Do Now | Grab your Tug of Truth and circle in the back of the room. Share out your Truth that you created last week about a topic presented in your book.
Model Writing | Group Annotations Turn and Talk: What are the components of a literary analysis paragraph? Studio Time | Theme
Theme considers the social and cultural implications of the book. It is an opportunity for you as the reader to develop a main idea or a message you think is relevant to the novel you are reading. These ideas are generally associated with human nature and development, societal issues, or worldly views. It is why you think the book is important to read.
Don't forget your cyberjournal must contain these required elements:
Publication: send professional email to Addie when finished writing Silent Reading | must have books completed by next Thursday in order to construct final book reviews
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Do Now | Cyberjournal Conflict: Conflict is the major obstacle the main character must overcome within the novel in order to find personal success in their life. Sometimes this obstacles is another character like Harry Potter needing to defeat Lord Voldemort; sometimes this obstacle is internal, forcing the main character to overcome their own mind like Aza in Turtles All The Way Down needing to gain control over her obsessive compulsive disorder; Sometimes this obstacle is the physical world like in the Ship Breaker series where the many characters must overcome the deteriorating, war-torn world around them full of flooding and hurricanes.
Consider how the conflict in your novel represents a conflict in young adult that has existed in the past and will continue to be recreated in the future. Also, consider the following:
Title of Cyberjournal | Write a headline for your writing/ideas right now that captures the most important aspect that should be remembered or thought about by the reader. Tags | Independent Reading, Cyberjournal, Conflict, name of novel Hyperlinks | hyperlink the name of the novel to the book on Goodreads Do Now | CSI: Color, Symbol, Image
Cyberjournal | Character Analysis Create a new blog post in your writing portfolio. Title the blog post the title of your book followed by the name of the character you are analyzing (example: Feed, M.T. Anderson | Titus Analysis). Create a detailed paragraph in which you analyze the character you have chosen in your CSI. This is not simply a retelling of your CSI, but an extension of it. Things that I will be looking for your in cyberjournal:
Send Addie a professional email with link to cyberjournal entry. Cyberjournal | Phonies
Create a new cyberjournal, you know the drill in regards to title, labels, hyperlinks. At this point, merely record your ideas in a blog post, but do not publish your post yet. Here are some questions to consider within your cyberjournal. As always, these questions are meant to inspire your writing. You are not required to answer them all; however, you are required to fully explain your ideas and thoughts, providing support when necessary.
Analysis | Catcher in the Rye
Research | Read and consider the article, Feel Like a Fraud, At Times Maybe You Should You may also use the audio version. Reconsider your original blog post by integrating new ideas developed after reading this article. Be sure to cite correctly if you quote from the article. Also be sure to integrate a hyperlink to the article into your cyberjournal. Do not simply put the article at the end of the cyberjournal. Studio Time:
Do Now | Update Goodreads
Silent Reading | Chapter Deadlines
Character Analysis Charts | Color, Symbol, Quotation Holden's description of the people in his life, or the people he meets during his journey, actually reveals more about him as an individual than the people themselves. In order to make deeper inferences about Holden, consider the way he describes a person from the novel in a See, Think, Quotation:
Reflection + Analysis | Cyberjournal Phonies Create a new cyberjournal, you know the drill in regards to title, labels, hyperlinks. At this point, merely record your ideas in a blog post, but do not publish your post yet. Here are some questions to consider within your cyberjournal. As always, these questions are meant to inspire your writing. You are not required to answer them all; however, you are required to fully explain your ideas and thoughts, providing support when necessary.
You may also use the audio version. Reconsider your original blog post by integrating new ideas developed after reading this article. Be sure to cite correctly if you quote from the article. Also be sure to integrate a hyperlink to the article into your cyberjournal. Do not simply put the article at the end of the cyberjournal. Do Now | On the back of the sheet that Addie handed out at the door, define societal norms by providing one example an expectation young adults have placed upon them by society:
Analysis | She Persisted, 13 American Women Who changed the World, Chelsea Clinton
Reflection | Why don't more people defy societal norms? Consider the reflection question along with today's discussion in a formal Cyberjournal in your Writer's Portfolio. Start a new cyberjournal blog post in your digital writing portfolio. Title the blog post Why don't more people defy societal norms? Add the categories - Social Perspectives, Cyberjournal, She Persisted, Societal Norms. Construct your blog post by reflecting on the following questions:
thursday, october 4, 2018 & Friday, October 5, 2018 | how does technology impact communication?10/4/2018
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Cyberjournal
Start a new cyberjournal blog post in your digital writing portfolio. Title the blog post How does conformity impact communication? Add the categories - Social Perspectives, Cyberjournal, Feed, Conformity. Begin your blog post by reflection on the following questions:
Synthesis | Quick Jot The connotative meaning of a word is the associated meanings that come from its use in various social contexts. Connotative meanings will vary from location to location and will change or die over time. Consider for example the word brother. Literarily it means a blood male sibling. Connotatively it might mean someone greater than a friend, a protector, a safe place.
Connect Extend Challenge | Calista, Link, Quendy, Marty Silently answer the question below on the provided sticky notes. Only provide one answer per sticky note (so you may end up using three or four sticky notes). Place your sticky notes in the center of your pod when you have completed the answer.
Each pod will explain at least one of the groupings, connections, they formed during this activity and place the sticky notes on the Conformity Parking Lot. The other pods will then be allowed time to connect, extend, challenge those Feed/Conformity ideas.
Analysis | Inbox
Respond to the prompt - How does technology change relationships and communication? - by completing the initial 3, 2, 1 Bridge:
Respond to video by considering how technology changes relationships and communication in a new way:
Reflect | Based on your completion of both 3, 2, 1 Bridges, formally respond to the prompt - How does technology change relationships and communication? - in written format. Publication Finalize your cyberjournal by adding information about your silent discussions and Inbox. Respond to the following questions, revise, edit, publish and finally send a professional email to Addie with your blog post linked into it.
Friday, september 21, 2018 | How does technology cause social perspectives to grow and evolve?9/20/2018 Do Now Addie will be giving you a number as you entire the door. As a group, create a list of evidence from the world around us that supports your groups stance on technology and power.
Analysis | Cyberjournal Open the blog post that you started on Monday in Social Perspectives. After this weeks discussion of Feed by M.T. Anderson and on power in society, add to your response to the questions How does technology cause social perspectives to grow and evolve? Additionally, consider the following questions in your blog post:
Do Next: See, Think, Wonder........ Do Next: Social Studies content introduction.
To evaluate power in your own life, complete a “personal power assessment.”
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