Happy Halloween: We've got work to do

Goals: Assessing our assessments and looking at credibility.

Reading:

• We always read. 
• By the end of this week you should be 3/4 done with your group novel. 
• I know many of you are already finished or nearly finished, be sure you have your second book ready to read. 

Assessment Review: 

• You get to take a look at how people did on that quiz you made. 
• You will report the results to me, but I will combine your results with others before I assign any grades. 
• Go to Google Classroom and look for a new assignment there to begin the process. 

Assessing Credibility: (If we have time.)

• We hear, read, and see a lot of information these days, but how do you know you can trust the information you are getting? 
• A lot rides on the credibility of the person sharing the information. 
• Lets watch part of a video and look at the credibility of the people presenting the information. 

Reminders:

• Stay safe. Lots of people make some really bad decisions on Halloween. Don't be one of them. 
• Check your English Journal for work you need to finish or make up. 
• Revise your memoir or the visual memoir slides if you would like to improve them. 

Let's see what you know...

Goal: Take a quiz, or two or three.

Read:
By today you should be halfway through your group novel.
You should also have a good idea of what your second book will be for this grading period.

Take a Quiz:
Select a quiz below that is not from your period. Take that quiz first.
Select up to two more quizzes and take those too.
Pro tip: Don't take quizzes on books you have not read.

	Red	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue	Purple
Period 2	Pull of Gravity	Vivian Apple At The End of the World	Pull of Gravity	Pull Of Gravity	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy
Period 3	Pull of Gravity	Vivian Apple At The End of the World	Pull of Gravity	Pull of Gravity	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy
Period 5	Pull of Gravity	Catcher in the Rye	A Wrinkle in Time	Lord of the Flies	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy
Period 6		Vivian Apple At The End of the World	Catcher in the Rye	Pull of Gravity	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy

#RainbowsAreAwesome

Novel Prediction Charts:

1. Open your English Journal. (Check to see if you might be missing anything and make a plan to catch up on that later.)
2. At the top add today's date. 
3. Insert a table. It should be two columns wide and six rows down. 
4. Add two predictions about your book, now that you are halfway through it. 
5. Add evidence (sentence or two) from the book that lead you to that prediction. 
6. Continue to add predictions and evidence to your chart as you read the rest of the novel. 

Novel Prediction Chart
My prediction	Evidence from the text that makes me think this. (Use sentences from your book that lead to your prediction.)

Don't just take the quiz, Make the quiz.

No scantrons. I promise. 

Goal: Creating an online assessment about the book you are reading.

Agenda:
Read
Quiz expectations
Quiz making

With your team you will create a quiz that other students will take about the book your group has been reading.

Quiz Expectations:

• 7-10 Questions
• Ask questions that go up through content halfway through the book.
• Include both multiple choice and short answer questions.
• First question should be name, second question should be period. 
• For multiple choice questions you can have 5-10 answer choices. 
• For multiple select questions use the checkboxes question type. These questions should have more than one right answer. 
• For short answer questions, be sure your question actually requires a written answer. (Don't ask questions that have one word answers.) Use the paragraph question type. 
• Make your quiz in a Google Form. Name it Period, Color, Title, for example "6 Blue Pull of Gravity"
• Click the three vertical dots in the upper right corner and then "add collaborators" to add your teacher and your group members to the form. 
• Click settings (gear icon) and then "quizzes" to turn your form into a quiz. Go back through your questions and choose "answer key" to mark the correct selection for each question. 

Homework: 

Keep reading. (I hear you're going to have a quiz to take soon.) 

Going Further with Setting

Goal: Looking closely at what setting says about character in our novels.

Agenda: 
Read
Setting in your Novels
Creating a setting


Look closely at the setting in your book
Look at the settings described in your group novel.  Select three quotes from the novel that describe the setting, but ALSO tell you something about the character. Add this chart to your English Journal.

Create a Setting:
CHOOSE a character from your group book that doesn't have his or her own setting, or who's setting is not well described.
DISCUSS that character and his/her setting with your group.
WRITE a descriptive paragraph about the setting for that character. (In English Journal)
EXPLAIN (in a second paragraph) what you are trying to show about the character with the setting you created.

Homework:
Be sure your English Journal is caught up. (You should have entries for 10/17, 10/18, 10/20, 10/24, and now 10/26. Visit the blog for any of those days you are missing.)
Keep up with the reading in your group novel.

Setting and Mood in Literature

Goal: Understanding that setting contributes to mood.

Read: 
You should be working toward the halfway point of your group novel.

Setting and Mood: 

• The term MOOD in literature refers to how the setting of the story makes the reader feel. 
• It is the emotional feeling of the place where the events are taking place. 
• Sometimes the mood of the place matches the characters mood and sometimes it is in contrast to it. 
• Word choice and the details an author includes help to create the mood of a setting. 

Example:

Thick darkness swam over the building. The surrounding oak trees stood so tall that even in at this time of day their shadows turned the area to night. One of them appeared to have fallen over onto the house. The roof caved in around the diseased trunk. The tree was so rotten it had to be years since it stood with its brethren.

Other than the roof the house itself was in horrible conditions. All the blue paint had chipped off, leaving it a stained yellow color. The porch’s column was broken in half, at first glance looking like the tree did it but when examining closer other dents cast all around the porch, with a baseball bat sitting in the middle, only causing one to wonder.

The yard itself was pure dirt, somehow weeds managed to grow in the hard ground, dried paint flew around the yard somehow even though the trees blocked all wind.

The front door opened and slammed shut every few seconds, due to the unknown wind and the its lack of a door knob. The windows were all completely smashed, below some the glass still sat. Only a few were boarded up with cardboard, others let the cool air drift in.

Why it is a strong example:

        This scene portrays a scary emotion through the look of the house. From other parts of the book you would know that this is the house of a kidnapper, and in this setting I feel I have shown it. The more obvious examples are the army of trees surrounding the building, let alone the one that crashed through the roof. But the eerie wind that blows the door open and shut, and dried paint around the yard starts to make you slightly scared. And while some factors like the tree seem a bit obvious, it makes you think, why would someone not get that repaired? What do they not want people to see inside?

Reminders: 

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