Hamilton 8th Language Arts

Period 8-1

1.  Warm-Up:  Review “Names” by Julia Alvarez and short story terms with a Gimkit review game!
2.   Watch Socratic Seminars in action and jot down your noticings; class discussion about Socratic Seminar because we will be doing one next week over “Names,” “Fish Cheeks,” “I Ask My Mother to Sing,” “Peaches,” and/OR the informational text articles we read/discussed on Wednesday.
3. Review Socratic Seminar question types and examples (you have these to use at your table area in the neon pouches).
4.  Either finish your literary elements work from Thursday or if you have finished, begin working on your gold Socratic Seminar questions.  We will finish these on Monday.

Read your library book 15 minutes.

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Period 8-4

1.  Warm-Up:  Membean 10 Question Assessment
2.  After lunch:  watch Socratic Seminars in action and jot down your noticings; class discussion about Socratic Seminar because we will be doing one next week over “Names,” “Fish Cheeks,” “I Ask My Mother to Sing,” “Peaches,” and/OR the informational text articles we read/discussed on Wednesday.
3. Review Socratic Seminar question types and examples (you have these to use at your table area in the neon pouches).
4.  Either finish your literary elements work from Thursday or if you have finished, begin working on your gold Socratic Seminar questions.  We will finish these on Monday.  Students who did not finish the literary elements graphic organizer we worked on Thursday and today should complete for homework this weekend and be ready to turn in at the beginning of class on Monday.  

If you want to work on your Socratic Seminar questions over the weekend, you may do so.

Read your library book 15 minutes.

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Period 8-5

1. Warm-Up:  Membean 10 Question Assessment
2. Library book reading time
3. Last 10 minutes:  watch Socratic Seminars in action and jot down your noticings; class discussion about Socratic Seminar because we will be doing one next week over “The Medicine Bag,” “Fish Cheeks,” “I Ask My Mother to Sing,” and/OR the informational text articles we read/discussed on Wednesday.

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Period 8-6

1. Warm-Up:  Membean 10 Question Assessment
2. Library book reading time
3.  Review types of Socratic Seminar questions and examples of questions; work on developing questions for next week’s seminar.  We will finish our question work on Monday for the Tuesday seminar.

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Period 8-1:

1.  Collect signed progress reports.
2. Complete our sticky note reflections from our informational text ConverSTATIONS chat yesterday.
3.  Work on the “literary elements” graphic organizer task.
4.  Those who finish early may do a practice session in Membean.

 

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Period 8-4

1.  GimKit Game Review on short story terms and “Names” by Julia Alvarez.
2.  Review instructions for completing the literary elements analysis graphic organizer for “Names” by Julia Alvarez.
3.  Complete the graphic organizer.

 

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Period 8-5

1.  GimKit Game Review on short story terms and “The Medicine Bag” short story.
2.  Review instructions for completing the annotations for “The Medicine Bag.”
3. Work on graphic organizer.

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Period 8-6

1. GimKit Game Review on short story terms and “Names” by Julia Alvarez.
2.  Review instructions for completing the literary elements analysis graphic organizer for “Names” by Julia Alvarez.
3.  Complete the graphic organizer.

 

Period 8-1:

1.  Progress reports
2.  Turn in any homework you owe from yesterday
3. ConverSTATIONS activity with current informational articles from NewsELA and GALILEO on culture and identity; click to see our conversation round topics we completed with sticky notes.

We will finish our sticky note reflections at the beginning of class tomorrow.

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Period 8-4

1.  Turn in any homework you owe from Tuesday, November 12.
2.  ConverSTATIONS activity in rotating table groups.  Click here for our template we’ll use with informational articles on culture and identity from NewsELA and GALILEO.

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Period 8-5

1.  Turn in any homework you owe from Tuesday, November 12.
2.    ConverSTATIONS activity in rotating table/partner groups.  Click here for our template we’ll use with informational articles on culture and identity from NewsELA and GALILEO.

 

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Period 8-6

1.  Turn in any homework you owe from Tuesday, November 12.
2.  ConverSTATIONS activity in rotating table/partner groups.  Click here for our template we’ll use with informational articles on culture and identity from NewsELA and GALILEO.