Digital Agenda: Wednesday, November 13th!

Do Now (10 mins):

First, copy your homework in your Agenda:

1. Complete the 5 step lesson for "Saving Lives with Smelly Feet"

2. Complete the Socratic Seminar Prep sheet on p. 37R

Write the question and answer on p. 38L of your Interactive Notebook.  Explain how you figured out which homophone to include in your answer.  Fill in each sentence with two/too/to

1. I am going ____ the mall.  I used the homophone _________ in the sentence because__________________________________.
2. Jesse wants to go ____.  I used the homophone _________ in the sentence because_____________________.
3. We're looking for ____ new hats.  I used the homophone _________ in the sentence because_____________________.

On the left side of your desk, leave your Agenda open and mini poster out.  I will check/collect this while you are working.

Objectives:

Students will...

identify a claim and the evidence that supports it with 80% accuracy using a text in the compare and contrast organizational pattern.

read at their lexile level on TeenBiz3000 and answer questions with 75% accuracy.

spell commonly misspelled homophones correctly in the Do Now with 66% accuracy.

Standards

Reading: Informational Text.6.8 Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

Reading: Informational Text.6.2 Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments

Language.6.2b Spell correctly.

Writing.6.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. 

Direct Station:

Guided Reading

Identifying and explaining claim and evidence, "Cell Phones in the Classroom"

Compare-and-contrast text pattern
Socratic Seminar Prep Sheet

Independent:

1. Follow this link to teenbiz3000.com
2. Type your username and password
3. Start the 5 step lesson for "Saving Lives with Stinky Feet"
4. Read & Listen to the Vocabulary
5. As you read each paragraph, STOP and fill in at least 1 sentence in the SETTING THE PURPOSE box.  This can be copy and pasted into your Thought Question, and will be graded.
6. When you do the ACTIVITY, refer back to the article for answers by opening it in a side-by-side screen.
7. On the Thought Question, remember to click on "Include in Your Answer" so you can get a 3 or 4 score.
8. If you finish early, do the Stretch Article and Activities!

Exit Ticket:  

What is your claim about using cellphones in class?  Write one piece of evidence to support that.

Students _____________________ be able to use cellphones in class.  One piece of evidence is that _________________________.