Thursday, November 10, 2016

"Leopard Man"

Good Morning!
 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. NOTE: Please bring a book to class vs. reading a book on your phone. 

1. Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes

2."Leopard Man" Module -- Please turn to Activiy #5 in your module handout.  Read the questions to preview the article.

3.  "The Sociology of Leopard Man"  -- Read the article through without stopping.  When you are done, respond to the questions in Activity #5 on the Activity Response sheet.  After you have responded to the questions, complete the Quickwrite that follows.

4.  Activity #7 -- Annotating and Questioning the Text.  We will do this together.

HOMEWORK:  Independent Reading

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

"Leopard Man"

Good Morning!
 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. NOTE: Please bring a book to class vs. reading a book on your phone. 

1. Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes

2."Leopard Man" Module -- Please turn to Activiy #5 in your module handout.  Read the questions to preview the article.

3.  "The Sociology of Leopard Man"  -- Read the article through without stopping.  When you are done, respond to the questions in Activity #5 on the Activity Response sheet.  After you have responded to the questions, complete the Quickwrite that follows.

4.  Activity #7 -- Annotating and Questioning the Text.  We will do this together.

HOMEWORK:  Wall Street Journal summary

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Leopard Man

Good Morning!
 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. NOTE: Please bring a book to class vs. reading a book on your phone. 

1. Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes

2."Leopard Man" Module -- Please turn to Activiy #5 in your module handout.  Read the questions to preview the article.

3.  "The Sociology of Leopard Man"  -- Read the article through without stopping.  When you are done, respond to the questions in Activity #5 on the Activity Response sheet.  After you have responded to the questions, complete the Quickwrite that follows.

4.  Activity #7 -- Annotating and Questioning the Text.  We will do this together.

HOMEWORK:  Watch election results!

Monday, November 7, 2016

Junior Achievement

Good Morning!
 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. NOTE: Please bring a book to class vs. reading a book on your phone. 

1.  The Wall Street Journal summary will be collected today

2.  Letter to the World

3.  Junior Achievement

Thursday, November 3, 2016

"Leopard Man"

Good Morning!

 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. NOTE: Please bring a book to class vs. reading a book on your phone. 

1. Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes

2. "Leopard Man" -- Yesterday you responded to Activity #1 on the response sheet that I gave you.

3.  Activity #2 -- Record the definitions as follows:
     * conformist- one who obeys, observes, follows, accepts, 
                          upholds conventions, rules, or standards
     * nonconformist- a person who rejects conventions or does
                                 not behave the way most people behave.

4.  Activity #3 -- Respond to question #1  (the title of the essay is
                           "Leopard Man")

5.  Activity #4 -- Complete the chart in the packet

HOMEWORK: The Wall Street Journal

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

"Leopard Man"

Good Morning!

 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. NOTE: Please bring a book to class vs. reading a book on your phone. 

1. Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes

2. Expository Reading and Writing Unit -- Pre-reading Activity:I will collect your responses to the questions to which you responded yesterday.  Be sure to have your name, per, and date in the upper right corner.

3.  Module Packet for "Leopard Man" and Activity Response Sheets.
     Activity #1 -- On the response sheet respond to Activity #1 (the first two questions).
    Activity #2 -- Record the definitions that I give to you.

HOMEWORK:  Wall Street Journal summary

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

ERWC

Good Morning!

 Please put your cell phones completely out of sight for the FULL duration of the class.  Please do not have me remind you of this. 

1. Independent Reading --  Please read for 10 minutes

2. Expository Reading and Writing Unit -- Pre-reading Activity: Responding to four questions in a group of four. These questions are relevant to the expository text that we will be reading. We will discuss the group's responses.  Each group member will share the group's responses to the question with which YOU start. For example, if you begin with Question #1, you will share what the other group members have said about that question.

HOMEWORK:  Wall Street Journal