Literature with Leonetti

December 10-15, 2018

12/10/2018

Objective: I can produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience for the prompt I have selected (W11-12.4).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Open Skyward and review your grade and what you need to do first in order to improve the most.
If you have a 0-5 on your letter, complete that first.
If you have a 0-10 on your portfolio, complete that first.
- Make sure you complete the reflection!
We will use the week in order to perfect both of these items.
Exit Task: If you are finished with both, you can be working on reading your favorite author selection and completing the brochure.

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December 7, 2018

12/7/2018

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Objective: I can analyze how an author's choices contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact by rereading or reading another of one of my favorite author’s books (RL11-12.5).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Get out your favorite read selected and Favorite Author Brochure as well as your Chromebook. Consider how much you need to type today--if you will need more than 25 minutes, you may type during the reading time.
25 min. Independent Reading
- Complete two sections of Favorite Author Brochure like reviews, meaningful moments, and theme.
Get out directions for Letters About Literature
- Watch video about letter content
- Take notes on ideas about what you will include in your notebook.
Log in to Google Classroom and open the Letters About Literature template and complete
Exit Task: Turn in your Letter About Literature today for feedback before you submit it to the contest!

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December 6, 2018

12/6/2018

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Objective: I can produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience (W11-12.4).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Get out your Chromebook and review the directions for the portfolio reflection posted in Google Classroom
Complete the portfolio reflection and print it out once you have proofread.
- Place the reflection inside the folder
Review the rubric for the About Me Portfolio to make sure you have included all components
Exit Task: Complete the reflection on the rubric before turning in your folder to the teacher

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December 5, 2018

12/5/2018

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Objective: I can use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual writing products in response to ongoing feedback in order to create a final “About Me” project that incorporates both required components as well as personally selected items (W11-12.6).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Get out your Chromebook and review the rubric for the About Me Portfolio
Attach your printed photograph to the front of your folder and type up your paragraph describing your “Best Part of Me”--makes sure to proofread before your print for your portfolio.
If you did not complete your “Where I’m From” poem, you will need to type and print your Vignette--make sure to proofread before you print for your portfolio
Make corrections to the feedback from any other assignments you turned in to Google Classroom and print them for your portfolio
Exit Task: Review the rubric to make sure you have included all pieces of the portfolio. If not, highlight what you need to finish up on your own time in order to turn it in in our next class by the end of the period.

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December 4, 2018

12/4/2018

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Objective: I can introduce the “best part of me” and organize a complex idea about myself so that each new element builds on that which precedes it to create a unified whole; include a heading and photograph formatted as the cover for my About Me Portfolio (W11-12.2a).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Sit on the floor and be ready to listen to the stories shown.
After the reading, review what figurative language the children use in their stories--what did you notice?
Review the definitions of figurative language on the Best Part of Me handout
- Practice using the figurative language on five “parts” in the handout
- Try to select parts that are unique to you--they can also be internal!
Now it’s time for the photograph!
- For this part, you can use a picture you already have on your phone, but you may need to crop in order to focus on the “part”
- You may also take a new picture--feel free to use any filters or color elements that enhance the “part”
- Try to showcase in a way that helps to “reveal” the figurative language that you have incorporated
Trade your practices with a neighbor and star on your partner’s handout which of the figurative language are best used.
When you get your paper back, narrow it down to one “part” which you think is the best.
- Write a descriptive paragraph, poem, or letter to the “Best Part of Me” incorporating figurative language--the more the merrier!

Go back through and STAR your writing as this is a required component of your About Me Portfolio.
Exit Task: For this part, you can use a picture you already have on your phone, but you may need to crop in order to focus on the “part.” You may also take a new picture--feel free to use any filters or color elements that enhance the “part.” Try to showcase in a way that helps to “reveal” the figurative language that you have incorporated. Once you have selected a photograph, email it to your teacher to be printed out in color as a cover for your About Me Portfolio.

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December 3, 2018

12/3/2018

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Objective: I can determine two or more central ideas of “Salvador Late or Early” and analyze in order to create a theme statement (RL11-12.2).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Sit with a partner or two (no more than 3) with the large piece of white paper and crayons.
Review the definition of Vignette from the handout provided
As “Salvador Late or Early” by Sandra Cisneros is read to you, draw the images that come to mind following these directions:
- I will pause one minute between each paragraph--there should be no talking, just drawing.
- Your pictures might connect or they might not, some of them may be upside down or sideways depending on where you are sitting around your paper--that is fine.
- Your focus is not on how well you draw but that there are images that represent what is happening in the story--use multiple colors to do your best artwork in the time provided
After the reading, examine: How is the picture drawn like an Impressionist painting in representing the descriptive scene? Share out ideas with the class
In your groups, select at least two of the Big Ideas from the options and explain to your group members why you selected these in order to narrow it down to one.
- Once you have determined your best Big Idea, write the theme statement in the template on the handout--make sure to quote from the story in order to support your idea!
Try It! Now, select a character, an idea, a theme, a setting, or an object from your life and illustrate it on the left; describe it using imagery (five senses) on the right.

Exit Task: Begin to write out your Vignette to help determine whether or not you will type and submit this to your About Me Portfolio or your Where I’m From poem which both provide a certain mood or emotion about your life thus far.

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November 30, 2018

11/30/2018

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Entry Task: Get out your favorite read selected and Favorite Author Brochure ; get your Chromebook for the end of the period.
25 min. Independent Reading
- Complete two sections of Favorite Author Brochure like meaningful moments, characters, and/or big ideas
Get out directions for Letters About Literature
- Watch video about letter format
- Take notes on how to format your letter and jot down ideas about what you will include in your notebook.
Log in to Google Classroom and open the Letters About Literature template and begin to complete
Exit Task: How much do you need to read on your own? We will have 25 min. of in-class reading time for 1 more Friday.

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November 29, 2018

11/29/2018

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Entry Task: Get out your file folder as well as About Me Portfolio directions. You will also need your Chromebook.
Fold your construction paper in ½ horizontally (hot dog) and place your open file folder inside of it
- Now, log in to Google Classroom and open your returned “Where I’m From”. Before printing, make any edits suggested.
- Don’t forget to add a picture!
- Print your poem and put it in the inside, left pocket of your folder.
Type your “What’s in a Name,” “Telling Tales,” or “A Day in the Life”
Exit Task: Turn in your favorite of the three for feedback in Google Classroom

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November 28, 2018

11/28/2018

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Objective: I can use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole and build toward a particular tone and outcome (W11-12.3c).
Agenda:

Entry Task: Review your Biography Interview--look at your career, reason for fame, and later life/old age. Highlight any ideas there you would like to further explore.
Review Point of View from prezi
Use the plot diagram to outline a story about your future self told from the third person
- Write about a part of your life as if a passage from a novel
- Exaggerate, elaborate, and remember “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
- Put yourself in your first day on a college campus
- Maybe you just got your first job
- You’re famous!
No matter where you take it, remember to use (s)he in order to give the reader a view of a A Day in the Life of the future you.

Exit Task: If you are invested in your story, begin to write it out in your journal--this is one of your options for your About Me Portfolio!

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November 27, 2018

11/27/2018

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Entry Task: Review your Biography Interview--look at your family members--do you have a storyteller among them? Are there stories that are retold over and over? Jot down a few ideas about stories that are familiar to you.
Take notes on plot definition from prezi
Use the plot diagram to outline a family story that has been told and retold.
- Those stories told during the holidays
- Legends of infamous ancestors
- Great Grandpa’s war stories
- Your family’s immigration history
- Embarrassing stories of you as a kid
- Feel free to embellish--don’t have a favorite story? Write the one you wish you did!

Exit Task: If you are invested in your story, begin to write it out in your journal--this is one of your options for your About Me Portfolio!

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