1. The Creative Brain
January 8th, 2019

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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”

8. 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

9. 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”

10. Expectations
Glue the expectations in our front cover

11. 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.

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

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

14. 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

15. What is a Theme?

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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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.

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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.

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

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

26. 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

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

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