Day Twenty-Four
When You Come In
• Please pick up your blue reading log, and your blue BMJ#4 off the circle table—thanks!
Hold ALL QUESTIONS related to papers or grades until I call you back for your individual conference today. Thank you! ☺
Organization
• Paper pass back, and folder organization
Reflection
• Grade printouts—When I call your name, come get your grade printout.
• Write your Mid-Term Reflection Letter to Parent on the SECOND page of your grade printout.
1. What I’ve gotten stronger at this term in Reading is….
2. What I still want to work on for the rest of the term is…
3. The one thing I think Ms. Willis will want to tell you about me is….
4. One thing I want you to know about my grade printout is….
After you write your letter, staple your grade printout, and put it in the folder on the circle table.
Read and Relax (Sixty minutes for reading)
• Complete the Bookmark Journal #4 today, by the end of the block.
• Put in any extra credit vocabulary—today is the last day for mid-term.
Homework
• Forty pics are due, saved on your Student Volume, by classtime THURSDAY (tomorrow).
AP!
Individual Conferences with Me
· Vocab Sushi (Bring back your printout and your assessment slip.)
· Metaphor Assessment (Bring back your assessment slip, and your iBook, open to your metaphor.
· Minimalism Essay Check (for all paperwork)
1. Outline (saved on google docs)
2. Peer conference (stapled on top of rough draft
3. Final draft (saved in google docs)
AP Mid-Term Reflection and Evaluation
Grade Printout
· Review your grade printout. (If you have any questions, you can ask me during our conference.)
· On the second page of your printout, write a letter to your mom/dad/aunt/grandpa, that responds to each of the following:
1. What I’ve gotten stronger at this term in AP is….
2. What I still want to work on for the rest of the term is….
3. The one thing I think Ms. Willis will want to tell you about me is….
4. One thing I want you to know about my grade printout is….
· Staple it together, and place it in the folder on the circle table by the end of the block.
Journal Reflection (typed, doublespaced)
· Re-read all your entries (Yes, this will take some time.), and answer the following questions:
1. Who have you shared with? List everyone.
2. What are you doing well in your journal? What are the strongest areas of your reading, writing, and thinking? (well-developed paragraph or two)
3. What could you be doing better? What are the weakest areas of your reading, writing and thinking? (well-developed or two)
· Print it to 212, go pick it up, and place it in the folder on the circle table.
Mid-Term In-Class Essay Exam Preparation (Start by 12:30, at the lastest.)
Essay #1 (40 minutes in class Thursday)
· What does a good reader do?
· Create an outline stating the three most important things a good reader does. (This is your opinion. This is an argument.)
· Use one specific detail from Nabokov’s essay for EACH of your three main points. (This will be the “They Say” part of your essay.)
· The outline is due at the end of class today, and you may not use it for the in-class essay tomorrow.
What You May Use, Besides an iBook
· One notecard with THREE direct quotes from Nabokov.
· I will come around to your desk tomorrow and check your notecard to make sure you have only the allowed quotes on it.
· Staple it to the back of your essay when you hand it in.
Structure
1. Thesis (its own paragraph; it will only be one sentence long)
2. Three body paragraphs
3. Thesis restatement (its own paragraph; it will only be one sentence long)
Homework to Prepare for In-Class Essay Tomorrow
· Practice re-writing your outline at home.
· Make sure your organization and thinking are clear.
· Make sure your thesis and thesis restatement are memorized. You don’t want to waste time tomorrow working on your phrasing.
· Make sure you have the strongest quotes possible on your notecard.
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