May The Phrase Be With You

Goal: Socratic seminar on issues of privacy and responsibility while practicing paraphrasing and extending the conversation.

Agenda: 
Read
Book check outs
Seminar 1
Seminar 2
Debrief

Phrases to help you with paraphrasing: 
So you are saying that....
I heard you say...Was that right?
So basically you think...because...
In other words, I mean that...

Phrases to help with extending the conversation: 
Say more about that...
How does that relate to...
How do you know...
What makes you think that...
Can you explain more about...
I'm still wondering about...
Can you elaborate on the part about...

Have a wonderful break! Relax, reflect, and read! 

On The Thursday Before Winter Break...

Goal: Write a rhetorical precis for your 3rd article.

Agenda:
Read
Reading Progress Update
Precis assessment
Socratic prep

1. Complete your READING PROGRESS UPDATE.

2. Precis assessment:

• You have unscrambled a precis about "Undercover Parent." 
• You wrote one about "Big Brother Meets Big Mother."
• Now it is time to write a precis based on the third article you chose to prepare for our socratic seminar. 

The rules:

1. You will write your precis today. (You can not copy one you wrote last night for practice.)
2. You can have the article on your screen to refer to. (Remember, paraphrase, don't quote the article.)
3. You can have this picture of the precis chart on your screen. 
4. All other tabs should be closed, please. 
5. I'm giving you paper (gasp). Write as neatly as you can. 
6. RHETORICAL PRECIS SCORING GUIDE. 

3. Socratic preparation: 

• Tomorrow we have a socratic seminar. 
• Be prepared to talk about the two questions on your preparation document. 
• Be sure your document is completed. 
• If you chose to do your preparation digitally make sure you bring a PRINT out. 
• You earn TWO grades tomorrow. One for your contributions to the discussion, and one for your completed preparation document. 
• If you are absent you will have a 0 in power school until you attend (and participate in) the make up at 2:25 on 1/9/19. Don't be late. (The 0 is temporary. Don't panic.)

Socratic Prep Day 2

Goal: Make progress on your socratic seminar preparation.


Agenda: 
Read
Prepare for Socratic Seminar

Have You:

• Picked your third article? 
• Read it carefully? 
• Do you know what you need to about it to write a precis tomorrow?
• Yes, precis test on your third article tomorrow. Be ready. (Precis format will be provided.) 

Socratic Seminar Friday: 

• Bring your preparation doc (completed) on paper. 
• If you worked on it on the computer, YOU are responsible for printing it out on your own. 
• We offered you a paper copy on Tuesday. You can also get a digital copy HERE.
• We will print it for you if you ask on THURSDAY, but not Friday. On Friday, we will be busy getting started with our discussion. 

Reminders: 
Check out a good book to read over break. 
Finish your Socratic preparation doc.

Preparing for a Socratic Seminar

Goal: Beginning to prepare for a socratic seminar on Friday.

Agenda:
Read
Socratic Seminar Preparation
Pick a third article
Reminders

Socratic Seminar Preparation: 

• On Friday 12/21 we will be having a Socratic Seminar discussion in class.
• To prepare for the discussion you need to know "Undercover Parent" and "Big Brother Meets Big Mother," and a third article very well.
• I am giving you paper to organize your thinking. You can also get a digital copy HERE, but you must bring a hard copy to class on Friday 12/21. (If you choose to use the Google Doc, YOU are responsible for printing it.)
• On Thursday you will be writing a rhetorical precis about your third article in class. Be sure you have read it before then. 

Possible Sources for your Third Article:
SOURCE A: IS IT EVER OK FOR PARENTS TO CYBER-SPY ON THEIR KIDS?

SOURCE C: BIG MOTHER IS WATCHING YOU

SOURCE D: SEXTING TEENS CAN FACE LIFELONG CONSEQUENCES

SOURCE E: PARENTS MONITORING TEENAGERS ONLINE AND MOSTLY GETTING IT RIGHT. 


These articles might also interest you, but don't use them as your third article. 
I'M BEING FOLLOWED: HOW GOOGLE-AND 104 OTHER COMPANIES-ARE TRACKING ME ON THE WEB
WHEN IS IT LEGAL TO FILM PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION?

SWEEPING AWAY A SEARCH HISTORY

Reminders: 
Friday we will be having a socratic seminar.
What are you reading over break? Make a book plan.
Thursday, rhetorical precis in class about your third article. Be ready.

Article of the Week

Goal: Complete your reading progress update and write a response to an Article of the Week.

Agenda: 
Read
Article of the Week
Reminders

Article of the Week 
Our article of the week comes in a video format this week.
I will show you segments of it in class.
If you are absent you can watch it on your own.

English Journal - 2 Paragraphs
1. Summarize what you saw/heard in the segments I showed you in class.
2. Your thoughts/opinions/reactions to what you saw/heard.

Reminders
Be sure you have a good book to read over break.
Check your English Journal. You should have entries for 12/4, 12/5, 12/10, 12/15 and 12/17.

Making Connections and Improvements

"I find your culture of surveillance disturbing."

Goal: Reflecting on the issues in our reading and/or improving your rhetorical précis.

Agenda: 
Read
Making Connections
Rhetorical Précis

Making Connections: 

• The "elf on a shelf" has become a popular holiday tradition, but what does it say about a culture of surveillance? 
• Open your English Journal and respond to the prompt below. 
• How does the picture on the blog today relate to the concepts we have been reading about in Undercover Parent and Big Brother Meets Big Mother? 

Share and select:

Who had an excellent explanation of the image? 

Select a great explanation from your table and submit it here. 

Improve your précis: 

1. Open your English Journal 
2. Review the précis you started yesterday. 
3. How can you improve it? 
4. Is it four sentences that follow the structure on the chart? 
5. Does the fourth sentence mention her tone? (Lots of you forgot that part.)

Reminders: 

Read your book.

Finish your précis if you did not get to finish it today.

Writing a Rhetorical Précis

Goal: Reflecting on the issues in our reading and making a first attempt at a rhetorical précis.

Agenda: 
Read
Rhetorical précis

Write your own précis: 

1. Open your English Journal.
2. Open your copy of "Big Brother Meets Big Mother." 
3. Write a rhetorical précis of "Big Brother Meets Big Mother" by Ellen Goodman in your English Journal. 
4. Just FOUR sentences. Use the one you have about Undercover Parent as a model. 

IF these frames help you feel free to use them: 

1. In the article “Big Brother Meets Big Mother” (2007) by Ellen Goodman she argues/explains/questions….
2. Her claims/evidence/reasons include…
3. Goodman presents …… in order to….
4. She adopts a …… tone to …..

Peer review: 

Go to https://b.socrative.com/login/student/

I will post the room code in class. 

Paste in your rhetorical précis for "Big Brother Meets Big Mother."

Reminders: 

Read your book.

Finish and/or revise your précis if you needed more time. 

Article Analysis for "Big Brother Meets Big Mother"

Goals: Analysis by charting the text and starting on SOAPSTone

Agenda: 
Read
Charting "Big Brother Meets Big Mother"
SOAPSTone

1. Charting "Big Brother Meets Big Mother"

• Open your copy of the article. 
• You should have 14 numbered paragraphs. 
• Work with your group to complete the SAYING and DOING columns on your chart. (Put your name on it.)
• Remember to use our list of rhetorically active verbs on the wall. 
• When you are done turn it over and remind yourself what SOAPSTone is about, but don't fill it out. 
• Then...

2. SOAPSTone:

• Work with your partner to complete the SOAPSTone activity for "Big Brother Meets Big Mother." (The entry code is the last word of our class motto. You know this, don't you?)
• Remember, I am expecting high quality, accurate answers. 
• Choose your words carefully and proofread closely. 
• Your answers are only 2-3 sentences, so you have time to make sure they are excellent. 
• Focus on Occassion, Audience and Purpose. 
• If you don't finish you can submit what you have. 

Reminders: 

• Keep reading. 
• Do something tonight that will help you do better tomorrow. 

Précis Check and a First Read

Goals: Checking in on your précis from yesterday and a first read of a new text.

Agenda: 
Read
Check your précis
First reading of "Big Brother Meets Big Mother"

Precis Check:

• Open your English Journal.
• Do you have a précis at the top dated 12/10/18?
• If not, how can you fix that?
• Is your précis correct? Let's check.

First read of a new text:

• We think you're going to like Big Brother Meets Big Mother.
• There is a copy shared with you in Google Classroom. 
• Use File/make a copy to make your own version. 
• Use the "Say Something" protocol with your partner.

Reminders: 

Keep reading.
Do something tonight that will help you do better tomorrow.

Unscrambling a Précis

Goal: Learn how to create a rhetorical précis.

Agenda:
Read
Reading Progress Update
Learn what a rhetorical précis is.
Play unscramble the précis

1. Complete your READING PROGRESS UPDATE.

2. Rhetorical Précis:
"A Rhetorical Précis, pronounced (pray-see), is a summary or abstract of a work. The Rhetorical Précis has a rigidly specific format.... It is important that you follow the format carefully. This is not an easy task. But it is a crucial step towards building critical reading ability...." (Oregonstate.edu)

Unscrambling a Precis: 

1. Use THIS LINK to get a copy of a doc with a rhetorical précis. (Do not share it.)
2. The sentences on this doc are out of order. 
3. Rearrange them until you have a correct précis. 
4. Note: Our example chart has FOUR sentences, but the précis you will unscramble has FIVE. Decide which two sentences should be combined and re-write them into one sentence. 
5. Copy and paste your CORRECTED précis into your English Journal. (You will need it as an example for writing one on your own soon.)

Reminders: 

• Be sure your corrected précis is pasted into your English Journal, dated 12/10/18.
• Keep reading. You should be on Book #5 by now.

Charting the Text of Undercover Parent

Goal: Close analysis of Undercover Parent using the Charting the Text strategy for the first time.

Agenda:
Read 
Learn about charting a text
Charting Undercover Parent with your group

Charting the text

• Charting a text helps us understand the text better and shows us the structure of the argument.
• Well educated readers can separate what the author is saying from what the author is doing.
• This will not be easy at first. The struggle is worth it. 

Instructions: 

1. Open your copy of Undercover Parent in Google Drive. 
2. I'll give your group your charting organizers on paper. (Yes, I said the P word.)
3. Work together on each section. You need to talk it out. 
4. For each section determine what the author is saying first, then what he is doing. (Do not move on to the next chunk until you have finished saying and doing for the one before it.)
5. Since you are new at this I filled in some of the boxes for you to help you figure it out. Read them. 
6. We are doing this one on paper, so if you are absent you will need to see Mrs. Roberts or Ms. Daniel for instructions and materials. 
7. Yes, you are turning this in today before you leave. Write your name and period on it. 

Reminders: 

• Your homework is to read daily, even if you are "ahead." 

SOAPSTone for Undercover Parent

Goal: Our first SOAPSTone, learning a piece of rhetorical analysis

Agenda: 
Read
SOAPSTONE Preview
SOAPSTONE with a partner

SOAPSTone: 
S - Subject / topic / issue of the text
O - Occasion - what is the context of the text? Consider time period, relevant events, and issues current to the text.
A - Audience who is this written for? How do you know?
P - Purpose - why did the author write this? What is his/her goal?
S - Speaker - who is Coben? How do you know? What else can you find out?
T- Tone - sarcastic, humble, bitter, convinced, unsure, reasonable, angry, immature, educated?

SOAPSTone:
Open the Undercover Parent article we shared with you on Wednesday.
With your partner complete the SOAPSTone FORM.  
(If you are absent you'll have to work on it on your own.)

Reminders:

• Be sure any books you have from our classroom library are checked out to you. Don't forget, you can use the QR code scanner on your phone to scan the QR codes posted around the classroom. 

First Read of Undercover Parent

Goals: First reading of Undercover Parent using the "Say Something" protocol

Agenda: 
Read
Learn about the "Say Something" protocol
First read of Undercover Parent

1. First Read of Undercover Parent: 

• This text is shared with you in Google Classroom. Go there to get your copy. 
• You will read this text with a partner and use the "Say Something" protocol to check your thinking and understanding with each other as you go.

2. English Journal: 

Write a response about "Undercover Parent" using the same TWO paragraph structure we use in our Articles of the Week. (First paragraph summarize what you read. Second paragraph share what you think about what you read.) 

Reminders: 

• Be sure your two paragraph response to "Undercover Parent" is complete in your English Journal. Start off this new 6-week English Journal strong! 
• Keep reading. You should be on Book #5 (or more).

Four Corners Discussion

Goal: Explore our initial thoughts and opinions relating to teens and the internet

Agenda: 
Read
Review Survey Responses
Four Corners Discussion
English Journal Response

Four Corners Discussion: 
Move to the corner of the room that best represents your thoughts about the statement.

English Journal Response:
Open your English Journal and write a response about what you're thinking when it comes to teens and internet privacy. What slides did you have the strongest reaction to?

Reminders: 

• Do you have a list of books you want to read? Book #5 and Book #6 must be finished before the end of January. 
• Remember to check out your books and return books you have finished. 
• Period 4 - do you have your film release forms?

Book #4 - Book Review

Goal: Write your review of Book #4.

Agenda: 

Read

Survey

Book Review

Catch Up Time

1. Survey:

• Click HERE to take this survey related to our next unit. Your opinion matters when it comes to the topics we will cover.

2. Book Review Time: 

• You already have experience writing a book review in the document we shared with you before break. 

• You are now writing a book review for Book #4, the novel you chose to read after your group novel.

• Your review of Book #4 is due by the end of the day TODAY.
• BE SURE YOU ARE WRITING ABOVE YOUR REVIEW OF BOOK #3 ON THE BEIGE DOC WE SHARED WITH YOU BEFORE BREAK. 

Reminders:

• Finish your review of Book #4.
• Are you missing anything in Power School? 
• Did you finish (and turn in) your "I Am" Poem on Google Classroom? 
• 4th Period: Have you turned in your film release form?