WELCOME TO ELL, 4/10/12 Warm Up: • Pick up ELL notebook • Review your notes on information reports • Answer the following question(s) in your ELL notebook 1. Who is Howard Carter? 2. What makes archeology interesting? I can statement/agenda Today, 4/10, I can… Know: Synthesize information about the life of Howard Carter. Do: Draft an information report paragraph. Agenda: Warm up/share: 10 minutes Review information report: 5 minutes Information report assignment: 5 minutes Research and drafting: 25 minutes This week’s big assignments Paragraph due Thursday, 4/12 Draft on Tuesday and Wednesday Test review on Thursday, 4/12 Unit test on Friday, 4/13 A quality information report has… An introduction Introduces topic Includes questions or interesting facts A main idea/claim A sentence that tells you what the whole paper is about (1 topic) Found at the end of the intro. Body paragraph(s) Gives facts and details If a fact is copied from a book it’s included in a bibliography A conclusion: Restate main idea Leave reader with a message Your task 1. 2. 3. 4. First: Annotate text to find interesting facts that tell us about the life of Howard Carter Second: Draft a paragraph using the characteristics of a quality information report Third: DO NOT copy facts from your source, restate in your own words! Last: IF you finish drafting today, see teacher for help revising Welcome to Study Hall 7th graders sit by computers, 8th by the door You will be receiving documents to take home Please put them somewhere safe and take to your family Welcome to Language Arts, 4/10/12 Materials managers: readers and writers notebooks Warm Up: Get out theater vocabulary Get out scene 1 from Novio Boy Get out reading and writing HW from last week (logs, quick notes and notebooks) Turn and talk: “ What does ‘objective’ mean?” I can statement/agenda Today, 4/10, I can… Know: identify character objectives in a scene. Do: apply theater vocabulary to my reflection of Novio Boy. Agenda: Warm up: 5 minutes Pass back work/discussion: 10 minutes Novio Boy reflection: 10 minutes Silent reading/revisions: 20 minutes Literary analysis scores Where did you lose points? All revisions must be turned in with original rubric Introduction: Rewrite and turn in your own introduction Claim paragraph: Rewrite and turn in with rubric Image: Draw your own image and turn with rubric Conclusion: Rewrite and turn in your own independent conclusion Reflection 1. 2. What are the characters’ objectives in this scene? How do you know? What are the props and costumes used by the characters in this scene? MATERIALS MANAGERS: RETURN READERS AND WRITERS, PICK UP SS NOTEBOOK WARM UP: 1. GET OUT “BILL OF RIGHTS” 2. TURN AND TALK: “WHAT ARE THREE WORDS IDSR HELPED YOU DEFINE?” Welcome to SS, 4/10/12 I can statement/agenda Today, 4/10, I can… Know: identify the main ideas of the 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights. Do: practice analyzing text using I.D.S.R. Agenda: Warm up: 5 minutes Review IDSR and Bill of Rights: 5 minutes Finish translations: 30 minutes Clean up: 5 minutes Your task IDSR Identify unknown words Use a dictionary or thesaurus (from a book or your phone) to look up a synonym you understand Write in the new word Re-read to see if it helps clarify the amendment Summarize the amendment on your handout Create a memory tool/way to remember Key words Picture Acronym