Agenda

Friday

• Creative Writing – prompt #2 in the Writing and Grammar Tab
• discuss the homework
• continue working on the Response to Literature
  • for Monday: make a list of all the symbols in the story
  • a symbol is a concrete person, place, thing, or action that has a corresponding abstract idea
    • for instance, the softball game with the girls only allowed to play on the perimeter is symbolic of the abuse of power and privilege that the boys have due to their gender

Thursday

• Paper copy – please hand in
• homework check for setting clues – Silent Reading
• discuss and work on more of the Response to Literature Document

Agenda:

• begin with silent reading
• a reminder that the assignment: One-Pager and CC reflection on a post (published link) is due to TEAMS tonight
• Today we well begin a short story unit – all materials are in the short story tab of the blog

Agenda

• Review the Creative Writing enrichment activity – Scales
  • all documents for Scales are in the Writing and Grammar tab of the blog
• Show Don’t Tell Activity
• Finish work on the Pathways to Theme:
  • Take a photo of your Paper copy – no angles, shadows or light spots
  • upload as a JPEG or PNG to your computer desktop
  • Create a blog post:
    • title = Pathways to Theme One-Pager
    • TAG = pathwaysfall24
    • Write your introductory sentence – see the template – above the image
    • upload your image – choose LARGE for the media size
    • Write the Core Competency – see the template
    • The assignment is due to TEAMS Wednesday, Oct 2
    • Make sure that you upload the PUBLISHED link to TEAMs
  • Some reminders:
    • make sure the orientation of your image is correct; you can do this in the Edit Image function of the Add Media in the blog post
    • Make sure any Canva images are clear; one option to make it visible is to download your Canva as a PDF and then upload that as ADD DOCUMENT

Agenda

Friday

• brain warm-up
• work on the Prep for Pathways to Theme with your children’s story… don’t start the One-Pager until you have the conflict, theme/s and inquiry worked out – AND the text to world connections
• Monday is a holiday – so I will give you short amount of time on Tuesday to work on the assignment, which will be due to TEAMS on Tuesday night

Thursday:

today’s schedule

• Review the Assignment – in the Inquiry Tab of the blog
• begin the prep work for the One-Pager assignment: Pathways

Wednesday

• Silent Reading
• discuss the Inquiry Questions
• Begin the Summative Assignment – Pathways to Theme with Children’s stories

Agenda:

• Discuss the Beekle theme statements – which ones are the best?
• finish #5 from the Pathways to Theme – turning the theme statements into deep questions
• Padlet activity to narrow down the questions to 6 per table: three from Beekle and three from pre-Beekle discussions
• If time, a creative writing Scales activity – see materials about Scales in the Writing and Grammar tab

Agenda

• Homework check and review of questions #1 and #2 from Beekle – Silent Reading during the HW check
• Go back into the Beekle activity we did on Thursday, and re-acquaint yourself with the story…. not just your group’s pages, all the pages
• Begin work on the rest of the questions: #3 is due today.
  • Three statements on Beekle following the rules of writing theme are due tomorrow – Tuesday
    

Agenda

Thursday

• Work in your groups on Beekle
• Start the Pathways to Theme document

Wednesday

• FINISH the videos – discuss the quotes
• Start Beekle 🙂

Tuesday

• quick brain warm-up: reading or Free Rice
• continue with images and videos
• work on the quotes, we will read the article as a class
• Start Beekle

Monday

• attendance, brief discussion about the HCE assignment
• Introduction to the Human Condition – all resources are in the Inquiry Tab of the blog

Agenda

Friday

• attendance
• 9 – 9:30 – work on your HCE assignment – due Saturday Night to TEAMS
• 9:30 – 10 – quick library tour and a chance to take out a novel for silent reading

Thursday

• Attendance – would you rather…?
• Silent reading/Free Rice – 10 mins
• review assignment instructions etc.
• Assignment is due Friday night to TEAMS:
  • copy and paste the PUBLISHED link to TEAMS turn-in and don’t forget to SUBMIT!!!

Agenda:

• Attendance – would you rather?
• Enrichment: Silent Reading (10 – 12 mins)
• Discussion of the HCE assignment
  • all materials are in the RED tab of the blog