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Tues. 12/20/16, CARS Pretest: part 2 reflection

12/20/2016

Activator: How many of you felt you did better on CARS Pretest: Part 2 because you were able to reflect on CARS Pretest: Part 1. [Agree/Disagree – Pick a Corner]

Lesson Activities:
1. Students will reflect on CARS Pretest: Part 2

Summarizing Activity:
1. Begin Lesson 7 Finding Word Meaning Context – Part One Thinking About Strategy STARS Wkbk. Pgs.72-73

Homework: None

mon. 12/19/16, Cars pretest: part 2

12/19/2016

Activator: Students will complete an entry ticket that asks one of 2 questions:

What is the importance of understanding how to use the Close Reading Strategies 1-6?
What is the importance of regularly being assessed, and being able to reflect on the 12 Close Reading Strategies?

Lesson Activities:
1. Complete the reading of 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens - Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood pgs. 175-180

2. Students will complete CARS Pretest: Part 2 w/ I-Respond

Summarizing Activity:
1. Begin Lesson 7 Finding Word Meaning Context – Part One Thinking About Strategy STARS Wkbk. Pgs.72-73

Homework: None

fri. 12/16/16, Silent Sustained Reading

12/16/2016

Activator: Students will reflect in writing on one of the questions:
What kinds of online behaviors could be considered cyberbullying?
What does it mean to be a bystander to cyberbullying?
What are some things a bystander can do to become an upstander?

Turn In:
Your Diagram/Map for Stacey's Story/Turn the Dial Down on Bullying
Your Map for Cyberbullying: Be Upstanding - Why Care?
Habit #5 -Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Worksheet

Lesson Activities:
Sustained Silent Reading

Quickwrite Options:
If someone wrote a book about you, what would it be about?
Do you prefer to read books that are parts of series or standalone books? Why?
What is your favorite TV show? What do you like about it?

Homework: None

Thurs. 12/15/16, cyberbullying: be upstanding

12/15/2016

w/Activator:
After being called names on Instagram by Brad Pitt, Albert Einstein decides to create a Textgram post asking Upstanders to stop following and BLOCK Brad Pitt. Do you believe this was an appropriate reaction/ response. Pick a corner (Agree/Disagree)

We will DEFINE the key vocabulary terms: empathize

Lesson Activities:
1. Read 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens - Habit #5 Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood pgs. 171-175 w/ Habit #5 Worksheet

2. DISTRIBUTE the Why Care? Student Handout and read the story about Kevin and Jose. GUIDE students to use drawing paper and markers to create a map showing all the players in this event (bully/bullies, target, bystanders)

3. Read about Bystanders. Have students complete the ‘Why Care? Student Handout.”

Homework:
1. Complete your Diagram/Map for Stacey's Story/Turn the Dial Down on Bullying

2. Complete your Map for Cyberbullying: Be Upstanding - Why Care?

wed. 12/14/16, Reading Inventory in PC Lab 1

12/14/2016

Activator: None

Lesson Activities:
1. Students will complete 8th Grade Reading Inventory in PC Lab 1.

Summarizing Strategy:
1. Using the Stacey's Story/Turn Down the Dial on Cyberbullying chart, turn what you've written above into a diagram or map. Show how situations can ESCALATE or DE-ESCALATE, using COLORS, SHAPES, and ARROWS.

Homework: None

12/13/16, Dial it Down on cyberbullying & 7 habits- #5 Seek First To Understand then to be understood

12/13/2016

Activator: Review Stacey’s Story using the Dial It Down Student Handout. Ask students to map out how Online Cruelty escalated in “Stacey’s Story.”

Lesson Activities:
1. Arrange students in pairs. Have students review the left hand column of the handout for Stacey’s Story to show how the situation escalated. Collaboratively, the pair should complete the Turn Down the Dial on Cyberbullying version of Stacey’s Story on the right hand side of the handout.

2. Students will individually complete the Turn Down the Dial on Cyberbullying [3 question] assessment on the back hand side of the document.

3. After students have a few minutes to complete the handout individually, for 2-3 minutes only discuss their answers with a partner. This will allow them "teach" each other and to make their answers better.

Summarizing Strategy:
Read 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens pgs. 163-170

Homework: None

Mon. 12/12/16, Turn the dial down on bullying

12/12/2016

Activator: Show students the video Ricardo’s Story – Making Fun of Others Online.”

Define vocab words: target and offender, up stander vs. bystander.

Lesson Activities:
Watch “Stacey’s Story – When Rumors Escalate” [15 min.]

Discuss ‘How Targets and Upstanders Can Help De-escalate Online Cruelty’ using Smartboard so student may write suggestions for the whole class to see.

Homework: None

fri. 12/9/16, silent sustained reading

12/9/2016

Activator: Students will complete a common formative assessment in Reader’s Journey pg. 230 [2 multiple questions/2 short constructed responses.] TURN IN YOUR READER'S JOURNEY

Lesson Activities:
We will review and assess Close Reading Unit 3: Lesson 2 by reading News Today Reading Article: Issue #3 - Katy Perry’s Super Bowl Lion Came Together in Eight Weeks, Oregon Creator Says

Summarizing Strategy:
Sustained Silent Reading/PASS BACK GRADED WORK

Homework: None

fri. 12/8/16, Persuasive writing & propaganda

12/8/2016

Activator: We will review the RACE strategy using the graphic organizer

Lesson Activities:
1. Students will complete Close Reading Unit 3: Lesson 2 by reading News Today Reading Article: Issue #3 - Katy Perry’s Super Bowl Lion Came Together in Eight Weeks, Oregon Creator Says

2. Students will complete Literary Analysis Persuasive Writing in Reader’s Journey pgs. 229

3. Students will complete a common formative assessment in Reader’s Journey pg. 230 [2 multiple questions/2 short constructed responses.

Homework: Complete common formative assessment in Reader’s Journey pg. 230 [2 multiple questions/2 short constructed responses.

Wed. 12/7/16, Literary Analysis Persuasive Writing

12/7/2016

Activator: Read With Your Pencil video

Lesson Activities:
1. Students will complete Literary Analysis Persuasive Writing in Reader’s Journey pgs. 228

Summarizing Strategy
*Be sure you have turned in News Today Reading Article: Issue #3 - Katy Perry’s Super Bowl Lion Came Together in Eight Weeks, Oregon Creator Says

Homework: None