1. Welcome Back!
Miss Neetzow

2. Agenda Introduction Syllabus Get to Know You/Name Tents
Goal Setting Activity
Writing Prompt

3. Goal Setting
Write down 3 strengths and 3 areas you would like to improve upon this year related to English.
Put a star next to the goal you think you would like to most improve on this year.
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4. A SMART Goal Specific: What exactly do you want to accomplish.
Be specific in what you want to do
Non-example: Do better in math.
Example: Earn above an 80% on my lesson assessments.

5. A SMART Goal
Measurable: How will you know you met this goal? What will you be able to do?
You should have evidence to support you are working towards or reaching your goal.
Non-example: Final Grade of the marking period
Example: Review my gradebook or assessments.

6. A SMART Goal
Action/Attainable: What will you need to do in order to reach your goal?
What steps are you going to take to meet your goal?
Non-example: Copy my classmates homework.
Example: Complete my homework and review before assessments.

7. A SMART Goal
Realistic/Relevant: Is the goal reachable? How do you know?
Will it be possible for you to reach your goal when you put in the effort?
Non-example: I am smart so I can reach it.
Example: I averaged a 75% last year, so I can work hard again this year.

8. A SMART Goal
Timely/Time-Board: When will you reach your goal? What is your deadline?
When would you like to meet your goal by?
Non-example: My first few tests.
Example: By the end of the first two marking periods I would like to consistently meet my goal.

9. SMART Goal Think Sheet

10. Writing Prompt
Where is your favorite “thinking” place? Or describe where you go or what you do to be “happily” alone.
In your response, include:
Title
Intro sentence
3-4 supporting sentences
Concluding sentence
Check for grammar/spelling

11. Introductory Sentence
2 Points
1 Points
0 Points
Title
Included
Not Included
Introductory Sentence
Supporting Sentences
3-4 sentences included
2 sentences included
0-1 sentences included
Concluding Sentence
Grammar/Punctuation
0-3 mistakes
4-6 mistakes
7+ mistakes

12. 9/13/16 Bell Ringer
Get your binder from the side of the room. Take out your name tent.
Get a rubric from the front table. Read over/add to your paragraph. If your paragraph is finished, use the rubric to self- evaluate your writing. Circle the points that you think you have earned for each category.
Where is your favorite “thinking” place? Or describe where you go or what you do to be “happily” alone.
Homework – Parent/guardian signature by Wednesday and finish Locked Up article with questions

13. SMART Goal
Take out your Think Sheet and go over what you wrote down yesterday.
Half Sheet

14. Elements of Science Fiction
Realistic and fantastic details
Grounded in science
Usually set in the future
Unknown inventions/advanced technology
Makes a serious comment about the world
Often contains a warning for humankind
Can be set in alternate location—another planet, another dimension
May contain aliens
Must have a protagonist/hero and an antagonist/villian
Will have a problem that must be overcome

15. Science Fiction Settings
Another planet
Under the oceans
Another dimension of existence
May be a utopia or dystopia
May be in the future
May time travel to the past (or future)
May take place in present, but alternate reality

16. Science Fiction Characters
Protagonist (Hero)
Antagonist (Villian)
These characters may be a being (human or other) or may be a force
Protagonist or Antagonist may be a society’s laws, a disease or other problem, technology, etc.
Creatures, robots, aliens, etc.

17. Science is Important to the Story
Advanced technology
Genetics
Disease
Exploration
Special powers or senses as a result of science
Science can be the savior or the root of the problem

18. Text Coding and Annotating
What does annotate mean?
Why is it important to annotate when reading?
What are things that you can do while reading?
Number the paragraphs
Write a blurb/gist statement
Use text coding symbols

19. Text Coding Symbols ? ! + This surprised me I agree
I don’t understand this !
This surprised me +
I agree
Very important detail
Word I don’t know
_____
Textual Evidence I can use

20. Article Locked Up

21. 9/14/16 Bell Ringer
Grab your binder from the side of the room.
Take out your S+R and your HW questions from last night.
Take a sheet from the front table to correct the following sentence:
that new studient paula is from south africa she told me she had never seen the star wars moviee in that countray

22. Locked Up Questions/Article Discussion
What types of conflict could inmates be experiencing?
Man versus Self
Man versus Man
Man versus Nature
Man versus Society
Man versus Technology or Supernatural

23. What is Conflict? Brainstorm your own definition.
Our class definition:
A struggle between two opposing forces in a novel, short story, or play OR The problem of a story
Conflict is necessary for every story.
Conflict adds suspense and excitement.

24. Internal Conflict
The struggle that takes place in a character’s mind or heart.

25. Types of Internal Conflict
Person versus Self
A person is struggling with overcoming a fear, with addiction, with making a difficult decision, or other personal issue.

26. External Conflict
The struggle that takes place with a person and an outside force.
Person versus Person
Person versus Nature
Person versus Society
Person versus Technology 

27. Person versus Person The most common form of external conflict.
In literature, the protagonist must face antagonist that stands in the way of them achieving their goals or causes a problem. 
The conflict could be physical contact, an argument, or being upset with one another.

28. Person versus Nature
Natural disasters or things in nature affect the protagonist.
Examples:  floods, fires, storms, severe winds, earthquake, etc.

29. Person versus Society Protagonist may feel like an outcast of society.
Protagonists may feel trapped, paranoid, or have a sense that something is flawed about the world around them.
The protagonist struggles to change institutions like government or religion, often without success. 

30. Person versus Technology
The character may find their enemy within machines. 
The character may have difficulty understanding how to use technology.

31. Identify this Conflict

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35. Identify this Conflict

36. Exit Ticket In your journals, please answer in 4-5 sentences:
What is one conflict that you encounter in your daily life? What do you do in order to work towards overcoming that conflict?

37. 9/15/16 Bell Ringer Grab your binders from the side.
Look at the following pictures and determine which conflict it represents. Give a sentence describing why.

38. Journal Exit In 4-5 sentences answer the following:
What are your thoughts about the USSA? What do you think about the Child Safety Laws regarding sports?

39. 9/16/16 Bell Ringer Grab your binders and your Rash book.
In your journal, list:
3 things that we know about Bo,
2 differences of how life is like in USSA compared to ours
3 things that are now illegal in the USSA
Finish your Chapter 1-4 questions if you did not finish yesterday.

40. Defending Our Homeland
What are some safety measures that the United States has put into place to protect its citizens? (Hint: think about when the country becomes threatened)
What are some ways that the United States already monitors its citizens? (Hint: think about technology)
How does this article relate to the society in Rash? What are some similarities and differences?

41. Defending Our Homeland
Do you think at some point in the future our government will be able to monitor its citizens for the majority, if not all of the time?

42. Independent reading assignment