Culminating Presentations Day 1: Teach the Teacher!

Goal: Use your understanding of helpful and unhelpful presentation strategies to begin working on your culminating group novel presentations!

Agenda:
Read

Critique your teacher's

presentation

Assign presentation roles

in your novel groups

Begin working!

Critiquing a Presentation

• Ms. Daniel (or Ms.Roberts) will give a presentation on "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" which we read as a class last week.
• Use THIS DOCUMENT (make a copy for yourself) to take notes on positive parts of the presentation and parts that need improvement.
• After the presentation, go HERE to post your helpful feedback.

Your Turn!

• The culminating project for our "Reading the Novel" unit is a group presentation.
• You will work together to cover these categories in your group novel. Each person should become the "expert" on one (or more) of the categories below:
• Setting
• Characterization
• Plot
• Diction
• Theme
• Your recommendation

• There is a template HERE to get you started, but you are encouraged to be as creative as possible.
• Check THIS RUBRIC before you begin - use images to represent what you are trying to convey. The less text on the slide, the better.
• If you need to look at the example presentation again, use Ms. Daniel's presentation here to help guide you.
• Everyone in your group must have a speaking role, because you will be assessed individually and as a group. Each person should become an expert on one of the categories above.

Ready? Get set?

• Assign roles to everyone in your group. 
• Make a copy of your template and share it with everyone in your group.
• Name it Period, Novel Title, Your First Names. 
• Also share it with Ms. Daniel, Ms. Roberts and Ms. Love (periods 1-2) 
• Go! 

Reminders:

Check your English Journal for any work you need to finish.

Check the blog when you are absent.

Be ready to come tomorrow and finish up your group project!

Visiting the Counselors

Goal: Visit the counseling office.

Agenda:
Visit the counselors
Read while you wait

• Today we will be in the counseling office. They want to be sure they meet each of you.
• Bring your book so you can read while you wait your turn.

Back in class?
If you make it back to class before the end of the period you should:

• Finish the district survey you started yesterday. You can find the link HERE. Enter your ID to pick up where you left off. 
• Check your English Journal. Is there work you need to finish? 
• Keep reading your book #4. 

Reminders:

Read daily at home in your book. You should finish book #4 by 11/28.

End of Novel Test

Goal: Reading progress update and novel quiz.

Agenda:
Read
Reading Progress Update
End of Novel "Quiz"

1. Reading Progress Update: 
Complete the READING PROGRESS FORM.

2. Novel Quiz: 

• Complete the questions using everything you know about the book. 
• The test includes short answer questions. Remember your expectations for short answer questions. 
• The test has an "entry code." You have to be in class to take the test. 
• Click HERE to access your novel test. 
• (If you are absent see me asap to make up the test.)

3. Academic Survey from The District

• Our district wants to know what you think about several things. 
• Please complete THIS SURVEY. 

4. Book #4: 

• Your group novel "counts" as book #3 for this semester. 
• You need to identify book #4. Do you already have it? 

Tomorrow: 

• On Tuesday we are visiting the counseling office. 
• You need to bring a book with you so you can read while you wait to see your counselor. 
• If you have any questions you've been meaning to ask your counselor you should write them down. 
• You might get to return to class and do catch-up work. 

Reminders: 

• Be sure your English Journal is up to date. We've done a lot of work in your English Journal lately and you don't want to find out later that you are missing things. 
• Be ready for our UNIT TEST next week.

Writing about conflicts

Remember internal and external conflicts? 

Goal: Solidify our understanding of conflict.

Agenda:
Read
Conflict in your group novels
Writing about conflict

Identifying conflict in your group novels: 

1. Using two sticky notes write down one internal and one external conflict the protagonist of your group novel faces. (Add your initials to your sticky notes.)
2. As a group share the conflicts you found. 
3. Group them by internal and external conflicts. 
4. TALK: How did those conflicts change the character of your group novel? 

Writing about conflict: 
Open your English Journal
Use the paragraph frame below to write about the conflicts the character faces in your group novel.

In (book title) by (author) the main character, (protagonist), faces internal and external conflicts that cause him/her to...(describe the ways the protagonist changes.) An example of the internal conflict the character faces is (describe internal conflict). This causes (character) to....(describe effect of this internal conflict)... (Character) is also facing an external conflict (from/because/as a result of...describe external conflict.) The impact of this external conflict is that..... As a result of these conflicts... (describe how the character changes as a result of experiencing these conflicts)...

Reminders: 

• You should be done with your group novel by now. We will be writing about it more next week. 
• You also have a quiz on Monday about your group novel.  (Be SURE your are FINISHED by then.)
• You have another test about the concepts from this unit on 11/14. We will review for that next week. If you want to start studying try reviewing your English Journal entries since 10/10. 

Plot and Conflict Vocabulary.

Goal: Mastering the vocabulary of Plot and Conflict


Agenda: 
Read (Finish group novel by tomorrow.)
Plot Vocabulary
Writing Revision
Conflict Vocabulary

Plot Vocabulary: 
I think many of you already know these words, but lets make sure.

Writing Revision:

• Yesterday you wrote a six sentence summary of the plot of your group novel. 
• Open your English Journal. 
• Revise your summary from yesterday so that it includes the plot vocabulary we just reviewed. 
• Here is an example one of you wrote. 

Conflict Vocabulary: 

There are lots of different kinds of conflicts characters can have. 

You don't have to memorize them all. 

You do need to know the difference between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL conflicts. 

Lets PRACTICE.