Wednesday 1/28

We watched flocabs today--Great JOB! see the link called Final products to the right to check out the awesome work.
Don't forget if you are choosing to rewrite your essay-you need ot complete the redo by the endo fhte day tomorrow.

Also reading logs are due on Monday with 150 minutes logged.

Tuesday 1/27

Today we wrote a note to ourselves regarding what we want to remember about projects, about partnerships and about who we are as learners so when we begin a new project next quarter, we will be reminded of both our strengths and our weakenesses. THis was done as a google doc and named project thoughts. We also printed out powerschool grades so if there were questions, we could address them well before the end of the week.

Important--Essay grades below 85 can be rewritten and turned in for a new grade, however, this must be done by the end of the day on Thursday--no late work will be accepted after Thursday.

HW: Read/log/post it 150 minutes due on Monday. No late logs will be accepted.

Monday 1/26

I hope you had a refreshing weekend. it seems several aof you are out sick today. I hope you get better soon!  We worked on being sure hte following items are complete and turned in. Flocabs will be shown on Wednesday and today is the last class time you will get to finish things up--otherwise 10th periods should be used!

Your new logs are due next Monday 2/2/2015

1. Final Draft with title and names
2. Print out of MLA citation page from Noodletools (yes even though you shared it through Noodletools to the dropboxFlocab2015)
3. The movie exported and saved in quicktime format and transferred to my flashdrive.
4. Reflection sheet completed

Thursday 1/22/15

Recording starts today! ALL of the following items need to be complete by the end of the day tomorrow.

CHECKLIST

• Size 12
• Stanzas (28—40 lines)
• CATCHY, CREATIVE, MEANINGFUL TITLE
• Your name(s)
• HISTORICAL terms underlined
• VOCABULARY words emboldened (minimum 8)
• Sensory details highlighted
• imovie completed with minimum of 5 quality pictures (no pixilated photos please), audio
• imovie shared with Mrs. Carlisto (youtube or on her flashdrive)
• MLA Entries included for all consulted works-- pictures, articles and beats (except beats we’ve provided)
• These need to be shared to the flocab2015 folder through Noodletools
• Final Google doc named as follows and shared with

acarlisto@lakeplacidcsd.net

name(s)flocab

• Final song printed and stapled and turned into us

Wednesday

Great work day today! Don't forget to include a catchy meaningful title with your work.  Recording begins tomorrow.

Tuesday 1/20

DUE TOMORROW:

•  2 hard copies of Final draft in hand (include changes made to increase sensory details)

ALL Vocabulary words are EMBOLDENED
ALL history needs to be underlined
All Sensory details hilighted

• 3 pix cited in Noodletools

Tuesday 1/20

I hope you had a fantastic weekend. Today we are going to attempt to eliminate some of the helping verbs in your poems in order to breathe some life into them.  We are also going to encourage you to find some pictures today.  Please see the handout for tips not only for searching but also for reducing the "telling" in your poems.

Friday 1/16

The first part of hte block was devoted to showing more examples and to sharing beat choices.  The second part of the block is devoted to final drafts.

Here is a link to beat choices

Thursday 1/15

We did much work on moving rough rough to rough draft.
HW: Rough draft is due tomorrow

Wednesday 1/14

We analyzed storyboards today to make sure the story told is logical and does not jump around too quickly.  We then worked on making sure history is included  and vocabulary words too.  We did this by working through the storyboard and identifying HC: for each frame and V: for each frame.  Students spent a large portion of the class working on this.  Some who finished began working on a rough rough draft of their song--All students need to complete a rough draft of at least two stanzas for tomorrow.

Tuesday 1/13

Today we checked student's homework of annotating articles and filling in "big  historical box"--if you were absent-be sure to show us that. We then moved into a lesson about point of view and students filled out this worksheet in order to make sure they had considered all the different angles from which to tell the story.
Our next move was to introduce the storyboard and explain how it worked-students were then given time to craft their storyboards.

HW: Storyboards due tomorrow

Monday

Welcome to flocab. please see column to the right for the packet that explains the assignment in its entirety.  We worked on chooisng partners, choosing a topic and filling out what we know about hte topic and determining what we still need too know.

HW:
Complete the KTN worksheet
Find, read, annotate article about topic
Fill in big historical box

Friday 1/9

Sorry I had ot be out today. If you too were out, please see my note to the class regarding what is to be covered today.

HW: Get your creative juicees flowing--Flocab starts Monday!
Also consider reading so you have 200 minutes by next Tuesday when I collect logs.

Thursday 1/8/15

Today we looked at each other's papers to check for grammatical and typing errors using this sheet. 
The final draft is due tomorrow--I will collect the following:

1. graphic organizer
2. draft 2 that is marked up by a peer
3. final draft

Addtionally, all drafts need to be in your NJ folder that is shared with me.

Your reading logs will not be collected until 1/20/15--200 minutes will be due at that time

Wednesday 1/7/15

Today we peer edited using this sheet feel free to ask someone else to look over your paper.  Draft 3 is due tomorrow in class--revisions should be made based on suggestions given by people who looked your paper over. It is a good idea for you to look over your own as well.

Your reading logs will not be collected until 1/20/15--200 minutes will be due at that time.  This is due to the rigorous demands of writing workshop right now--you will have hw other than reading and I do not want to inundate you.

Tuesday 1/6/15

Today we read for 10 min, we then went over conclusions and looked at a checklist for help in making sure our second draft is on the right track.

Darft 2 is due at the beginning of your class period tomorrow.

Monday 1/5

Welcome back.  Today we worked through reading the comments on draft one, made a copy of draft 1 and called it draft 2 (in th eshared folder)and began making the changes to the draft to ensure that we have an essay that clearly explains how the theme of the book is developed in throughout the book. We will continue making changes tomorrow. Hw is to locate your IR books and ot bring them to class tomorrow.
Draft 2 will be due at the beginning of class on Wednesday, you willbe given approximately 25 minutes to work ondraft 2 in class tomorrow. Plan your time accordingly, if you do not have computer access at home and feelyou willneed more time, come to my room 10th both today and tomorrow and you will get it done!