Friday, Jan. 29 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Examples and Note Sheets ‘how-to’

*Expert Groups:

*Rubric

*Continue planning presentation (use power point shared with you to help create)

*Presentations begin Tuesday

*Chronological Order: The Native American and Colonial Period; The Puritan Era; The Revolutionary Period and Age of Reason; Romanticism and Transcendentalism; Realism, Regionalism and Naturalism; Modernism and Harlem Renaissance; and the Post Modern and Contemporary Era.

*We will have about 45 minutes Monday(which is the last chunk of work time), so make sure you figure out what needs to be done and who will be doing it (if things need to be done over the weekend)!!

*Make sure you have a note sheet for your classmates for the presentation

*Note Sheet should highlight the most important portions of your presentation: What will people need throughout the semester about your era (literary techniques, literary terms, characteristics of the era, characteristics and beliefs of movements and eras, etc)

Thursday, Jan. 28 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Choice Book: any questions?

*Reminder: First Quarter: Any book from the list, needs to challenge you though (if one you want to read is not on the list, talk to me and you’ll submit a ‘proposal’ to me).

*End result: Creative One Pager: assignment handout and examples

*Expert Groups: Continue Researching –share your notes with me now, let me know when you think you have compiled enough for me to check

*You need to have all of your information on your Google Doc by the end of work time today!

*Cross Check notes

*Presentation ideas

Wednesday, Jan. 27 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Share blackout poem

*Binder division

*Expert Groups

*Find out Era

*Begin researching

*Choice Book

*First Quarter: Any book from the list, needs to challenge you though (if one you want to read is not on the list, talk to me and you’ll submit a ‘proposal’ to me).

*End result: Creative One Pager

*Library- if necessary and your group is ok with you leaving

Tuesday, Jan. 26 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: find your seat (pick a seat…for now…)

*Expectations

*https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/58/1f/36/581f36edf2353818db4c9196a22f20ae.jpg

*Blackout “poetry” explanation of yourself, an important idea to you, or just a creative thought

*http://newspaperblackout.com/about (video intro)

*http://www.bitrebels.com/design/newspaper-blackout-poems-a-creative-way-to-write-poetry/ (basic examples)

*http://www.creativity2point0.org/2012/10/tone-and-mood-in-literature-moving.html (example to incorporate tone)

*http://www.logolalia.com/alteredbooks/ (colorful examples)

*Writer’s Notebook/Binder- need one ASAP (some of you have one from last year?)

*What is English 11/American Lit?

*“Survey” course, Eras

*Common Themes (the BIG focus)

*Expert Groups explanation

*ranking for Expert Group preferences by end of block (a google form sent to you)

*Independent Book Requirements

Expert Group Ranking

Once you have read through some of the information on the different eras, fill out this form.  Remember, I make no guarantees in what you get, except that I will not give you your last choice as the one you are working on.

Thursday, Jan. 21 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Collect Papers (rubric paper clipped to paper DON’T FORGET WORKS CITED)

*get presentation to me

*Presentations and Peer Evaluation:

*Dakota and Paul Evaluate Maddie and Hallie

*Genna and Emily Evaluate Jared and Dani

*Avery and Austin Evaluate  Rhiana and Claire

*Mark and Cohl Evaluate Jordyn and Kayla

*Kajsa and Claire evaluate Matt and Nicholas

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*Friday’s Presentations

*Maddie and Hallie Evaluate Shayna and Kajsa

*Jared and Dani evaluate Tessah and Olivia

*Rhiana and Nicholas evaluate Mark and Cohl

*Jordyn and Kayla Evaluate Avery and Austin

*Nick and Jacob Evaluate Genna and Emily

*Shayna and Matt evaluate Dakota and Paul

*Tessah and Olivia Evaluate Nick and Jacob

Wednesday, Jan. 20 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Final Work Time on Books with Friends Book Pitch and/or paper

*Meet with me when called up or if you have other questions

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*Print out your paper for self editing (if you want to highlight for summary and analysis, it could be helpful)

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out.*** 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*PRACTICE GIVING PRESENTATION

*Time it when you practice –tell me the time after you have run through it at least twice out loud

*Order of presentations (volunteers and then random.org for rest of list)

*Peer Evaluation and Self Evaluation

Order for tomorrow and Friday:

*Presentations and Peer Evaluation:

*Dakota and Paul Evaluate Maddie and Hallie

*Genna and Emily Evaluate Jared and Dani

*Avery and Austin Evaluate  Rhiana and Claire

*Mark and Cohl Evaluate Jordyn and Kayla

*Tessah and Evaluate Nick and Jacob

*Kajsa and Claire evaluate Matt and Nicholas

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*Friday’s Presentations

*Maddie and Hallie Evaluate Shayna and Kajsa

*Jared and Dani evaluate Tessah and Olivia

*Rhiana and Nicholas evaluate Mark and Cohl

*Jordyn and Kayla Evaluate Avery and Austin

*Nick and Jacob Evaluate Genna and Emily

*Shayna and Matt evaluate Dakota and Paul

Tuesday, Jan. 19 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Examples of Body Paragraphs

*Works Cited Page reminder (Anthology entry)

*Writer’s Workshop

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*At this point, you should be working on second draft of ENTIRE paper or even possibly your third draft

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading and looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Print out your paper for self editing (if you want to highlight for summary and analysis, it could be helpful)

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out.*** 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

*Book Pitch work time

Monday, Jan. 18 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Writer’s Workshop: if both you and your partner have comments on your paper, work on that first

*Writer’s Workshop

*Conferences NEED TO CONFER WITH ME TODAY, TOMORROW, OR WEDNESDAY

*Reminders on paper:

*Work cited page

*Rubric check

*Support thesis throughout

*You should be done with rough draft of ENTIRE paper (except conclusion)

*You need to self edit.  I am not reading the whole paper looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

*Only information in your story that directly ties to quote given and thesis!! Don’t just tell what happens in the story UNLESS IT CONNECTS TO THE DIRECT QUOTE!

*If you have met with me, work on the issues I brought up with you as you revise.  If you haven’t met with me, you should still be revising, but focus on your self revisions and editing!

*Book Pitch Work Time (at various times throughout the hour, depending on where you and your partner are with the paper)

Friday, Jan. 16 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Work time on Books with Friends Book Pitch (20 min)

*Intro and Conclusion talk

*Introduction needs: attention getter, necessary information(selection titles, authors and eras) and your thesis (hopefully your main theme is in your thesis)

*Writer’s Workshop/Writing Conferences

*PUT YOUR THESIS AS THE FIRST SENTENCE OF YOUR PAPER (unless you have written an intro, in which case, the thesis should be the last line of the intro)

*At the end of today, you SHOULD be done with rough draft of parts of the paper: I will be looking through the papers that have been shared with me TODAY over the weekend

*You need to self edit.  I am not able to read through your whole paper, looking for grammar/spelling/punctuation –YOU NEED TO DO THIS!!!!!

*Have someone else read your paper and help you out. 

*You need to take the time to critically look at your paper, checking for analysis vs. summary, depth of analysis, fluency and word choice specifically

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Thursday, Jan. 14 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Summary vs. Analysis –find this handout and re-read it

*Work on Body paragraphs: Rough Draft of Body due end of block tomorrow

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*No first person pronouns! (unless in a direct quote)

*If you finish your body paragraphs, work on your introduction

*Books with Friends work time

*If you and your partner haven’t worked on this in a bit and you have a few paragraphs of the rough draft done, I would suggest working on this for the last chunk of time

Wednesday, Jan. 13 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Calendar check (where you should be at this point)

*Things to remember/think about during Writer’s Workshop time

*Today you should be finishing your outline (if you haven’t yet) and then starting the rough draft of your body paragraphs

*Each body paragraph point on the outline should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations. 

*Your goal is to fully prove your complete thesis with in-depth analysis for BOTH stories: you should be proving a similar theme, potentially other similarities, specific era characteristics, and contrasting the stories

*Most of the papers will have the comparing be the theme and the contrasting be the era specifics, but the strongest papers will go more in-depth on both the theme and the era (potentially similarities and differences for both)

*Work on Body paragraphs

*Remember to follow TIQA while writing, or at least remember to analyze each quote –explain why/how it proves your point

*Each body paragraph should have at least 2 quotes with in-text citations.

*BwF work time (if/when you have some body paragraphs written)

Tuesday, Jan. 12 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Perspective journal turn in

*Outline Review

*OMM Big Ideas Assessment

*Writer’s Workshop

*Finish looking through the story, taking notes on what themes are present, how it shows themes, what literary ideas come up, how it shows its era (LOOK AT YOUR NOTES, I WILL NOT TELL YOU THE ERA’S CHARACTERISTICS) –

*You should be done taking notes (re-reading, highlighting, actual notes) by middle of class today (at latest)

*Share a document (ON GOOGLE DOCS) with me that is or will be your outline (Thesis through body paragraph section is what is due today). Outline due at end of work time: if it isn’t done, it becomes EXTREMELY IMPORTANT homework.

Monday, Jan. 11 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: BwF Project time (30-45 min)

*Thesis and Note-taking for the final paper

*Work on figuring out theme/thesis, taking notes, and starting the outline

*Thesis check: your rough draft thesis must be checked by the end of the end of the hour at the latest (rough draft thesis most likely will change)

***REMINDER: Big Idea Notes Sheet: Make sure for American Dream and one of your other two big ideas that you have a theme connected to that idea and two pieces of textual evidence that show each one perfectly (WITH PAGE NUMBER): you will be analyzing these quotes tomorrow!!!

Perspective Journals collected at beginning of the hour tomorrow

Friday, Jan. 8 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Collect BwF Journals

*Book Pitch work with partner

*Perspective Journals due Tuesday: should have 1-16, 17-29, 30-52, 53-65, 66-83, 84-end {full page} (or 84-98 and 99-end)

*Share best points with large group (from yesterday)

*End of book discussion with small group

*End of Book Questions

*Foreshadowing, Figurative Language, Symbolism, and Tragic Hero (talk about these things)

*Work on questions, literary terms notes (foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, symbols), big idea notes –all need to be done by Monday

*Big Idea Notes Sheet: Make sure for American Dream and one of your other two big ideas that you have a theme connected to that idea and two pieces of textual evidence that show each one perfectly (WITH PAGE NUMBER):

*Introduce Final Paper

*you should know of what stories you are analyzing and have copies of them by Monday (after 20 minutes max)

*Rough Draft Thesis due by end of block on Monday

*Add your name to the list with the titles of the stories you are writing about (if you need a copy, talk to me)

Thursday, Jan. 7

*Bell Ringer: 10 minutes to start/write Perspective Journal #5 (66-83)

*If you finish your perspective journals before we move on, work on your Book Pitch for BwF (continue planning from yesterday, or start to create)

*First step with group, pass your perspective journal to another group member. Read through your peer’s entry, checking that they have done it correctly: labeled which pages for section and which character, written in the voice of the character, covered the thoughts and feelings of character of all of the main things that happened in that chapter

*With small group, go through the big idea sheet and discuss where the different ideas have been seen (start with Am. Dream, be specific, page numbers/textual evidence always helpful).

*Assessment on OMM coming soon (best guess=Monday/Tuesday)

*This will focus on the Big Ideas tied to THEMES and Textual Evidence

*With the same small group, work on discussing and then jotting down answers to questions (1-8), especially questions 5 and 7 on sheet then add your opinions on these questions: Why doesn’t Curley’s wife get a name? What could Steinbeck be saying by not giving Curley’s wife a name but giving the cathouse runners names? Or is it just trying to make something out of nothing that she has no name and they do? Explain why you think what you do.

*Add this to the ‘power’ question (8) on sheet: Why does Curley’s wife verbally attack Crooks the way she does at the end of section 4?

*Read Section 5 and 6: finish book for tomorrow

*Perspective journal: either half page for 5 and half for 6 (switching perspectives), or full page for both together (one person’s perspective)

Wednesday, Jan. 6 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Sit by your Books with Friends partner for the beginning of class

*More time for Book Pitch work/planning

*After 20-30 minutes today, I need to see a plan from you and your partner as to what you are thinking of doing for the presentation (mode of presenting, different ideas of what to include, potential big ideas/themes that you are looking at)

*Read 53-65

*Grab Section 3 quiz from stool when done, turn in to first folder in crate

*Journal Entry on 53-65

*Homework: Read Section 4 (66-83)

*Perspective journal on all of 4 (can be Lennie, Crooks, Candy –George isn’t in the section till end of 4, so don’t pick him) can be done on Thursday.  All perspective journals will be collected next Tuesday/Wednesday.

A few examples...

For your Books with Friends final book pitch, here are a few of the prezis that I have from former students.  There are other modes of presenting (creating full videos, power points, piktochart, thinglink, etc. or a combination of any of those listed), but prezis are the ones that are easiest to save...

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Tuesday, Jan. 5 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: In Writer’s Notebook: George says that guys like them, who work on ranches are “the loneliest guys in the world” (Steinbeck 13).  What is his reasoning behind the statement?  Do you agree? Why/why not? How does the idea of “belonging” relate to this statement and Lennie and George’s relationship and their position in life so far? –bring to me when done

*Write perspective journal on 30-52, when done with WN entry

*Finish up small group discussion from yesterday: what you still had from the sheet, then talking about conflicts and posting on Schoology –also discuss things from the reading last night (43-52)

*Share your best point from your 3rd perspective journal as you are talking about details from the homework reading (43-53)

*Big Idea Discussion: talk about what you have traced for big ideas so far and then as a group, post a specific detail or piece of textual evidence (with page number) to three of the big idea boards on Schoology

*Conflict Types and examples with your group, then post to the boards on Schoology (not just char. Name vs. char. Name, but names with how that specific conflict is playing out)

*Book Pitch Introduction

Monday, Jan. 4 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: Before you grab the quiz, work on the bullet points on the white board –grab the quiz when you’ve finished (all quizzes need to be started by: 8:30)

*When you finish the quiz, turn it in and work on big idea examples, perspective journals if not done, BwF

*Pgs 1-29 Quiz: Discussion after all are finished

*Similes, Metaphors, Foreshadowing, Symbols –notes for these will be online, so maybe mark (annotate) where you see them and then add to online notes during small group discussions

*Start reading OMM again (whole class) –stop on page 43 (ain’t doin’ no harm)

*Discussion on pages 1-43

*Harlem Renaissance Poetry large group discussion

*Section 3 quiz tomorrow after we finish reading it

*Homework: Section 3 start on page 43 read to page 53 (“the door opened”)

*Things to pay attention to when reading: Big idea examples, any examples of symbols, similes, metaphors, personification, foreshadowing, and conflicts

*journal entry on 30-52 (can do tomorrow after the WN entry)

*Conflicts: come up with examples of how each type of conflict is seen while or after reading to prepare for discussion tomorrow

*BwF Journal due Friday!!

Perspective Journal Directions for OMM

Journal Entries from the perspective of George or Lennie on events:

o   Needs to be at least half page 

o   Both a summary of what happened in the section through the character’s eyes and the character’s opinions and thoughts on the events

o   In the character’s voice that you have chosen (can switch for each section, or stay the same)

o   Write it in your WN, but make a specific section just for perspective journals