Monthly Archives: September 2016

Thursday September 15th,

Hello!

Yesterday we worked on framing our questions from Children’s books, posting our Pathways to a theme on Edublog and looking at Prose Fiction terms (C Block started to read “Sam the Athlete”.  We will finish reading/start to read “Sam the Athlete”.  The story can be found on my sharepoint.

  1. Open the document “Sam the Athlete Yes No Chart”.
  2. Short story summary

 

Wednesday September 14th, 2016

Hello!

Yesterday we worked on our children’s books –reading one book then completing a “Pathways to a Theme”.

  1.  At the end of your Pathways to a Theme, your group should have come up with some deep thinking questions.  You will be given a sheet of paper (11*14)…you will write down your questions on this sheet of paper.
  2. Your group will choose a second children’s book and complete the same process .
  3. After completing two children’s books and Pathways to a theme….I would like you to go to your edublog and post your pathways that you have completed.  I will go over how to post, categorize and tag.
  4. Today we are going to start our short story unit.  To review, please open the document Prose Fiction Terminology.  We will go over any unfamiliar terms…and we will establish a date for a quiz for a ‘short story terms quiz’.  Currently I am thinking Monday September 19th…It gives a few days to prepare…

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4.  We will be reading the short story “Sam the Athlete” aloud as a class.  This story can be found on my sharepoint site.

5.  Please open the document below:

sam-the-athlete-yes-no-chart

 

 

Tuesday September 13th, 2016

Happy Tuesday!

Yesterday we worked on “Pathways to a Theme” after reading through a children’s book called “The Forgiveness Garden”.  We didn’t complete question #5 quite yet…just a reminder that today is an extended advisory as we have an assembly in the gym.  We will be seeing a presenter from the Rick Hanson Foundation.

  1. How to write an Inquiry Question

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Go back and complete #5 on the document “Pathways to a Theme for “The Forgiveness Garden”.

2)  You will be divided into groups of three.  Your group will choose and read a children’s book from the side counter.  After your group reads the children’s book, as a group you will complete a “Pathways to a Theme”.  The most important part will be the question(s)  (#5) that your group generates…these questions will be written on sheets of paper and posted on the back wall.

3)   Your group will read another children’s book and go through the same process…..

Monday September 12th, 2016

Happy Monday!

We are continuing with Inquiry today…On Friday we watched several youtube clips and at the end of each one you wrote a short reflection.  At the end of class I asked you a question:  what is the connection between the video clips that we watched?  I would like to hear your thoughts on this question…

  1.  We are reading an essay by Bertand Russell

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How does this connect to our theme of “The Human Condition”?

2.  We are starting an exercise with Children’s books.

I will show a book on the projector entitled “The Forgiveness Garden” and we will read through together as a class.

Pathways to a Theme:

pathways-to-a-theme 

pathways-to-a-theme

3)  In groups of three you will choose and read a children’s book.  After, you will complete a “Pathways to a theme” as a group.