Hello! Here's what we're up to today:
Rotation 1
- Silent reading
- Checking in
- Another look at the Daybook - what do the next couple of weeks look like?
- Freewrite and discussion
- How persuadable are you? How persuasive are you?
- A look into the Big Ideas of the English 8 Curriculum
- Details on Advertisement Project
- Time to brainstorm ideas
- Details on Advertisement Quiz
- Persuasive Techniques in Advertisement
- Activity on Logos, Pathos, and Ethos
- Activity on Persuasive Techniques
- Advertisement activity
- Time for the Advertisement Project
- For Monday:
- Your lesson is during Flex (1030 or 1215) for one hour
- We won't be doing silent reading during Flex periods (sad face)
- This weekend, keep an eye out for advertisements. Pick one, and bring it in (this can be on your phone, a recording of something you saw on TV, a newspaper, etc)
Rotation 2
- First thing's first: take out your phones / agendas, and make sure you keep the blog address: www.kitsmclean.blogspot.com. It will be used a lot.
- Introductions
- Who am I?
- Who are you?
- Write your name in big block letters
- Draw something you find interesting or is important to you
- I'll ask each of you:
- What name would you like to go by?
- What classes are you coming from, and what's your other class?
- What would you like to tell me about yourself?
- Your task is to ask me a question about myself that is (a) as intriguing a question as possible while (b) remaining respectful.
- Tour of the blog, the assignment page, the Daybook, and of the Teams Channel
- Freewrite and discussion
- How are you feeling about taking English 8? What are you excited about, and what are you worried about?
- Some of the rules
- What will classes look like?
- Day by day
- Silent reading
- Checking in
- Discussion/Freewrite
- Lesson
- Activity
- Work on project
- Week by week
- When you're face-to-face, it's a regular schedule
- When you're remote, we'll meet face-to-face twice a week, and online once a week
- Your schedule next week looks like this:
- Monday to Thursday at 840 or 118
- On days we don't meet online or face-to-face, I'll prompt you to "Check In" and also respond to a "Discussion" question. You're expected to answer both.
- Distributing "In Context"
- For Monday, read "The Great Musician" on page 302
- Thanks everyone! I'm excited to get started!
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