Tuesday, March 28th

Happy Tuesday!🍎

Agenda:

Review rubric/requirements for project
Look on the board to see what to put on each slide in your presentation.
Log in to voki.com and begin working on your
 project with your assigned project partner

TO DO 

We will have an assessment on Thursday. It will be on sentence fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences

Practice here
 1. Open https://join.quizizz.com in your browser
2. Enter the 6-digit game code 191880  , and click "Proceed"
3. Now enter your name and click "Join Game!"
4. You will get an avatar, and then see a "Start Game" button. Click it to begin!
5.  And another one  https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/56d8764a6f8a760f274620ef

AOW due on FRIDAY

Friday, March 24th

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Agenda

Collect AOW

  With your partner, you will write a theme statement about the story.  Then you will choose one or more words from the tone list that describes the tone of the story.

Fill in the following with your partner:

RUBRIC FOR PROJECT

THEME STATEMENT

The story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to convey the theme that________________________.

TONE STATEMENT


In his short story, "The  Pedestrian", Ray Bradbury symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to convey a ___________tone about a futuristic society.

Get with our assigned partner and begin working on our VOKI presentation Only ONE of you will log in, but you will create the presentation together


TO DO

AOW due Friday

Thursday, March 23rd

Goals: To continue our analysis of "The Pedestrian" by SIFTing the story.

AGENDA

Meet in expert groups to find four best examples of your assigned job.

Meet in Jigsaw groups to gather two examples each of the other assigned jobs.

After meeting in all groups today, you will have your four best examples of your assigned job and two examples of each of the other jobs.  In other words, you will have a total of eight quotes.

Mrs. Karney will give you a partner.  With your partner, you will write a theme statement about the story.  Then you will choose one or more words from the tone list that describes the tone of the story.

THEME STATEMENT

The story "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury uses symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to convey the theme that________________________.

TONE STATEMENT

In his short story, "The  Pedestrian", Ray Bradbury symbolism, imagery, and figurative language to convey a ___________tone about a futuristic society.

TO DO

AOW due tomorrow.
I will give you your log in information for VOKI. Please log in and "play" around with the Voki Presenter.  We will be using it tomorrow.

CLICK HERE!

Wednesday, March 22nd

Good Morning!

We will be changing seats today.  I will also be reviewing procedures for Chromebooks.  

AGENDA

New Seats
Post book review in Kidblog
Look at comments on turnitin.com
Meet in expert groups to discuss whatever you were assigned to look for in "The Pedestrian" (symbolism, imagery, figurative language)
Fill in chart with your group and pick four best examples
SIFT CHART WITH EXAMPLE FILLED IN
BLANK SIFT CHART IN CASE YOU ARE ABSENT

REGROUP
You will now meet with a group that has the other assigned tasks.  

To Do

AOW due on Fridaiy

Tuesday, March 21st

Today we will read "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury!

We will focus on symbolism, imagery, figurative language, theme and tone and how they help convey the theme of the short story.

Text of the Story if Absent

The story takes place in 2053 but was written in 1951!

SIFT Powerpoint

Video of the story (just one person's interpretation)

TO DO

AOW due Friday

Monday, March 20th

AGENDA-SUB TODAY

Goals: To continue to develop our skills as writers. To practice writing well-written sentences. To practice our revision skills.

Copy this sentence seed in your notebook.

The storm hit.

Add this information to your sentence. Use proper punctuation. Remember, it must be ONE sentence.

1. Specify the story or form of precipitation
2. Identify the place where the storm occurred
3. Tell when the storm took place
4. Describe the damage done, casualties resulting, etc.

You can pretend you are a television or newspaper reporter and give the aftermath details of a recent storm in a particular city, town, state, etc.

REVISE THIS PARAGRAPH-You will need to make a copy first. Feel free to use the SAS Writing reviser!

TO DO

AOW due on Friday (Newsela and personal response) Take the quiz.

Friday, March 17th

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Goals: To continue to apply what we've learned in our writing workshops to revising a piece of our choice.

Agenda

Collect AOW
Continue revising a piece of writing of your choice
In order to receive credit, you will complete this sheet showing me what you revised.  
Pre-reading discussion before "The Pedestrian"

To Do