Character Confessional Day 3

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 8

Agenda:

1. Today you will work on your character confessional project.
1. If you have been absent, watch this video.
2. Please update the Padlet wall.
3. By the end of today, you should have completed three comics.
4. Here are the criteria for the scene from the book
1. A well chosen background
2. Characters and objects
3. Different layers
4. Accurately reflect the event from the book.
5. Here are the criteria for the character confessional:
1. Simplified background
2. Zoomed in main character
3. Add elements to personalize the character
4. Speech bubble with a thoughtful reflection that is more than one sentence long.
6. Your slides should include the chapter and scene being depicted.

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #7: Animal Farm chapter 9
2. Extra Credit list

Finishing Animal Farm

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. Quizlet Live! game and discussion.
2. Read chapter 10 of Animal Farm
3. Take the quiz for chapter 10.

Homework:

1. Gimkit Vocabulary List ch10
2. Extra Credit list

Animal Farm Chapter 9

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. Read Animal Farm chapter 9.
2. Take the Animal Farm chapter 9 quiz.
3. Update the Characters Ups and Downs and turn it in.
4. Finish the assignment from yesterday.
5. Work on the Gimkit assignment.
6. Work on your comic strip.
7. Discuss chapter 9.
1. What do you think of how this chapter ended?
2. Do you blame Benjamin?
3. How could the rest of the animals have let this happen?

Homework:

1. Gimkit Vocabulary List ch10
2. Extra Credit list

Analyzing Language and Leadership

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. Don't worry, I haven't started my new job yet. Today you will do the following:
1. You will do the Language and Leadership document in Google Classroom. This assignment is due today.
2. I have included a video walking you through how to complete the document.
3. I am trying something new for vocabulary. You will play a Gimkit for your new vocabulary list. You don't have to finish the Gimkit today. You have all week. You can finish it by reaching a certain dollar amount or number of correct answers.

Homework:

1. Gimkit Vocabulary List ch10
2. Extra Credit list

Character Confessional Project Day 2

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 8

Agenda:

1. Today you will work on your character confessional project.
1. If you have been absent, watch this video.
2. You should try to complete at least one comic today in class.

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #7: Animal Farm chapter 9
2. Extra Credit list

Character Confessional Project

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 8

Agenda:

1. Work on your vocabulary for six minutes.
2. Today we will start the Character Confessional project.
1. Fill out the planning sheet
2. Start making your first comic strip
3. Daily update the Padlet wall in Google Classroom.

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #7: Animal Farm chapter 9
2. Extra Credit list

Learning how to use Storyboardthat

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 8

Agenda:

1. We will start with a vocabulary game: Trust No One!
2. Work on your vocabulary for a few minutes.
3. We will learn how to use Storyboardthat
1. Click on create storyboard. Close any windows that prompt you to pay money.
2. Create a scene from chapter 8 of Animal Farm.
3. Screenshot the scene and turn it in on Google Classroom.
1. The scene should have a background, two characters, one object, and a speech bubble.

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #7: Animal Farm chapter 9
2. Extra Credit list

Finish Group Poster

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 8

Agenda:

1. Today we will try to answer the question: How do good ideas go bad?
1. Go to the Padlet link on Google Classroom. We will add to this Padlet to help create our group posters that will answer the question.
2. Your group will create a poster with four sections:
1. The Promise of Animal Farm
2. The Fulfillment of the Promise
3. The Corruption of the Promise
4. How do good ideas go bad?
3. Each section should have:
1. 4-5 quotes from the novel with a page number
2. Some images with color
3. 2-3 sentences that explain what each section is about
4. The last section is the most important. You will write a paragraph that explains how the good ideas for the farm went bad. You can use the following sentence frames to help you write the paragraph. The following paragraph is incomplete. (7 sentences is C; 8-10 B; 10 or more A)You need to additional sentences to make it complete.:
1. Animal Farm began with the promise that...Many of these promises were fulfilled. For example, in chapter...Nevertheless, these ideas were corrupted when...Good ideas go bad when...The way to prevent this from happening is...George Orwell's novel Animal Farm helps us understand...
   

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #7: Animal Farm chapter 9
2. Extra Credit list

Read Chapter 8

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 8

Agenda:

1. Today you will read chapter 8 of Animal Farm. It is a long one, so listen to it at 1.25X while looking at the book.
2. Take the quiz for chapter 8 in Google Classroom.
3. Fill out the Character Ups and Downs for chapter 8.
4. Start Vocabulary List #7 Animal Farm chapter 9
5. Discuss chapter 8 with a partner.

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #7: Animal Farm chapter 9
2. Extra Credit list

How Good Ideas Go Bad Poster

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 7

Agenda:

1. Today we will try to answer the question: How do good ideas go bad?
1. Go to the Padlet link on Google Classroom. We will add to this Padlet to help create our group posters that will answer the question.
2. Your group will create a poster with four sections:
1. The Promise of Animal Farm
2. The Fulfillment of the Promise
3. The Corruption of the Promise
4. How do good ideas go bad?
3. Each section should have:
1. 4-5 quotes from novel with a page number
2. Some images with color
3. 2-3 sentences that explain what that section is about
4. The last section is the most important. You will write a paragraph that explains how the good ideas for the farm went bad. You can use the following sentence frames to help you write the paragraph. The following paragraph is incomplete. You need to additional sentences to make it complete.:
1. Animal Farm began with the promise that...Many of these promises were fulfilled. For example, in chapter...Nevertheless, these ideas were corrupted when...Good ideas go bad when...The way to prevent this from happening is...George Orwell's novel Animal Farm helps us understand...
   
   
   

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #6: Animal Farm chapter 8
2. Extra Credit list

How Good Ideas Go Bad Poster

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 7

Agenda:

1. Work on Vocabulary List #6. We will also play a Vocabulary Jam together.
2. Today we will try to answer the question: How do good ideas go bad?
1. Go to the Padlet link on Google Classroom. We will add to this Padlet to help create our group posters that will answer the question.
2. Your group will create a poster with four sections:
1. The Promise of Animal Farm
2. The Fulfillment of the Promise
3. The Corruption of the Promise
4. How do good ideas go bad?
3. Each section should have:
1. 4-5 quotes from novel with a page number
2. Some images with color
3. 2-3 sentences that explain what that section is about
4. The last section is the most important. You will write a paragraph that explains how the good ideas for the farm went bad. You can use the following sentence frames to help you write the paragraph. The following paragraph is incomplete. You need to additional sentences to make it complete.:
1. Animal Farm began with the promise that...Many of these promises were fulfilled. For example, in chapter...Nevertheless, these ideas were corrupted when...Good ideas go bad when...The way to prevent this from happening is...George Orwell's novel Animal Farm helps us understand...
   
   
   

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #6: Animal Farm chapter 8
2. Extra Credit list

Character Ups and Downs

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 7

Agenda:

1. Complete the Character Ups and Downs 4-6 assignment in Google Classroom. Turn it in when you are finished.
2. Open the Character Ups and Downs 7-9 assignment. Complete the box for chapter 7.

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #6: Animal Farm chapter 8
2. Extra Credit list

Read chapter 7 of Animal Farm

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 7

Agenda:

1. Read Animal Farm chapter 7.
2. Animal Farm chapter 7 quiz.
3. Start creating questions for Chapter 7.
4. Start Vocabulary List #6

Homework:

1. Vocabulary List #6: Animal Farm chapter 8
2. Extra Credit list

Catch up day

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: None

Agenda:

1. Catch up day for any assignments on or after October 7th.

Homework:

1. None

Discussion about chapters 5 and 6

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 6

Agenda:

1. Class discussion today. I will also collect your questions for chapters 5 and 6.
2. Don't forget to turn in your vocabulary.

Homework:

1. Animal Farm chapter 5 vocabulary.
2. Extra credit list for this week.

Review Gimkit and Discussion Questions

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 6

Agenda:

1. Complete the Animal Farm Review Gimkit for chapters 1-6 in Google Classroom. It is due today!
2. Complete your 7-10 questions for our discussion tomorrow. Here are some places you can look to create questions:
1. Mollie 46 and 47
2. Snowball introducing the windmill 48 and 49
3. Napoleon chasing Snowball off the farm 52 and 53
4. Squealer's speech at the end of the chapter page 57 and 58
5. Napoleon changes rules in chapter 6 on page 66 and 67
6. Using Snowball as a constant source of fear

Homework:

1. Animal Farm chapter 5 vocabulary.
2. Extra credit list for this week.

Read chapter 6

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 6

Agenda:

1. You will read the rest of chapter 6 on your own.
2. Chapter 6 quiz
3. Prepare questions for Friday's discussion.
4. Character Ups and Downs for Chapters 4, 5, 6

Homework:

1. Animal Farm chapter 5 vocabulary.
2. Extra credit list for this week.

Theme Path

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 6

Agenda:

1. Open the Animal Farm Theme slides.
1. Find your slide with the most bullet points.
2. Add an item to this slide with an event from chapters 5 or 6.
2. On your desk work with a partner to create a path of the events that have included your idea so far. Use the bullet points from your theme slide.
3. Connect these events with a statement about the idea. This is complicated. Look at the image below to help you out.
   
   
   

Homework:

1. Animal Farm chapter 5 vocabulary.
2. Extra credit list for this week.

Animal Farm chapter 5

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 5

Agenda:

1. You will read the rest of chapter 5 on your own.
2. Chapter 5 quiz
3. Animal Farm chapter 5 vocabulary.
4. Character Ups and Downs for Chapter 5
5. Finish propaganda One pager.
1. Fold a piece of paper into eight squares
2. Follow the instructions below and add color. 
3. Here are the seven types of propaganda.

Homework:

1. Animal Farm chapter 5 vocabulary.
2. Extra credit list for this week.

Propaganda One Pager

Big Idea: How do good ideas go bad?

Learning Target: 1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Reading: Animal Farm chapter 4

Agenda:

1. Vocabulary Gimkit - Capture the Flag
2. Character Ups and Downs for Chapter 4
3. Propaganda One pager.
1. Fold a piece of paper into eight squares
2. Follow the instructions below and add color. 
3. Here are the seven types of propaganda.

Homework:

1. Animal Farm chapter 4 vocabulary.
2. Extra credit list for this week.