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