September 9. 2015
E.Q: Collaborate with my peers to determine meanings of a text.
Collaborate with my peers to create a formulaic paragraph based on the assigned reading.
Obj: I can collaborate with my peers to determine meanings of a text.
I can collaborate with my peers to create a piece of writing based on a text.
Starter:
Open up your lit circle role sheet that you completed last night for homework.
Evaluate your responses and contributions for the discussion.
What ideas can you expand on?
What might you have missed the first time?
Take five minutes to tweak your sheets.
Vocabulary:
To be determined by the vocab enricher.
Activity:
To be determined by the vocab enricher.
Activity:
1. Continuation of Literature Circles
In your assigned literature circles you will read the first 3 and 1/2 pages of Circles by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Start at the paragraph: "The eye is the first circle" and read through the paragraph "How often must we learn this lesson?"
Collaborate with the peers that have the same role as you.
Expand on your notes and make revisions when necessary.
Expand on your notes and make revisions when necessary.
Summarizer
Discussion Director
Literary Luminary
Vocab Enricher
Connector
When you are done collaborating, share the information with your original group.
2. Collaborative TPEQEA assignment
With the members of your lit circle respond to the following question in a TPEQEA paragraph:
Compare Emerson's attitude towards change to Thoreau's view in Civil Disobedience.
Use the above link to complete the final project for this unit.
Due Date: Wednesday, September 16.
Closure:
If you could change any one thing, big or small, what would it be?
Use this information to brainstorm ideas for your project.
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