PLC 1/17

The Freshman civics classes are working on a unit on women's rights. To do a cross-curricular connection, we selected a short story and article of the week for next week that both deal with feminism. 

Tuesday- Define and discuss Irony

Wednesday/Thursday- Read "The story of an hour" and identify irony

Friday- Identify themes in "The story of an hour" 

PLC 1/10

Discussed student comprehension  and engagement with Everyday Use short story
Moved characterization and analysis questions to next week
Planned student choice writing assignment

PLC 12/20

Discussed student needs:
-Continued work with reading comprehension
-Review of school and classroom expectations
-Review of how to complete the article of the week assignment
-Modeling of how to annotate texts

Planned for week of 1/7:
Monday: "January Letters" reflection on 2018
Tuesday: Modeling article of the week
Weds-Fri: Everyday use short story. Read aloud and character analysis

PLC minutes 12/13

MAP scores are entered into data sheet, we have seen growth! We will discuss a plan of how to move forward when we return from winter break.

We discussed how to check rosters to see who has something in their backpack. Blue team is almost at 100%. Gold team will check again after Slinde finalizes the anti-smoking project, and Rahmlow has students complete their egg drop projects.

Next week's plans:
-Monday: Students will read, annotate, and summarize the article the final is on
-Tuesday: Multiple choice portion of the test and pre-writing for the essay portion
-Wednesday/Thursday: Essay portion of final
-Friday: Final makeups, makeup assignments, logic puzzle enrichment activity

PLC minutes 12/6

Discussed MAP testing Annie has 12 kids that did not finish Emerald has 15. All due to absences or suspensions.
We will enter MAP scores into the data sheet by next week's PLC/

Plans for next week:

• Have students analyze a painting and then write a poem inspired by the painting and analysis
• Blue team: Students will complete a critical reading of a passage from The Hate U Give to help prepare for the Final
• Gold team: Students will discuss the audience and purpose and write a rough draft of a persuasive letter to convince someone in their life to stop smoking
• Review of skills from the semester to prepare for the final

PLC minutes 11/29

This week we are doing round 2 of MAP testing. We will try to finish next week.
Next week we will be finishing the argument speech project.
The final assessment will be the DCA #1 informational.
Weds-Friday of next week we will focus on comparing texts to help prepare students for the DCA.
The week of the 10th gold team will be working on a team-wide project dealing with tobacco.

PLC minutes 11/15

Planned for 11/19-11/20 and 11/26-11/30

Students will be completing drafts of their argument speeches and planning and practicing delivering them. 

Reading MAP testing will take place 11/28 and 11/29