Week of August 26 - sophomores

What's due this week:
Due date: 
Tuesday - 1. Annotate article - 5 ways to become a better thinker -
                2. Vocabulary
Friday     3. Packet- Page 1 (top half), 2, 3 and 4 of packet. Poems annotated
Friday     4. Begin my Life Through Images 
End of class Friday 5. Rough Draft of Written Response

Wednesday August, 28, 2013

Objective: Students will analyze poetry for symbolism and metaphor

Get computers

Warm Up: Go to www.mrshrin.blogspot.com

take: tech survey

1. Google Docs and the Cloud

cloud.smusd.org

a. log in
b. navigating
c. google doc, create share
If you could be any object, what would you be and why.  Please give at least three reasons. The more you write the easier your REAL writing assignment will be.
Begin image square using: Popplet or Low Tech
2. Figurative language
3. "Identity"

Tuesday, August, 27, 2013

1. A connection to yesterday's thought:

2. Warm up, respond to Yesterday's Questions
3. Vocabulary: analysis, analyze
4. Vocab square in your journal: what it is, what it is not, picture, sentence

Monday August 26, 2013

Objective: Students will question, discuss, and annotate to demonstrate their thinking

Agenda:
1. In journal: Copy "What is Due This Week"

2. Read 5 ways to become a better thinker -
a. highlight and write questions
 write and post one question that you really want explained/answered/clarified
with your group, pick questions to answer
 annotate text  
3. Go to www.Mrshrin.blogspot.com
a. Open this link and read it: 12 things we know about the brain