Lesson 12.1

 

Warm-Up 12.1:  

      Draw and Write a comic script of yourself working a crazy career, like vampire hunting or snipe farming.

 

Classwork 12.1:

     Finish working on career presentations.

 

     Sign up for presentation slots.

 

Homework 12.1:

     If your presentation is not completed, finish your presentation for homework and write, "I finished my presentation for homework," on your homework sheet.  If you did complete your presentation, write, "I finished my presentation for homework," on your homework sheet, and take the night off - you earned it.

 

NxGCSOs:

Informative:

     ELA.8.W.C9.2

     ELA.8.W.C10.3

     ELA.8.W.C11.1

 

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Lesson 12.2

 

Warm-Up 12.2:  

     What do you think is good presentation etiquette?  Write 5 - 7 sentences.

 

Classwork 12.2:

     Discuss presentation etiquette.  Review etiquette notes.

 

     Begin Presentations

 

Homework 12.2:

     Do you think presentations went well?  Do you think they would have gone better or worse if they were in a different location, like on a yacht in the ocean?  Write 5 - 7 sentences or write 3 - 5 sentences and doodle a picture.

 

NxGCSOs:

Narrative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C15.1

ELA.8.L.C15.2

ELA.8.L.C17.2

 

Informative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C16.1

 

 

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Lesson 12.3

 

Warm-Up 12.3:  

      If zombies suddenly started appearing in the parking lot and other parts of the school building during presentations, what would be your ten step survival plan?  Write ten sentences.

 

Classwork 12.3:

          Continue presentations.

 

Homework 12.3:

     If you do not like warm-ups including zombies, what would you rather write about?  You do have to write about something.  Write 5 - 7 sentences.

 

NxGCSOs:

Narrative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C15.1

ELA.8.L.C15.2

ELA.8.L.C17.2

 

Informative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C16.1

 

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Lesson 12.4

 

Warm-Up 12.4:  

      A small pack of unicorns has arrived to help fight the war on the zombies at school.  How will you convince the unicorns not to kill you with the zombies?  After all, humans are just zombies waiting to happen.  Write 3 - 5 sentences and draw a unicorn impaling a zombie.

 

Classwork 12.4:

 

Continue presentations.

 

Homework 12.4:

 

Write about a subject you wrote about in last night's homework.  Write 3 - 5 sentences and draw a picture.

 

NxGCSOs:

Narrative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C15.1

ELA.8.L.C15.2

ELA.8.L.C17.2

 

Informative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C16.1

 

 

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Lesson 12.5

 

Warm-Up 12.5:  

     Write a list of five complete sentences, specifying things you learned from other people's presentations and whom you learned it from.

 

Exam 12.5:

 

Finish presentations.

 

Play with Story Cubes.

 

Individual conferences with instructor.

 

Closure 12.5:

     Staple homework and warm-ups together, put your name, date, and class period on both sides of every sheet.  Turn sheets into your class section.

 

NxGCSOs:

Narrative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C15.1

ELA.8.L.C15.2

ELA.8.L.C17.2

 

Informative Presentations

ELA.8.L.C16.1