Flight307: reading

Monday, May 12, 2014

PACE: Reading & Writing Continues

According to the due dates, if you are following the teacher PACE suggestions, you are finishing your first book this week as well as submitting your first working draft of your first essay. Working drafts may be revised as many times as the author wishes after receiving feedback.

Last Thursday, we looked at hooks and thesis statements. Here's the examples.

We have done a few different rounds with reading graphic organizers as well.

On Monday, we will work on using text evidence to back up our thoughts. You received an organizer to help you pull together ideas. But finding it and using it in a piece of writing effectively are two separate things.

For those interested, I will offer a writer's workshop to help with embedding text evidence and meeting that standard on the essays.

Here's a link to that workshop.

Also, expect rubrics early this week.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts
Req'd Post: Find an image online that relates to your essential question or thesis statement. Then use Realtime Board OR Thinglink to create annotations for that image that explain the connection to your thesis statement. (Consider that those thoughts might make effective evidence/thinking for your essay.)

Vocab: Quack Unit 2 Part 2

Quiz: Wed, May 21

MUGS: TBA.

Quiz: TBA.

Read: 2 Novels from Selections

Complete: 3 Graphic Organizers Per Selection

Due: June 1

Complete 1st Book by May 15

Write: 2 Essays over Self Selected Essential Questions

Due: June 8

Complete 1st Working Draft of 1st by May 15

Monday, May 5, 2014

PACE: Work Plans, Pre Writing

On Friday, we established our fourth quarter work log. If you check the Due Dates spreadsheet in the Google Drive, you will find a sheet for Quarter 4.

And what you will see includes a suggested teacher PACE timetable for the rest of the quarter. Included are stages and assessments of the book work as well as the essay work.

For the rest of class, folks could opt into two activities or work independently.

In the reading activity, we read an excerpt from House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisernos.

We practiced using the GIST literacy strategy to document our understanding.

You can find the GIST form in your Google Drive PACE OUT folder.

We also did some work with our essay writing and used a "Why" chart exercise. We established our essential questions and then started asking the question "Why?" to explore possibilities for our arguments.

HOMEWORK

Blog: 3+ Posts (Q4 Wk 2.)

Req'd Post: Make a five song playlist for conflict resolution and post it on your blog with explanations for each one. You might choose songs that feature each type of conflict or you might choose a song you'd suggest one listen to in order to resolve a conflict. Explain your thinking for each.

Person vs Self

Person vs Nature

Person vs Person

Person vs Society

Person vs Technology

Vocab: Quack Unit 2 Part 1

Quiz: Thursday, May 8