Thursday, October 17th, 2013

APillionaries

Ø Friday, October 18^th, 2013

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

1.      Pick up a yellow packet off the heater.

2.     Pick up the novella.

Journal (ten minutes)                         (DAILY GRADE)

1.      USE THE WHOLE TIME!  You’re almost a college freshman—you should be able to write on demand, then expand! 

2.     Label:  Quick-Write Topic #1—Self-Definition and Identity--from your yellow Mango packet, page 16.

3.         Start @ 1:59-2:09

4.     When I call time, pair-share with the partner I give you.

5.     Write three sentences at the end of your partner’s journal that show a connection you made, or a comment you have.

6.     Trade papers back, and read each other’s comments.  J

Drop this off at my candle now for a daily grade, please.  Leave the journal open to this page, and make sure your name is at the top, please.

Partner Journal Response

1.      Write your partner three sentences of specific comments, and aim for academic language in your writing. 

a.     At least three detailed sentences

                                      i.     Agree.

                                    ii.     Tell him/her if the journal made you think of a new idea/or something you hadn’t considered.

                                   iii.     Add on to an idea he/she says.

                                   iv.     Compliment their vocabulary—diction!

                                    v.     Disagree, respectfully.  J

                                   vi.     Relate to something

b.    Signed by you

 Trade papers back, and read each other’s comments.  J

Finally:  Drop this off at my candle now for a daily grade, please.  Leave the journal open to this page, and make sure your name is at the top, please.

Quiet, Independent Work Time

1.      From now until 3:05 is dedicated to work time on the novel for you.  Work your way down the list of items below—all the information you need should be there.

2.     If you have a question over any of the work, please come back to my table, and we will talk quietly, so we don’t disrupt the class by shouting across the room.

3.     Please bag your computers until 3:05, at which time we will Quizlet!  Yay!

Reading Reminder—Annotation

1.      How Do We Annotate?  

a.     Mark metaphors and similes with a symbol.

b.    Ask questions

c.     Comment.

d.    Make inferences.

e.     Motifs (an idea or object that appears repeatedly)

Reading—Intro to the Novel

Ø  Daily Grade:  Read and annotate page 2.

Mango Reading Assignment #1 (all due by classtime tomorrow)

1.      Start now.

2.     Annotate.

3.     Due Tomorrow for Daily/Homework Grades

a.     Yellow page 2 annotated (just to show you read it)

b.    All eight character boxes filled in on page 5 (yellow packet)

c.     Complete annotations over pages 1-30

4.     We will have a quiz FRIDAY over pages 3-30.  You prepare for this by (a) reading and annotating, and (b) quizzing yourself tonight with the study guide questions of the first thirty pages (page 3 in yellow packet)

3:05--Vocab

Ø  Quizlet = Fiction Terms

Homework

1.      Mango Assignments Listed Above

2.     Create a final draft of your essay—due Monday (10/21)

3.     Quizlet = Fiction Terms—quiz Wednesday                         (10/23)

4.     Vocab War—final turn in on Thursday                  (10/24)

Creative Writing:  Thursday, 10/17/2013

·     Field Trip!  J

1.   Sign in!

2.  Grab three things off the heater:

a.     Yellow sheet

b.    Blue sheet

c.     Your Sense Poem

3.  Get on the bus!  J

CPR

Ø Thursday, 10/17/2013

The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros

Homework Due

1.      Put your name in big letters on the tops of the following pages, then put them in the correct folders on the heater, please.  I’ll have them back to you in a jiffy!

a.     Page 2

b.     Page 5

2.     Regarding your annotations over all assigned pages:  I will take up your ENTIRE novella on Tuesday to assess your annotations.  This will be a major homework grade.

Journal (ten minutes)                         (DAILY GRADE)

1.      USE THE WHOLE TIME!  You’re almost a college freshman—you should be able to write on demand, then then expand! 

2.     Review yesterday’s journal over self-definition and identity.

3.     Label:  Quick-Write Topic #2—Esperanza

4.     Write for ten minutes about who Esperanza is.  (Use your book as needed, and answer as many of the following questions as you can.)

a.     How did she get her name?

b.    What does her name mean?

c.     How does she feel about it?

d.    Who is she?

e.     Who does she want to be?

5.     If you finish early, and you’ve exhausted all possible topics for the above prompts, make a list of questions you have about the first third of the novella.

6.         Start @ 8:15; end @ 8:25

7.     When I call time, pair-share with the partner I give you.

8.     Write three sentences at the end of your partner’s journal that show a connection you made, or a comment you have.

9.     Trade papers back, and read each other’s comments.  J

Drop this off at my candle now for a daily grade, please.

Partner Journal Response

1.      Write your partner three sentences of specific comments, and aim for academic language in your writing. 

a.     At least three detailed sentences

                                      i.     Agree.

                                    ii.     Tell him/her if the journal made you think of a new idea/or something you hadn’t considered.

                                   iii.     Add on to an idea he/she says.

                                   iv.     Compliment their vocabulary—diction!

                                    v.     Disagree, respectfully.  J

                                   vi.     Relate to something

b.    Signed by you

c.     Trade back with your partner, and read your comments.

d.    Please put this by my candle for turn-in.

Vocabulary

Ø  Take the quiz, then move on to the tasks below.

Ø  Turn it in at the candle when you’re done, please.

Re-reading Quietly On Your Own (8:45-8:50)

1.      When you finish the quiz, review your annotations from last night, pages 3-33.

2.     Start filling out page 8 (MOTIFS) and page 11 (STYLE ELEMENTS) in your packet.

Class Discussion and Trios                  (15 minutes)

1.      Compare your notes from page 8—borrow from each other, until everyone in the trio has all the blanks on page 8 filled in.

2.     Do the same for page 11.

3.     Let me hear your best academic discussion.

9:05--Quiet, Independent Work Time

1.      The rest of the block is dedicated work time for you.  Work your way down the list of items below—all the information you need should be there.

2.     If you have a question over any of the work, please come back to my table, and we will talk quietly, so we don’t disrupt the class by shouting across the room.

3.     Please bag your computers for the rest of the block.

Reading Reminder—Annotation

1.      How Do We Annotate?   (pink sheet)

a.     Mark metaphors and similes with a symbol.

b.    Ask questions

c.     Comment.

d.    Make inferences.

e.     Motifs (an idea or object that appears repeatedly)

2.     Have this out next to you today and every day as your read.

Start Homework for Tomorrow.

1.      Read and annotate Mango, pages 31-64—quiz tomorrow:  you prepare for this by (a) reading and annotating, and (b) quizzing yourself tonight with the study guide questions (page 3 in yellow packet).

2.     Character chart—page 6

3.     Study Quizlet.

Vocabulary Note—Fiction Terms

Ø  There are new terms on quizlet—fiction terms, a whole bunch of them! 

Ø  Final vocab quiz = Thursday, 10/24/2013