Last Reminders:
Drop your gab anywhere with an orange bag sign.
Make sure your phone is OFF and in your bag OR OFF and CHARGING at the charge center.
Drop your gab anywhere with an orange bag sign.
Make sure your phone is OFF and in your bag OR OFF and CHARGING at the charge center.
Monday, August 21 or Tuesday, August 22
Due Today: INB Cover
Learning Target: RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account. W.11-12.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. SL.11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning.
Classwork
- Do Now: Write the following word and definition as the title for today's INB entry. in the time provided, freewrite about what you think it means.
- Existentialism: a philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.
- After: Text Rendering Discussion Protocol about Into the Wild with color or number groups
- Then: Reflect on the protocol and how both the book and your response to the Do Now might affect your reading and writing this quarter.
- Next: Draft your personal motto...Why is it important? Read the Psychology Today article.
Homework
- Finish reading the Psychology Today article about personal mottos. You should have a solid one written for yourself by the time you come to class on Wednesday.
- Continue reading Into the Wild at your own pace.
- Continue Independent Reading at your own pace- If you want to read articles instead of a book, please e-mail me about your options.
Wednesday, August 23
Due Today: article from Psychology Today, Personal Motto
Classwork
- Do Now: In your INB, list the sentence, phrase, and word that you remember most from the Psychology Today article. Remember to write the date on each page of the INB used today.
- After: Text Rendering Discussion Protocol about Psychology Today article
- Then: Unpack Embedded Assessment 1 in Unit 4 on WB p. 306 (writer's checklist on WB p. 365 and rubric on p. 366)
- Next: Independent Reading reminder and Into the Wild reading reminder
Target Practice: I understand why my personal motto is important to me and can use it to begin drafting my personal narrative. Fist-5?
Homework
- Continue reading Into the Wild through chapter 5.
Friday, August 25
Due Today: EA 1 typed draft
Learning Target: SL.11-12.4 Present information, findings, and supporting evidence, conveying a clear and distinct perspective, such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning. W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events
Classwork
- Do Now: Vocabulary quiz on Google Classroom (Open notes, use Vocab Section of INB)
- After: Four A's Discussion Protocol introduction
- Then: Four A's Discussion Protocol for Into the Wild
- Next: Begin drafting the personal narrative:
- What is an event in my life that lead to my personal motto today? For EA 1, I have to write this story in a multi-paragraph narrative essay.
Target Practice: I can complete a satisfactory draft of EA 1, my personal narrative, by Friday @ midnight. Fist-5?
Homework
- Finish at least a two-page draft of your personal narrative by Monday/Tuesday class. Make sure to include your personal motto at the top of the essay.
- Continue reading Into the Wild at your own pace- for reference, you should be finished reading at least to Chapter 8.
