1. Learning Activities Honors English 10 Lessons and Presentations

2. EXPECTATIONS • The class has already read the selection due for the day. NO PLOT SUMMARY. • Bloom’s Taxonomy levels of knowledge will be demonstrated. • Everyone in your Lit Circle group has a role in the teaching. • Everyone in the class will participate. • NO CANDY!! NO JEOPARDY!!

3. Opening Activities • Graffiti Wall • Write a word or thought on the board. Ask students to silently come up and write words and thoughts that they think relate to the original prompt. Discuss after all students have contributed. • Annotation • Annotate the text for patterns, ideas, and phrases that stand out our address a possible theme.

4. Opening Activities • Opening Question • Open the class with a question, give students a moment to think about their response, then as a few classmates for answers. • Focused Listing • Students recall what they know about a subject by creating a list of terms or ideas related to it. Students generate a list based on the topic presented.

5. Opening Activities • Question and Answer Pairs • Teams of students practice asking and answering challenging questions. Questions are based on the information presented in the lecture or course readings. • Carousel Brainstorming • Subtopics or questions about a topic are posted throughout the room. Student groups brainstorm as they visit each of the subtopics.

6. Opening Activities • Colormarking • The first time you read though the text (and this mostly works with a short section), go through with a colored pencil and mark a pattern of words; verbs, sense words, etc. Then go through 2-3 more times with different colors.

7. Processing (during) Activities • Think-Pair-Share • First, the instructor poses a prepared question and asks individuals to think or write about it quietly. Second, students pair up with someone sitting near them and share their responses verbally. Third, the lecturer chooses a few pairs to briefly summarize their ideas for the benefit of the entire class.

8. Processing Activities • Found Poems • Create a poem from the text itself by only using words, phrases, and images from original text • Book Ends • Pairs of students discuss and make predictions before an activity, then meet after the activity to review and compare reactions • Comparing • To observe or consider the characteristics of objects or concepts, looking for both similarities and differences

9. Processing Activities • Flow Charts • Flow charts are graphic depictions of processes or relationships. Typically flow charts include icons showing particular processes or steps, and arrows indicating paths. • Jigsaw • Cooperative activity. The basic steps include: reading, meeting with expert groups, report to the main team, demonstrate knowledge through a test or report

10. Processing Activities • Socratic Seminar • Students sit in a circle and discuss a shared text. The leader begins with an opening question, but the discussion should be student driven

11. Colormarking sample “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk bareheaded in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little clothes right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn’t have gum on it, because that way it won’t hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday School?; always eat your food in such a way that it’s won’t turn someone else’s stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are do bent on becoming; don’t sing benna in Sunday School; . . .

12. Summarizing (concluding) Activities • 3-2-1 (Three-two-one) • Students write: 3 key terms from what they have just learned, 2 ideas they would like to learn more about, and 1 concept or skill they think they have mastered. • Focused Listing • Students recall what they know about a subject by creating a list of terms or ideas related to it. Students generate a list based on the topic presented.

13. Summarizing Activities • Think-Pair-Share • First, the instructor poses a prepared question and asks individuals to think or write about it quietly. Second, students pair up with someone sitting near them and share their responses verbally. Third, the lecturer chooses a few pairs to briefly summarize their ideas for the benefit of the entire class.

14. Summarizing Activities • Biopoems • Poems written by students about any specific person or object (character in book, living or inanimate objects). To summarize student knowledge of topic. • Crumpled Paper Discussion • Ask students a question and have them silently write a response on a piece of paper, no names. They crumple the paper and throw it into the middle of the room. Randomly choose papers and read what is written.