WELCOME TO ELL,
4/10/12
Warm Up:
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Pick up ELL notebook
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Review your notes on information reports
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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
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Paragraph due Thursday, 4/12
Draft
on Tuesday and Wednesday
Test review on Thursday, 4/12
 Unit test on Friday, 4/13
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A quality information report has…
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An introduction
Introduces topic
 Includes questions or interesting facts
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A main idea/claim
A sentence that tells you what the whole paper is about (1
topic)
 Found at the end of the intro.
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Body paragraph(s)
Gives facts and details
 If a fact is copied from a book it’s included in a bibliography
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A conclusion:
Restate main idea
 Leave reader with a message
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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
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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
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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
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and turn in your own introduction
Claim paragraph:
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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
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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
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Summarize the amendment on your handout
Create a memory tool/way to remember
 Key
words
 Picture
 Acronym