Learning about THEME!

Today's Goal: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details;
The Plan:

1. Read
2. THEME (We probably will get through about half of this today)

Reminders/Homework:

• TWO Achieves
• Teacher Choice: Wonders Worth Visiting
• Student Choice
• INDEPENDENT READING:
• TWO books read by May 3!
• Fill out the form in the sidebar every time you finish a new book!

Socratic Seminar!

Today's Goal: SOCRATIC SEMINAR

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1.A

Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.

The Plan:

1. Socratic Seminar!
2. Reflection

Reflection:

I'm giving you a piece of paper. Answer these questions.

1. What did you do well today? why? (examples could include: challenging yourself to speak more, using evidence, responding or adding to a peer's answer, asking a valuable question, listening well when it wasn't your turn, etc)
2. What was a challenge for you and why?
3. What will you do to improve your work in the next socratic seminar?

Reminders/Homework:

• Get Einstein Jr. Writing turned in like 3 days ago. (ASAP)
• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: "Check the Facts"
• Read a book. (TWO BOOKS DUE MAY 4)

LIT(erature) Thursday #5

Today's Goal: READ.

The Plan:

1. I'm collecting your Socratic Seminar Preparation right now.
2. Lit Thursday -  IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM fill out this week's progress tracker and find a thing to do.
3. If and when you finish a book, let me know by filling out this form

You won't be able to do Lit Thursday things today in class IF:

• You haven't finished your Einstein Jr. Work AND printed it AND turned it in.
• I don't have your Socratic Prep

Reminders/Homework:

• Finish the three questions on your Socratic doc. I'm collecting it tomorrow.
• Get Einstein Jr. Writing turned in like 3 days ago. (ASAP)
• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: "Check the Facts"
• Read a book. (TWO BOOKS DUE MAY 4)

Last day for Socratic Preparation!

Today's Goal: Continue Socratic Seminar Preparation for Homeless Bird

The Plan:

1. Turn in your Einstein Jr. Summaries
   Staple: writing, annotated article, revision sheet together
2. Read
3. Homeless Bird Socratic Seminar Preparation (paper you will get in class)
4. BONUS QUESTION IF YOU FINISH (See below)

Socratic Seminar Preparation

On Friday, we will be having a Socratic seminar on Homeless Bird before we write our argument essays about theme. It's been a while, so our hope is to remember all of the things that happened so that we feel more comfortable going into the writing task.

Your goal today is to finish it. I'm collecting it tomorrow.

Talk to each other! Support each other! Find juicy quotes you forgot about! 

If finished with your Socratic Prep, here's a challenge:

Our goal next week is to choose one THEME to write about from the story.

• Watch this video
• Turn your Socratic Seminar Preparation guide over and do the following on the back:
• 1. Share one book or movie that you love and see if you can determine one possible theme of that story. Write what you think the theme is and WHY.
• 2. Brainstorm possible themes for Homeless Bird. Seriously, write two or three different ideas that you might have, and see if you can explain why.
• This is not an easy task. Try it out!

When you've finished all that, you can work on Achieve or read or something else if you ask and I give you permission.

Reminders/Homework:

• Finish the three questions on your Socratic doc. I'm collecting it tomorrow.
• Get Einstein Jr. Writing turned in like 3 days ago. (ASAP)
• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: "Check the Facts"
• Read a book.

Socratic Prep Day 2 of 3

Today's Goal: Continue Socratic Seminar Preparation

The Plan:

1. Turn in your Einstein Jr. Summaries
   Staple: writing, annotated article, revision sheet together
2. Read
3. Homeless Bird Socratic Seminar Preparation (paper you will get in class)

Socratic Seminar Preparation

On Friday, we will be having a Socratic seminar on Homeless Bird before we write our argument essays about theme. It's been a while, so our hope is to remember all of the things that happened so that we feel more comfortable going into the writing task.

Your goal to day is to finish two of the three pages.

Talk to each other! Support each other! Find juicy quotes you forgot about!

Reminders/Homework:

• Get Einstein Jr. Writing turned in like 3 days ago. (ASAP)
• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: "Check the Facts"
• Read a book.
• Take a picture of a cute animal (preferably YOUR cute animal) and email to me.
• There is literally no reason for this. I just want it to happen.
• I also kinda want to see if you'll do it.
• I also accept appropriate funny memes that make us giggle

Back to Homeless Bird

Today's Goal: Immerse ourselves back into Homeless Bird

The Plan:

1. Turn in your Einstein Jr. Summaries
   Staple: writing, annotated article, revision sheet together
2. Read
3. Homeless Bird Socratic Seminar Preparation

Socratic Seminar Preparation

On Friday, we will be having a Socratic seminar on Homeless Bird before we write our argument essays about theme. It's been a while, so our hope is to remember all of the things that happened so that we feel more comfortable going into the writing task.

Reminders/Homework:

• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: "Check the Facts"
• Read a book.

Einstein Jr. Revision

Today's Goal: WRITE a summary and reflection of your research and how it helps you with your design process.

ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
The Plan:

1. Read OR finish writing as much as you can of your summary and reflection.
2. REVISION!
3. Works Cited - please note: your font should be Times New Roman. NOT Ariel, like the video uses

Summary and Reflection (Directions linked here)
Most of the info is on Google Classroom, but here are some pointers:

• Put my name AND your science teacher's name in the header
• Ms. Black and Mrs. ___
• Summary (Paragraph 1)
• summaries do not need evidence. You probably don't need to use quotes from the text. Summarize means you have to share what the article is about in your own words.
• should NOT have the word "I" ANYWHERE
• Make sure you put the author's last name in parentheses at the end of the paragraph. If you do not know the author, put the title in quotation marks
• Reflection (Paragraph 2)
• SHOULD have the word "I" all over it

Reminders/Homework:

• On Monday you will turn in:
• Einstein Jr. Article (PRINTED)
• Annotated Research Article(s)
• Revision Sheet (that you completed today if you were here)
• Achieve Due Tonight by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: New World, Old Writing

LIT(erature) Thursday (#4 of 6)

Today's Goal: READ.

The Plan:

1. Lit Thursday -  IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM fill out this week's progress tracker
2. If and when you finish a book, let me know by filling out this form
3. READ

Reminders/Homework:

• Two Achieves due tomorrow night
• EINSTEIN JR. SUMMARY. - I changed my mind. You don't have to print it out for tomorrow, but you do have to have as much of it done as you possibly can.
• You should be COMPLETELY DONE with at least one book by now. 
• Two books finished by May 3! (If you don't fill out the form, it didn't happen)
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Summarizing

Today's Goal: WRITE a summary and reflection of your research and how it helps you with your design process.
ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
The Plan:

1. Read
2. Write your summary - documents can be found on Google Classroom

Summary and Reflection (Directions)
Most of the info is on Google Classroom, but here are some pointers:

• Put my name AND your science teacher's name in the header
• Ms. Black and Mrs. ___
• Summary (Paragraph 1)
• summaries do not need evidence. You probably don't need to use quotes from the text. Summarize means you have to share what the article is about in your own words.
• should NOT have the word "I" ANYWHERE
• Make sure you put the author's last name in parentheses at the end of the paragraph. If you do not know the author, put the title in quotation marks
• Reflection (Paragraph 2)
• SHOULD have the word "I" all over it

Reminders/Homework:

• Your Einstein Jr. Writing Task is due Friday. You must print it out and staple it to the top of your chosen article(s). You must show up to class with this document. Printed. On time. 
• We're going to use them to revise. It's important that you have it.
• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: New World, Old Writing

Summarizing and Reflecting

Today's Goal:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words, phrases, and symbols as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context


The Plan:

1. GET YOUR ARTICLES OUT. (You also need a pencil and possibly a highlighter.)
2. Close reading. (We only got to slide nine on Friday)
3. Flipgrid (FINALLY)
4. Summary/Reflection Writing - Directions for Google Classroom

Einstein Jr. Challenge Article: A Close Read


FLIPGRID QUESTIONS (You have 1 minute and 30 seconds):
1. What's your article title and who's the author if you can find it?
2. What's your article about? What are the main ideas?
3. How does it relate to your challenge project? How does the information help you?

Reminders/Homework:

• Your Einstein Jr. Writing Task is due Friday. You must print it out and staple it to the top of your chosen article(s). You must show up to class with this document. Printed. On time. 
• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: New World, Old Writing
• Read a book.
• If you found that you struggled to understand your Einstein Jr. article today, you may need to find a new one and go through the process above. You will be turning these articles in, so don't lose them.

Einstein Jr. Article Close Read Day 2

Today's Goal:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words, phrases, and symbols as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context


The Plan:

1. GET YOUR ARTICLES OUT. (You also need a pencil and possibly a highlighter.)
2. Close reading. (We only got to slide nine on Friday)
3. Flipgrid Exit Ticket

Einstein Jr. Challenge Article: A Close Read


Reminders/Homework:

• Achieve Due Friday by Midnight
• Student Choice
• Teacher Choice: New World, Old Writing
• Read a book.
• Note: I am behind on rescore requests. I have a huge massive VERY IMPORTANT assignment due tomorrow and I have spent my weekend working on it. You'll have to be patient. If I don't pass this assignment, I'm not allowed to be a teacher.
• If you found that you struggled to understand your Einstein Jr. article today, you may need to find a new one and go through the process above. You will be turning these articles in, so don't lose them.

Einstein Jr. Article Close Read

Today's Goal:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
Determine the meaning of words, phrases, and symbols as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context

The Plan:

1. GET YOUR ARTICLES OUT. (You also need a pencil and possibly a highlighter.)
2. Close reading.
3. Flipgrid Exit Ticket

Einstein Jr. Challenge Article: A Close Read


Reminders/Homework:

• Read a book.
• If you found that you struggled to understand your Einstein Jr. article today, you may need to find a new one and go through the process above. You will be turning these articles in, so don't lose them.

Lit(erature) Thursday #3 of 6

On Monday, I asked you to share one word to describe
the activity we completed outside. These were your words.
The bigger the word is, the more people said it.

Today's Goal: Share and reflect on your independent reading.

The Plan:

1. Get you Einstein Jr. Articles out and put them on your desk for me to see.
2. Lit Thursday -  IN GOOGLE CLASSROOM fill out this week's progress tracker
3. If and when you finish a book, let me know by filling out this form
4. Find a task to work on - remember you need to choose one item to complete in class today.

Keep in mind the following Lit Thursday expectations:

• Two books finished by May 3! (If you don't fill out the form, it didn't happen)
• Some activities require classmates, some don't. Some are simple, some are more complex. You have to decide what you are willing to dedicate yourself to completing, but you also need to think about how to make your content strong regardless.

Reminders/Homework:

• You should be COMPLETELY DONE with at least one book by now. 
• You have about 3 weeks to read another book!
• If you are one of the people that didn't bring your Einstein Jr. article today, you need it tomorrow.

Achieve End of Year LevelSet

Today's Goal: Achieve LevelSet

Sorry I can't be here! Read ALL THE DIRECTIONS! I know this isn't the most exciting task, but it really is a good way to show all the amazing progress you've made this year. I really would like to see your honest effort.

The Plan:

1. Get your books out, but don't read them yet.
2. Go to Clever, login to Achieve, and complete the LevelSet, which should pop up for your immediately. 
3. Once you are done, put your computer away. You may read, so make sure you have your book out next to you. Some answers to the things you're thinking in your head right now:
   
   "Ms. Black, Can I do other things that aren't reading?" No.
   "Yeah, but what if it's really important and I need to ask my friend about this thing for science?" No.
   "I forgot my book." Go get one off the shelf (or ask to go to the library) and check it out on your chromebook before you read it."I finished my book." Fill out the Form (the top button the sidebar) and then find a new one.
   "Yeah but I have other missing assignments for YOUR class!" Yeah but if we don't make time to read, we never will. Now is the moment. Read a book.

Reminders/Homework:

• PRINT OUT YOUR EINSTEIN ESSAY FOR TOMORROW.
• Read a book
• Also read a book.

Long Walk to Water - The Return

Today's Goal: Let's revisit this question: How can we learn from others’ stories to develop empathy and build our capacity to make change?

The Plan:

1. Read
2. WE Walk For Water: A Project
3. WE Villages Activity - thinking about perspectives
   This is an in-class activity. If you are absent, ask your friends about it.

Reminders/Homework:

• READ!
• No Achieve
• GET YOUR ARTICLE PRINTED for Einstein Jr. You must have it in class with you on THURSDAY. (Yes, this date has changed.)

We're back, and we have a tradition.

Today's Goal: Make something, present it.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.6
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.

The Plan:

1. Read (we have our priorities) (If you finished a book and didn't fill out the form, you can do it now, too)
2. Create with Play-Doh
   
   Prompt: Sculpt something that represents an experience you had over spring break or and experience you are looking forward to this week or this month.

Reminders/Homework:

• No Achieve
• Read a book
• Make sure you have your science article chosen. We have to pause on our Homeless Bird investigation while we work on the Einstein Project!