Friday, May 31 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Class Answers from Mary Anne’s Transformation
• “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?
• Assessment on The Things They Carried = Creative One Pager THURSDAY
• Things needed for any option
• Quotes (minimum 3), Themes, Characters, Symbols, Setting, Author’s Style/Purpose, Connections to current/other (world or text)
• Resume Time: Completed Resume (Formatted BEAUTIFULLY) due WEDNESDAY

Thursday, May 30 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Finish “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” 105-end
• Resume work time
• Mary Anne’s Transformation Discussion and Writing
• Assignment in Google Classroom (the questions are there)
• Continue working on resume

Wednesday, May 29 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong pg 89-105
• While reading, answer questions and write own questions when pause: discuss first side of questions with partner
• Resumes
• Notes
• Examples
• Planning: pretend you are out of the schooling/training necessary to get a specific job in one of your career fields
• What schooling (specific, pretend)
• Actual job available? Research some...
• Start Resume

Tuesday, May 28 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 Independent reading or finishing your social issue presentation if not done
• Discussion of “How to Tell…”
• Discussion: Need to discuss for 10 min.  Talk of all of your post-its and answers to the questions.  Make sure you understand the story and what he is saying about Truth and War
• Go to Google Classroom and answer the two questions in the The Things They Carried section

Friday, May 24 Agenda

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

• Finish Discussion on “Love” and “Spin”

• How to Tell a True War Story
• While reading, mark with postits to have a discussion on Tuesday
• Read the story “A True War Story” pg 67 - 78

• Final Class Work Time on Social Issue Project
• Needed: link to completed project, works cited page (printed out in MLA format), rubric (paperclipped to the works cited page)

Thursday, May 23 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Social Issues Project Work Time
• Explanation of Project explanation
• Discuss the TTTC chapters with small group
• Discuss the questions and 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 Classroom
• When you finish, work on your social awareness presentation (research product)

Wednesday, May 22 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading Time: 10 minutes, finish “Spin” if you didn’t yesterday
• Check notes on “Love” and “Spin”: Post-it check
• If you finished the two stories, read your independent book or keep working on your research project
• Spreadsheet Check
• Career Expo
• More work time (if possible)

Tuesday, May 21 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Social Issues Research Work Time
• Email me with your link to your product, a percentage for complete that you feel you are, and a list of specific things you need to do in order for it to be complete on Friday
• Independently Read “Love” and “Spin” (the questions to mark evidence about are on Classroom)
• While reading, mark evidence in the book to help you answer questions as well as keep track of important ideas or events, and mark areas of confusion (where you have questions)

Monday, May 20 Agenda

• • Bell Ringer: Read 13-20 (as a class)
  • Writing based on page 20 quotes
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    • “They were afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it” (O’Brien 20).
    • “They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness” (O’Brien 20).
    • “It wasn’t cruelty, just stage presence. They were actors” (O’Brien 20).
    • “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die…the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight” (O’Brien 21).
    • Tangible –can be felt, touched
    • In = not
    • When done, read to page 26, then bring your explanations and list (or post it marked) showing things carried to me.
  • Bring your interpretations up to me when done
  • Read the rest of the first chapter (20-26) (independently)
  • Work time on Social Issue Project (you should be making your product now that connects to your audience)
• Social Awareness Project
• Your notes should be done by the end of work time today (beginning of Monday at the latest)
• 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
• Research Time
• Individual meeting with Mrs. Johnson about the project during work time
• When you turn in your project (on Tuesday), 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 Tuesday. (shared digitally w/me)
• Extra Credit: somehow prove to me that your project reached its target audience (more than just our class): due ?

Friday, May 17 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: 15 minutes independent reading
• Finish Background Notes
• Take out a sheet of paper.  Make two columns, one for LITERAL the other for FIGURATIVE, as we read, mark with the post its things that are literally and figuratively carried by the characters
• Go back into the story and pick out the most important, interesting, affecting things carried and list them
• Read “TTTC” 1-13
• Work time on project
• Target Audience Form needs to be filled out
• (first draft of ‘presentation’ due Tuesday)

Thursday, May 16 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: What is your social issue? Write it on the board with your name ASAP
• 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 directions document) as soon as you know your target audience.  Since you should be done with notes at the end of class Monday, you should have this filled out by then too (https://goo.gl/forms/ag4mRQZrBuZ4pCkD2)
• 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.
• Vietnam Background –notes (slides 1-3)
• Get The Things They Carried

Wednesday, May 15 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Form and Preview Notes Check:  
• finish form and preview notes if you aren’t done
• If you are done, read your independent book
• Small Groups: (directions on next slide)
• Rubric and Project Explanation
• Your project ‘first draft’ is due Tuesday, so you should be thinking about how you want to convey your knowledge and who most needs it
• NOTES TIME!
• You should have notes on one of your first 5 sources to help you know your focus and what else you need to find
• If you don’t have 15-20 potential sources, this is due at 3:00
• You need to keep thinking of the questions on the instructions document I shared with you to get you to the point when you can begin compiling your research into a ‘presentation’ of information
• By 3:45 you need to have notes (what does it say to help answer any of your research questions, does it direct you toward a specific social issue, how connected to the theme, look at the directions for pt. 2 for other questions for notes, etc.) on 3+ of your sources and you should know the specific social issue that you are going to be focusing on relating to your theme and a list of possible groups to target
• You need to have all notes taken by the end of class Friday, at the latest

Tuesday, May 14 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Book Check in (OMM and others)
• 10 minutes independent reading
• 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?
• RESEARCH TIME: Finish finding five potential sources and then take notes on 1-2 of them, thinking of the questions you created and the questions on the directions document.  THEN: 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 the first half of work time:
• Notes on 1-2 of your sources (once you get 5 potential, start to take some notes)
• 20+ potential sources on document by beginning of class tomorrow at the LATEST!
• Preview for The Things They Carried -on Google Classroom
• What do you carry? form -on Google Classroom
• Research Overview:
• • Create Questions, at least 8 (we did this on Monday)
  • Find 5 potential resources by using your questions as starting points (also should have done this Monday)
  • Read and take notes on 1-2 of your first five sources, getting an overall idea. (This is due on Wednesday at the latest)  Then continue finding potential resources (aim for 20+)
  • Once you have a long list (20+), continue reading your sources, thinking of the big social issue that your theme represents.
  • Ex. THEME: People with mental illnesses being misunderstood leading to hardships. Issue: Lack of access to mental health care and impact and stigma
  • Take notes while reading as to how your sources give you information about your social issue/theme
  • Figure out what group of people most needs the information about this issue and theme, figure out how to best get information out to them
  • Ex. Family members? Teens who are facing issues? Politicians?
  • Put together a ‘presentation’ of information, bringing social awareness to the issue that you have focused on

Monday, May 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Final In Class Work Time on Paper (25 minutes)
• MLA format
• Works Cited Reminder
• Pt. 2 of Book Final Assessment: Create a research focus question and begin finding articles, sites, etc with information to help answer your question
• 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?
• 8 Research Questions due today!!
• Research Time
• Find 5 potential sources
• 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!!!