The Creative Brain January 8th, 2019

1st Period Groups Station 1: Cortez, Jeremiah, Mwamba Station 2: Bryten, Marquis, Dash, Scarlett Station 3: I’Keiah, Jack, Jonas, Sydney Station 4: Charlie, Stella, Bernard, Amelia Station 5: Marlos, Angel, Caleb, Eleanor, Sariya, Subrina Station 6: Julius, Luc, Xander, Venice

4th Period Groups Station 1: Tre, Ambrianna Station 2: Alphonso, Avery, Dylan, Trey Station 3: Tay, Jakob, Greer Station 4: , Daphne, Kelsie Station 5: Kameron, Dashawn, Ezra Station 6: Jacob, Bet Station 7: Cyanae, Lura, Jy’Sean, Alison

5th Period Groups Station 1: Jeriah, Roselin Station 2: Victoria, Amara, Veronica Station 3: Chantze, Jayden Station 4: Ezilah, Quez, Kamryn Station 5: Edward, Chanyel, Ahriel, Chase Station 6: Jack Henry, Javier, Seamus, Sydelle, Hudson, Frank Station 7: Quinten, Nyala, Shelby, Aidan

6th Period Groups Station 1: Aniya, Kelsi, Alex H., Malachi, Caden Station 2: Kennedi, Henry, Sam Station 3: Alex W, Caroline, Harper, Wolfie, Alec Station 4: Madalyn, Alana, Logan, Station 5: Syrah, Caitlin, Angus, Zane, Sarayah Station 6: Kaelin, Marina, Olivia L., Gabby, Simone Station 7: Audri, Xavier, Chelsea

Bellringer: Check out our daily warm-up activities Complete “Tuesday’s Warm-Up Task” What is an inference?

What is an inference? An inference is an educated guess about why something happened, or what motivated a decision. Creating inferences can also be called “reading between the lines”

Getting Organized Before break, you took home your folders and notebooks We are starting fresh for this new year Instructions: 1.) Select a folder and a notebook 2.) Pick out 2 name tag stickers (write your full name on this) 3.) Pick out some fun stickers and decorate This notebook is YOUR SPECIAL NOTEBOOK FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR

Setting Up Interactive Notebooks 1.) Number your pages (front and back all the way through) 2.) Page 1 is your “Title Page” 3.) Pages 2-4 is your “Table of Contents”

Expectations Glue the expectations in our front cover

Setting Up Interactive Notebooks 4.) Page 5 – glue in a copy of your plot diagram (with definitions) 5.)Page 6-7 – glue in a copy of the “Text Structures in Informational Texts” handout. These are “Thinking Maps” that can help you interpret articles of nonfiction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOGLuDElm0

Page 8: Interactive Notebook Glue/tape in your Bellringer handout

Page 9 of Interactive Notebook Freewrite: why do we use thinking maps and how can they help us remember information?

Warm-Up Check out our daily warm-up activities on page 8 of your Interactive Notebooks Complete “Wednesday’s Warm-Up Task” All about theme

What is a Theme?

Page 10: Interactive Notebook New Year Resolutions Thinking Map Create a diagram of what you would like to accomplish this year

Page 11 - Freewrite What is creativity? What do we mean when we say someone is “creative”? In other words, what are we saying that person does well? Minimum of 5 sentences for your response

Warm-Up Check out our daily warm-up activities on page 8 of your Interactive Notebooks Complete “Thursday’s Warm-Up Task” All about plot

Page 12-13: Glue in “How to Read Nonfiction” Read “Reseach Opens Windows Into the Creative Brain” Explore this article with your “How to Read Nonfiction” thinking map

Page 14: Structure Turn to page 6-7 of your interactive notebook View the “Text Structures in Informational Texts” Use the “Key Words” to determine what the text structure of “Research Opens Windows into the Creative Brain” Draw the text pattern’s thinking map on page 14 of your interactive notebook. Fill it out.

Warm-Up: Check out our daily warm-up activities on page 8 of your Interactive Notebooks Complete “Friday’s Warm-Up Task” All about points of view

Turn to pages 2-4 of interactive notebook Add all of this week’s activities to our table of contents While you work, I will call people up for notebook checks

Page 14: Structure Turn to page 6-7 of your interactive notebook View the “Text Structures in Informational Texts” Use the “Key Words” to determine what the text structure of “Research Opens Windows into the Creative Brain” Draw the text pattern’s thinking map on page 14 of your interactive notebook. Fill it out.

Page 15 of Interactive Notebook Freewrite: Why do author’s cite their sources?

Page 16-17 Glue in information about different types of evidence authors use.

Page 18-19 Glue in Argumentative Thinking Map Reread Weintraub’s article, “Research Opens Windows Into the Creative Brain” Map out the author’s argument

Rainbow highlighting – get crayons Highlight intro/hook = YELLOW Argument (claim/central idea) = BLUE Evidence 1 = RED Evidence 2 = GREEN Evidence 3 = PURPLE

Page 20: Freewrite Evaluate: Do you think the argument is well supported. How can it be improved.