay test Thursday

Monday, May 7 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Writer’s notebook: Why does Elie make this connection (what you talked about on page 100-102)? What are the similarities between the two events? Why would he ask her to stop and then be somewhat offended by her response about charity?

•When your WN entry is done, bring it to me and then work on your research or reading your independent book

•Read 102-107

•What would you do if you were in Elie’s position from arriving at Buchenwald to grudgingly giving his dad his soup? HONEST!

•What does Elie mean when he says like Rabbi Eliahu’s son (90-91), he didn’t pass the test?

•Bring answers for both of these to me when done

•Assessment (test) on the big ideas of the book on Thursday/Friday!!

• Journal Entry (92-107)

•All journals will be turned in Thursday

•Journals so far:

•3-11, 12-23, 23-34, 34-46, 47-54, 54-65, 66-77, 77-82, 82-91, 92-107

•Project Work Time

•Interviews Thursday and Friday

•Read your own book if you need a break from researching, or catch up on journals (10 needed at this point)

Friday, May 4 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Read 87-91

•Journal on that section (82-91)

•What was your textual evidence from your 82-91 journal? Write on the white board (side).

•Things to do: organize the journals/write others if needed, work on research, read your own book

•Journal sections: 3-11, 12-23, 23-34, 34-46, 47-54, 54-65, 66-76, 76-82, 82-91

•Research Time

•Read 92-102

•No Journal yet (we will combine this reading with what comes next)

•Look at page 100 in Night. Re-read about the bread into the train car and the lady throwing coins.  Discuss this with the person next to you: why did Elie put these events together? What connections was he making with the woman on vacation and what is happening in the train in the story?

•Writer’s notebook: Why does Elie make this connection (what you talked about on page 100-102)? What are the similarities between the two events? Why would he ask her to stop and then be somewhat offended by her response about charity?