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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Week 5: How do cultural experiences shape, impact, or influence our identity and perceptions?

W.9-10.5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.
L.9-10.6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level

Day 1
Do Now: Put your phone and other personal electronics in your bag and deposit bags in the back of the room. Get your INB, your planner, and pen/pencil from your bag. Pick up your SpringBoard, head to your desk. JOURNAL 4


Class activities:
1. Unpacking EA2
2. Five Parts of Every Writing Prompt
3. Positions of an Arguments: Argee (yes) / Qualify (maybe) / Disagree (no)
Practice Statments Here
4. Target Practice page 49 SB
5. Term: allusion OR 6.Closing: Fist-to-Five


HW: Read Indie Book


Day 2
Do Now: Put your phone and other personal electronics in your bag and deposit bags in the back of the room. Get your INB, your planner, and pen/pencil from your bag. Pick up your SpringBoard, head to your desk.
JOURNAL 5


Class activities:
1. Pico Iyer's "Where World's Collide"
2. Marking and Sketching the Text
3. T.A.G. statements
4. Target Practice: writing a T.A.G.
5. Example of T.A.G. with paragraph
6. Class quilt collage


HW: Read Indie Reading



Day 3
Do Now: Put your phone and other personal electronics in your bag and deposit bags in the back of the room. Get your INB, your planner, and pen/pencil from your bag. Pick up your SpringBoard, head to your desk.


Class Activities:
1. Terms: Symbols, Imagery, Figurative Language, Tone, theme
2. "My Mother Pieced Quilts" with discussion, collage, and SB SIFT-ing
3. More prompt unpacking
4. Target Practice: How do parents affect our perspective on culture?
Prompt: Argee (yes) / Qualify (maybe) / Disagree (no)
5. Thesis practice and outlining.
6. Text brainstorming


HW: Read Indie Reading