IAB practice

Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: 

Reading: Your first book should be done by February 10th.

Agenda:

1. IAB Listening and Speaking practice test (about 20 minutes).
1. If you can get a good score on the CAASPP test, you don't have to take the final exam at the end of the semester.
2. Begin your book review.

Homework:

1. No vocabulary this week.

George Takei TED talk

Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: 

Reading: Your first book should be done by February 10th.

Agenda:

1. Watch George Takei's TED talk about his experience in internment camps.
2. Thin Slides activity
1. One word and one image.
2. Here is your job:
1. One word to describe Takei's experience
2. One word to describe Takei's opinion of America
3. One word to describe the conduct of the Japanese soldiers during WWII

Homework:

1. SAT multiple-meaning words list #4

Analyzing Papa

Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: 

Reading: Your first book should be done by February 10th.

Agenda:

1. Finish the following with a partner:
1. Answer the comprehension questions on page 712.
2. Create a slide deck with your partner.
1. Make eight slides.
2. On each slide, you have one of the following sentences:
1. Papa (does, says)___, and people think___.
2. The narrator says that Papa___.
3. Some people think___, but really____.
4. Fortunately,___, unfortunately___.
3. You should have a picture for each slide too.
4. You can't use the same sentence for every slide, but you can use a sentence more than once.
5. Turn in your slides using this Google Form.

Homework:

1. SAT multiple-meaning words list #4

Farewell to Manzanar excerpt

Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: 

Reading: Your first book should be done by February 10th.

Agenda:

1. English Journal #21: Brain Dump
1. Today we will write for 8 minutes.
2. Write about these topics, in this order:
1. What do you know about Manzanar, Japanese internment, genocide, etc.
2. What is happening in the book you are reading?
3. What are you learning in your other classes?
4. What is going on in your life right now?
3. Try to write over 300 words today.
2. Read an excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar.
3. Answer the comprehension questions at the end of the reading selection.

Homework:

1. SAT multiple-meaning words list #4

Manzanar Hyperdoc

Big Idea: TBA

Learning Target: 

Reading: Your first book should be done by February 10th.

Agenda:

1. Today you will finish the Manzanar Hyperdoc.
1. Here are the lyrics for Kenji by Fort Minor.
2. The final project is on paper or digital format. You get the choice.

Homework:

1. SAT multiple-meaning words list #4