"I 10 I" by arquera
This is where I post class plans for each week. Dates in the future are always subject to change!
April 2 -4
Monday - Book Project, Independent Reading
Tuesday – Constructed Response Practice
Wednesday – Go over Constructed Response Practice
March 26 – 30
Monday - Book Project, Independent Reading
Tuesday – Finish and go over Hollywood Code Red
Wednesday – Vocabulary Brackets
Thursday – Jeopardy
Friday - Book Project, Independent Reading
March 19-23
Monday- Book Project, Independent Reading
Tuesday- Differentiated MAP review
Group 1 – plan and write script for MAP video
Group 2 – go over and corret last week’s work
Wednesday- Differentiated MAP review
Group 1 – record MAP video
Group 2 – MAP review using popular music
Thursday- Hollywood Code Red
Friday- Book Project, Independent Reading
March 5 – 9
February 22 – 24
Wednesday – Personal Reading Check, charting of data
Thursday – “Fear” by Walter Dean Myers
Friday – Digital Reading Journals, Independent Reading
February 13 – 17
Monday – Snow Day!
Tuesday - Independent Reading (no computers available)
Wednesday – Differentiated groups
Group 1: Read and respond to “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers
Group 2: Look back at “Swimming in Snow.” Where is the text evidence for your claims? What could Courtney have used as an alternate solution for her problem? Would it have turned out better or worse? Use details from the text to support you answer.
Thursday – Read “Racist Airline Passenger” In pairs, choose 3 characters in the story and answer these questions for each:
#1 What is the problem?
#2 How did it get solved?
#3 Do you think the person was satisfied with the solution?
Writing prompt: Choose the point of view of one of the characters and retell the story from your new point of view using “I” statements
Friday - Independent Reading (no computers available)
January 30 – February 3
Monday: Independent Reading
Tuesday: Summarizing Common Assessment
Wednesday: Differentiated Groups. Group 1: Storybird, Group 2: Tech Article
Thursday: Problem/Solution
Friday: Independent Reading and Digital Conferencing
January 23-27
Monday: Independent Reading and Digital Conferencing
Tuesday: Summarizing with Daniel Boon
Wednesday: Watch Aron Ralston Video, 2nd Ralson Video, Summarizing Extreme Measures
Thursday: Summarizing Assessment
Friday: Independent Reading and Digital Conferencing
January 17 – 20
Tuesday: Independent Reading and Digital Conferencing
Wednesday: Paraphrasing Common Assessment
Thursday: Independent Reading (Mrs. Coughlin is sick!)
Friday: Paraphrasing Flex grouping. Group 1 Click here for Summarizing activities
January 4-6
Wednesday: Library, Reading Procedures Update, Independent Reading
Thursday: Introduce Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Friday: New Reader’s Notebook Procedures
December 19 -22
Monday: Finish vocabulary for “A Poison that Leaves No Trace”
Tuesday: Read and discuss ”A Poison that Leaves No Trace”
Wednesday: ”A Poison that Leaves No Trace”
Thursday: Independent Reading
December 12 -16
Monday: Independent Reading and Conferencing via class blog
Tuesday: SJSD CA8 Benchmark
Wednesday: SJSD CA8 Benchmark
Thursday: Vocabulary Day Experiment
Friday: Independent Reading and Book Conferencing
December 5 – 9
Monday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
Tuesday: Read “The Whale Sound” and discuss mood, theme, predicting, flashback
Wednesday: Read excerpt from Chains, discuss Unit 2 objectives
Thursday: Unit 2 Reflection
Friday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
November 28 – December 2
Monday: Independent Reading, Conferencing about Main Idea
Tuesday: Differentiated Grouping
Group A: Comment on a blog with your opinion about the controversial topic you chose last week
Group B: Rework last week’s assignment and the write a new paragraph from the opposite viewpoint
Wednesday: Main Idea Common Assessment, Create Main Idea and Supporting Details Matching game
Thursday: Discuss Foreshadowing and begin review of Unit 2
Friday: Independent Reading, Conferencing
November 21 – 23
Monday: Independent Reading
Tuesday: Choosing the best details to support a controversial main idea
Wednesday: Independent Reading, Conferencing focus: Main Idea
November 14 – 18
Monday: Independent Reading and Group Conferencing, Focus: Final Theme Conference
Tuesday: Introduce Main Idea; Read “Maui bull freed from tire stuck on his head”; Discuss topic, main idea, and supporting details
Wednesday: Play Main Idea Shuffle; In table groups read news articles and identify main idea and supporting details
Thursday: Think about main idea and supporting details. WHY does the author choose to include what she/he does? Is there any missing information that might have helped? Why do you think the author left that out?
Friday: Independent Reading and Group Conferencing
November 7 – 11
Monday: Independent Reading and Group Conferencing, Focus: Explaining your thinking!!
Tuesday: Mood Common Assessment, grade, then read “Little Brother Poem” as a whole group.
Wednesday: Discuss what “explaining our thinking” looks like, then in groups correct a constructed response question that is missing the explanation of thinking. Share out.
Small group: Read “Million Year Picnic” in library
Thursday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
Friday: Mood/Theme Final Day: “An Obsolete Man”
October 31 – November 4
Monday: Independent Reading/Conferencing
Bloggers: Responding to comments
Tuesday: Watch Mood in Literature Video
Talk about Mood Words Beyond Happy and Sad
In groups, investigate a mood word and prepare a presentation
Wednesday: Film Mood Word Movies
Thursday: Read “The Little Brother Poem” and write about mood and theme
Friday: Independent Reading/Conferencing
October 24 – 28
Monday: Book Fair Video and Independent Reading in Library
Tuesday: Differentiated Groups:
Group 1: What is theme?
Group 2: Find the right details
Group 3: Go Deeper
Group 4: Tell the World!
Wednesday: Talk about mood with “The Tell-Tale Heart“; read excerpt from “The Scorch Trials”
Thursday: Short schedule (Parent Teacher Conferences)
Friday: Short Schedule – with advisor
Monday: Independent Reading and Notebook Conferences
Tuesday: Reverse Theme Project, Day 1
Wednesday: Reverse Theme Project, Day 2
Thursday: Theme common assessment
Friday: Independent Reading and Project Conferences
October 10 – 14
Monday: 1st – 8th hours: Independent Reading and grade conferences, group presentations of fable themes
9th hour:
Tuesday: 1st – 5th hours: Jig-saw of Theme Identification Pretest
8th and 9th hours:
Wednesday: Decoding Figurative Language to Discover Theme
Thursday: 21st Century Citations in Library with Mrs. Pray
Friday: Independent Reading and Conferences
October 3 -7
Monday: Independent Reading and Group Conferencing, Focus: Theme!!
Tuesday: Look over Benchmarks, Intro to Theme: It’s What It’s ALL About! (discuss Prezi and watch video of “Gone” by Switchfoot – discuss what the theme is and what evidence we can find in the text to prove it)
Wednesday: In groups, summarize an assigned Fable and then s-t-r-e-t-c-h ourminds to think about the “life lesson” that lies in the figurative meaning
Thursday: Can you Identify Theme?? Identifying appropriate theme from given choices (with sub)
Friday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
September 26 -30
Monday: Watch 2nd Half of Truman Award Nominee Videos in the library, then Independent Reading
Tuesday and Wednesday: Create a personally meaningful text-to-text connection by choosing your own song and second text and explaining how they are connected using evidence from each text
Thursday: Unit 1 Benchmark
Friday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
September 19 – 23
Monday: Watch Truman Award Nominee Videos in the library, then Independent Reading
Tuesday: Differentiated Connections Practice
Group 1: With Mrs. Coughlin, go back over answers to last Thursday’s Connections questions, then rewrite corrected answers in notebooks
Group 2: Independently read excerpts from The Compound and Escape from Saigon and analyze the connections (in notebooks).
Group 3: Begin writing first entry of personal reading blogs (in notebooks).
Wednesday: All students (excluding bloggers) read and discuss “Emotional Pain” and an excerpt from The Hunger Games. Bloggers: Begin designing personal reading blogs.
Thursday: All students (excluding bloggers) compare/contrast yesterday’s texts using a Venn diagram. Assessment: How are the texts connected in a meaningful way? How are the different, which do you prefer, and why?
Bloggers: Post first entry to blog.
Friday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
September 12-16
Monday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
Tuesday: Re-read “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
Wednesday: Connections : “Oh, The Places You’ll Go” to “When Annoying Sounds Spark Major Rage”
Thursday: Connections: “I Hope You Dance” to “Mother to Son”
Friday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
September 5 -9
Monday: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: Independent Reading and Conferencing
Wednesday: Final day of Text Features
Create as many Text Features as you can to add meaning to this text.
Answer this question: Which of the text features that you created is most important? Why do you think it makes the article easier to understand or more interesting?
Thursday: Read “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!” as a whole group. Discuss comprehension strategies.
Friday: Take Scholastic Reading Inventory.
August 29 – Sept. 2
Monday: Independent Reading and Reading Conferences
Tuesday: Discuss grading standards and methods
Wednesday: Evaluate Text Features in “Beelzebufo: A Giant of a Find”
Thursday: Create as many Text Features as you can to add meaning to this text.
Friday: Independent Reading and Reading Conferences
August 22-26
Monday: Create a VoiceThread
Tuesday: Meet with Mrs. Pray to go over library procedures.
Wednesday: Introduce Text Features
Discussion Topic: Being able to list text features in NOT enough… you have to know WHY they are there.
Thursday: Brief discussion: The Reading Zone
First day of Independent Reading and Reading Conferences
Friday:
August 16-19
Tuesday: Welcome and Introductions!
Wednesday: Classroom Expectations
Thursday: What is Reader’s Workshop?
Friday: Introduction to meeting as a whole group. Read (as group) The Old Woman Who Named Things
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