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Monday, October 8, 2018

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! :)