1. Quiz Wednesday January 26, 2015
Warm Up:
Complete flashcards using the template. Define and add examples.
Today’s Goal: Unpack Unit 3
January 26, 2015
Why is it important to learn about genocide?
How can one person make a difference?
Quiz Wednesday

2. Unit 3 Overview: Predict
The world has dark pages in its history, and at times the challenge of righting such immeasurable wrongs seems impossible. Reading narratives about the Holocaust and other genocides will reveal the worst in human behavior, but it will also show how individuals can find light in the darkness. In this unit, you will present the voices of fictional or real people who fought the darkness by helping, hoping, or persevering. You will also apply the lessons of the past to start making a difference today by raising awareness and encouraging people to take action about a significant national or global issue.

3. Finding Light in The Darkness
What do you notice about this art?
How do you think the arts (artwork, music, literature) can help change the world?

4. Academic Vocab Terms Sort the terms onto your QHT chart
Communication
resume
euphemism
slogan
media
media channels
target audience
evaluate

5. Skills for groupwork Let’s put ideas on chart paper. Come prepared
Speaking
Listening
Come prepared
Read your part
Organize your thoughts
Ask clarifying questions and connect to others’ ideas
Respond to others
Use appropriate eye contact
Speak clearly
Listen to others
Avoid barriers such as daydreaming, fidgeting, or having side conversations
TAKE NOTES to prepare thoughtful responses

6. Triptico
Group of 5
Take turns reading your quotes aloud. Interpret your quote, and discuss the meaning and figurative language used in each quotation. Follow the guidelines we created for effective discussion.

7. P. 164 in SB

8. Reflection
Challenges
Goals
Speaking
Listening
Reading

9. Quiz Wednesday January 27, 2015
Warm Up:
Complete flashcards using the template. Define and add examples.
Today’s Goal: Review for Quiz
January 27, 2015
Why is it important to learn about genocide?
How can one person make a difference?
Quiz Wednesday

10. BLOCK 1
Speaking and Listening Skills

11. Triptico
Group of 5
Take turns reading your quotes aloud. Interpret your quote, and discuss the meaning and figurative language used in each quotation. Follow the guidelines we created for effective discussion.

12. Appositives & Gerunds
Get out your handouts.

13.
Gerunds in song.

14. Book Pass Take out a clean sheet. Make a chart: Book Title Rating
Notes

15. Warm Up:
Study
Today’s Goal: Quiz
January 28, 2015
Why is it important to learn about genocide?
How can one person make a difference?
Quiz Today!

16. Today’s Goal: Review unit test Test Taking Strategies
Warm Up:
Read the article.
On a new page in your notebook, write a one-paragraph summary.
Give it a title.
POST to Biblionasium
January 29, 2015
How can we test smarter and faster?
Today’s Goal: Review unit test Test Taking Strategies

17. Summary
This article by Michael Bergen says that the most often used and told test strategies are ineffective and may hurt your grade. The, “When in doubt choose C” and the “Make anything up on the essay” have been proven wrong. Instead of these test strategies they encourage you to write a summery of any passage read. Also they encourage you to re-read questions that you aren’t sure on. Finally they recommend you to create practice tests to recreate the pressure of the environment and the time limit given. I think I speak for everyone that these results are surprising and will change the way I take test.

18. Strategies Read all answer choices Read the question, then the passage
Look for negative words in questions
Summarize the passage
Look for the main idea in the opening and ending paragraphs
Reconsider your answers by asking, “Why is this answer correct?”

19. Review your test
In a group of three, use the above strategies to review your answers for one of the four passages.
Read all answer choices
Read the questions, then the passage
Look for negative words in questions
Summarize the passage
Look for the main idea in the opening and ending paragraphs
Reconsider your answers by asking, “Why is this answer correct?”

20. Triptico

24. Make a Poster
Create a Public Service Announcement for Test-Taking Strategies
Create a SYMBOL to represent your strategy

25. Reflection
How will today’s activity change the way you take tests in the future?
Answer in your notebook beneath today’s warm up.