Room 7 Edublog

Testing

OBJECTIVES:
To create a background for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
To evaluate how Shakespeare is still relevant today
To analyze characters in their significance to the conflicts
To apply grammar and writing strategies to written work

BELLRINGER:
Grammar refreshers

AGENDA:
Finish watching R & J movie

HOMEWORK:

Reading logs due 4/4/14.
Continue reading 10-15 minutes nightly.

OBJECTIVES:
To create a background for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
To evaluate how Shakespeare is still relevant today
To analyze characters in their significance to the conflicts
To apply grammar and writing strategies to written work

BELLRINGER:
Grammar refreshers

AGENDA:
M: Pods write objectives for what is important for them to learn from R & J
Discussion as a class of objectives
Overview of family trees for Montagues and Capulets
Begin watching movie
T-F: Continue watching movie after completing practice grammar questions

HOMEWORK:

Reading logs due 3/28/14.
Continue reading 10-15 minutes nightly.

OBJECTIVES:
To establish the differences among goals, motivation, and outcomes
To compare and contrast in writing
To analyze the historical background to Romeo & Juliet
To justify pre-reading themes from Romeo & Juliet

BELLRINGER:
M: Quickwrite: Compare/Contrast what you did during spring break with what you thought beforehand.
T: New Seating Chart
W-F: Silent Reading

AGENDA:
M: Last oral presentations from novel groups
Goals and motivations
T: Organize notebooks for new quarter
Group activity: Goals and motivation vs. outcomes
Library time for choosing new novels
W: Reading logs
Shakespeare activities and film
Th: Class discussion on key Sheakespeare ideas (prep for Romeo & Juliet)
Finish watching Shakespeare film
F: Vocabulary and key terms
R & J film

HOMEWORK:

Reading log due Friday, March 28th

OBJECTIVES:
To complete novels in groups
To construct projects applying knowledge of novel elements
To present group projects collaboratively to the rest of the class

AGENDA:
Students will work on completing their novels and study questions by Thursday.
On Friday, they will begin their group projects.
On Thursday and Friday, they will present.

HOMEWORK:

Continue reading 10-15 minutes every night!

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze characters
To analyze point of view
To pose and respond to questions in discussion
To integrate multiple sources of information
To qualify or justify views and understandings

AGENDA:
To practice persuasion and character analysis, students will participate in a detective game.
They will act a scene.
2 Detectives will be called in to hear alibis and determine the culprit.

HOMEWORK:

Reading logs due 2/28/14.

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze characters
To analyze point of view
To pose and respond to questions in discussion
To integrate multiple sources of information
To qualify or justify views and understandings

AGENDA:
To practice persuasion and character analysis, students will participate in a detective game.
They will act a scene.
2 Detectives will be called in to hear alibis and determine the culprit.

HOMEWORK:

Read 10-15 minutes every night; reading logs due 28th

OBJECTIVES:
To implement roles and reading strategies
To apply analytical comprehension to test
To cite evidence to support ideas
To construct understanding of vocabulary through context clues, use in sentences, etc.
To analyze how characters develop, interact, advance the plot, and develop theme

AGENDA:
Students will divide into novel groups
They will assign roles
Continue reading class novels with teachers’ support
Answer questions as a group and independently
Continue filling out character descriptions

HOMEWORK:

Read 10-15 minutes every night; reading logs due 28th

OBJECTIVES:
To apply analytical comprehension to text
To construct understanding through context clues
To analyze how characters develop, interact, advance the plot, and develop theme
To initiate and participate effectively in collaborative discussions, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively

AGENDA:
Students worked on character descriptions individually and collaboratively

HOMEWORK:

Read 10-15 minutes every night; reading logs due 28th

OBJECTIVES:
To implement roles and reading strategies
To apply analytical comprehension to test
To cite evidence to support ideas
To construct understanding of vocabulary through context clues, use in sentences, etc.
To analyze how characters develop, interact, advance the plot, and develop theme

AGENDA:
New Reading logs handed out
Students will divide into novel groups
They will assign roles
Continue reading class novels with teachers’ support
Answer questions as a group and independently
Continue filling out character descriptions

HOMEWORK:

Read 10-15 minutes every night; reading logs due 28th