4-30-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

4-30-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc,Kerr


Failing Seniors

• contact home
• send list to Luckett/Bolton
• intervention- VT (Bolduc) send list to Brannock
• ESS after school

Hamlet

• schedule
• End of reading- May 14
• final essay
• May 15-16- begin drafting
• Final essay due- May 21 at 12 AM
• Body paragraph issues
• not just identifying moments
• reading journals

Senior Footprint

• schedule/dates
• Intro May 22-23
• upload examples
• Drive
• rubric
• assign early so students can be working before class time
• IMovie, Powtoon, Slides

Senior Dates

• May 24-KK
• if at VHS senior footprint
• June 3-7
• recovery

4-9-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

4-9-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc, Kerr, Beams


Hamlet Unit: Universal Ideas developing theme

• Hamlet Reading Journal Packet (link)

• Essay Prompt: 
• Explain how a character(s) or symbol(s) relate to and develop a universal idea. What is Shakespeare saying about the universal idea? What is the theme Shakespeare is giving us? Use textual evidence from Hamlet to defend your responses.
• Formative Asses.
• Reading Journal (daily): citation, character/symbol, UI, explanation
• 2 Column Notes
• monologues
• soliloquy 
• Summative Asses.
• Mid-Project- 1st body paragraph- quiz 
• Mini-Project: group-poster: 
• characteristics/UI, evidence, symbol
• Essay- how UI develops into theme
• Questions
• Timeline
• Mid point
• End date
• May 21,2019
• Packet
• reading journal only?
• 2 column notes separate- focus 
• paired text?

3-25-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

3-25-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc, Kerr, Beams

Catch Up

• Backpack Presentations
• Film Unit
• LOVED it: Connected with identifying evidence and explaining HOW and WHY- connecting to literature
• Miscellanious

Hamlet

Standards: RL12.1,2*: W12.1,8

• Essential Standard: 12.2-  
  • RL/RI.11-12.2 Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze in detail their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account/analysis; provide an objective summary.
  • Cut theme: only universal ideas
• Writing Prompt
• Options to connect characters, symbols, ideas that leads to theme.
• Explain how one of the characters or symbols relates to and develops a universal idea. What is Shakespeare saying about the universal idea (the theme). 
• What are 2 themes Shakespeare tried to convey with the play Hamlet? Write an essay in which you create at least 2 theme statements based on one of the four selected universal ideas found in Hamlet. Use textual evidence to support your theme statements.

• What theme in Hamlet stands out to you most? Choose a character and analyze their actions and motivations throughout the play. Do they agree with Shakespeare's theme? How? Does their view change through the course of the play? How? Explain your answer and support it with textual evidence. 
• How many weeks?
• 6 weeks: April 8-May 24
• Read entire play? Survey read? 
• Packet
• 2 column notes
• soliloquy, monologue
• reading journals
• pg #, line #, UI, character/symbol, explanation of quote
• Start packet
• prompt, possible themes, universal ideas, reading journals 

3-1-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

3-1-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

1st 6 weeks- Reflection

• how were grades?
• Bolduc-low grades due to missing assignments- Annotated Bibs, completion of Research Pres.- classwork

Schedule until Spring Break ??- (table until Friday?)

• Film Unit: 2 wks: (March 4-15)
• Critical Write: Choose an element of cinematography and analyze a scene from a film watched in class or of own choice. Provide evidence from film and explanation of director's choice of element; what's the purpose of that decision?
• 1 typed page
• Possible choices for films
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Donny Darko
• Sixteen Candles
• Grease
• 10 Things I Hate About You (Shakespeare adaptation)
• Gladiator
• Snatch
• The Departed
• Rain Man
• Hurricane
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• My Fair Lady (AP)
• Cinematography- WHY the choice of costume, music score, close up 
• close readings (explanation of language)
• camera angles
• Sound
• WS for analysis: Scene analysis framework- setting, camera, mood, etc.
• http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/lights-camera-action-music-863.html?tab=4#tabs
• http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson863/analysis.pdf   
• Film WK 1 March 4-8
• Critical Write: Choose an element of cinematography and analyze a scene from a film watched in class or of own choice. Provide evidence from film and explanation of director's choice of element; what's the purpose of that decision?
• M- intro to film cinematography (what is it?)
• compilation of best of .. Best Inspirational Movies, Best Fight Scenes, etc
• why do you like movies? 
• T- model scene analysis
• The Sandlot- 4th of July scene
• close ups, music, slow-mo, character's actions, etc.  
• purpose?
• what feelings does viewer feel? 
• W/TH- Film
• F-Film   
• Explain first/Watch while explaining 
• Film WK 2: March 11-15 
• Critical Write: Choose an element of cinematography and analyze a scene from a film watched in class or of own choice. Provide evidence from film and explanation of director's choice of element; what's the purpose of that decision?
• M- finish film if needed, model scene breakdown from film
• T *Building Shutdown*-  Finish scene breakdown
• W/TH- begin writing: scene analysis
• F- finish critical write: scene analysis                                                                                                       

Hamlet (intro) 2 wks: March 18-29

• WK 1 March 18-22- Shakespeare Intro
• TKW Chart, list of works, template for presentation (mini-poster, fill-in WS over work)
• M,T:student taught: research basic and interesting info, choose 1 piece of work that sticks out, WHY? Present to class
• W/TH,F: Teacher mini-lesson on Elizabethan Period
•  Anonymous (film)- conspiracy that Shakespeare is not true author- shows time period, focus on Queen, class system, etc. 
• WK 2 March 25-29- Hamlet Film
• Prompt: What theme was Shakespeare trying to convey? Use evidence from Hamlet and discuss how the universal ideas shown in the play contribute to the overall message Shakespeare is claiming.
• Mini-unit reviewing Universal Ideas
• noticeable UI Hamlet: revenge, deception, legacy (mortality), madness
• film WS but for literacy
• What was Shakespeare's reasons for choosing characters, plot, UI, tone, words, etc.
• What is he trying to "show" the audience?                       
• Read Hamlet after SB
• side by side notes
• Frayer Model- vocab

2-27-19 ENG 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

2-27-19 ENG 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc, Kerr, Beams, Winters, Roy

• using Frayer Model for Bell Ringers
• vocab for Backpack

Backpack
ECE: pre-record for speech
    graded differently
    Identify if IEP
Backward Planning: impossible with District roll-out

March 28-Feb 1: Last class week for Backpack Prep

Student Conference: Risk Level- Graduation and Post-Secondary

Backpack-Dashboard-Student Success

can screenshot and see specific areas of need and maintenance- very helpful for struggling students to gauge their risk in terms of graduation and life after HS

• WK 8: Backpack Rehearsal- data (formative)
• Monday- last day for slides: edits, additions, etc./ create speech to go along with slides
• Split into small groups: 3-4 (stay same all week, establish working relationship), we roam and give feedback- data
• Tuesday- practice Intro: handshakes, intro in speech, practice with each other
• spit into small groups: 3-4
• each student "presents" intro
• feedback for speech and slides
• Wednesday/Thursday- practice "middle" Success Skills 1,2
• each person goes through SS in speech
• feedback from group members on speech and slides
• Friday- practice conclusion
• feedback
• last questions
• Rubric Changes
• 5- discuss multiple content areas
• multi-dimensional student
• Trends
• attendance 
• motivation
• template
• direct teach- hand holding: multiple ways of conveying info- did we confuse?
• Grades
• working grade? Class work? 
• BOLDUC- Quiz grade for rehearsal-; if not prepared, half credit, but still present
• how do we read grade sheet from Roy?  - Brannock explained
• Standard Based Grading 0-4
• Refusal-0
• Insufficient- 2
• Pass-3 (3.5 in IC)
• Exemplar-4

1st 6 weeks- Reflection

• how were grades?
• Bolduc-low grades due to missing assignments- Annotated Bibs, completion of Research Pres.- classwork

Schedule until Spring Break ??- (table until Friday?)

• Film Unit: 2 wks: (March 4-15)
• Critical Write: Choose an element of cinematography and analyze a scene from a film watched in class or of own choice. Provide evidence from film and explanation of director's choice of element; what's the purpose of that decision?
• Possible choices for films
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Donny Darko
• Sixteen Candles
• Grease
• 10 Things I Hate About You (Shakespeare adaptation)
• Gladiator
• Snatch
• The Departed
• Rain Man
• Hurricane
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• My Fair Lady (AP)
• Cinematography- WHY the choice of costume, music score, close up 
• WS for analysis
• http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/lights-camera-action-music-863.html?tab=4#tabs
• http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson863/analysis.pdf
• Hamlet (intro) 2 wks: March 18-29
• WK 1 March 18-22- Shakespeare Intro
• TKW Chart, list of works, template for presentation (mini-poster, fill-in WS over work)
• M,T:student taught: research basic and interesting info, choose 1 piece of work that sticks out, WHY? Present to class
• W/TH,F: Teacher mini-lesson on Elizabethan Period
•  Anonymous (film)- conspiracy that Shakespeare is not true author- shows time period, focus on Queen, class system, etc. 
• WK 2 March 25-29- Hamlet Film
• Prompt: What theme was Shakespeare trying to convey? Use evidence from Hamlet and discuss how the universal ideas shown in the play contribute to the overall message Shakespeare is claiming.
• Mini-unit reviewing Universal Ideas
• noticeable UI Hamlet: revenge, deception, legacy (mortality), madness
• film WS but for literacy
• What was Shakespeare's reasons for choosing characters, plot, UI, tone, words, etc.
• What is he trying to "show" the audience?                       
• Read Hamlet after SB
• side by side notes
• Frayer Model- vocab

2-11-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

2-11-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc, Kerr, Beams


Backpack Defense

• Schedule
• WK 6- Intro/Prepared and Resilient/choose 2nd success skill and artifact(s)
• WK 7- Create slides and script
• WK 8- practice in class
• WK 9- presentations begin
• Eng teachers get scores from panel
• Copies and uploaded on GC and notes
• Defense Guidelines
• Rubric- students MUST follow
• Review WK 6 slides
• Prepared and Resilient Learner
• scores
• add narrative elements
• goals
• lessons
• skills
• 2nd Success Skill
• Questions? 

2-5-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes

2-5-19 Eng 4 PLC Agenda/Minutes
Bolduc,Beams,Kerr-  RM 119


Backpack

• Advisory this Week
• Success Tab- student scores
• Review Rubric
• Prepared and Resilient
• Identify 2 possible success skills to defend
• identify artifact (s)
• Students will come to Eng class with some prep work done
• Success Tab in Backpack
• student scores
• No class presentation- get grade from panel
• Dates
• Feb. 11-14: Intro,Create Defense
• rubric
• defense guidelines
• scores
• post-secondary plan
• Feb. 19-22: Work Week
• create slides
• 2nd Success Skill
• artifact(s)
• what to pull to defend indicators
• create script to go along with slides
• Feb. 25-March 1: Practice Presentations
• in class practice
• speaking skills
• ESS available to help and practice
• Early Presenters- present Feb. 19
• staying after school/planning periods everyday to practice

Literacy Policy

• Vocab- Frayer Model
• Harbor-Vocab
• adjectives to describe themselves
• sell themselves for Backpack defense
• 2 Column Notes
• thought question to go along with notes
• close readings
• Hamlet
• Actively Learn