Wednesday, April 24th

Student develops a position supported with coherent claims, counterclaims, evidence, and analysis of evidence. Student selects evidence, etc. based on knowledge of audience.


As a listener, student understands essential meaning of an oral text and can demonstrate that understanding.  As a speaker, student effectively conveys essential meaning through an oral text.


Announcements: 

• Article of the Week:  Privileged by Kyle Korver 
• Blog Post #5 due on Friday. 
• Book Club meeting Tuesday, April 30th 
  • ​American Street--EL
  • ​A Wide Expanse of Sea--LL

1st Hour 
1. Book Talk & Reading

• What is the most important word or line in your section? Why? 

2. Writer's Notebook: Station Eleven

• ​What techniques are you noticing?  Why is it written like this? 
  • Try this technique out in your notebook. 
    • ​Starting with the phrase "No more..." fill in the space and write out what you would miss most if THAT caused all of this to happen. ​

2. Sentence connectors

• THAMO (or Conjunctive Adverbs). 

3. Debate Self Assessment 


3rd Hour 
​1. New Seats! 

​2. Book Talk & Reading

3.  Debates 

• Debate #3 
  • ​What good argument moves did you notice in this debate?  
  • What is the middle ground solution for this topic? 
• ​Debate Self-Assessment