9-30-10 p.4

1. Reread two sections and create dialectical journal.

• Go back and note that this journal is a triple journal: Quote, Response, Connection.
• If you need a password to glogster email me at nreyes7901@gmail.com and i will e-mail it to you as quickly as possible

9-30-10 p.1

1. Growing Sentences

2. Begin brainstorming sentence stems and phrases for introductory paragraph.

3. Discuss hook/attention grabber.

4. Begin reading small books for beginning information gathering on your subject.

9/29/10 p.1

1. Complete Gap Finders assessment.

2. Begin Introductory paragraph of Biographic essay.

• Discuss and create sentence frames.
• Create a sample introductory paragraph using Cesar Chavez.

Vidoe Websites--American Literature

Video Websites
Teacher Tube

Kids Tube

Watch Know

Glogster

More to be added in a few minutes

9/28/10 p5

1. Growing Sentences

2. Editing and Editing Marks

3. Gap assessment

If you were absent today, you need to remind me that you have to take the Gap Assessment.

9-27-10 p. 5

1. Quick Write--Describe what you did this weekend. Use as much details as you can.

2. Because of how hot it was we watched a video on The Sun so we could see cool visuals.

9-27-10 p. 4

1. Begin Activity 1.5--pg. 13 Historic Pathways to the American Dream

• Read your assigned section looking for information for your poster
• Source for Puritans
• Source for Revolutionaries
• Source for Transcendatilists

2. Beginning tomorrow you will re-read your sections and complete a double entry journal.

• The journal will in fact have 3 columns.
• Divide your paper into 3 sections.
• The first section will be for quotes from the texts you are reading.
• The second section will be for your response to the quote. This can be questions that you have about what you are reading, opinions you are forming, and/or how you managed to understand what you were reading.
• The third column is a modern connection of what you have read to what you know. This response can be connections to different things. Other things you may have read, what you have seen or experienced in the world, or connections to music, movies, tv, and/or games. ANYTHING goes if you can explain your connections it can work.

9-27-10 p.1

1. Quick Write- Describe what you did this weekend. Give full details and explain as much as possible

2. QUEST lv 1 Book reading and Writing--Chapter 5 Section 1

p5 9/23/10

1. Quickwrite--Write about a party that you have been to describe what you saw, heard and/or smelled.

• Pass your paper to a neighbor
• Have your neighbor write 2 comments about what would like to know more about, or what they don't understand.

2. Begin Quest book pg. 5 "Stories and Twins"

• pg. 6 Act a&b

p4 9/23/10

1. Continue with "Coming to America"

2. pg. 11 #7-8...

Work was collected from that page.

P1 9/23/2010

1. Paragraph--What traits make a good person. Describe why you think that.

• Read quickwrite
• Look for mistakes and edit
• Look for sentences that can be combined--revise
• Re-write what you wrote so looks like a paragraph

2. Read "Alice Paul"

• Use a graphic organizer and look for examples of the character traits: determined and loyal
• Explain why you chose those example

p. 5 9-21-10

1. Growing Sentences

2. Introduce WHERE group

3. Begin Observational Unit

4. "My Generation" Packet--HW-must ask a parent to help complete the My Generation sheet

P 4 9-21-10

1. Brainstorm the American Dream

2. Quick Write on The American Dream

3. View movie clip from "The Godfather Pt. 2"

4. Silently read "Ellis Island"

Period 1 9-21-10

1. Growing Sentences

2. Categorizing Character Traits packet

3. Watched different videos on Nelson Mandela, and Gandhi

This writing piece is going to be a biographical essay. Today was focused on looking at character traits and finding examples to show how the example supports the trait.

Period 5

1. Warm-Up-Growing Sentences

2. Present Bio Poems

Period 4

Review Primary and Secondary Sources.

Page 7 and do the complete page.

9-20-10 Period 1

1. Warm-Up---Growing Sentences

2. Editing sentences.

3. Character Traits, and categorizing them, you should have a packet that we will continue to work with tomorrow.

If you were absent and need to make something up, please make sure to let me know quickly because I will forget. :D

period 5 9-17-10

Write story based on web picture.

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Period 4 9-17-10

Today was pg 4-5 in Springboard. The idea is "What is the American Dream?"

Will continue with Srpingboard on Monday doing Quick write.

Period 1 Sept 17, 2010

Begin with creating a story from a picture that i put up on the overhead.

This picture can be found at this website.

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