3. Monday: Welcome Advisory
Please check the inbox and write your name
on the paper.
Today we will:
Announcements
Watch “The Week in a Rap” and fill in the
blanks
Complete Week in a Rap Activity
4. Today is October 27, 2014
Bell Work: Choose the best answer to complete the
sentence.
Why, David wondered, had he volunteered to go shopping
for his mother? When he first ____________the list she
handed him, it looked simple enough—but then came the
instructions.
a. examined b. explored c. investigated d. thought
Learning Targets
• Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons
and relevant evidence.
Homework: Reading Response Journals (3
Entries) Bring your books to class every day!
9. Today is October 28, 2014
Bell Work: Complete the Bell Work
section of the worksheet in the inbox.
Remember voice level 0 during bell work
Learning Targets
• Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons
and relevant evidence.
Homework: Reading Response Journals (3
Entries) Bring your books to class every day!
10. AGENDA
Reading Response Journals
Introduce second episode of the Argubot
Academy game
Game play time
Exit Slip: On Inbox Worksheet
12. Thursday: Welcome Advisory
Get out your PAWS passes.
Today we will:
Announcements
CNN Student News
7 Habits
13. Today is October 29, 2014
Bell Work: Grammar with a giggle
Copy and correct the following sentence.
perambulating to the only vacant desk harolds
hands began to shake
Learning Targets
1) I can write arguments to support claims with clear
reasons and relevant evidence.
Homework: Reading Response Journals due
Wednesday (A&B) and Thursday (C&D). 3 due
14. 16. perambulating
Perambulating to the only vacant desk,
Harold felt his hands begin to shake.
perambulating to the only vacant desk harolds
hands began to shake
15. Today’s Agenda
Reading Vocabulary Scrimmage (C block
only)
Reading Response Journal
Finish playing the Argubot Academy App
Take post-assessment/surveys (Safari)
1. Engagement (game feedback) survey—
approx. 5 min: www.playfully.org/AA-Feed
2. Post-survey (argumentation)—approx.
15 min: www.playfully.org/AA-Post
17. Friday: Welcome Advisory
Please be at a voice level zero for
announcements.
Today is cash-in day for PAWS PASSES
Today we will:
Announcements
18. Today is October 30, 2014
Bell Work: Choose the word that best
completes the sentence.
He pulled a can off the shelf and ______the label.
Yes! These were the beans she wanted.
a. probed b. explored c. scrutinized d. wondered
Learning Targets
• I can determine the central idea of a text and analyze
the development over the course of a text.
Homework: Reading Response Journals
19. Today’s Agenda
Reading the Loch Ness Monster article from
the November issue of SCOPE magazine.
Students will work with groups to answer
central idea questions about the article.
Play game with quiz questions about the
article.
Watch history channel video about the search
for the loch ness monster and compare it to
the information presented in the article.
Paragraph (change of subject)
Comma (participial phrase – discuss verbs as adjectives and the difference between a phrase and a clause)
Misplaced modifier (hands didn’t perambulate)