Room 7 Edublog

8/20/13
Welcome to your first day as high school students! These next four years will be memorable and fast. This class will enable you to be set up for success in the adult world you are fast approaching. You are already on your way! We will use this day to become acquainted with the direction of our studies and our classmates/collaborative groups.

OBJECTIVES:
1) To examine the direction of this year’s studies
2) To participate collaboratively in a project within a group (Speaking Std. 1; Language Std. 1)

BELLRINGER:

ANTICIPATORY SET:
Watch Nick Vujicic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HGQHgeFE

Critical Thinking Discussion:
What goals would a limbless person need to set for themselves?
“Victory is not when your circumstances change; victory is when you purpose in your heart to never give up.”
Individual goals and class goals

DIRECT INSTRUCTION and DISCUSSION:
Setting goals expectations

COLLABORATIVE GROUPWORK:
Goal discussion
Vujicic discussion

CLOSURE:
Groups share goal input with class

8/20/13

Welcome to your last first day as school students! We will use this day to become acquainted with the direction of our studies and our classmates/collaborative groups.

OBJECTIVES:
1) To examine the direction of this year’s studies
2) 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 it’s 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:
Focuses for LA 12 studies this year:
What is the relationship between place and literature?
How does literature shape or reflect society?
What is the relationship of the writer to tradition?
Introduction of biopoem:http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson398/biopoem.pdf

COLLABORATIVE GROUPWORK:
Biopoems

CLOSURE:
Biopoem share

AT HOME ACTIVITY:

Peruse Novel List for Independent Reader

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