Book Club

Essential Question: What is your favorite book?

Goal: to share a book you enjoy

Reading: Fill out the READING PROGRESS UPDATE FORM

Agenda:
1. Share your books with your group.
2. Enjoy the food you brought.

Homework:
1. Nothing

Silent Reading Project and Catch up Day

Essential Question: What is the best book you read this semester?

Goal: to entice others to read your favorite book

Reading: Finish reading you book.

Agenda:

1. Silent Sustained Reading Project
2. Catch-up day
1. Do you have all vocabulary units done?
2. Are you missing any assignments?
1. Frederick Douglass Found Poem
2. Frederick Douglas and Change
3. Civil War and Social Change
4. Lewin's Model for Change
5. Lewin's Change Model Driverless cars

Homework:
1. Make up missing assignments
2. Finish your book

Silent Sustained Reading Project

Essential Question: What is your favorite book?

Goal: to get other students excited about a book you have read

Reading: Make sure you finish your book this week.

Agenda:

1. Silent Sustained Reading Project. GOOGLE CLASSROOM

Homework:
1. Bring food that goes with your book.

Found Poem

Essential Question:What motivates people to struggle for change?

Goal: to create a poem based on Douglass' speech

Reading: Finish your book this week. Think of a food that goes with your book.

Agenda:

1. Write about the speech in your English Journal.
2. Forces-Obstacles-Strengthen-Weaken
1. In the 1850s, American society was still very___. But in his speech, Frederick Douglass...There were many forces behind this need for America to change. First of all,... In addition,... That means...Of course, many obstacles stood in the way of the United States achieving racial equality. Douglass points out... Douglass expresses anger at the fact that... In order for change to actually occur, American citizens had to strengthen their belief in ... Moreover, those wanting to drag their feet about change must...However, none of these changes would happen without a struggle. Frederick Douglass was motivated to work for social progress because...

1. Create a Found poem from Douglas' speech. Create a video of the poem using Adobe Spark.
2. Here is the TEXT of the speech so you can copy and paste.

Homework:
1. Finish your book
2. Finish your vocabulary

Frederick Douglas and Motivation for Change

Essential Question: What motivates people to struggle for change?

Goal: to chart the forces and obstacles for change.

Reading: Fill out the READING PROGRESS UPDATE FORM

Agenda:

1. Use Lewin's model to chart the changes Frederick Douglas was trying to make.
2. What motivated Frederick Douglas to struggle for change?

Homework:
1.Work on vocabulary
2. finish your book

Frederick Douglas Speech

Essential Question: What motivates people to struggle for change?

Goal: to use Lewin's change model to analyze Douglas' speech

Reading: Finish 2/3 of your book

Agenda:

1. Read What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? TEXT AUDIO
1. Highlight the obstacles to change
2. Highlight the forces for change
3. In what parts of the text do you find Douglas' motivation to continue to struggle for change?
2. Quizlet Live! game based on yesterday's notes

Homework:
1. Read your book at home
2. Get your vocabulary to 66% by Monday

Wednesday

Essential Question: What motivates people to struggle for change?

Goal: jigsaw the background info for the new unit

Reading: You should be finishing 2/3 of your book

Agenda:

1. Jigsaw introductory material for this unit.
2. https://www.jigsaw.org/index.html#steps

Homework:

1. Work on vocabulary
2. Read your book at home

Motivations for Change

Essential Question: What motivates people to struggle for change?

Goal: to learn how to identify motivations

Reading: You should be finishing 2/3 of your book

Agenda:

1. Finish the second paragraph for Lewin's change model
2.  Watch a video about making changes:
1. Trying Something New for 30 Days
2.  English Journal #12 Motivation for Change
1. Make a list of what you think Matt Cutts motivations were for making changes in his life. USE THIS CHART
2. Use the following paragraph to describe what motivated him to make changes
1. Making changes is never ___, but surprisingly Matt Cutts made a lot of changes in his life for 30 days at a time. One change he made...He also tried...I think he was motivated by...Even when attempting to __ was a struggle, he continued to struggle because...In my own life, I tried to change...I was motivated by...Even when I felt like quitting I still...
3. Read The Zigzag Road to Rights. 

Homework:

GOOGLE CLASSROOM
SCHOOLOGY
QUIZLET LIVE!
VOCABULARY.COM

Lewin's Change Model

Essential Question: What motivates people to struggle for change?

Goal: to understand Kurt Lewin's model for change

Reading: Fill out the READING PROGRESS UPDATE FORM

Agenda:
1. Check vocabulary
2. Lewin's Model for Change GOOGLE CLASSROOM


2. Applying Lewin's model for change to driverless cars

3. Writing about change

Forces-Obstacles-Strengthen-Weaken
Currently, humans drive cars instead of computers. But there is a push to...There are many forces behind this change. First of all,... In addition,... That means...Of course, many obstacles stand in the way of driverless cars becoming a reality. Many people are afraid... Human beings also do not like to... In order to make driverless cars more acceptable, car companies must strengthen... Moreover, those promoting driverless cars must reduce our fear...

Obstacles-Forces-Strengthen-Weaken
Although driverless cars are now possible, there are many obstacles to allowing a computer to drive instead of a person. First of all,... In addition,...Ultimately, people do not want...But there are many forces behind making driverless cars a reality. Those who promote this new technology point out...Moreover,...Those who support this technology want to change...For this to become a reality, people must learn to...The average person must be willing to give up...in order to... 

Homework:
1. Read your book at home.
2. Finish 66% of your vocabulary

Catch Up Day

Essential Question: What do I need to complete to bring my grade up?
Music Request Form Goal: work on missing assignments

Reading: You should be done with 1/3 of your book by this weekend
Agenda:

1. Personal Narrative
1. How do I use Peergrade to help me?
2. Revise your narrative and turn it in
2. Book Review #3
3. Any Fahrenheit 451 assignments
4. Vocabulary for last week and work on this week
5. Read your book. Do you have a plan?

Homework:
1. Vocabulary 33%
2. Read your book

GOOGLE CLASSROOM
SCHOOLOGY
QUIZLET LIVE!
VOCABULARY.COM