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