February 22 2018

Thursday 2/22/18 – Language Arts

Good Morning, Class!

Please take out:

  • Chromebook

 

Per. 3 (9:33-10:47) – Speech and Debate

Learning Target copy

 

Learning Target: Students will be able to research and plan PRO and CON arguments for a new debate topic.

Choose new topics:

  1. Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?
  2. Should People Become Vegetarian?
  3. Should All Americans Have the Right to Health Care?
  4. Is Refusing to Stand for the National Anthem an Appropriate Form of Protest?
  5. Is a College Education Worth It?
  6. Should Sanctuary Cities Receive Federal Funding?

Bring up your new Debate Graphic Organizer to take notes on PRO and then CON arguments, reasons, and evidence (no Counterarguments yet).

Per. 1 (11:36-12:50) – Language Arts

Please take out:

  • Chromebook

Lift Every Voice and Sing

Learning Target copy

 

Learning Target: Students will be able to compare three different presentations of a text as it is written, sung, and performed.

Open Lift Every Voice and Sing assignment on SS

Intro: paragraph, video, vocab

Read the poem

Annotate evidence while answering Comp and Think questions

Write:

  • Jot notes on which parts of the text affected you the most
  • Listen to the poem performed as a song; jot notes for this, focusing on anything new that stood out to you, or differences between the two versions
  • View the performance; jot notes for this, focusing on anything new that stood out to you, or differences between the three versions
  • Write a main idea (topic) sentence for your paragraph
  • Write a concluding sentence (reiterate the main idea/topic)

 

Homework:

  1. Read 25+ pages and log on Biblionasium:
    1. Title
    2. p. ____ to p. ____
    3. Big Thing that Happened (1-2 sentences: Who? What? When? Where?) + 1 question, prediction, inference, connection, visualization, or new word and how you guessed its meaning
  2. Finish work on Classroom and StudySync.


Posted February 22, 2018 by missnichols in category Language Arts, Miss Nichols' posts

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I am a teacher of 6th grade honors language arts and math at Jane Addams Middle School in Lawndale, CA.

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