Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Gatsby 6.3

Do now: Take out your annotated secondary source article

Objectives:

  • critique secondary source articles
  • identify key quotations from primary and secondary sources

Agenda:
1. Do now
2. Note cards: individual or in pairs (google drive or handwritten)
3. Develop a thesis statement
4. summarizer

HW: Draft a thesis statement

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Gatsby 6.2

Do now: Share your research question with a partner

Objectives:

  • conference about prompts and research questions
  • annotate secondary source article 

Agenda:
1. do now
2.Conferences
3.. Annotate Secondary Source Article

HW: Identify 5 Gatsby quotes and 3 secondary source quotes

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Gatsby 6.1

Do now: take out the essay prompts and review the possible choices

Objectives:

  • understand the expectations of the essay assignment
  • identify one prompt of interest
  • use school databases to identify one article on the selected topic
Agenda:
1. do now
2. Review/Clarify the essay assignment
3. Workshop time: identify a prompt, develop a research question, research articles on identified topic
4. Summarizer

HW:
 1) Create a "Great Gatsby" folder in your BELMONTSCHOOLS GOOGLE DRIVE.  2) In the "Great Gatsby" folder, create TWO documents: A) Note cards Doc: “Last Name, First Name Note Cards.” B) Essay Doc: “Last Name, First Name Essay.”  
2) Print one scholarly article and bring to class TUESDAY

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Creative Writing

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Thesis research day 3

Do now: tba

Objectives

  • understand the various databases available through our school
Agenda:
1. do now
2. Welcome Ms. Landry!
3. Database overview
4. Individual research time

HW: For the trip after break: Narrow your choices to TWO. Bring ONE book in for silent reading.