Tuesday, March 12 (ACT day) Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Independent Reading Time
• Presentation Work Time
• Things I noticed in my check: NEED IMAGES!! At least one a slide/point; make sure you are connecting each point you are making to research that you cite as well as the book (where you also cite)
• Reminder on Sources: need to credit where info comes on individual points as well as a sources section/slide at the end
• Work Cited Page for Presentation –slide in presentation, MLA format (look at the document in Classroom from earlier this year for directions)

Monday, March 11 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Night Preface: answer questions while you read
• Discuss a few of the questions of the preface
• Work on your presentation/share it with me to be ready for Wednesday (when your first draft is due)
• Time to add clarification, visual displays of data, images, strength to your presentation.
• Works Cited Page
• Look at the rubric and make sure you are on the path to the left
• If you need a research break, Read your independent book
• Presentation practice on WEDNESDAY (need at least half of your presentation finished by beginning of class tomorrow!!!)

Friday, March 8 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Presentation work time
• Steps for today:
• Finish Research online (including visuals)
• Connect what you’ve found to the book
• Look at the rubric and make sure you are doing what you need to do!
• Presentations Friday!
• Independent Reading time: if you feel you are ready to present (I’m pretty much thinking no one will be done with the presentation today, but you never know)
• More Notes/Presentation Creation time

Thursday, March 7 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Presentation Work Time
• Highlighted sections of rubric (subject knowledge, logical appeal, counter arguments)
• Make sure you have notes on at least 7 or more sources before you start to create your presentation
• Potential Types: PowerPoint (or Google Slides), Prezi, WeVideo, PowToon, Haiku Deck, Animoto, Bunkr, Knowledge Vision, Visme, Canva, Adobe Spark
• Go to: https://morethanatech.com/2015/07/21/21-top-presentation-tools-for-teachers/ for a quick explanation of each type
• ‘First Draft’ Presentation needs to be done by Tuesday, works cited doesn’t (Wednesday)
• Background on the Holocaust -fill out document in Classroom
• After you write, post to Schoology with person you are sitting next to, then work on quote
• Time to work on missing work/read
• Any Flight work that you would like to be worth points is due Wednesday!
• Transformation Sheet due Friday

Wednesday, March 6 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Theme Paragraphs/Independent Reading
• Once you’ve written the three, write on the top of the document: which paragraph should we assess? Why is that the best evidence of your learning?
• Presentation Work Time
• Topic Choice update… Answer Garden
• By the middle of Wednesday you should have a selection of potential sources and you should have a selection of quotes from the book you are considering.
• I will be checking for at least 10 potential sources at the end of work time Wednesday
• You should start notes on the potential sources once you have 10+ articles/videos.
• Notes can be typed or by hand, but keep track of what info comes from what source and what info is a direct quote vs your words
• Remember, you need visuals (pictures, videos, icons, graphs, etc)
• If you need a break from your research, you can read your independent book

Tuesday, March 5 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: Theme Paragraphs
• Banned Books Discussion
• Presentation Introduction
• Presentation Work Time
• Topic Choice update…
• By the middle of Wednesday you should have a selection of potential sources and you should have a selection of quotes from the book you are considering.
• I will be checking for at least 10 potential sources at the end of work time Wednesday

Monday, March 4 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: What are some possible themes of the story? (aim for 5-8 or more)
• Big ideas we’ve looked at plus a message about each that are echoed throughout, what a lot of the story connects to, start a list in classroom (Flight Themes assignment) and share with me. If you are going for a theme, it should be a big idea and a message about that idea.
• Independent Reading -when you’ve finished your theme list
• Discussion of Ch 18 -find what you wrote about the father questions on Thursday
• Chapter 19-20
• Bell Ringer: Themes List: Pick three of the themes from the list and explain how those themes can be seen.  For two of the three you need to use textual evidence
• Explain in detail (using textual evidence for all three themes, if you want to make your argument stronger).
• Example paragraph is on the theme list