Room 7 Edublog

8/20/13

Welcome to your last first day as school students! We will use this day to become re-acquainted with school policies, classroom order, the direction of our studies, and our classmates.

OBJECTIVES:
1) To understand school policies and classroom expectations

2) To examine the direction of this year’s studies

3) To participate collaboratively in a project within a group to build group cohesiveness and security (Speaking Std. 1; Language Std. 1)

BELLRINGER:

ANTICIPATORY SET:
Watch Sketch Ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrHoDJinMQI

Critical Thinking Discussion:
How would you compare this to reading novels?
(Don’t judge a book by its face)
Identify “curtains” that separate us from understanding ourselves or understanding literature?
Infer what drives our descriptions of ourselves and of literature?
Examine why is it that we can find it difficult to analyze literature?
Evaluate what created the difference in the 2 pictures?
Propose the result of not pursuing the depth?

DIRECT INSTRUCTION and DISCUSSION:
Goals for AP studies this year
Classroom expectations
Introduction of biopoem

COLLABORATIVE GROUPWORK:
Biopoems

CLOSURE:
Biopoem share

AT HOME ACTIVITY:
Summer Reading:

Mapping Critique due 8/26/13