9th Grade
Week 6
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Date
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Assignment
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Monday
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9/15
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Class work
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Introduction to A
Night To Remember
Give out readers
Writers Notebooks and discuss downloading of Rubric from 9th Grade
Box.
Save 5 Pages for
Table of Contents
Save 10 Pages in
Back for Vocabulary Words
Number your pages
#1 In your
Reader’s/Writer’s Notebook, describe a time when you viewed something
differently from others. What did you learn from that experience?
Share with your
Elbow Partner
#2 What do you already know about the
sinking of the Titanic?
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How do
you know? What were your sources?
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Why is
it significant?
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Remember the
Lenses: Class ($), gender, race,
religion, age, era
Driving Questions:
The sinking of the
Titanic was a catalyst for change. What changes were there in American life
and what changes in maritime law after its sinking?
What were the
reactions from the people aboard, and why were those reactions different?
Make sure you address each group: Officers; Crew; 1st, 2nd, and 3rdClass (Steerage), as well as the men,
women, and children within each group.
Themes:
Hubris, Compassion, Loyalty, Faith, Physical
courage, Moral courage, Sense of humor, Interdependence, Fallibility
Recommended
Supplementary Book
Titanic Voices of the Disaster by Deborah
Hopkinson
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Homework
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9/15
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Read Chapter 1-3 for the GIST
#3 In your Readers
Writers Notebook respond to the following:
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What major things
happened in this chapter?
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How do you know
they are major?
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Write a coherent
and accurate representation of the chapter.
Don’t Forget to LABEL Your Table of Contents!
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Download Readers Writers Notebook Rubric at LACER
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Tuesday
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9/16
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Class work
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Share your
responses with a partner.
In your Readers Writers
Notebooks
#4 Answer the Following Reflection Questions:
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What
did you do while reading to help you get the gist of the chapters?
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What
did you and your partner/group do to write a representation of the
chapter? How did you decide what
was most important to the gist of the chapter and what was less important?
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Which
written representations were the most coherent and accurate?
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Why?
What specific characteristics made them effective?
Don’t Forget to LABEL Your Table of Contents!
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Homework
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#5
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Reread Chapters 1 – 3 again to choose three moments
(phrases, sentences, passages, etc.) that strike you as significant.
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Make a two-column note chart in your Reader’s/Writer’s
Notebook to record the significant moments you select. Write the moments in the left column
of the chart. In the right column of the chart, do a QuickWrite to explain
the significance of each moment.
Be ready to share your significant moments chart with a
partner in class. Both partners must complete or team gets a ZERO!
#6 Complete
Reflection
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How did you go about choosing significant moments?
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What did you learn by hearing a range of moments and
explanations?
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How might students benefit from engaging in this type of
activity?
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Wednesday
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9/17
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Class work
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#7
Create a List of the
Cast of Characters
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Group
1: pages
5-8
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Group
2: pages
9-11
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Group
3: pages
12-15
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Group
4: pages
16-19
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Group
5: pages
20-25
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Group
6: pages
27-30
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Group
7: pages
31-34
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Group
8: pages
35-38
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Group
9: pages
39-41
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Group
10: pages 42-45
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After you have
finished listing the Characters answer the following questions:
•What do you notice about the different
perspectives Lord offers about the events? Explain.
–Whose perspective is represented?
–Who’s missing?
•What do you notice about how and why these
people experienced the same event(s) differently?
•What does Lord’s choice of people to investigate
tell you about his perspective as an investigator of this event?
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Homework
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Finish Activity 7 Questions in your
readers Writers Notebooks.
Read Chapters 4-6
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Thursday
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9/18
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Class work
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Quotations Vs.
Paraphrasing
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What is
the difference between paraphrasing a person’s remarks and using direct
quotations to represent a person’s remarks?
Activity #8- Answer
the Following Questions in your Readers Writers Notebooks:
Locate examples of
each in Lord’s text.
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What
are the differences between them in terms of the effect on the reader?
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Why
might Lord have chosen to paraphrase some remarks and directly quote
others?
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Homework
Back To School
Night
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Read Chapter 7
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Friday
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9/19
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Class work
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Finish Chapter 7
Activity #9
When you are
finished, in your Readers
Writers Notebooks write a 1 page
response to the following question:
Throughout most of the book, Lord has kept silent about
his own perspective on the sinking of the Titanic. What does he now appear to be saying
about its historical significance?
Explain using evidence from the text.
Be prepared to share
your response with a partner/table group on Monday.
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Homework
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Download from 9th Grade Night to Remember Project Box, Read and Annotate “Winning
It All” by Kristina Talavera
If you do not wish to download, then take Cornell Notes in your Readers writers Notebook!
Activity #10
In your Readers Writers Notebook Answer the following
Question:
What major things do we learn
about this event and the people who experienced it?
Be prepared to turn your RW
Notebooks in on Monday for Grading.
Check that your table of
Contents is labeled and that your have added new Vocabulary Words in the back
of your book.
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