Contemporary Literature

Monday, September 9, 2019

Bell Ringer: Answer at least one of these questions in your writer’s notebook. Use proper grammar and conventions and have a paragraph or more per bullet point. If you finish one and there is still time, answer the other one! Be prepared to give an answer to both in discussion.

Is it inevitable (unavoidable) that we conform to the world and society around us? In other words, do we have to change ourselves to fit into the world around us (communities, groups, school, etc.)? Why/how?
What happens when a person does not accept and/or does not play by the rules of the main culture or what everyone else feels is appropriate or what people should be like?

Response writing on your blog: While responding: answer any of the questions above: Any response to what we have talked about and read in the article!

While responding: what are you thinking about the book we will be reading? Pick at least one specific quote from the article and respond to it. Use a TIQA-style response format as you talk about questions, opinions, reactions, etc. to the quote you picked.
Mrs. J/Ms. B example
Needs to be a well organized paragraph (think of the notes from earlier)
At least one paragraph, maybe more...due after 10 minutes Tuesday
When done, read your book

Bell Ringer: Writer’s Notebook: What does it mean to be a teenager (literal and deeper meaning)? How does loneliness feel and what can it make a person do or think? How is loneliness tied to the teenage ideas? –keep writing on the idea of teens and/or loneliness until we move on
Paragraph Organizing Pre-Test –hand in when complete
Independent Reading (10 Min)
Join the Edublogs class (directions shared with you in classroom)
Discussion: With your partner, talk about what you know or think you know about both the foster care system in the US and about Native Americans. While you talk, write notes in your Flight section of your Reader’s Notes.
Discussion: With a new partner, finish talking about what you know or think you know about both the foster care system in the US and about Native Americans.

You need to post your lists (with where idea comes from) as a comment on my blog: mrsjohnsoncontemplit.edublogs.org (you and new partner)

Alexie Article: Annotate while reading: we will be writing a response on Monday, so highlight/comment on things that seem important/confusing/interesting

Bell Ringer: ACT Prep
- Bell Ringer: Write the sentences containing the underlined portion, the correct answer (not just the letter, the complete answer), and the reason why you believe it is correct.
- The nature trail is six feet wide and seven miles long. It slithers through the forest like a snake curving, and bending along the banks of the river.
- The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.

Books -need an independent reading book ASAP
Binder Division:
- ACT Prep and Editing (10 pieces of paper)
- Writer’s Craft Lessons Section (5)
- Reader’s Notes
- Standards and Reflection
- Writer’s Notebook is the ACTUAL NOTEBOOK: put it in your binder
Reading Time (make sure you like the book you have chosen): 10 minutes (EVERY DAY)

Talk through the posts/comments from yesterday
When writing, think of some of the lists that you created yesterday
- Own Writing: Prompt- At least three separate paragraphs, follow the guidelines you created/brainstormed yesterday (start with answers specific to English, then expand in each paragraph to other worries and confidences)
- Based on these questions, what purposes are you writing for?
Read your book when you are done

On a sheet of notebook paper: Why do we write? What are all of the reasons you can think of concerning why people write? Purposes? Goals? Etc. We will share in 5-10 min
Go to: mrsjohnsoncontemplit.edublogs.org

Library for Book of Choice- NEED by Friday, have one for today (at least 1 book completed per quarter)

Colored Pencils? Markers? Colored Pens? Watercolors? Printed off pictures? Magazine pages?

If you were gone yesterday, you need to check yesterday’s agenda (on the blogspot blog) and read the chapter and answer the questions

If you were here yesterday, you need to work on your resume (or other things on the list that must come in)
Resumes due TOMORROW after work time

We will compare “The Man I Killed” (what we read Friday) to “Ambush” so annotate or mark things that seem important or similar as you read
Read your own book when done with “Ambush”
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?

Panning time for One Pager on The Things They Carried