Getting motivated about theme

Goal: Learn a bit about character motivation and apply what you learned in your last lesson on theme to the book you are reading as a group.

Agenda:
Read
Reading the Novel Chart
Character Motivation
Review Theme
Theme work with your group

Reading the Novel Chart:
Update your chart with what you read today and the implications of those events.

Character motivation: 
Get motivated to learn more about character motivation.

Theme work with your group:

• Have ONE person in your group get a copy of your theme organizer. 
• That person needs to rename it correctly, share it with everyone in the group, and share it with Mrs. R. 
• Work as a group to complete the organizer. Divide the work evenly. 
• Remember you need evidence to go with your themes. 
• I will look at the revision history to see who completed what.

Reminders: 

Keep reading. 

Look for what your character wants and see how he/she is/or is not achieving those short and long term goals. 

Keep thinking about how all of this supports the theme(s) you worked on today. 

Some Novel Work and an AOW

Goals: Looking for further implications and some analytical reading.

Agenda: 
Read
Update Novel Reading Chart
Article of the Week

Mrs. R is at a teacher workshop today. You still have a lot of work to do. 

1. Update Novel Reading Chart

1. Open your Novel Reading Chart.
2. Update your chart with what you read today and the implications of those events. 

2. Article of the Week: 

1. Read THIS ARTICLE on on Newsela. (Sign in with Google.)
2. Click "open activities" and take the quiz for the article. 
3. Open your English Journal and write two paragraphs. 
4. The first paragraph should be an analytical summary. 
5. The second paragraph is about your thoughts, opinions, etc. 

Reminders: 

Make sure work in your English Journal is up to date. Did you finish the reflective writing from yesterday? 

Inferring, evaluation, reporting and reflecting

Goal: Reading for implications, quiz evaluation, reporting, and reflection. 

Agenda

Read

Add to Novel Reading Chart chart

Evaluate Quizes and Report Scores

Write in English Journal

Add to implications chart: 

Go to "shared with me" in your Google Drive and find the doc called Novel Reading Chart. 

Add an entry about what you read today and what those events could mean. 

Evaluate Quizes: 

Open the quiz your group made last week. 

Discuss how you will evaluate those responses. 

Report your evaluations using THIS FORM. 

English Journal Quick Write: 

Last week you made a quiz, took a quiz, and today you scored a quiz. Write about the process in your English Journal. 

1. What did you learn in that process? 
2. What do you know now about your book, your group, yourself, or assessments in general that you didn't know before? 
3. What will you do differently the next time you take (or make) a quiz? 

Reminders: 

Keep reading

What is the meaning of this?

Goal: Understanding how events in a

book can help us make predictions

Agenda:

• Read for 10 minutes
• Using summaries to make predictions
• Finding the meaning in your novel
• Quiz

Using summaries to make predictions:

• An action or event usually means that something else is important is going to happen later on
• The word so can tell us the meaning of events moving forward. 
• Harry receives his letter from Hogwarts, so that means his life is going be different as a wizard.

1. Complete this Google Form to practice making predictions

Finding the meaning in your novel:

1. Go to drive.google.com

2. Click on Shared With Me on the left side of your screen

3. Open the document called Novel Reading Chart

4. In the left column, write today's date

5. In the middle column, write a brief summary of what you read today

6. In the right column, answer the question: explain what the summary means moving forward

Quiz Today:

Period	Red	Orange	Yellow	Green	Blue	Purple
1	Pul of Gravity	Pull of Gravity	Pull of Gravity	Farenheit 451	Every last Word
2	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy	Pull of Gravity	Every Last Word	Farenheit 451
3	Saint Iggy	Pull of Gravity	Saint Iggy	Farenheit 451	Vivian Apple	Farenheit 451
5	Saint Iggy	Pull of Gravity	Saint Iggy	Saint Iggy	Every Last Word	Every Last Word

Making a quiz based on your group novel

No scantrons. I promise. 

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

Agenda:
Read
Reading Progress Update
Question Formulation Checklist
How forms work
Quiz making

Reading Progress Update:
Click HERE and update us about your reading progress. Focus on what you read today.

Question Formulation Checklist: 
____ The question can be answered by reading the first 40% of the book.
____ The question seems like something a teacher would ask.
____ There is a question about the main character.
____ There is a question about a setting.
____ There is a WHY question.
____ There is a HOW question.
____ There are 3-4 multiple choice questions. They have 4-5 answer choices.
____ There are 2-3 short answer questions. They require text evidence for their answers. They can not be answered with just a few words.

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

Quiz Expectations:

• Make your quiz in a Google Form. Name it Period, Color, Title, for example "6 Blue Lord of the Flies"
• 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. 

Quiz Tips: 

• Ask questions about the first 40% of 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 4-6 answer choices. 
• Use the paragraph question type for short answer questions. 
• 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. 
• You won't have 'correct' answers for short answer responses. 

Reminders: 

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