Famous Person Project Day 7

Big Idea: How are people portrayed by the media?

Learning Target: Identify how a famous is portrayed by the media.

Reading: Read a short story for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Today is the last day we will work on the Famous Person Project in class. The project will be due on Friday at 10PM.
2. To make your video, you will use the Screencastify extension.
3. Here is another good example of the Google Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tu3oSMspVs9yUao1XIS6rHlymfCnnoyo/view?usp=sharing

Homework:

1. None

Famous Person Project Day 6

Big Idea: How are people portrayed by the media?

Learning Target: Identify how a famous is portrayed by the media.

Reading: Read a short story for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Today you will continue working on your final project.
1. You can choose a Google Slides presentation or an essay.
2. Each day I will give you a goal to achieve.
2. Your goal for today:
1. Slides: Finish at least 3 of your slides
2. Essay: another body paragraph
3. You will share your progress with other students in the class using the conversation tracker.

Homework:

1. None

Famous Person Project Day 5

Big Idea: How are people portrayed by the media?

Learning Target: Identify how a famous is portrayed by the media.

Reading: Read a short story for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Today you will begin working on your final project.
1. You can choose a Google Slides presentation or an essay.
2. Each day I will give you a goal to achieve.
2. Your goal for today:
1. Slides: Finish at least 3 of your slides
2. Essay: finish your introduction and a body paragraph
3. You will share your progress with other students in the class using the conversation tracker.

Homework:

1. None

Famous Person Project Day 4

Big Idea: How are people portrayed by the media?

Learning Target: Identify how a famous is portrayed by the media.

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Today you will finish and turn in your Famous Person Media Organizer.
2. Today you will turn in your Classroom Conversations tracker.
3. Today you will turn in the Newsela article tracker.

Homework:

1. None

Famous Person Project Day 3

Big Idea: How are people portrayed by the media?

Learning Target: Identify how a famous is portrayed by the media.

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. You will continue working on your Famous Person Media Organizer. It should be done by tomorrow.

Homework:

1. None

Famous Person Project Day 2

Big Idea: How are people portrayed by the media?

Learning Target: Identify how a famous is portrayed by the media.

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Today you will begin watching a video about your famous person. I will also go over the Famous Person Media Organizer in Google Classroom.

Homework:

1. None

Famous Person Project Day 1

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Introduce the Famous Person Project. You will find all of the resources for this project in Google Classroom.

Homework:

1. None

Rhetorical Situation Day 6

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Spell check and add grade level vocabulary
1. Finish your counter-argument paragraph if you haven't already.
2. You will also write a conclusion that argues why it is important for Ms. Hopkins to make the right decision and thank her for being generous enough to donate one of her paintings.
3. I will walk you through the process of installing add-ons in Google Docs to check your spelling and grammar.
4. You must use at least 7 words from the Answergarden image on Google Classroom. Highlight the ten words in GREEN. You can also use your own high level vocabulary for this step.
   
   
   
5. If you want a B (85/100) on the essay
1. Include an intro (3), body paragraph (8), counter-argument paragraph (6), conclusion (2), spell and grammar check, and highlight 7 vocabulary words in GREEN.
6. You can find all of the slides by clicking here.

Homework:

1. None

Rhetorical Situation Day 5

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. You can find the slides with the paintings and everything else we have done by clicking here. 
1. Today I will cover a counter-argument paragraph.
2. You will also write a conclusion that argues why it is important for Ms. Hopkins to make the right decision and thank her for being generous enough to donate one of her paintings.

Homework:

1. None

Rhetorical Situation Day 4

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Start letter to Ms. Ruth Hopkins 
1. Today I will cover a model body paragraph.
2. If we have time, we will write a counter-argument paragraph.

Homework:

1. None

Rhetorical Situation Day 3

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Fill out this student survey.
2. Start letter to Ms. Ruth Hopkins
1. Brainstorm words to describe a painting.
2. Set up a business letter
3. Write your own introduction after viewing my two sample introductions.

Homework:

1. None

Rhetorical Situation Day 2

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Introduce Newsela assignment - Google Classroom
2. Rare birds activity
3. Finish lesson from yesterday
4. Speed interview other students to get to know each other

Homework:

1. None

Rhetorical Situation Day 1

Big Idea: What is a rhetorical situation

Learning Target: Identify the audience for a piece of writing

Reading: Read a Newsela article for 10 minutes

Agenda:

1. Finish lesson from yesterday

Homework:

1. None

Second Day of School

Big Idea: Getting to Know Each Other

Learning Target: What do we have in common?

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. Rare Birds activity
2. Sign-in to Google Classroom
3. Emoji Power Paragraph activity in Google Classroom
4. Speed Interview to get to know more people

Homework:

1. None

First Day of School

Big Idea: Getting to Know Each Other

Learning Target: What do we have in common?

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. You will be assigned a seat and participate in an icebreaker.
2. You will understand the expectations for this class.
3. You will participate in a fun emoji activity.

Here are the slides for the first day of school.

Homework:

1. None