Week Fifteen !!

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Week Thirteen

Prefix Test: post~Reading Workshop/Chapter 3 Reading Notes

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To : 

• use literature to know me and the world
• have an enjoyable literary experience
• write a letter to a classmate and share my reading experience with them and

to read and respond to their letter in turn

Essential Questions:

How can I participate in a meaningful and productive way?

Agenda

    1.  Prefix Test ~post
    2. Reading Workshop
    3. Ketchup!

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Achieves due Sunday
• Suffix Test ~less next Friday

Social Studies: Period 5

Essential Question:  How did life change when Hunters and Gathers began to farm and domesticate animals?

Agenda

    1. Chapter 3
    2. Reading Notes

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Read each night!

Socratic Seminar!/Hunter and Gatherer Activity

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To : Gain a deeper understanding of how Dar's experience aligns with the Hero's Journey Pattern 

Essential Questions:

How can I participate in a meaningful and productive way?

Agenda

    1. Socratic Seminar!

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Achieves due Sunday
• Suffix Test ~less next Friday

Social Studies: Period 5

Essential Question:  How did life change when Hunters and Gathers began to farm and domesticate animals?

Agenda

    1. Hunter Gatherer Activity
    2. Debrief

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Read each night!

Dar and the Spear-Thrower Socratic Seminar Prep/Chapter 3 From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers Preview

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To : Gain a deeper understanding of how Dar's experience aligns with the Hero's Journey Pattern 

Essential Questions:

How can I participate in a meaningful and productive way?

Agenda

    1. Socratic Seminar Notes Google Classroom English
     2. Socratic Seminar Expectations

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Achieves due Sunday
• Suffix Test ~less next Friday

Social Studies: Period 5

Essential Question:  How did life change when Hunters and Gathers began to farm and domesticate animals?

Agenda

    1. Chapter 3
    2. Reading Notes

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Read each night!

Dar and the Spear-Thrower/Discovering Ardi

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

What events lead to Dar's transformation?  

Agenda:
1. Dar and the Spear-Thrower chapters 9-11
2. Partner Work
         Hero's Journey Connections
       


Homework and important reminders!

• Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!
• Prefix test: post~ this Friday
• Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• ORVF due 11/28:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies (period  5 only today)

Goal:  To understand how social scientists learn about the past.

Essential Question(s):

How do different social scientists study the past.

Agenda:

1. Discovering Ardi 

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)

Achieves/Discovering Ardi

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

How can I use reading strategies to improve my Achieve Scores?  

Agenda:

    1. Achieve: Free Choice

Start with the Stretch! Before reading poll reading strategy of choice activity after reading poll Do the same with your Leveled Article

    2. Achieve:  Earliest People: Looking Out for Lucy
A famous fossil is touring the  U.S., and some scientists are concerned about its safety.

• Start with the Stretch! 
• Before reading poll 
• Reading strategy of choice
• After reading poll 
• Do the same with your Leveled Article 

 You can do it! I BELIEVE IN YOU!

Homework and important reminders!

• Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!
• Prefix test: post~ this Friday
• Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!
• ORVF due 11/28:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies 

Goal:  To understand how social scientists learn about the past.

Essential Question(s):

How do different social scientists study the past.

Agenda:

1. Discovering Ardi

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)

Dar and the Spear-Thrower Friday

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

What events lead to Dar's transformation?  

Agenda:

    1. Prefix test pre~
    2. Dar and the Spear-Thrower chapters 7-8
    3. Partner Work
         Hero's Journey Connections
       


Homework and important reminders!

• Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!
• Prefix test: post~ next Friday
• Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• ORVF due 11/28:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies 

Goal:  To understand how social scientists learn about the past.

Essential Question(s):

How do different social scientists study the past.

Agenda:

1. Woolly Mammoth Hyper doc: Social Studies Google Classroom (periods 2 and 8)
   
   
2. Discovering Ardi (period 5)

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)

Reading Workshop/Social Studies Hyper doc period 5

Humanities: English/Social Studies

Goals:

To : 

• use literature to know me and the world
• have an enjoyable literary experience
• write a letter to a classmate and share my reading experience with them and

to read and respond to their letter in turn

Essential Questions:

How can I participate in a meaningful and productive way?

Agenda

    1.  Silent Read

•  Write a Letter to your
• “Big Ben” date
• Read and respond to your partner’s letter

• Go to Flip Grid and
• Watch your Big Ben partner’s video and leave a positive comment.
• Now watch as many videos as you need to watch until you hear about a book YOU WANT TO READ.
• Go to Google Classroom English and find the Google Form: Books Worth Reading and fill it out.  This is homework if you do not have time to complete it in class :)

REMINDERS/HOMEWORK:  

• Bring a book to school every day 
• Achieves due Sunday

Social Studies: Period 5

Woolly Mammoth Hyper doc: Social Studies Google Classroom

Dar and the Spear-Thrower/Cave Exploration: Chapter 1 Reading Notes

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

What events lead to Dar's transformation?  

Agenda:

    1. Dar and the Spear-Thrower chapters 4-6
        Characters
        Character Analysis: Dar


Homework and important reminders!

Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!

Prefix test: pre this Friday

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORVF due 11/28:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies 

Goal:  To understand how social scientists learn about the past.

Essential Question(s):

How do different social scientists study the past?  What inferences can I make about primitive artifacts?  What can I hypothesis about the reason the artist created them?

Agenda:

1. Chapter 1 Reading Notes
2. Cave Exploration!!

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)

Dar and the Spear-Thrower/Investigating the Past

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

What events lead to Dar's transformation?  

Agenda:

    1. Dar and the Spear-Thrower chapters 1-3
        Characters
        Character Analysis: Dar


Homework and important reminders!

Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!

Prefix test: pre this Friday

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORVF due 11/28:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies (period  5 only today)

Goal:  To understand how social scientists learn about the past.

Essential Question(s):

How do different social scientists study the past.

Agenda:

1. Textbook Survey
2. Chapter 1 Reading Notes
3. Cave Exploration!!

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)

Achieves/Investigating the Past

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

How can I use reading strategies to improve my Achieve Scores?  

Agenda:

    1. Achieve: Free Choice

Start with the Stretch! Before reading poll reading strategy of choice activity after reading poll Do the same with your Leveled Article

    2. Achieve:  Earliest People: Saving the Paintings
Scientists are trying to figure out how to stop fungus from spreading on the walls of a very old cave.

• Start with the Stretch! 
• Before reading poll 
• Reading strategy of choice
• After reading poll 
• Do the same with your Leveled Article 

 You can do it! I BELIEVE IN YOU!

Homework and important reminders!

Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!

Prefix test: pre this Friday

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORVF due 11/28:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies (period  5 only today)

Goal:  To understand how social scientists learn about the past.

Essential Question(s):

How do different social scientists study the past.

Agenda:

1. Textbook Survey
2. Chapter 1 Preview
3. Chapter 1 Reading Notes

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)

Achieves/Community Identity: Membership

English

Goal:  Our learning goal is for everyone in the class to be able to understand the steps of the Hero’s Journey and apply the model to different stories we have heard, books we have read, movies we have seen as well as to our own lives.

Essential Question(s):

How can I use reading strategies to improve my Achieve Scores?  

Agenda:

    1. Achieve: Free Choice

Start with the Stretch! Before reading poll reading strategy of choice activity after reading poll Do the same with your Leveled Article

    2. Achieve:  "In a Desert Not So Far Away"

• Start with the Stretch! 
• Before reading poll 
• Reading strategy: For each paragraph of your Leveled Article, use Setting the Purpose to take notes for your Thought Question (collect vocabulary words to use--at least two from your list!) 
• After reading poll 
• Do the same with your Leveled Article 

Thought Question:
Retell this story as if you were reporting on the Star Wars tourist attractions in southern Tunisia and why people might want to visit them. Include information from the Article, as well as vocabulary terms (underline!) and descriptive phrases, in your responses.

Be thoughtful, provide detail, show me how well you write! 

 You can do it! I BELIEVE IN YOU!

Homework and important reminders!

Achieves are due before midnight Sunday!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)  Remember the challenge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ORVF due 10/10:  Keep up your reading, remember our goal!

Social Studies (period  5 only today)

Goal:  

• I will begin to understand the concept of society.

Essential Question(s):
What makes a society?  How does the role of "we" and "they" impact perspectives

Agenda: Period 2 and 8

1. "Meet Me At"
2. Sneetches by Dr. Suess
3. "We and They"  Rudyard Kipling

Agenda: Period 5

1. The "In Group" Eve Shalen

2. Team questions

3. Give One, Get One

4. Connection Questions: Finish for Homework

Homework and important reminders!

Read for at least 15 minutes every day! :)