Q4 - week 2/11

Day 1
Mon. 03/30 (p3, p4) and Tue. 03/31 (p7)


Do Now:  In your journal, explain how you and your partner came to a conclusion about which host culture to research - 2 sentences.
Essential Questions:
a.  How do I gather relevant and authorative information to integrate into my presentation?
b.  How do I avoid plagiarism?
c.  How do I use digital media to present my findings clearly, appropriately and logically?
Standards:  
CCSS.W.9-10.8 - Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.SL.9-10.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. 
CCSS.SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Agenda:
1.  Review Computer Lab Etiquette
2.  Herendeen demo 
3.  Want Better Research Results?  Try Our Library Link, Google Scholar and:







http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/whmfinding.php
4.  Capitalization is real!  We capitalize the names of countries.  
EXIT PASS - edit the capitalization on your map description

Day 2
Tue. 03/31 (p3) and Wed. 04/01 (p4, p7)

Do Now:  Get your computer and follow directions provided
Essential Questions:
a.  How do I gather relevant and authorative information to integrate into my presentation?
b.  How do I avoid plagiarism?
c.  How do I use digital media to present my findings clearly, appropriately and logically?
Standards:  
CCSS.W.9-10.8 - Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.SL.9-10.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. 
CCSS.SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Agenda:
1.  1/2 of PPT check at end of class today


Day 3 - Z Schedule
Thursday 04/02
Do Now:  Wait for further instructions. . .
Essential Questions:
a.  How do I gather relevant and authorative information to integrate into my presentation?
b.  How do I avoid plagiarism?
c.  How do I use digital media to present my findings clearly, appropriately and logically?
Standards:  
CCSS.W.9-10.8 - Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.SL.9-10.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. 
CCSS.SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Agenda:
1.  Continue partner research for EA1

Q4 - week 1/11

Day 1
Mon. 03/23 (p3, p4) and Tue. 03/24 (p7)

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Do Now:  Read over and annotate the handout with +-?, then wait for further instructions. . .
Essential Questions:
a.  How do I gather relevant information to integrate into my presentation?
b.  How do I avoid plagiarism?
c.  How do I use digital media to present my findings clearly, appropriately and logically?
Standards:  
CCSS.W.9-10.8Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.SL.9-10.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. 
CCSS.SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Agenda:
1.  Grades are available on Edline - if you didn't complete rubric...
2.  Review the handout together
3.  Review EA1 in SB text pp. 192-193, and p. 177
4.  Review Computer Lab Etiquette
5.  Meet your partner and begin your presearch
     a.  presearch colonization
     b.  determine which colonized culture or country to research


Day 2
Tue. 03/24 (p3) and Wed. 03/25 (p4, p7)

Do Now:  Get your SB textbook open to page 177 please
Essential Questions:
a.  How do I gather relevant information to integrate into my presentation?
b.  How do I avoid plagiarism?
c.  How do I use digital media to present my findings clearly, appropriately and logically?

Standards:  
CCSS.W.9-10.8 - Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.SL.9-10.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. 
CCSS.SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Agenda:
1.  Review SB text p. 177 and then SMELL the provided source
2.  Click here for the PPT Template
3.  Frou-Frou

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Day 3 - Z Schedule
Friday 03/27
Do Now:  Wait for further instructions. . .
Essential Questions:
a.  How do I gather relevant and authoritative information to integrate into my presentation?
b.  How do I avoid plagiarism?
c.  How do I use digital media to present my findings clearly, appropriately and logically?
Standards:  
CCSS.W.9-10.8 - Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.
CCSS.SL.9-10.4 - Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task. 
CCSS.SL.9-10.5 - Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.
Agenda:
1.  Click here to sign up for the Colonization PPT
2.  Committing to Colonized Culture/Country and Mapping it!
     - Click here to Pin a location on the Sophomore ELA Colonization Map
     -  1st add a marker to the map to show the location
     -  2nd add your names in the 1st/small text box
     -  3rd add a sentence explaining the host culture and the colonizers in the 2nd/large text box
     -  If you are techy, add a picture
3.  Continue partner research for EA1

Q3 - week 9/9

Day 1 and 2
Mon. 03/09 and Tue. 03/10


We are still grading the Dialectical Journals and Peer Response Sheets

Essential Questions:
a.  How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
b.  How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about culture?

Daily class work:
1.  Turn in your Independent Reading with the appropriate Rubric stapled to the back
     - Graphic Novel - Blue Rubric 
     - Music/Song List - Blue Rubric
     - Writting of Any Style - Pink Rubric
     - Wildcard Item - You created it . . .
2.  Discussion after film "The Gods Must Be Crazy"

Day 3 - TBA

Q3 - week 8/9

Day 1 - Mon. 03/02 (p3, p4) and Wed. (p7)  
Daily class work:
  • AMAZING SOCRATIC SEMINARS!
    • looking at speaker - 90+
    • listening to speaker - 90+
    • materials on desk and under control - 90+
    • hands to speak - 90+
    • note taking during sessions - 90+
    • positively/appropriately engaging/propeling/disagreeing with others - 95+
  • Crazy Bells this week and next
  • ACT test appropriate behavior
  • When to turn in books. . .
  • Grade conferences while you work 
  • Seminar Supplements 
    • typed or shared GDoc
    • what would you have said - use text evidence
  • Independent Reading Due Monday 03/09/15
    • link on this blog
Day 2 - 
Tue. 03/03 (p3), Wed. 03/04 (p4), Thu. 03/5 (p7)
Daily class work:
  • ENGAGING SOCRATIC SEMINARS!
  • P4 - turn in survey cards! Let's make Masks or work on Seminar Supplements
  • Independent Reading Due Monday 03/09/15
    • link on this blog
Day 3 -  Thu. 03/05 (p3), Fri. 03/06 (p4, p7)
Day 4 - Fri. 03/06 (3)
  Daily class work:
  • INSIGHTFUL SOCRATIC SEMINARS (I'm still complementing you from last week!)
  • P4 - turn in survey cards! Guest Speaker
  • P3 - P7 - Independent Reading or Soc. Sem. Supplement
    • P. #, Chp. #, Quote, Explanation of which Literary or Cultural Element and Green Questions on board

  

Travel to England, Ireland, Wales, and France!

Interested in travelling to England, Ireland, Wales, and France next spring break?  Mrs. Mossman and I will be layering up in our warmest clothes to explore castles, cathedrals, standing stones, Shakespeare's birthplace, and the Louvre.  Want a change of scenery?  A breath of the faraway?  The ancient?  Join us.

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