Week 5

1. Week 5

2. Wednesday February 19thJB #5 Are there things science cannot explain? Explain or give some examples? • Objectives: /aka what I’m learning :1) the importance of taking effective notes 2) practice reading deeply 3) independent reading and identifying ideas from material 4) how well I can read for understanding and identifying best answers to prompts 5) reflecting on learning • I can take notes from the video “Replacing Body Parts” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/replacing-body-parts.html (15 minutes) • I can read part 1 of Calvin and Hobbes – I can do surface and deeper thinking practice with the cartoon • Find three surface items (say) in the cartoon • Connect the surface items to meanings (does) • Write in a sentence – how easy it is to analyze a piece – name the cartoon, the items, the meanings. • I can read “Spy Games” and do the questions for it before class tomorrow as independent practice • I can complete the timed reading assessment from Friday – doing my best on it • I can read when I’m done while others finish the assessment • I can do a new take away #2.1

3. Things that make you hmm..Why is abbreviation such a long word? • Name the author…name the title: • How to build a house • Han D. Mann • Kip Goin wrote what book? • Long Distance Hiking

4. Thursday February 20thJB #6 What is essential about our humanity? What makes us human or special? How is the body important? The senses? • Objectives: /aka what I’m learning /aka what I’m learning1) self-assessing of grammar knowledge 2) opportunity to improve and learn from my mistakes on grammar 3) practice surface and deeper meanings and how to formulate a thesis from it 4) practice collecting information for paper 5) listening to sci-fi and identifying importance in conveying ideas 6) assessing for understanding • I can do an assessment of my grammar quiz, and write a reflection about the results for my conference & portfolio – next slide • I can read the Calvin and Hobbes part #2 cartoon and do the surface and deeper reading practice to it and hand it in • I can take notes on the following video on 3d printers Part 1 • http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-friends-weekend/index.html#/v/4571364/the-future-of-printing/?playlist_id=163197 • I can use the fiction reading notes for the story “The Cold Equations” as I listen to it • I can be ready for a quiz on the reading tomorrow. • I can do take away 2.2

5. Conference prep and portfolio collection artifact • Look at your grammar quiz – what areas did you have the greatest weakness – why? What can you do to show you understand it and earn back half the points you loss? • Do it – hand in the changes and solutions tomorrow

6. Funsies: Puns • I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. • Then it hit me. • Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? • He's all right now. • I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, • but eventually it came back to me. • A hole has been found in the bank vault wall. • The police are looking into it. • He drove his expensive car into a tree! Why wasn’t it damaged beyond repair? • Because it was a Mercedes bends.

7. Friday February 21stJB #7 FWF (7 minutes) • Objectives: /aka what I’m learning ) practicing reading strategies 2) assessing reading skills 3) note taking practice 4) independent reading for meaning 5) reading info-graphics and formulating meaning through thesis practice writing 6) group reading collaboration in constructing and sharing meaning 7) creative writing time 8) reflective writing on learning • I can do ACT reading practice quiz passage #3 and record my results (8 minutes) • I can read Calvin and Hobbes part 3 and create 3 surface and deeper responses. • I can take notes on part 2 of the 3D printer http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-friends-weekend/index.html#/v/4569815/after-the-show-show-3d-printing/?playlist_id=163197 • I can read about 3D printing from The Economist which I will annotate and do the non-fiction reading activity for it • I can do a close reading of the infographic on 3D printing – surface and deeper reading 3 into a sentence • I can also read the other article about the laser controlled arm and do the questions for hmwk over the weekend • I can finish reading “The Cold Equations” with my reading group and then do the quiz on the next slides • I can do take away 2.3

8. Cold Equations addendumAnswer these in complete sentences: • Decision making process - decide or else… • Look at all options no matter how crazy or extreme • If you were Barton – list as many ideas as you can 2 minutes • If you were Marilyn 2 minutes • Let’s put on board starting with someone who has the most, then add to the list what is not there • Make decision from possible choices, vote and explain – did we do the “right” thing? • Now answer the questions from the next slide • 1. If you were the pilot what would you have done and why? • 2. If you were the girl what would you have done and why? • Do reading check page 29, and questions choose any four from 1 – 7 page 29 • Hand in when completed or time is up. Timed responses to be completed in 12 minutes.

9. – 15 minutes to decide or else… • 1. If you were the pilot what would you have done and why? • 2. If you were the girl what would you have done and why? • Do reading check page 29, and questions choose any four from 1 – 7 page 29 • Hand in when completed or time is up. Timed responses to be completed in 12 minutes. • There is a game to it too – and the story can end differently but you have to be wise http://www.jainansankalia.com/ColdEquations/ColdEquations.html

10. funsies • Creative definition (make it punny): • A quarterback is a… • Small refund • An infantry is… • The military unit with the most children • Open-toed shoes… • The best shoes for finding amphibians • Book author: How to Sail • By BO Ting

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