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.