Monday, December 16, 2013

December 16th through 20th

1. This week we will be discussing the book as a whole. You were each able to select two or more discussion questions from the back of the text.
You will have a graded discussion on these questions.

  • Your reading and speaking scores will reflect your answers on the questions you've selected.
  • Your listening scores will reflect ALL of the discussions you were not a part of.


2. We will also be completing a wordle. This is due on the 17th for gold day students and the 20th for blue day students. The steps are below.

  • download and install Firefox (in self-service on your computer under "web") and Java (here)
  • select a section of the book (an entire part) and pull words from it that reflect the tone of that particular section
  • type the words in Pages (for copying and pasting purposes...sometimes wordle is glitchy)
    • the more you type the words, the larger they will be
    • connect words that need to appear together with a tilde (~)
    • watch your capitalization AND spelling
  • click on "create" in wordle
  • copy words from pages
  • paste them into wordle
  • click on "go" 
  • your wordle should be created, but now you need to work on the following:
    • font
    • color (use custom palette to create your own please)
    • layout
  • all of the above should reflect the tone and mood of the piece
  • take a screeenshot
  • upload the wordle to your blog using insert image (see below)


  • write about your selections (words, colors, and font) and their effectiveness and post this to your blog as well
HOMEWORK OVER VACATION: PROJECT

Monday, December 9, 2013

December 9th and 10th

Due on Tuesday and Wednesday:
project proposals

Thursday and Friday: finish book

Today we reviewed our projects. Due dates are below.

Book Thief
January 6th (gold day)
January 7th (blue day)

Choice Book Buzz
January 21st (gold)
January 22nd (blue)

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

December 2nd and 3rd

Today we had an assessment over parts VI and VII. We wrote clarifying and probing questions to utilize in discussions the next time we meet.

Due Thursday and Friday:
Part VIII

Due Monday and Tuesday:
Part IX