Evidence of Learning Document: Final Edition

You should have the document done for today. Today, you will make revisions based on my feedback.

Due: Friday, June 23rd no later than 4:00 p.m.

The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson

Reading Instructions

Read the story.
Read “Get Graphic”
Choose two-page spread of the graphic novel and label the graphic text features
Add to the VOCABULARY DOCUMENT chart–Add your name to your additions.
Add to the POST-READING QUESTIONS chart–Add your name to your additions.
Create a digital document (Word) called THE OUTSIDE CIRCLE
Link both the vocabulary chart and the character chart into your document.
Complete the plot diagram for the story and label it with the details from the story.
Add the plot diagram link to your document.
1. Arianna
2. Brett
3. Evanson
Take a picture of your labeling of the two-page spread and insert it into your document.
Share your document with me via the Assignment Submission page
Reading Assessment Rubric

Writing Instructions

Complete a paragraph planner for The Outside Circle.
Write the paragraph
Use a Paragraph editing sheet to revise and edit your paragraph.
Writing rubric

Reflection

Due: Friday, June 23rd no later than 4:00 p.m.

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June 18

Exam Part I

Today, you will write the first part of your final exam. It is on reading.

You will….

Define 20 terms and/or phrases;
Read a short story;
Annotate the short story;
Answer the questions.

Define your 20 words on lined paper.

Answer all of the other questions on the exam.

Refer to the rubric for information on how you will be assessed, but you are not assessing yourself.

Staple all documents together. Make sure your name is on all pages.

Record the time you finished the exam on the exam cover.

IF you finish the exam and there is time left in the period, you can QUIETLY, work on your Evidence of Learning Document.

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June 12

Evidence of Learning Document: Final Edition

What did I learn in Grade 9: Presentation Rubric

You should have the Oral Communication, Reading, and Writing Sections of your Document done.

Copy and paste the rating scale below on to your paragraph checklist document.

For the Paragraph Checklist:

Rating Scale: Highlight where you are on this rating scale.

0-4 criteria——-5—————6——————–7——————–8-10 criteria + I noticed

R Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Today, we will work on the Media section.

The Outside Circle by Patti LaBoucane-Benson

Reading Instructions

Read the story.
Read “Get Graphic”
Choose two-page spread of the graphic novel and label the graphic text features
Add to the VOCABULARY DOCUMENT chart–Add your name to your additions.
Add to the POST-READING QUESTIONS chart–Add your name to your additions.
Create a digital document (Word) called THE OUTSIDE CIRCLE
Link both the vocabulary chart and the character chart into your document.
Complete the plot diagram for the story and label it with the details from the story.
Add the plot diagram link to your document.
1. Arianna
2. Brett
3. Evanson
Take a picture of your labeling of the two-page spread and insert it into your document.
Share your document with me via the Assignment Submission page
Reading Assessment Rubric

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June 6

Pecha Kucha Presentations/Evidence of Learning Document

Pecha Kucha Presentations!!

Some of you will present today. If your name is on the Tuesday list, you should have shared your slideshow with me already. If you are not presenting today, you will complete a presentation evaluation on one or more of the presentations.

Next, you will work on your Evidence of Learning Document: Final Edition

Oral Presentation Checklist

Pecha Kucha Rubric

The Outside Circle

Read this page on Graphic Texts

Choose a page of the text to annotate for the graphic elements.

Annotate the two pages you choose for all of the features of graphic texts.

Start a new document in Word. Call it THE OUTSIDE CIRCLE.

Make note of new words and phrases that are unfamiliar or have special meaning to Aboriginal culture. After defining the word from context, consult reference materials to clarify the literal meaning, the part of speech, and the etymology of the word or phrase.

Next, we will discuss the words you have identified. How does the author’s choice of words impact the meaning and tone of the book?

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May 22

Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha 12 slides X 12 seconds per slide

Introduction

In this activity, you will create a presentation that captures something that you learned or learned about yourself this year. You will create the presentation in PPT using only images and graphic text features.

Learning Goals

I am learning to use the various stages of a design and production process.

Success Criteria

I can

Set a purpose for creating a media text for a specific audience
Know and use ethical practices of attribution and permission in media creation.
Select an appropriate media text to communicate your ideas.
Produce a media text for a specific audience and purpose
Create a plan to act on our self-assessment of our media creation skills

Minds on

Model

Media Text Planning Sheet

BUT WHAT’S MY TOPIC?

What have you learned in grade 9? What story do you want to tell?

Brainstorm some ideas:

You could use a project from another course e.g. your multitasking project or your information pamphlet from GLS20
You could talk about learning to be a high school student
You could talk about learning to cook
You could talk about an extra-curricular activity
You could talk about something from outside of school

Complete your media text planner

Media Text Planning Sheet—Model

Grade 9 Learning Pecha Kucha

RUBRIC

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May 12

Not Ever Again

TRACKING SHEET

The Modern Classroom Survey

You have completed a character description map and a “What’s the Big Idea?” theme sheet for “Not Ever Again”.

You have answered the two constructed responses for “Not Ever Again”.

Today, you will organize your thinking into a good analysis paragraph format.

Literary Analysis Paragraph Writing Template: CHARACTER

Grade 9 Literary Analysis example: CHARACTER

Literary Analysis Paragraph Writing Template: Title

Share your writing with me via the Assignment Submission Page.

Paragraph Editing Checklist

LITERARY ANALYSIS Paragraph RUBRIC

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May 8

Theme

Flipgrid Norway

Choose to view the video or to read the PPT. Then complete the theme worksheet page.

Complete this theme worksheet. When you’re done, show me your work.

Then choose one picture book to work with and complete this Graphic organizer.

Finally, complete the Graphic organizer for the short story Thank You, Ma’am.

Here is a list of potential topics that could be themes:

Beauty of simplicity
Capitalism – effect on the individual
Change of power – necessity
Change versus tradition
Chaos and order
Character – destruction, building up
Circle of life
Coming of age
Communication – verbal and nonverbal
Companionship as salvation
Convention and rebellion
Dangers of ignorance
Darkness and light
Death – inevitable or tragedy
Desire to escape
Destruction of beauty
Disillusionment and dreams
Displacement
Empowerment
Emptiness of attaining false dream
Everlasting love
Evils of racism
Facing darkness
Facing reality
Fading beauty
Faith versus doubt
Family – blessing or curse
Fate and free will
Fear of failure
Female roles
Fulfillment
Good versus bad
Greed as downfall
Growing up – pain or pleasure
Hazards of passing judgment
Heartbreak of betrayal
Heroism – real and perceived
Hierarchy in nature
Identity crisis
Illusion of power
Immortality
Individual versus society
Inner versus outer strength
Injustice
Isolation
Isolationism – hazards
Knowledge versus ignorance
Loneliness as destructive force
Losing hope
Loss of innocence
Lost honor
Lost love
Love and sacrifice
Man against nature
Manipulation
Materialism as downfall
Motherhood
Names – power and significance
Nationalism – complications
Nature as beauty
Necessity of work
Oppression of women
Optimism – power or folly
Overcoming – fear, weakness, vice
Patriotism – positive side or complications
Power and corruption
Power of silence
Power of tradition
Power of wealth
Power of words
Pride and downfall
Progress – real or illusion
Quest for discovery
Quest for power
Rebirth
Reunion
Role of men
Role of Religion – virtue or hypocrisy
Role of women
Self – inner and outer
Self-awareness
Self-preservation
Self-reliance
Social mobility
Technology in society – good or bad
Temporary nature of physical beauty
Temptation and destruction
Totalitarianism
Vanity as downfall
Vulnerability of the meek
Vulnerability of the strong
War – glory, necessity, pain, tragedy
Will to survive
Wisdom of experience
Working class struggles
Youth and beauty

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May 4

Annotating a Text

I am away today.

Begin the class by reading your independent novel for 20 minutes.

Remember to track your reading.

Remember to create at least one post-it note. If you need another post-it note, they are at the front of the class.

Next, grab a device and view this video.

Now, re-read the short story you got yesterday, “Not Ever Agin”, and annotate the short story. You can annotate the short story by

Reacting to it and making connections.
Using the Notice and Note signposts.
By identifying the narrative elements.

Next, answer the questions about the story. For each question, find the place in the story that gives you the answer and highlight or underline that part of the text. Put the question number in the margin.

Hand in your work to the class bin (finished or not) at the end of class.

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May 2

Critical Analysis through Picture Books

Today we will think about the ideas that we encountered in the picture books we read.

Choose a quote that connects to the ideas in one of the books you read, find the chart paper with that quote and stand beside it.

In your small group, take turns exchanging your ideas on how your book connects to the quote:

Tell your group the book you choose.
Summarize the story.
Explain how the book and the quote connect.
Add the keywords and phrases to the chart paper.

Next, working independently with the three books from your bingo activity, fill in a Venn diagram; summarize what each book is about, and then identify the ideas that the books have in common; in the centre is the intersection of all three books: theme

Use the vocabulary on charts to help you.

Finally, read the short story “Not Ever Again”.

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April 25

Tuesday and Thursday, April 25-27, 2017

Picture Book Bingo

Picture books help us create mental models and build schema (a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them). They are written at a reading level accessible to us with content varying to meet individual needs. Picture books help us understand complex ideas and vocabulary. Consider that, although picture books typically are written for children, they are meant to be read aloud and therefore utilize high-level vocabulary. There are also more and more picture books with adult themes.

Today and Thursday you will be reading to fill a bingo card. It’s not just any bingo card though. It’s a picture book bingo card. Sound silly to you? The goal of this activity is not just to read as fast as you can. It’s to read a variety of books on a variety of topics that have a variety of characters who experience a variety of conflicts. Some of the books are fiction. Some are non-fiction.

Task: Each class read as many books as you can. But for three books you must do some thinking about the narrative elements and the theme of the book.

Read books
Check off what you have read on the bingo card
Select a book to think about and choose how you would like to think about. Choices include:
1. Character Web
2. Story map or Plot Diagram
3. Making Connections Chart
4. Notice & Note Close Reading Chart
5. Literary Research Note
You must work with 3 books AND you must choose three different worksheets
Keep your bingo card and your worksheets in your folder.

List of common topics that often become themes (that’s when an author has something to say about the topic):

Themes in literature are often varied and hidden. Sometimes you can get through an entire book and not realize what the author meant. However, this is a good basic list that you can build from. Remember that some books have multiple themes.