Benchmark
* HE. 912.B.4.4: Positive ways to ask for and offer help
* LAFS.1112.RI.4.10: Read non-fiction independently and proficiently
* LAFS.4.RI.2.5: Structure in information
Daily Question
*What techniques and strategies will make you successful in class or in life?
Agenda:
1. Bell Ringer:
a. Complete castle notes
2. Review 1 and discuss notebook set up
a. Clarify follow through, keeping the notebook
b. Remind the agenda book and blog, making up work, and following the class
activities
3. Hand out Work Ethic rubric
a. Ask each student to write/describe their opinion as to how that will work in the
class. They can list increments of change which would cause them to drop in
grade at each point: The difference between an A, B, C, D, and/or F
a. Discuss and take up after assuring students understand the expected work
ethic
4. Hand out list of authors. Suggest/recommend The Canterbury Tales. Describe the
assignment: Can do a 3 Q thing and/or a half/full pager
a. Clearly explain what you get out of this chapter and how it fits into the rest of
the book (what you've read so far, and what you expect). Defend your answer
with evidence. Minimum half page.
b. Reflection: Connect this chapter with your own world or experience or public
knowledge and provide an anecdote which shows the relationship.
c. Analyze the fun or problems with understanding this particular chapter with why
it is a difficulty or fun and how you as a reader deal with that.
d. Compare this chapter to anything and defend your comparison with evidence.
e. Persuade me in some direction regarding an element in the chapter with back
up of evidence and reasoning.
f. Could this (anything you choose in the chapter) occur in the real world? Why or
why not
5. Consider trouble shooting Canterbury Tales with partners or groups
- Become reading circles instead of bell ringers?
6. If time, begin work on how to read a short story
a. Hand out of same name
b. Handout Oval Portrait
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