1. Monday, 30 November 2015
WELCOME BACK! 
It’s that time again! Acuity has arrived this week and we need to always push ourselves to show improvement. So, let’s set goals! We have an advantage this time, because we have hit a LOT more standards!
Task:
Review your Acuity Card that is being passed out, decide on a goal that you believe is obtainable yet challenging enough to motivate your effort for tomorrow on your first English test. Your goal should be at least ONE point above your previous score. Think HONESTLY about your own self and what you believe you can truly achieve when giving your best effort.
Write this goal into the goal column for both test based off of the previous score.

2. AOW #2 annotations AND Reflection are due FRIDAY
Monday, 30 December 2015
Download the “AoW: Article of the Week” from my website: from Documents/Materials, titled “AoW #4 “ Hotdogs, Bacon, and Other Processed Meats”
AoW #4 Reading and Annotating
AoW Research
AoW Reflection
Reminder:
AOW #2 annotations AND Reflection are due FRIDAY

3. 1.) Highlight your confusion With a partner, complete the following steps for your annotations on this week’s AoW:
1. ) Highlight your confusion:
Words your do not know
Confusing ideas
When you understand, but you don’t get why it is
2.) Highlight for interesting/important information
What stands out to you as the most interesting ideas in the article? Highlight these, and in the margins write a comment about why it is interesting.
3.) Talk to the text:
Next to each phrase or idea that you highlighted, ask a question or make a comment in the margin to represent why you highlighted it.
What does this mean?
Why is this happening?
This is cool.
I’ve seen something like this before.
If it is a word you do not know, write DEF:

4. Talk to the text: COMMENTS & DEFINITIONS
Do the Research!
Find as many answers to your questions as possible using Google.
Find the definitions to the words that you didn’t know, and write the definitions in the margins.
Everything highlighted should have a definition, question, comment, and/or ANSWER.

5. 3.) Write a 1+ page reflection
Type directly under the article (same document)
Four solid paragraphs (5-6 sentences each)
Respond to all, one, or none of the questions
A reflection is COMPLETELY your opinion about the article.
Use as much textual evidence as you can. OR
Complete the graphic organizer to organize your research and to help develop your FOUR paragraphs.
(ONE, not both, of these options must be chosen)
Possible Response Questions:
Will reading this article influence your eating habits? Explain.
Pick a passage from the article and respond to it. to it.

6. Good luck and good thinking! You can do this! 
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Prepare for Acuity. Remember to do your very own PERSONAL best, never give up, and keep thinking. I know you can do this. I believe in you. Log into Acuity. Wait patiently before doing ANYTHING else, we will start together. We will be taking the English test.
It is a ____ minute test – we will all begin at the same time and I will provide check times periodically.
Use 75% of your time (45 minutes) and a prize awaits you!
Answer every question to the best of your ability, think hard but keep moving.
If you have time, CHECK your work.
Raise your hand BEFORE your finish test and I will finish it with you.
When you are finished, read your AR book.
Good luck and good thinking! You can do this! 

7. Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Remember Readers, the hardest challenge of reading is coming across words we don’t know and trying to overcome their difficultness. There are many ways we can do this, by using context clues, prior knowledge, dictionaries, neighbors, etc…
Being challenged while reading, really does make you a stronger reader because you have the capability to overcome the challenge.
Complete the “First Guess Meaning” for each difficult word that is going to be in our story today without using a dictionary or a device. Your first guess does not have to be correct, but it does need to be completed! Take your BEST guess…

8. “A Sound of Thunder” challenge words
What do you think the words mean?
Which words were the hardest to figure out? Why?
Which is the easiest?
What method did you use to come up with a definition?

9. “A Sound of Thunder”
Open the story from our website under “Class Readings/Downloads” and save it to Notability to be annotated.
WHILE READING:
Highlight for confusion  focus on difficult words (especially from your list)
Highlight important details
TALK TO THE TEXT  “DEF,” comments, questions, connections, opinions, etc…

10. Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Write a summary of the first half of “A sound of Thunder.” What are the highlighted details we NEED to know?

11. “A Sound of Thunder” Open the story from Notability from yesterday.
WHILE READING:
Highlight for confusion  focus on difficult words (especially from your list)
Highlight important details
TALK TO THE TEXT  “DEF,” comments, questions, connections, opinions, etc…
AFTER READING
Complete the “Meaning after Reading” column
Provide any definitions you were not able to get
Answer the comprehension questions

12. What is the theme/Central Idea?

13. Good luck and good thinking! You can do this! 
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Prepare for Acuity. Remember to do your very own PERSONAL best, never give up, and keep thinking. I know you can do this. I believe in you. Log into Acuity. Wait patiently before doing ANYTHING else, we will start together. We will be taking the English test.
It is a ____ minute test – we will all begin at the same time and I will provide check times periodically.
Use 75% of your time (45 minutes) and a prize awaits you!
Answer every question to the best of your ability, think hard but keep moving.
If you have time, CHECK your work.
Raise your hand BEFORE your finish test and I will finish it with you.
When you are finished, read your AR book.
Good luck and good thinking! You can do this! 

14. Thursday, 3 December 2015 TASK:
Review: What is theme—AKA Central Idea??
On the page you picked up, write a theme/central idea statement for the story, “A sound of Thunder,” with your group.
Find a piece of supporting evidence to support your statement.

15. What is the theme/Central Idea?

16. The Butterfly Effect trailer
What is it?
Definition: (with reference to chaos theory) the phenomenon whereby a minute localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere.
The Butterfly Effect trailer

17. The BUTTERFLY EFFECT
In the short story, The Sound of Thunder, we learned that traveling through time can be dangerous. The characters from the story realize how they impact nature when one of the hunters steps on a butterfly. Through the destruction of one small element of the ecosystem, the future was changed. This is known as the “Butterfly Effect.” Man is causing changes in the ecosystem today.

18. Example: Today: There is an oil spill off the coast of California
Tomorrow:
1. Fish are poisoned.
2. People must buy expensive fish from the east coast.
3. People can no longer afford fish so they eat more meat.
4. More and more people get high cholesterol.
5. Some people die from heart attacks due to high cholesterol.
6. A president who creates positive change in the world is never born.
That escalated quickly 
YOUR TURN!

19. Friday, 4 December 2015
Hello, Radical Readers! Today we are going to focus on AR reading time, so make sure you have your BOOK AND READING LOG ready to go for today. Show RESPONSIBILITY, INITIATIVE, and EFFORT! Add an entry in your reading log and start reading immediately 