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Tuesday, October 28 and Wednesday, October 29, 2014

10/27/2014

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Content Objective: I can reflect and evaluate what I studied and learned about this quarter.
Language Objective: I will compare and contrast The Book Thief movie production with the novel and write a reflection on which skills I learned this quarter. 

Agenda: 
1.) Watch the first 45 minutes of The Book Thief movie production. 
While you are watching, list any similarities and differences you notice between the book and the movie in a T-chart within your Daily Participation document. 

2.) Write a reflection on what skills you have learned this quarter. It should be between 150-200 words long.  In your reflection, consider the following questions: 
  • Briefly describe some of the work you did this quarter. What did yo do and what was the outcome?
  • What were some problems or difficulties you encountered during this quarter and how did you overcome them?
  • What were some of your strengths and weaknesses this quarter? Be specific.
  • How could you improve your work or the way you completed your work?
  • In group work activities, what role did you take on in your group and why?
  • What are your strengths and weaknesses as a group member?
  • How could you improve your teamwork and leadership skills in the future?
  • How did your technological skills improve?
  • What other skills did you learn or improve this quarter?
  • How could you continue improving in the future?
Share your finished reflection with the appropriate e-mail address for your period: 
  • 4A: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org

3.) Complete the English 12 Quarter 1 Feedback Form
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Friday, October 24 and Monday, October 27, 2014

10/23/2014

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Content Objective: I can analyze characters and themes in literary and informative texts.
Language Objective: I will write a one-page theme analysis about one theme in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

Agenda: 
1.) Open a new GoogleDoc and title it with your full name, period and today's date. 
Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
Type your answers into your newly created GoogleDoc. Once you are done writing, hit the blue "share" button in the top right corner of your GoogleDoc. Share your document depending on your period: 
  • 4A with: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B with: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B with: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B with: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org
If you do not share your document with the right email, depending on your period, it will not be sorted and might not be graded correctly.

2.) You have the rest of the period to write your Themes Analysis. You have to share your analysis at the end of the period. 

See the Themes Analysis Checklist for what you should include in your analysis. Your analysis needs to be one page, double-spaced or 250 words long. It has to have textual evidence to be considered complete.

Assignments: 
  • Themes Analysis (must be turned in at the end of the period via GoogleDrive)
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Wednesday, October 22 and Thursday, October 23, 2014

10/21/2014

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Content Objective: I can analyze characters and themes in literary and informative texts.
Language Objective: I will watch and read "The Tale of the Three Brothers" and will compare and contrast it and its themes to "The Pardoner's Tale" by creating a Venn diagram.

Agenda: 
1.) Open a new GoogleDoc and title it with your full name, period and today's date. 
Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
Type your answers into your newly created GoogleDoc. Once you are done writing, hit the blue "share" button in the top right corner of your GoogleDoc. Share your document depending on your period: 
  • 4A with: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B with: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B with: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B with: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org
If you do not share your document with the right email, depending on your period, it will not be sorted and might not be graded correctly.

2.) On Friday, October 24th (A-Day) and Monday, October 27th (B-Day), you will complete our end-of-quarter theme analysis. See Theme Analysis Checklist. 

3.) Read The Wife of Bath's Tale and write down any themes you find in this story as well as any textual evidence to support these themes. 

4.) Answer the question assigned to you from the Wife of Bath discussion.

5.) Share your list of themes and add themes that have been shared that are not on your list yet.

Assignments (share your GoogleDoc with the appropriate address above): 
  • Bell Work Questions
  • List of themes
  • Wife of Bath discussion questions
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Monday, October 20 and Tuesday, October 21, 2014

10/19/2014

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Content Objective: I can analyze characters and themes in literary and informative texts.
Language Objective: I will watch and read "The Tale of the Three Brothers" and will compare and contrast it and its themes to "The Pardoner's Tale" by creating a Venn diagram.

Agenda: 
1.) Open a new GoogleDoc and title it with your full name, period and today's date. 
Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
Type your answers into your newly created GoogleDoc. Once you are done writing, hit the blue "share" button in the top right corner of your GoogleDoc. Share your document depending on your period: 
  • 4A with: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B with: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B with: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B with: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org
If you do not share your document with the right email, depending on your period, it will not be sorted and might not be graded correctly. 
2.) Review: What are the two most important themes in "The Pardoner's Tale" and how do they develop throughout the text? (We will highlight/underline relevant textual evidence together.) 
3.) Watch "The Tale of the Three Brothers". In your group, create a Venn diagram comparing and contrasting "The Tale of the Three Brothers" with "The Pardoner's Tale". Also read "The Tale of the Three Brothers" and "Dumbledore's Commentary" to have textual evidence and additional information to use in your Venn Diagram. 
4.) Within your Venn diagram, also compare and contrast themes in both "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Tale of the Three  Brothers". Find textual evidence to support your comparisons and contrasts. 
5.) Below your Venn diagram, answer the following question: Why do you think that "cheating death" tales such as the two we just read appear in so many different cultures and time periods? 
6.) Share your  Venn diagram document with Ms. Floch. Make sure you use the right email to share this (see email list above). 

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Tuesday, October 14 and Wednesday, October, 2014

10/13/2014

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Content Objective: I can analyze characters and themes in literary and informative texts.
Language Objective: I will read "The Pardoner's Tale" and identify and cite textual evidence to analyze themes and make inferences. 
Agenda: 
1.) Open a new GoogleDoc and title it with your full name, period and today's date. 
Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
Type your answers into your newly created GoogleDoc. Once you are done writing, hit the blue "share" button in the top right corner of your GoogleDoc. Share your document depending on your period: 
  • 4A with: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B with: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B with: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B with: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org
If you do not share your document with the right email, depending on your period, it will not be sorted and might not be graded correctly. 
2.) Review what you know about The Pardoner. 
3.) Read "The Pardoner's Tale".
While reading, identify 3 themes in "The Pardoner's" tale and write them on the left side of your daily participation document. On the right side, copy/paste any textual evidence you can find for each theme. 
You have 30 minutes to read and identify three themes in "The Pardoner's Tale" 
4.) After reading, open "The Pardoner's Tale Questions" and copy/paste your assigned question into your daily participation document before you answer it. Write your answer (remember that you have to justify your answer) below the question into your daily participation document. 
5.) Share your themes and the answers to your group's assigned question in an in-class discussion. 
Assignments: 
Your daily participation document must be shared with the respective email address for your period and contain the following: 
  • Bell Work responses
  • 3 themes from "The Pardoner's Tale" with textual evidence 
  • the response to your assigned "Pardoner's Tale" question
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Friday, October 10 and Monday, October 13, 2014

10/10/2014

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Content Objective: I can analyze characters and themes in literary and informative texts.
Language Objective: I will cite textual evidence from "The Miller's Tale" to make inferences and analyze characters and themes. 
Agenda: 
1.) Open a new GoogleDoc and title it with your full name, period and today's date. 
Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
Type your answers into your newly created GoogleDoc. Once you are done writing, hit the blue "share" button in the top right corner of your GoogleDoc. Share your document depending on your period: 
  • 4A with: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B with: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B with: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B with: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org
If you do not share your document with the right email, depending on your period, it will not be sorted and might not be graded correctly. 
2.) Finish reading "The Miller's Tale" 
3.) Using your five most important lines from last period, produce a group summary within your table group. Add this summary to your GoogleDoc for today. 
4.) Open the "Miller's Tale Inference Questions" document. In your top left corner, click on "File" and "Make a copy".
Title this new file "Miller's Tale Questions{YOUR NAME]" Then fill out the question that you and your group have been assigned. Share the document with me once you are done. 
5.) We will have each group share their answers to their assigned questions. Add their answer into your document as they are talking. You will not need to share this document with me again, it automatically saves the changes you made. 
6.) On the bottom of this document, find one major themes that "The Miller's Tale" deals with and give some textual evidence of where this theme is present in the text. We will brainstorm how this theme develops as a class. 
7.) After we have finished brainstorming and talking about themes in "The Miller's Tale", pick the theme you think is the most important in this story and write 3-5 sentences justifying your answer.
 
Assignments: 
  • Share your GoogleDoc with your bell work
  • Fill out and share your "Miller's Tale Questions" doc and add major themes in "The Miller's Tale" to the bottom of this deocument. 
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Wednesday, October 8 and Thursday, October 9, 2014

10/7/2014

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Content Objective: I can cite textual evidence to analyze characters and themes in literary texts.
Language Objective: I will collaborate with a group to produce a group summary and identify themes in "The Miller's Tale". 
Agenda: 
1.) Get set up on the class ChromeBooks: 
  • If  a window pops up asking what network to join, choose GSD Secure from the drop down and then enter the computer login, which is you student number for the user ID and you password (computer login username and password) and click join
  • On the 1st login screen that pops up asking for an email and password enter:
    • first 4 of you first name + first 4 of your last name + first 4 of your student # @granitesd.org (example:johnreyn9876@granitesd.org for John Reynolds with student number 9876543) and your password
  • On the 2nd login screen that comes up displaying the new Granite logo enter:
    • student number only@graniteschools.org (example: 9876543@graniteschools.org) and your computer password
  • On the 3rd screen that pops up it will ask for your password only. Enter the same computer password
2.) Click on the 9 squares on the bottom left corner of your screen. Click on "Google Drive". Once in your GoogleDrive, click on "Create" and select "Document". Title this document with your first and last name, period, and today's date. You will be using this document for your daily participation. 
3.) Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
Type your answers into your newly created GoogleDoc. Once you are done writing, hit the blue "share" button in the top right corner of your GoogleDoc. Share your document depending on your period: 
  • 4A with: sfloch+4A@granitesd.org
  • 1B with: sfloch+1B@granitesd.org
  • 3B with: sfloch+3B@granitesd.org
  • 4B with: sfloch+4B@granitesd.org
If you do not share your document with the right email, depending on your period, it will not be sorted and might not be graded correctly. 
4.) Based on what you know about the Miller, write a one-sentence prediction about what you think will happen in "The Miller's Tale"; add this sentence to the same document as your bell work. 
5.) Read "The Miller's Tale" 
6.) After reading, copy/paste the 5 lines you consider most important from "The Miller's Tale" into your GoogleDoc (you will be using the same form for this entire period). 
7.) Once you have picked and copy/pasted your five lines, hit "share" in the top right corner of your document and share it with the other members of your table group. Look at everyone's lines and as a group, determine the five most important lines for your group and copy/paste them into your original document. This way, you are creating a group summary of "The Miller's Tale". 
7.) Finally, as a group, find one major theme in "The Miller's Tale". 
Remember: A theme is:
  1. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
    "the theme of the sermon was reverence"
    synonyms: subject, topic, subject matter, matter, thesis, argument, text, burden,concern, message; thread, motif
Write 2-3 sentences to justify where this theme is present in the text (you may quote textual evidence for this.)
Assignments:
  • Daily Participation (all in one Google Doc) containing your bell work, your 5 most important lines individually, your five most important lines as a group and one theme and 2-3 sentence justification of where the theme is present in the text.
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Monday, October 6 and Tuesday, October 7

10/6/2014

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Content Objective: I can cite textual evidence to analyze characters and themes in literary texts.
Language Objective: I will complete a characterization chart on all Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales and take a quiz matching characters to statements they would make.
Agenda: 
1.) Bell Work: Read The Book Thief for 15 minutes. After reading, answer the following questions: 
  1. Summarize the main idea of your reading in one complete sentence. 
  2. List two details that stood out to you in your reading. Cite textual evidence and use complete sentences. 
  3. Make a connection. Compare how something in the text similar to something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  4. Contrast how something in the text is different than something in your own experience or something you read or watched. 
  5. List two questions that you had while reading. Make sure they are not answered in the text.
2.) Use the videos on Ms. Floch's English Channel and the rest of your group's notes to complete your Characterization Chart.
3.) Take the Pilgrim Inference Quiz using your Characterization Chart as your notes.
NOTE: If you missed this class, schedule a make-up date for this quiz with Ms. Floch.
4.) Turn in your Characterization Chart with your quiz.
5.) Look at these important lines from "The Miller's Tale". Based on these lines and what you already know in the Miller, write a one-sentence prediction about what you think is going to happen in "The Miller's Tale". 
Assignments: 
  • Bell Work Questions
  • Characterization Chart
  • Quiz
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