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Monday, Feb. 3rd

1/31/2020

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Goals: 
Student synthesizes information for a purpose that goes beyond explicit text information. Student narrows or broadens research, seeking multiple, reliable sources, including primary source.

Announcements: 
  • Thesis Statements:  Today 
  • Rough Draft 


1. Finish concept maps and gallery walk 
2. Synthesis assignment and models 
3. Writing Workshop 



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Friday, January 31st

1/30/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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"Cat supports LGBTQ+rights"
  • Monday Thesis statements (or topics) for papers! 


1. Class discussion
  • Participation reflection: Writer's Notebook

2. Concept Map as Brainstorm for Synthesis 
  • What are the key "concepts" that could tie many of the texts together? 
  • Pick one concept and complete a concept map for it. 
    • ​Creating a mind map in a Google Doc
    • Prezi 
    • Cogglecoggle.it/
    • Paper
  • Share maps in gallery walk. 

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Thursday, January 30th

1/29/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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  • Next Commonplace notes due today.  
  • Friday Thesis statements (or topics) for papers! Please bring your Commonplace notes and ALL of the texts. 


1. Class Discussion:  The Handmaid's Tale
  • Submit topics/questions that we want to discuss to the Padlet.
  • Vote on the topics.  Groups, use this as a guide to steer the discussions. 
  • Class discussion (2nd hour divide up)
  • Participation reflection




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Wednesday, January 29th

1/28/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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"Cats stop cigarette addiction":
 
  • Next Commonplace notes due Thursday, January 30th, when we finish the book! 
  • Friday Thesis statements (or topics) for papers! 


1. Discuss paragraphs

​2. 
FRQ 2 Practice/Other options
  •   FRQ timed essay.
    • If you are working on timed essays or close reading as a goal.   
  • Option 2: 2 page poetry analysis essay today.  Revise and edit tomorrow. 
    • ​If you are working on writing beyond timed essays, or revision, or close reading.  

3. Time to read/work on Commonplace notes


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Tuesday, January 28th

1/27/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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"Cats stop cigarette addiction":
 
  • Next Commonplace notes due Thursday, January 30th, when we finish the book! 
  • Friday Thesis statements (or topics) for papers! 


1. Poetry Quick Fire Challenge
  • Read poem and explain your "product"​

2. FRQ 2 Practice/Other options
  •  Option 1:  FRQ 2 practice today.  FRQ timed essay tomorrow.
    • If you are working on timed essays or close reading as a goal.   
  • Option 2: 2 page poetry analysis essay today.  Revise and edit tomorrow. 
    • ​If you are working on writing beyond timed essays, or revision, or close reading.  

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Monday, January 27th

1/24/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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Dishwasher cats says:
 
  • Next Commonplace notes due Wednesday, January 29th, when we finish the book! 
  • Friday Thesis statements (or topics) for papers! 



1. Poetry Quick Fire Challenge

Step One:  Planning . (15 minutes)  Meet with your group and discuss the poem: 
  1. What are the most interesting or important lines of the poem you studied?
  2. What makes those lines significant? Can you categorize the lines (e.g., imagery, simile, tone shift)?
  3. Working backwards a bit, how do your observations CREATE the poem’s theme?
  4. What is the most precise and nuanced word/s for the poem’s theme? 
  5. Going back to your evidence, evaluate it. What is the strongest evidence in support of the precise, nuanced theme?

Step Two: Creation (40 minutes) 

Create an intentionally designed product that highlights or illuminates a poem’s theme and demonstrates your understanding of the meaning of the poem and your literary expertise. 

Product must include: 


  • Poem’s title & author
  • Theme
  • 3 pieces of strong and well-considered evidence (that create theme in poem and support theme in analysis)
  • A way of explaining how the evidence supports the theme

Step Three:  Gallery Walk & Judging
  • ​Which product best fulfills the project requirements? 

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Friday, January 24th

1/23/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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 The large lad says:
  • We will discuss the first 200 pages of The Handmaid's Tale and "The Oppositional Gaze" tomorrow. Be prepared to discuss. 
  •  Interested in joining Red Beard Press? Contact Molly Raynor at [email protected]
  • Mid-term reflections this week​.  Please turn in reflections to Google Classroom. 
  • Next Commonplace notes due Wednesday, January 29th, when we finish the book! 



1. Poetry Analysis
  • Select a poem and do a thorough TPCAST for it.  Save this until Monday.  
  • For Monday, please bring in any random art supplies/recycled materials! 

2. Reading/Commonplace notes 
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Thursday, January 23rd

1/22/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
​
 The large lad says:
  • We will discuss the first 200 pages of The Handmaid's Tale and "The Oppositional Gaze" tomorrow. Be prepared to discuss. 
  •  Interested in joining Red Beard Press? Contact Molly Raynor at [email protected]
  • Mid-term reflections this week​
  • Next Commonplace notes due Wednesday, January 29th, when we finish the book! 



1. Discussion Preparation 
  • Writer's Notebook: Write an important quotation from the section we read of The Handmaid's Tale and from "The Oppositional Gaze." In what ways do these two quotations interact:  support, contradict, full in a fuller picture? 
  • Small Groups:  Discuss your quotations and their interactions. Select one set to submit to the Padlet. 

2. Large Group Discussion 
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Wednesday, January 22nd

1/22/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
​
 The large lad says:
  • We will discuss the first 200 pages of The Handmaid's Tale and "The Oppositional Gaze" tomorrow. Be prepared to discuss. 
  •  Interested in joining Red Beard Press? Contact Molly Raynor at [email protected]
  • Mid-term reflections this week​
  • Next Commonplace notes due Wednesday, January 29th, when we finish the book! 



1. Finish Test-Prep
  • What makes this one a strong essay? 
  • Specific things that we could do to improve our essays. ​
  • Revise your essay and reflect on the process. 

2. Mid-term reflections & interviews ​

3. Read


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Tuesday, January 20th

1/17/2020

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Goals: 
  • I can track the meaning of others, and in real time, construct and deliver an organized, thoughtful response that synthesizes and builds on the ideas of others.
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 Leo? says:
  • Read The Handmaid's Tale to page 200 (Jezebel) by tomorrow, January 22nd  
  • Interested in joining Red Beard Press? Contact Molly Raynor at [email protected]
  • Mid-term reflections this week
  • Read "The Oppositional Gaze" by Thursday. 


1. Writer's Notebook: Spotlight Sentence: "If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings.  It's more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore. Amputated speech." (pg 201)

2. Finish Test-Prep
  • What makes this one a strong essay? 
  • Specific things that we could do to improve our essays. ​
  • Revise your essay and reflect on the process. 

3. Mid-term reflections & interviews 

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