The QBTs start tomorrow! Hope you are ready! Okay, I hope the people scheduled to go are ready. Here they are.
Period Three Period Four
Emily Swaim Charlene Menzen
Meagan Kelly Clare Jurkovic
Sophia Donati Nicole Knudston
Katherine Barker
Payton Woodworth
Chase Tarwacki
Period Four is loaded. No guarantees that you will all present; however, you all need to be ready to present. If not...you may not want to know.
Here are a couple of reminders for you presenters.
*Be sure you have some notecards but don't read off of them.
*Keep strong eye contact throughout the presentation.
*Have an engaging voice.
*Be passionate about what you learned.
*Start off with a catchy opening about what you learned.
*Mention the title and author but don't open with the title and the author.
*Have your book and show it to us.
*Make sure it is clear what you learned.
*Share evidence on what you learned.
*Have fun. It's over in 120-180 seconds.
We'll discuss those presentations for successes and weaknesses--pointers for the rest of you. Take notes on what works.
Our verbals study will continue. How well do you know the material? Can you identify a gerund? A participle? An infinitive? Not sure? Check your notes. Then take this verbals quiz. It'll give you a quick look at how well you know the material. Take the quiz. Write down your answers. Check to see how you did. Show it all to me. I'll sign your Archer card.
You should also be working on the paper for the nonfiction book. What did you learn? What other source are you going to use to expand upon what you learned? Then write a two page paper with an intro, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Some of you are already making progress with this. Great! Don't wait for me to come breathing down your neck to get started.
A chunk of our time this week will be spent preparing for and starting Night. We've gone through some background information already to prepare us for what we are about to read. The time period: 1930s-1940s. The central participants: Hitler and the Nazis, the United States, The Soviets, the Jews, the Poles, the Gypsies. Some key words: propaganda, gas chambers, crematoriums, concentration camps, ghettos, sterilization, selection. We read a short story: "The Poisonous Mushrooms". We looked at a quote from Goethe. Still to come we will examine a few more photographs. There's a short video we will watch. We'll also clarify a timeline of key events. The book could be in your hands as early as Tuesday.
Still time to get some work done tonight. See you tomorrow.
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