Friday, Feb. 9 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop Time

•Your body paragraphs (or at the absolute minimum, one of them) should be done by: 1:15

•If you aren’t done with the rough draft of body paragraphs by the end of class, they are homework!!!  You should have all body paragraphs color coded by Monday!

•First Draft BODY PARAGRAPHS need to be uploaded to Turnitin by Saturday night to be on time

•Color Coding your draft:

•Red: Topic Sentence/transition

•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)

•Independent Reading/Research

•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)

•Flight Chapter 8 –add “coming of age” to back page

Thursday, Feb. 8 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: ACT Prep

•Independent Reading Blog Post

•When you’ve posted on YOUR blog, either read your independent book, or for the two groups who have not presented, you need to work for at least a small time on your presentation

•Coming of Age –go find your group from yesterday, with your computer

•What is it?

•How seen around the world?

•Share document with me when done and work on notes/body paragraphs for Compare/Contrast Paper

•Writer’s Workshop

•Notes finished by end of class today at the latest!

•Work on body paragraphs: due after 40 minutes tomorrow

•If you are done with your body paragraphs, you can read your independent book

Wednesday, Feb. 7 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop Time

•All Notes done by: tomorrow after 20 minutes

•Body Paragraphs: Rough Drafts due by Friday (complete by middle of work time) –look at body para doc shared with you

•Turnitin.com: Class ID: 17439798  Enrollment Key: ContempSp18

•Battle of Little-Big-Horn Presentation

•Flight

•Chapter 7

•Small Group Discussion

Tuesday, Feb. 6 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop –turn on your computer and go to your notes document

•Finding support for your topic (research)

•Body Paragraph Format

•Organizing Paragraphs

•Body Paragraph writing (beginning of paragraph added to document on drive as example)

•Begin Rough Draft (body paragraphs)

•Flight

•Chapter 6

•Research/Independent Reading

•Ben’s Group–you are presenting tomorrow

•Tim’s Group–presenting on Friday

•Evan H.’s Group–presenting Mon

Monday, Feb. 5 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Independent Research/Reading

•Tanner’s Group Presentation

•Flight

•Chapter 5 reading

•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): Need the notes and at least one source on it shared with me by the end of the block

Friday, February 2 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: ACT Prep

•Background Research/Independent Reading

•Ghost Dance group presentation

•While they are talking, write (in class notes sections) a quick answer to each of these questions based on the info they give us

•Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? Connection to Zits?

•Flight

•Rest of ch 3, Chapter 4

•Writer’s Workshop

•Begin research (continue with quote tracing for Zits’ char., then go to online research for your topics)

Thursday, Feb. 1 Agenda

•Bell Ringer: Discuss Writer’s Notebook entry from Wed.

•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?

•Independent Reading Time

•First half of ch. 3

•Research/Presentation Creation Time

•Rubric