Book Projects - last work day

Today's Goal: If necessary, make revisions to your article, then work on book projects! Share what you've read!

The Plan:

1. QUIZ (Click here and wait for directions silently).
2. Work on Book Projects or Article Revisions
3. Read a book if you have time!

Book Projects

• Independent Reading book projects are due TODAY
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.
• Digital submissions should be submitted on the Google Classroom assignment, which means you will need to press the "Add" button and click "Google Drive" to find the assignment(s) and attach them.
• Physical submissions will be handed directly to Ms. Black
• You can do both options, and if you really want to print something out and give it to me, you can do that, too.
• If you don't want a zero for this on your progress report, it MUST be submitted on or before Friday.

Reminders/Homework:

• Book Projects Due November 30! (If you want it counted for the progress report, they MUST be turned in!)
• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. There WILL be one next week.
• The secret word is Mesopotamia.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Seeing Things in a New Way".
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by January 15
• Make revisions to your articles if needed. Resubmit on Google Classroom.

Reading Challenges

Today's Goal: If necessary, make revisions to your article, then work on book projects! Share what you've read!

The Plan:

1. Open Socrative and join our class (The Room Name will be on the board)
2. Work on Book Projects or Article Revisions
3. Read a book if you have time!

Revisions for Articles:

• If you choose to make revisions to your article, you will need to make a copy of the one you shared with me. 
• Your revised article will be submitted on Google Classroom. 
• In order to get a revised score, you will need to make your revisions ON YOUR OWN. Revisions are to be done individually. 
• If you and your group only have a few things to do together, that's fine, but you will still need to make individual copies and submit them individually. 
• I will only give revised scores to students who have submitted their revisions on Google Classroom.
• There isn't really a due date for this, but if revisions aren't done by the end of the semester, they will not count.

Book Projects

• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.
• Digital submissions should be submitted on the Google Classroom assignment
• Physical submissions will be handed directly to Ms. Black

Reminders/Homework:

• Book Projects Due November 30! (If you want it counted for the progress report, they MUST be turned in!)
• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. There WILL be one next week.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Seeing Things in a New Way".
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by January 15

Book Projects!

Today's Goal: If necessary, make revisions to your article,

Your Choices:
1. revisions to your article
2. work on book projects
3. read a book! (Get a new one if you don't have one)


Revisions for Articles:

• If you choose to make revisions to your article, you will need to make a copy of the one you shared with me. 
• Your revised article will be submitted on Google Classroom. 
• In order to get a revised score, you will need to make your revisions ON YOUR OWN. Revisions are to be done individually. 
• If you and your group only have a few things to do together, that's fine, but you will still need to make individual copies and submit them individually. 
• I will only give revised scores to students who have submitted their revisions on Google Classroom.

Book Projects

• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.
• Digital submissions should be submitted on the Google Classroom assignment
• Physical submissions will be handed directly to Ms. Black

Reminders/Homework:

• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. There WILL be one next week.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Seeing Things in a New Way".
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (THAT'S TODAY)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30

What are you Reading?

Today's Goal: Make a physical representation of a book that you have recently read.

The Plan:

1. I'm giving you Play-Doh. Don't make a mess or you'll never get to use it again.
2. Ms. Black will answer all the questions you have about your article scores
3. Ms. Black will answer all the questions you have about your book projects
4. Come prepared tomorrow to work on book projects or article revisions.

Play-Doh

1. Think about the most recent book you have read or are currently reading
2. Create an object with your Play-Doh that represents something important in your book
   Your only rule is that you can't make a person with your play-doh to represent the character. You can be more creative. I know it.
3. Make a FlipGrid Video explaining what book you read or are reading, what your object is, and what it represents in your story.
4. Be appropriate in your responses to your peers.

Revisions for Articles:

• If you choose to make revisions to your article, you will need to make a copy of the one you shared with me. 
• Your revised article will be submitted on Google Classroom. 
• In order to get a revised score, you will need to make your revisions ON YOUR OWN. Revisions are to be done individually. 
• If you and your group only have a few things to do together, that's fine, but you will still need to make individual copies and submit them individually. 
• I will only give revised scores to students who have submitted their revisions on Google Classroom.

Book Projects

• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.
• Digital submissions should be submitted on the Google Classroom assignment
• Physical submissions will be handed directly to Ms. Black

Reminders/Homework:

• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. There WILL be one next week.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Seeing Things in a New Way".
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (THAT'S TODAY)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30

A Final Product

The Plan: FINISH.

1. MODEL ARTICLE
2. WORK ON FINISHING YOUR ARTICLE
3. Communication Rubric - Rate yourself and your peers (This is the point where I will happily raise scores if you have proven to your team and yourself that you deserve it!

Screencasts I made for you that are on Google Classroom, too:

• How to get a legal photo to use in your work
• How to get yourself a template to use for your article
• How to make your Works Cited Page

BONUS POINT OPPORTUNITY OVER BREAK:

Complete two Achieve articles of your choice. Do all five steps and earn at LEAST 75% on two articles. If you complete this by Friday at midnight on November 24, I will award 10 bonus points. Some of you need this!

Reminders/Homework:

• WORK ON YOUR ARTICLE - DUE FRIDAY
• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Keeping Watch: A Good Thing?"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

Work Day

Today's Goal: Visit your last station and KEEP. WRITING.

The Plan:

1. MODEL ARTICLE
2. Stations Activity: You will have a paper version of this document to work with
3. Work on any station you need to OR work on your writing to finalize your article. Don't forget: it's due TOMORROW (you'll have the whole period in class tomorrow to work as well)

Screencasts I made for you that are on Google Classroom, too:

• How to get a legal photo to use in your work
• How to get yourself a template to use for your article
• How to make your Works Cited Page

Reminders/Homework:

• WORK ON YOUR ARTICLE - DUE FRIDAY
• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Keeping Watch: A Good Thing?"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

Stations Activity - Making your Article Better

It's a train STATION.
Get it?
I'm hilarious.

Today's Goal: Write at least one section of your article that incorporates evidence from your research.

The Plan:

1. Communication Rubric - Rate yourself and your peers
2. MODEL ARTICLE
3. Stations Activity: You will have a paper version of this document to work with

Screencasts I made for you that are on Google Classroom, too:

• How to get a legal photo to use in your work
• How to get yourself a template to use for your article
• How to make your Works Cited Page

Reminders/Homework:

• WORK ON YOUR ARTICLE - DUE FRIDAY
• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Keeping Watch: A Good Thing?"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

Book Fair and Writing

Get all your talking done at the book fair because as
soon as we get back, you're going to work. Independently.

Today's Goal: Write at least one section of your article that incorporates evidence from your research.

The Plan:

1. BOOK FAIR!
2. MODEL ARTICLE
3. Writing Time - I have left you comments on EVERY SINGLE Writing Document. Please read those comments carefully. They are important.

IF YOU HAVE HURRICANE KATRINA, CLICK HERE.

Reminders/Homework:

• WRITE AT LEAST ONE SECTION. You need to come to class tomorrow with some paragraphs already written. Blank documents are not going to get you support that you need. If you want to make your writing better, you have to write something to make better! We'll be doing a bit of revision work on Tuesday to give you some pointers to make your writing better. If you don't have anything written, you won't be able to participate.
• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Keeping Watch: A Good Thing?"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

Organizing and Writing

Today's Goal: Investigate methods of organization that writers use to write articles, and begin to create an organizational structure for YOUR article. Start writing!

The Plan:

1. Goal of the day
2. MODEL ARTICLE
3. Writing Time (I HAVE SENT YOU A NEW DOCUMENT IN DRIVE! It's called "Group ## - World Events Article Writing Doc)

The writing doc is where you do your writing. Later, you'll format it so that it is pretty and looks like the model article is starting to look, but for now, you need to do the writing part.

Next week, we will work on: adding photos, citations, and works cited pages.

IF YOU HAVE HURRICANE KATRINA, CLICK HERE.

Reminders/Homework:

• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles. You're welcome.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Share a Car in Paris"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

Article Structure

Today's Goal: Investigate methods of organization that writers use to write articles, including interviews/anecdotes.

The Plan:

1. Collaboration Rubric - self-score today
2. Problem/Solution Essay Types
3. Anecdotes/Call to Action
4. Work time

Essay Types:
The New York Times, in this article, outlines the different structures that they generally use to write their articles on a daily basis.

Which one are you focusing on?

Notice the signal words and phrases:

• so that
• in order to
• as a result
• since
• cause
• because
• problem
• solution
• As a result
• therefore
• due to
• for this reason

Anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident (Merriam-Webster)

Check out THIS ARTICLE for an example of how you can use a real person's story to jumpstart your article and hook your readers. It is also an example of a problem/solution essay, but it's REALLY LONG, so don't spend too much time on it.

You must include anecdotal evidence (or information from an interview) in your article, meaning you need to include a real person's experience, using their name. You can find those in your research OR by asking someone you know who can speak about your topic because they experienced it or worked with those who did.


Call to Action: Identify ways that people who read your article can get involved or help. This should END your article. What organizations can people donate to? Where can they volunteer? If they're IN the place where people were affected, what can they do besides give money? This can even be a list of places and phone numbers/websites of organizations to contact.


Reminders/Homework:

• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles. You're welcome.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Share a Car in Paris"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

Form an Outline

Today's Goal: Begin to form your outline 

Some of you might find out, when you go to create
your outline, that you are missing important information.
This means you have to go back and either reread the
articles you already read, or you will need to find new
sources of information. That's okay! That's the process!

Agenda:

1. Social Contract Goals
2. Inquiry Process
3. Research and Outline
4. Exit Ticket

NOTE: 
Tomorrow we will address "anecdotes" and "calls to action." Right now, focus on the other parts.

Reminders/Homework:

• NO THOUGHT QUESTION. I want you to focus your energy on the current writing task and on getting great scores on your achieve articles.
• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice.
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "Share a Car in Paris"
• Independent Reading: at least two books completed by November 27 (that's like 20 pages every night)
• Independent Reading book projects are due November 30
• You can find the instructions on Google Classroom or if you CLICK HERE.

RESEARCH CONTINUED!

Today's Goal: Work with your team to CONTINUE your research. Use GALE and the query skills you learned to begin collecting data and information.

Agenda:

1. Work on Step 3: Research
2. Suggestion: Don't do this without reviewing step 4! (It asks you to outline, and I've provided an outline that you might use to organize your work later. Make sure you're answering all of your research questions!)
3. Other suggestion: Don't do this without reviewing the rubric at the very end!
4. Exit Ticket

For Your Research:

Every member of your team is expected to contribute at least TWO resources to your hyperdoc. Ms. Black has the magic ability to see what everyone types up (yes really, and no it's not actually magic)

The password for GALE is on your research hyperdoc. 

Some of the articles are going to be harder than others. That's OKAY. This is where you have to practice working together and communicating.

Here are some helpful hints as you research:

Reminders/Homework:

• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice. If you aren't happy with your activity score, do another! I'll consider the higher score for grading. 
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "For Sale: Your stuff"
• Do all ten questions! (The last two are important!)
• If you don't like your score, do the stretch activity.
• Read your next independent reading book! (You should be almost finished with at least one new book, and moving on to your THIRD independent reading book of the year at least) My suggestion: 20 pages every night. You might surprise yourself.
• I made a new Flipgrid for you. It's for chatting about books. You do not have "homework" on Flipgrid, but you should go CHECK IT OUT (the password is "falcon"). I DARE YOU TO ADD TO IT (but like.. on topic.)!

GALE and Research Skills and Citations!

Today's Goal: Work with your team to begin your research. Use GALE and the query skills you learned to begin collecting data and information!

Agenda:

1. Research Hyperdoc (I sent this to you at drive.google.com. It will be in your "Shared with Me" folder. The title will be "Group ## - World Events Research Hyperdoc")
2. WATCH THIS VIDEO (It's about citations. I made it for you.)
3. Work on Step 3: Research
4. Suggestion: Don't do this without reviewing step 4! (It asks you to outline, and I've provided an outline that you might use to organize your work later. Make sure you're answering all of your research questions!)
5. Other suggestion: Don't do this without reviewing the rubric at the very end!

For Your Research:

Every member of your team is expected to contribute at least TWO resources to your hyperdoc. Ms. Black has the magic ability to see what everyone types up (yes really, and no it's not actually magic)

The password for GALE is on your research hyperdoc. 

Some of the articles are going to be harder than others. That's OKAY. This is where you have to practice working together and communicating.

Here are some helpful hints as you research:

Reminders/Homework:

• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice. If you aren't happy with your activity score, do another! I'll consider the higher score for grading. 
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "For Sale: Your stuff"
• Do all ten questions! (The last two are important!)
• If you don't like your score, do the stretch activity.
• Read your next independent reading book! (You should be almost finished with at least one new book, and moving on to your THIRD independent reading book of the year at least) My suggestion: 20 pages every night. You might surprise yourself.

Library Orientation (Part 2)

Today's Goal: Library Orientation (Part 2)

Agenda:

1. Period 2/5 is going to the library! Period 1 already did this.
2. Period 1: Short "Scary story" writing activity! (I think you'll have fun with it)
3. If time, work on your Achieve assignments or late work (there are a lot of you that have unnecessary zeros!)

Scary Story Starters:

1. It was a typical Halloween night. The air was cold and the streets were empty, until suddenly....
2. The mad scientist had a new creation. He had made....
3. The large cauldron of purple liquid started to boil when...
4. I got an eerie feeling when I heard...
5. In the distance, I noticed a mysterious object floating in the air. As I tiptoed closer, ......
6. We walked up to the door, when the Halloween pumpkin suddenly transformed into .......
7. The black cat started to crouch and hiss when...
8. Something in the closet was making a strange noise, so I opened the door and...
9. As I carefully entered the haunted house, the door shut behind me and...
10. Use this photo to start your own story:
    
    

Reminders/Homework:

• Two Achieve Articles due by midnight FRIDAY.
• one article of your choice. If you aren't happy with your activity score, do another. I'll consider the higher score for grading. 
• One article of Ms. Black's choice. 
• Title: "For Sale: Your stuff"
• Do all ten questions! (The last two are important!)
• If you don't like your score, do the stretch activity.
• Read your next independent reading book! (You have 6 weeks to read TWO books!) My suggestion: 20 pages every night. You might surprise yourself.