Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Learning Objectives:

• To preview a unit of study
• To respond to Essential Questions
• To predict the contents of a unit
• To determine the skills and knowledge necessary for success on an Embedded Assessment (Short Story)

Supplies: SpringBoard, Class Notebook

If you haven't already, turn in your Reading Log.

Opening:

1. In your SpringBoard book, turn to page 69

• Read and mark the "Unit Overview" by underlining or circling key words and phrases that seem important to you.

2. In your small group, discuss the Unit Overview and what answers you have to the two Essential Questions there on page 1

3. Discuss both as a large group.

4. Preview the Table of Contents on pages 70-71

• What do you notice about the genres we'll be reading?
• What are our goals?
• How long is the unit?
• What is the writing assignment at the end of part one?

Work Period: 

5. Answer questions 1 and 2 on page 73.  Always use complete sentences when writing, unless told otherwise.

6. Read the "Learning Focus" on page 72 to yourself and underline key words and phrases that seem to help you understand what this unit will be about.

7. Share highlighting with your small group and determine the most important idea in each paragraph

• Highlight the key idea in each paragraph
• Respond to the third question on page 73 in a sentence or two.

8. Share aloud what you wrote and I'll highlight in the Learning Focus what you are talking about.

Closing:

9. Turn to page 128

• Follow my modeling as we read through the Embedded Assessment's Assignment description.
• Have a highlighter ready
• What will you have to do?  What ideas/knowledge do you have to know about?

10. In your Class Notebook, create a T-Chart as modeled on the board in front

Skills  |  Knowledge 

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11. As you read through the Embedded Assessment for tonight's HOMEWORK:

• Underline what you have to DO (verbs - like develop, include, relate)
• Circle what you have to know about (nouns - like Story Starters, character, conflict, setting, dialogue, theme of change)
• track the skills and knowledge in your Class Notebook.