Macbeth Day 11

When You enter Grab a small rubric from the front of the room Take out a sheet of paper and your Vocab Packet

This week Wednesday Friday Tuesday Yoshino quiz HW Packet Due (Unit Guide!) Friday Independent Reading Test Notes due Tuesday MB Project Day!

Today Pre-seminar Notes Seminar Post-seminar Notes Introduce Vocab List 7 HW: Read Kenji Yoshino’s “The Natural World” (14 pages) HW: Complete Unit Guide; Acts III-V Packet due

Pre-Seminar Notes Which of your ideas / thoughts are you most looking forward to sharing with others? Why? On which question would you most like to hear the thoughts and opinions of others?

Seminar Scoring – 40 points 37-40 Vital participant –contributions significantly raised the quality of the discussion 32-36 Valuable participant –contributions added to the quality of the discussion 28-31 Participant –offered voice to the discussion, but did not add much that was new 20-27 Minimal participation or plagued by characteristics of poor participation.

Mr. Level is listening for… + - +Raising QUESTIONS +Insightful, unique perspectives +Interpretive response +Valid COUNTERARGUMENTS +Fresh opinions +Referencing TEXTUAL DETAILS +Invites others into discussion +Direct RESPONSE to others +Appropriate transitions +Strong CONNECTIONS +Relevant real world examples +SELF-AWARENESS -Inaccuracies or broad assumptions -Weak, shallow, obvious statements -REPEATING others without adding -Monologues (overly lengthy) -HOGGING(speaking too often) -Off topic -Distracting / not listening to others

Pre-Seminar Notes Set a personal goal for the seminar Number of times speaking (minimum or maximum) Types of contributions Habits to avoid

Post-Seminar Notes The most interesting thing I heard in my group’s seminar was… I disagreed with… I agreed with…