WELCOME TO ELL, 4/10/12

Warm Up:• Pick up ELL notebook• Review your notes on information reports• Answer the following question(s) in your ELL

notebook

1. Who is Howard Carter?

2. What makes archeology interesting?

I can statement/agenda

Today, 4/10, I can… Know: Synthesize information about the life of

Howard Carter. Do: Draft an information report paragraph.

Agenda: Warm up/share: 10 minutes Review information report: 5 minutes Information report assignment: 5 minutes Research and drafting: 25 minutes

This week’s big assignments Paragraph due Thursday, 4/12 Draft on Tuesday and Wednesday

Test review on Thursday, 4/12 Unit test on Friday, 4/13

A quality information report has…

An introduction Introduces topic Includes questions or interesting facts

A main idea/claim A sentence that tells you what the whole paper is about

(1 topic) Found at the end of the intro.

Body paragraph(s) Gives facts and details If a fact is copied from a book it’s included in a

bibliography A conclusion:

Restate main idea Leave reader with a message

Your task

1. First: Annotate text to find interesting facts that tell us about the life of Howard Carter

2. Second: Draft a paragraph using the characteristics of a quality information report

3. Third: DO NOT copy facts from your source, restate in your own words!

4. Last: IF you finish drafting today, see teacher for help revising

Welcome to Study Hall

7th graders sit by computers, 8th by the door

You will be receiving documents to take home Please put them somewhere safe

and take to your family

Welcome to Language Arts, 4/10/12

Materials managers: readers and writers notebooks

Warm Up: Get out theater vocabulary Get out scene 1 from Novio Boy Get out reading and writing HW from last

week (logs, quick notes and notebooks) Turn and talk: “ What does ‘objective’

mean?”

I can statement/agenda

Today, 4/10, I can… Know: identify character objectives in a scene. Do: apply theater vocabulary to my reflection

of Novio Boy.

Agenda: Warm up: 5 minutes Pass back work/discussion: 10 minutes Novio Boy reflection: 10 minutes Silent reading/revisions: 20 minutes

Literary analysis scores

Where did you lose points?All revisions must be turned in with

original rubric Introduction:

Rewrite and turn in your own introduction Claim paragraph:

Rewrite and turn in with rubric Image:

Draw your own image and turn with rubric Conclusion:

Rewrite and turn in your own independent conclusion

Reflection

1. What are the characters’ objectives in this scene? How do you know?

2. What are the props and costumes used by the characters in this scene?

MATERIALS MANAGERS: RETURN READERS AND WRITERS, PICK UP SS NOTEBOOK

WARM UP:1. GET OUT “BILL OF RIGHTS”2. TURN AND TALK: “WHAT ARE THREE WORDS IDSR HELPED YOU DEFINE?”

Welcome to SS, 4/10/12

I can statement/agenda

Today, 4/10, I can… Know: identify the main ideas of the 10

amendments known as the Bill of Rights. Do: practice analyzing text using I.D.S.R.

Agenda: Warm up: 5 minutes Review IDSR and Bill of Rights: 5 minutes Finish translations: 30 minutes Clean up: 5 minutes

Your task

IDSR Identify unknown words Use a dictionary or thesaurus (from a book or

your phone) to look up a synonym you understand

Write in the new word Re-read to see if it helps clarify the amendment

Summarize the amendment on your handout

Create a memory tool/way to remember Key words Picture Acronym