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Monday September 16th, 2024

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*The Most Dangerous Game

Most Dangerous Game Pre-Reading activity below:

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*The Most Dangerous Game:  Character Chart

*The Most Dangerous Game:  Comprehension Questions

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*Allusions in “The Most Dangerous Game

“The Most Dangerous Game”:  Writing activity.   This story ends with an indeterminate ending.  Write a paragraph that would continue after the last paragraph of the story to illustrate how you see the story would go…

 

Friday September 13th, 2024

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Friday Writes:  we will spend time each Friday writing.  This writing will mostly be focused on ‘compositions’.  This is an opportunity for you to be creative, reflective and critical with your own writing.

Narrative Writing

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Topics:

*An unexpected event that changed my life

*A humbling moment

*Our journey to the future begins in the past

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*The Most Dangerous Game

Most Dangerous Game Pre-Reading activity below:

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*The Most Dangerous Game:  Character Chart

*The Most Dangerous Game:  Comprehension Questions

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*Allusions in “The Most Dangerous Game

“The Most Dangerous Game”:  Writing activity.   This story ends with an indeterminate ending.  Write a paragraph that would continue after the last paragraph of the story to illustrate how you see the story would go…

 

Thursday September 12th, 2024

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*Yesterday, you were to complete a ‘short story summary’ for “Long Long After School”.  We will go over this together…

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How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike?  Venn Diagram:  Synthesis

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-“A Teachers’ Rewards” –read aloud.

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Role Models:  Ms. Scofield vs. Ms. Trethway

 

Wednesday September 11th, 2024

Good Afternoon!

*No Red Ink:  We will be starting No Red Ink today…we will do this once a week (usually on Wednesdays).

Website:  https://www.noredink.com/

Class code:  great horse 27

*Complete the exercise:  Identifying Fragments

*Yesterday, you were to complete a ‘short story summary’ for “Long Long After School”.  We will go over this together…

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How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike?  Venn Diagram:  Synthesis

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-“A Teachers’ Rewards” –read aloud.

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Role Models:  Ms. Scofield vs. Ms. Trethway

 

Friday September 6th, 2024

Good Morning!

*Ice Breakers:  we still need to go through the rest of our ice breakers!

*Public Speaking

  • public speaking  
  • How to make public speaking easy and being confident in skills  
  • Introduce “Pieces of me Presentation” 
  • Give class time to work on presentations 

Some students volunteering at photo day during block  

 

 

Friday September 6th-Monday September 9th 2024

Good Morning!

*We probably won’t get through all of this!  What we don’t finish, we will continue with Monday…

We started the short story “Identities” yesterday…here is the story again for you..

“Identities”

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*We are starting with our short story unit; to better understand literature when reading, it is important to look at the “lenses” of reading literature….

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*Group Activity:  Each Group will identify a different lens.  Each group will have a different lens.  Your task is to identify how the story could be interpreted based on the lens your group is responsible for…

Persuasive Writing

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What techniques are used in these?

 

*Rhetorical Arguments

Some resources I want you to think of as you transform your paragraph template into a rough draft:

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*Find Examples of ‘Irony’

Complete the document below as a group on office 365:

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How are Wes and Ms. Trethway alike?  Venn Diagram:  Synthesis

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Thursday September 5th, 2024

Good Morning!

 *Ice Breaker Activity 1  

  • Provide activity instructions – groups will prepare class wide ice breaker activity (alternate – give each group a theme to follow – e.g. move your body, no talking, mini game, learn each other’s names, geography)  
  • Remainder of class is facilitation of class generated Ice Breakers
  • Talking circle