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What message are you sending?  Goal: Complete your academic honesty project proposal.  Agenda: Read Reading Progress Update Academic Honesty Project Proposal Catch up work 1. Reading Progress Update:   Complete the  FORM . Absent Friday? Scroll down and do the initial ideas from in the post below.  2. Project Proposal: (You may have started this on Friday.) Once you/your team, have your project elements in mind it is time for you to start working on your project proposal.  When you write a proposal you are trying to convince others (and yourself) that your project is worth doing.  A proposal helps you think through all of the parts of the project. If you are working as a team, the proposal becomes a document that shows what you agreed to do. 1. Get your copy of the  PROJECT PROPOSAL TEMPLATE , be sure to click "use template." 2. Follow the directions on the top of the document to share it with your group and Mrs. R. 3. Complete the proposal...

Goal: Project planning and beginning your project proposal.  Agenda: Read Initial ideas Start project proposal Initial Ideas:  Before you go too far with your academic honesty project, I'd like to know what you think you are planning to do.  You may work alone or with a team of up to two other people.  The other people can be in another period of my class, but that means you'll need to spend more time meeting with them outside of class . That will make the project more challenging, but it is up to you.  Together you will complete the INITIAL IDEAS FORM today.  Project Proposal: Once you/your team, have your project elements in mind it is time for you to start working on your project proposal.  When you write a proposal you are trying to convince others (and yourself) that your project is worth doing.  A proposal helps you think through all of the parts of the project. If you are working as a team, the proposal becomes a document that shows what ...

Goals:  District reading inventory assessment. Agenda:  Reading inventory assessment Book Recommendation Slide Catch-up time Today we take a reading inventory assessment.  It probably won't take you the whole period (it's a block day after all), so you will have some time to catch up on other work when you finish. It will give us valuable data about how you read. This test can qualify you for some bonus points if you exceed your previous score. (More about that in class.) START HERE (If you are absent don't try to take this test at home.) Book Recommendation Slide: What's your favorite book that you read this year ?  You are going to make a recommendation page for that book.  Your page will be a slide.  Go to Google Classroom and look for a new assignment there. Use the slide number that matches your assigned computer number. (Don't edit other sides. I can see who did what in the revision history.) I'll even give you a grade for it. Good slide=good grade....

Goals: Write a book review that includes some complex sentence structures, review our survey data further, and preview our final project. Note: Block schedule Monday-Thursday this week. This post applies to Monday and Tuesday. Agenda: Read Grammar lesson Review of Book #11 Review of our data Preview of our next project Grammar lesson / Review of Book #11:  One of the things that makes plagiarism so easy to spot, is that adult writers use more complex sentence structure than 9th grade students do.  Today you'll use some mentor sentences to make your review of book #11 sound older and more mature.  1. Include a compound sentence with a "who" phrase. Separate your "who" phrase with commas. Example: Harry Potter, who was a wizard, attended Hogwarts, and later worked for The Ministry of Magic.  2. Include a "though" statement. Frame: Though this book was ____________, I still enjoyed it because_____________.  Write your review of Book #11 in your Book Rev...

Goals:  Explaining the article you read yesterday for discussion about issues of academic honesty. Looking at our own data. Agenda:  Read Share out what you read about with a different group. Look at our own data. Yesterday:  You read and discussed your assigned article.  Be sure you can talk about:  A brief summary of the article including the author's position.  Several important details, including any that seemed new or surprising.  Any issues or disagreements you have with the author's position or data.  The articles were:  SOURCE 1 (ZERNIKE)  Red SOURCE 2 (NOVOTNEY)  Blue SOURCE 3 (MELIS)   Green SOURCE 4 (POPE)  Orange SOURCE 5 (MORIN)  Yellow SOURCE 6 (SHIMURA)  Purple Today:  I'll re-group you and you need to explain the article you read. You will also hear about several other articles. Take notes in your English Journal about new and interesting information. Write down the source in case you ne...

Goals:  Further reading and discussion about issues of academic honesty. Agenda:  Read Read an article with your group. Write notes about the article in your English Journal. Reading an article:  With your group read and discuss your assigned article.  Be sure you have notes about these things in your English Journal:  A brief summary of the article including the author's position.  Several important details, including any that seemed new or surprising.  Any issues or disagreements you have with the author's position or data.  SOURCE 1 (ZERNIKE)  Red SOURCE 2 (NOVOTNEY)  Blue SOURCE 3 (DAVIS)   Green SOURCE 4 (POPE)  Orange SOURCE 5 (MORIN)  Yellow SOURCE 6 (SHIMURA)  Purple What's next?  Tomorrow I'll re-group you and you need to explain the article you read. You will also hear about several other articles. You'll take notes in your English Journal about new and interesting information. Reminders:  Fin...

Goal: See what you know about the PLHS Academic Honesty Policy Agenda:  Read Academic Honesty Quiz Academic Honesty Quiz We've been talking and reading about issues of academic honesty in this unit.  At the beginning of the school year you signed the academic honesty policy, but do you know what it really says? Lets find out.  Go to join.quizizz.com and enter the code I will give you in class. (I'll post it here later if you are absent.)  Code to play at home if you missed it: 817472  Reminders:  Finish book #11 by 5/21.  You made your revisions to your Extreme Sports essay right?  Bring back any books you have borrowed that you are done with. 

Goals: Review and revise writing Agenda: Read Review writing Revise writing Review Writing: Open your Extreme Sports essay. Lucky you. I'm behind on grading them so you get another chance for improvement. Highlight and copy your essay. (Just your essay, not the directions, or other things.) Go to  www.peergrade.io/join I will give you the class code in class. Sign in with Google. Pick the "Live Session" Paste in your essay as "text" No, your peers aren't giving you grades. They are giving you feedback, anonymously. (But I still get to see who said what. It's not anonymous for the teacher.) Revise writing: Review your feedback and spend some time improving your essay. Reminders:  Be sure your charting from 5/11 is complete in your English Journal. Read. Book #11 is due 5/21. That's next week!

Goals:  Review some previous work then examine an infographic and draw conclusions from the data. Agenda:  Read Review previous work Examine an infographic Writing about data. Checking on your precis:  Back in December you wrote a rhetorical precis about an article called “Big Brother Meets Big Mother” Open your English journal and find that entry from 12/7/17. Copy that paragraph and then fill our THIS FORM . Do you still have your work from your precis test in December?  I need to see it. If you have it could you give it back to me. Examine an Infographic:  In an increasingly visual world, data is now often packaged and presented in "infographics." Read through the infographic below. What data stands out to you? This infographic is based on  this article . Which is more helpful to you? What are the pros and cons of using infographics? Writing about data:  Open your English Journal. Write 10 factual statements based on data from the infographic b...

Goal:  Charting the text about academic honesty Agenda: Read Charting the text Charting the text: You will need the article "Cheating on the Rise Among High School Students" that I assigned to you in Google Classroom on Wednesday. With your table, work to complete the chart about what the author is  saying  and  doing . You will create this chart in your English Journal. Be sure you put a date on it.  It should look like the picture on the right when you start.  Insert/table 3x4 (3 across, 4 down). You should be able to get this done in class, but finish for HW if you need to.  Reminders:  Take a deep breath. Read a good book. Clean your room. (I take book donations.) Make some progress on something that will help you.

Goals:  Article of the week and catch up time. Agenda: Read AOW Catch Up Time Independent reading:  Read (10 minutes) Article of the Week: Newsela Articles: There are three new articles assigned to you in Newsela. One is about the volcano in Hawaii, another is about events in Korea, and the third is about students using digital devices for cheating.  Read at least TWO of them and take the quiz in Newsela.  Sign in with your district Google account. You may need to go to "Binder" to find your assigned articles. Read two of the assigned articles.  Click "open activities" then click on the lightbulb to take the quizzes.  Write about ONE of of the articles in your English Journal. Use the normal response to an AOW.  First paragraph, summarize the article.  Second paragraph, say what you think about the situation.  If you are not here today you are still responsible for the Newsela Articles and writing about one of them in your English Journa...

Kind of obvious. Goals: First read of a new article with SOAPSTone and a Precis. Agenda: Read Read a new article SOAPSTone and Precis *Last chance socratic makeup #2* Today at 2:30. If you missed the socratic on 4/27 and the first make up on 5/3 this is your final chance to come and participate. Read a new article:  I shared a new article with you in Google Classroom . Find it and read it. Right clock on words you need to know and choose "define."  Discuss the article at your table. What does it say? What does it mean? Why does it matter?  SOAPSTone and Precis:  After reading the article, work with your partner to complete the soapstone form. Note that the form contains a precis assignment. Do that together. The form is linked in your Google Classroom assignment, or you can find it here. SOAPSTone Form. Reminders: Is your review of book #10 complete? Is your Extreme Sports essay complete? Have you checked out your book. Read tonight.

Goals: Reading Progress update and Academic Honesty Survey 1.  Reading Progress Survey:   Complete the  FORM . 2. Academic Honesty Survey:   Please complete the  SURVEY .  It's about 40 questions and may take you up to 30 minutes.  It will not save your answers.   Make sure you are online before you hit submit.  3. Done already?  How is your review of book #10?  How is your Extreme Sports essay?  Have you picked out book #11 yet? Did you check it out?  Reminders:   Finish your review of book #10.  Finish your Extreme Sports essay.  Read. 

Goal: Write about the book you read for book #10 and how the non-fiction article you chose to go with it informed your reading of the book. Agenda:  Read Directions for book review Writing time Review of Book #10: 1. Prepare for review of Book #10 Remember a few weeks ago when I asked you to pick a non-fiction article that relates to the ideas in the book you are reading for book #10? Open your English Journal and find that article. It should be in your entry from 4/17.  Skim the article again to refresh your memory.  2. Open your Book Review doc, the one with the yellow background. Be sure you are writing your review at the top of your book review doc. That is where we will grade it. 3. Follow the directions HERE to complete your review. Reminders:  By popular request there is ONE more SOCRATIC MAKE-UP this WEDNESDAY 5/9 at 2:30. Extreme Sports essays were due TODAY. Be sure your's is done.

Goal:  Take the California Healthy Kids Survey Read.  Take the Healthy Kids Survey.  CLICK HERE   When you finish, work on your Extreme Sports essay.  Your final draft is due Monday.  Essay Improvement Sites: Visit the  Hemingway App  to get suggestions for revisions Visit  Paper Rater  to get more revision suggestions Use the Docs add-on SAS Writing Reviser to learn even more about your writing. In your Doc click "add-ons" then "get add-ons" then search for SAS.  You can also try  https://readable.io/ to see how readable your writing is.  Things to do when you are done:  Is your Extreme Sports essay done?  Do you have a nonfiction article to go with book #10, and have you read the article?  Is your book checked out?  Today is the last day of the grading period. Do you need to request a regrade on your Poe/Laughton essay? Do you want me to offer another socratic make up? I might if enough people ask me...

Goal:  Writing groups for your Extreme Sports essays. Agenda: Read Writing Groups Debrief Writing Groups:  Sharing your writing with a group will help you improve your writing and learn what a reader might think while reading your work.  Follow the procedures in the chart or on  THIS PAGE  with your group.  Use the peer review checklist on your essay document.  Reminders:   Read! Finish book #10 or start book #11. Make revisions to your Extreme Sports essay. Final drafts will be due Monday. SOCRATIC MAKE UP is TODAY after school at 2:30. Do not be late.  All regrade request due by 2:15 Friday 5/4. 

Why would anyone jump out of a  perfectly good airplane?  Goal:  Work on adding evidence to your essay. Focus on correctly quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing the words of others with citations. Agenda Read Using the words of others Objections and Counter-Arguments Writing time Using the words of others: Direct quotation:  In “Extreme Sports Not About Risk-taking: Study,” Dr. Brymer found that people who participate in extreme sports have an image of “risk takers and adrenaline junkies”. He found this really isn’t true (3). Paraphrase:  In “Extreme Sports Not About Risk-taking: Study,” Dr. Brymer notes that people who participate in extreme sports try to be prepared so they can decrease their risk of injury (8). Summary:  In “Extreme Sports Not About Risk-taking: Study,” Dr. Brymer cites his study to show that many people who participate in extreme sports do so for reasons other than an adrenaline rush. He points out that...

Goal:  make progress understanding what you are writing about. Make progress actually writing. Agenda: Read Discuss the quote you are writing about with your group. Work on adding to your draft.  Your complete draft is due before school on Thursday 5/3 for a progress grade.  I suggest you discuss these things with your group: The meaning of the quote.  The extent to which you agree or disagree with what the quote says.  Possible opposing viewpoints to your positions. (What would someone who disagrees with you say?) Possible counter arguments to those opposing viewpoints.  Help each other with possible evidence to support your position.  Self-regulate and decide for yourselves when you need to move from discussion to drafting time.  Reminders: Finish reading book #10.  Friday 5/4 is the end of the grading period. Check your English Journal. Are you missing anything? Could any of your work be better? A little effort now can really help you late...