Thursday, Feb. 28 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Some of the ideas from the author’s purpose questions Tuesday
• Chapters 16-17
• Discussion of 16-17
• Were you surprised when it was...? Why yes or no
• Why do you think he was taunting the two? Give a few ideas if you have more than one
• How would the story cause respect?
• Chapter 18
• WN Entry: What does this chapter say about fathers? Why would Zits’ father have this memory and how would it affect his decision in the end? What are some of the effects of this that echo through Zits’ life? –when you have finished writing this, read your independent book

Wednesday, Feb. 27 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Timed Essay Prep
• Post on my blog (as a comment) two different perspectives people could have about Juniors (you) reading the book Flight (Take your best two from what you wrote yesterday)
• Evaluate example essays
• Timed Writing
• Independent Reading

Tuesday, Feb. 26 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Flight ch 14-15
• Discuss with partner: Why does the author have Zits jump into Gus’ body? Why does the author have Zits jump into Jimmy’s body?  -answer these questions on Google Classroom after talking
• Things to think of: Similarities of characters; Differences of characters; Lessons that can be learned?; Connections between what characters are doing and what Zits did?; etc
• Discuss the most recent two entries in your Writer’s Notebook with a partner plus:
• How many books that have been challenged in the past do you think you’ve read? What are the top reasons that books are challenged (in general)? What are the different reasons why this book (Flight) could be controversial? What are issues in this book that are issues to teens today? What in Zits’ life has made him a controversial person? Are those things filled with controversy?
• Post the answers to this question on the blog post
• Banned books discussion tomorrow
• Writer’s Notebook: What are some possible perspectives that people could have on this book and that you have on this book? (What sort of people could be impacted by this book? What details/points in the book/details of Zits’ life could connect with people and why/how? Should it be read by teens? Are there serious issues with the content of the book? Etc.)
• Independent book

Monday, Feb. 25 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Collect papers at end of work time (20 minutes)
• All papers must have a works cited page (everyone will have the book Flight as an entry, plus whatever other sources you used) –see document shared with you in classroom for directions
• Use the rubric to check that you have everything!
• Paper clip rubric, paper, works cited page together and turn in to stool then read your independent book
• Once you have turned in your essay, read your independent book!
• Flight ch. 12-13 –take out quote tracing and transformation sheets, fill out while we read

Friday, Feb. 22 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Write this if you didn’t; if you did, read your book:
• **In writer’s notebook: What books have you read (or been exposed to) that you feel should not be accessible to children or teens? Why or why not?  What books have you read that you think ‘adults’ may have issues with? Why would they?
• Discuss your answers from yesterday/today
• Discuss the following question with your partner/group, then in WN, write about Flight –is it ‘bad’, should it be challenged or banned? Why do you think people could have had problems with it?
• Bring this paragraph and the ideas from yesterday/today to me when you are finished, then work on your paper
• Writer’s Workshop time for compare and contrast essay
• At this point you should be working on your second draft of all paragraphs
• If you want me to read through, talk to me and let me know if I should read for craft or editing
• If I’ve read through for one, you can ask me to read through for the other
• Works Cited Page
• Final draft due MONDAY!!
• If you are done with your paper, you should read your independent book

Thursday, Feb. 21 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Finish ch 10-11
• How have the past three situations in the book (the Indians after the Battle of Little Big Horn, the attack of the settlers, and the attack of the Indian camp) been similar?
• Create a bulleted list of all the ways they are alike with person/people next to you; Make a post on your blog:
• Similarity List first; Pick a big idea from violence/revenge/victim/etc, pick three pieces of evidence for it (with page #s) then explain what MESSAGE about the idea all of the pieces of evidence are showing.
• Writer’s Workshop
• At this point you should be working on your second draft of all paragraphs
• You should have a similarity and a difference for each of your three topics.  This means you should have at least six pieces of evidence from your research and at a minimum three pieces from Flight.
• If you want me to read through, talk to me and let me know if I should read for craft or editing
• If I’ve read through for one, you can ask me to read through for the other
• *In writer’s notebook: What books have you read (or been exposed to) that you feel should not be accessible to children or teens? Why or why not?  What books have you read that you think ‘adults’ may have issues with? Why would they?

Tuesday, Feb. 19 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep -English (answers to second and third pages, finish answering through ?29)
• Writer’s Workshop
• Intro/Conclusion Notes –shared with you in classroom
• Write Intro and Conclusion –on the same document with your body paragraphs, in the right order of paragraphs
• Body paragraphs second draft
• Make sure you have all colors represented in the total draft
• Each paragraph must have a topic sentence, an intro to a piece of evidence, a quote/piece of evidence and analysis about what that evidence shows about the topic sentence.  
• Some will then repeat that sequence in the same paragraph, with a transition rather than a topic sentence.  Others will write a new paragraph following the same sequence.
• UPLOAD TO TURNITIN IF YOU HAVEN'T YET!!
• Flight Ch. 10 (still need to read the last page)

Monday, Feb. 18

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop 30 minutes EXACTLY

Turnitin.com: Class ID: 20355770 Enrollment Key: S2019CL

• Body paragraphs
• Make sure you have all colors represented in the total draft
• As in you must have THREE topics and for each topic you must have at least one QUOTE FROM FLIGHT, one SIMILARITY, and one DIFFERENCE
• All paragraphs must have a topic sentence that is proven with the evidence cited
• I’ll be reading through paragraphs this evening (if you finish and upload -Everyone must have a completed draft uploaded to turnitin by 8pm)
• Flight Chapter 8 and Ch. 9 –add “coming of age”, revenge, to back page
• Independent Reading
• Read own book (you need to finish at least one book by the end of the term (can vary based on length of book), but more than one equals EXTRA CREDIT with book completion sheet)
• ACT Prep: English test 2nd and 3rd pages (12 questions in 6 minutes)

Friday, Feb. 15 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop Time
• Your body paragraphs (or at the absolute minimum, one of them) should be done by: 2:45
• If you aren’t done with the rough draft of body paragraphs by the end of class, they are homework!!!  
• First Draft BODY PARAGRAPHS need to be uploaded to Turnitin by Monday end of class to be on time
• Color Coding your draft:
• Red: Topic Sentence/transition
• Orange: Introduction to quote
• Blue: Info from Flight
• Green: Info from other source similar to Flight/Zits
• Purple: Info from other source different from Flight/Zits
• Yellow: In-text citation (credit to author of information cited)
• Pink: Analysis explaining how your evidence shows your point (your opinions, ideas, etc)
• Coming of Age
• What is it?
• How seen around the world?
• Turn in document to me when done and read your independent book

Thursday, Feb. 14 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: ACT Prep: 9 minutes, passage 2
• Finish reading ch. 7
• Discussion of 7
• Writer’s Workshop
• Body Paragraph Document
• How to organize information gained from research
• Notes checked after 20 min (points will decrease if not finished by end of class today at the latest!)
• Work on body paragraphs: at least one topic's paragraph(s) due Friday
• If you are done with your body paragraphs, you can read your independent book

Wednesday, Feb. 13

• Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop Time
• Note Taking
• All Notes done by: tomorrow after 20 minutes WORK ON NOTES FOR HOMEWORK!!!!!!!
• Body Paragraph Format
• Organizing Paragraphs
• Body Paragraph writing (beginning of paragraph on document)
• Body Paragraphs: Rough Drafts due by Friday (complete and uploaded to Turnitin by end of work time) –look at body para doc shared with you
• Turnitin.com: Class ID: 20355770 Enrollment Key: S2019CL
• Flight
• Chapter 6-7: while reading, start looking for additional themes to trace
• Finish all of first row of transformation sheet
• Start filling out second row for his newest transformation

Monday, Feb. 11 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 10 min reading: ACT Prep passage 1
• Flight
• Finish Chapter 5
• Small Group Discussion –see edublogs site for specifics
• Best Evidence of a theme and evidence from ch 4-5
• How are we (the readers) like Zits at this point in the book (how are we in a similar situation while reading)?
• How are Zits and Hank similar? Different? How are Zits and Junior similar? Different?
• Writer’s Workshop: Start research (need evidence from both Flight and the other text/online research (even for yourself, see comment on document)
• Finding support for your topic (research)
• By tomorrow you should have all sources found (absolute minimum 3, probably should be 6 -one for each sim. and diff)

Friday, Feb. 8 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading
• Writer’s Workshop
• Finish Graphic Organizer (at least 5 categories)
• Organize/highlight ideas in Zits side (what you want to compare/contrast)
• Begin research (start with quote tracing for Zits’ char., then go to online research for your topic)
• Writer’s Workshop: Start research (need evidence from both Flight and the other text/online research (even for yourself, see comment on document) (then go to online research for your topics)
• Flight
• Chapter 5 reading continued

Wednesday, Feb. 6 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Pine Ridge NPR Article -while reading, annotate.  Think of the same questions we used for the assimilation article: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? Connection to Zits?
• Independent Reading Time
• Writer’s Workshop
• Compare and Contrast Essay
• You are comparing and contrasting Zits’ character with any of the following: another teen in a novel, a teen in ‘real life’ (general), yourself
• Step One: Choose a topic (what are you comparing him to?)
• Step Two: Graphic Organizer
• Categories on the notes sheet -need 5
• Fill out general ideas and then page numbers and evid.
• Flight ch. 4 and 5 (stopped at page 46)
• Fill out Transformation sheet for first transformation

Tuesday, February 5 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading -10 minutes
• Assimilation Schoology Posts
• TIQA paragraph on your blog: According to the intro paragraph of the article, it will help readers understand Zits’ “inherent resentments towards white people” What two pieces of information most help us see how this resentment could start/continue? For each piece of evidence explain why it would cause resentment/how it helps us get understanding of the resentment.
• Continue Chapter 3
• In your Reader’s Notebook -Flight section: What do you think is the most important aspect (part) of Zits’ character? What defines him the most?  Do you feel he is an accurate depiction of a teen? Why? (That why applies to all questions…support your opinions with details!) –read independent book/ when done
• ACT English Prep