Sunday

Quarter 4, Week 8 of 11

Attention Groups:
Consult the Lesson Delivery Schedule, choose a date, and inform Mr. Fisher by Friday's class.  The EARLIER you choose, the more likely you will get the date you want!
Monday, May 11 or Tuesday, May 12
Learning Goal/Standard: SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's use of rhetoric and links among ideas.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Title today's journal Lesson Self-Scoring. Draw a grid in your journal with three columns and four rows.  Label the top row boxes: Criteria, Score, and How to Improve. Then label the left-column boxes: Ideas, Structure, and Use of Language. Use your purple information sheet to determine a score for each category and write it in the middle column. Leave the last three boxes empty. 
  2. After: In groups, discuss each members' score and what the group can do to improve that score. Write brief descriptions in each of the final boxes for each criteria as you develop them.
  3. Then: Watch Kick Me Vocabulary Lesson Video (4:54) or Digital Media Literacy (7 min.)
  4. Next: In Lesson Groups, discuss what ideas or tactics from this lesson you might be able to use in your own.
  5. Then: Watch Fruit Haiku Vocabulary Lesson Video (4:33) or Chemistry Basics (5 min.)
  6. Next: In Lesson Groups, discuss what ideas or tactics from this lesson you might be able to use in your own.
Target Practice: I can effectively analyze and evaluate a mini-lesson for rhetorical techniques. +/0/-
Homework
Tuesday, May 12 or Wednesday, May 13
Learning Goal/Standard: SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's use of rhetoric and links among ideas.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Title today's journal History, Values, Beliefs, and Author. With your Multimedia Lesson Group, discuss how your lesson addresses the books historical significance, values or beliefs of the time-period, the author, and/or his/her other works. In your journal, make a list of at least five different ways your group has OR WILL address one or all of these aspects.
  2. After: View The Silent Tea Party Lesson Video (5:54)
  3. Then: In Lesson Groups, discuss what ideas or tactics from this lesson you might be able to use in your own.
  4. Next: View Comic Book Templates Lesson Video (8:21)
  5. Then: In Lesson Groups, discuss what ideas or tactics from this lesson you might be able to use in your own.
Target Practice: I can effectively analyze and evaluate a mini-lesson for rhetorical techniques. +/0/-
Homework
Thursday, May 14 or Friday, May 15
Learning Goal/Standard: SL.11-12.3 Evaluate a speaker's use of rhetoric and links among ideas.
Classwork
  1. Do Now: Title today's journal Transitions.  Just like a speech, research paper, short story, or even poem, your lesson elements need transitions.  In your group, discuss how you will address transitions from pre-assessment, the various activities in the lesson, and post-assessment. In your journal, list at least three ways your group will transition from one activity to the next in your lesson.
  2. After: Participate in sample mini-lesson (label this section of the journal Sample Mini-Lesson)
      • Do Now: Title today's journal The Importance of Perspective. Then, think of a time where your perspective of an event was very different from someone else's. When you tell the story, why is it different from someone else's version? In a short paragraph, briefly tell the story and how you think your version was different from someone else's.
      • After: Break into groups and write the following prompts in your journal for YOUR GROUP ONLY, leaving space to respond.
        1. What affected the storyteller's perspective? 
        2. Describe the main character in the story?
      • Then: Watch Have I Got a Story For You. 
      • Next: Discuss the four different versions and the difference between perspective and perception.
  3. Then: In Lesson Groups, discuss what ideas or tactics from this lesson you might be able to use in your own.
  4. Next: Group Meeting time for Rationale revision.
Target Practice: I can understand the effect perspective can have on a person's perception of events. +/0/-
Homework
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