Today's Goal: There are a few things I need to happen today since I am not here.
The Plan:
- Watch the video above as a class
- Read
- Finish A Cry in the Wild if you did not finish it.
- Watch the videos below on your own to learn what you need to do and go do them.
- If you finish everything, read.
No Red Ink Diagnostic #2
- Watch the video
- Go take the new diagnostic assessment on No Red Ink.
Independent Reading One-Pager
Last class I asked you to bring one book you recently read to class.
Here's why: You're about to learn what I will be requiring you to do for your 3rd quarter independent reading, and you're going to practice with a book you have already read.
I don't really care if you have a book with you or not. You have access to the internet, to my library, to the school library, and to your memory. Keep in mind that I have a record of the books you have read
here. If it's not on this list, I do not think I should be receiving an assignment about it. If you don't remember it, you have resources to help you remember it. If you can remember how to press the right buttons and what the map looks like on Fornite, you can remember a book you read or figure it out.
Directions:
□ Must be on standard sized (8 ½ x 11), unlined paper (any color)
□ Use color pens or markers, unless black and white is the BEST design choice.
□ Write your MLA heading on the BACK.
□ Be creative and thoughtful. It is meant to be a challenge to truly represent your experience of a book in such a small space.
□ Arrange the following required elements on the page in any way you choose (ALL are required):
- Title and author of the book featured prominently on the page
- A summary of the plot (2-3 sentences in your OWN words. Do not write an advertisement. Write a summary.)
- In words or images: Name(s) and brief description(s) of the main character(s).
- In words or images, describe the setting: time period, place(s), etc
- Include two vocabulary words with definitions (and optional illustrations). Choose words from the book that were unfamiliar to you. Include the page number where each word is found.
- Quotations: find and copy two to three quotes (this means wording taken directly from the novel, not just what a character says), that struck you as powerful, interesting, puzzling, important, thought-provoking, informative, confusing, well-written, etc. Be sure to put these in quotation marks! In addition, write one to two sentences per quote about why you chose that particular quote. Be sure to include the page number where the quote is found.
- Have at least one graphic representation: a drawing, magazine picture, etc that relates to the book you read and the quotes you chose. What visual images were created in your mind as you read? This image can be of something that is discussed specifically in the reading, something that the reading reminded you of, or a picture that conveys any idea or feeling you got from the reading. Any sort of drawing, painting, or graphic representation is acceptable. In other words, you are not writing what you imagined; you are showing me what you imagined!
In addition:
□ Fill the entire page (very little white space left showing).
□ Writing must be in ink or typed… no pencil.
If your One-Pager lacks one or more elements, seems to be put together with very little effort, or is otherwise poorly done, you may have it returned to you to do over.
Reminders/Homework:
- One-Pager due next class, at the beginning of class.
- Read your independent reading book.
