How can knowing where we are from help us determine where we will go? (Day 2) Daily Plans: Tuesday, 1 September

Happy Tuesday AVID Family!

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Homework: 

1. Finish your TRF.
2. Revise your notes.
3. Be ready to peer evaluate poems on Thursday!
4. Need your poem printed? Post it here by Thursday at 7:45am.

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Big Idea: Relationships

Essential Question: How can knowing where we are from help us determine where we will go?
Objectives: I can...

...represent mathematical statements in different ways.
...annotate mathematical representations.
...write a poem about who I am.

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1) Warm Up: Logic Puzzler Competition

1. Write the answers in your notebook.
2. The first person finished with correct answers wins a prize.
3. No one done? The person with the most wins!
4. Questions:
1. Five men competed in a car race. 
         There were no ties. 
         Will did not come in first. 
         John was neither first nor last. 
         Joe came in one place after Will. 
         James was not second. 
         Walt was two places behind James. 
         In what order did the men finish?
2. What is the missing number in the following sequence?
         3   7   15   _____   63   127
3. Which of the following scrambled words is the "odd man out"
    when the words are unscrambled?                                         
   (a) CGHICOA   (b) TTOOORN   (c) IMMIA   (d) CPOEHNANGE 
4. A snail is climbing out of a well. The well is 20 feet deep. Every day the snail climbs up 3 feet and every night he slips back two feet. How many days will it take the snail to get out of the well?

2) Literacy Block: The Whole Picture: Representation 2

1. Take out "The Whole Picture" sheet.
2. Complete Representation 2.
3. Highlight the y-intercept and slope.
4. Give titles to both Representations 1 and 2. 

3) Lesson Plan: Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons

1. Use your pre-writing and templates below and on the back of your paper if you want them to write your "Where I'm From" draft. 
2. Your timeline:

1. Write your own "Where I'm From" poem by Friday.
1. Monday: Prewrite and Draft
2. Today: Finish Draft
3. Thursday: Peer Evaluate
4. Tuesday: Publish and Illustrate, Self-Identity Reading
5. Wednesday: Seminar Prep and Tutorial
6. Thursday: Identity Seminar
7. Friday: Family Day Poetry Readings (small group)
8. Monday: Identity Trees
9. Tuesday: Identity Trees Due
2. Read the rubric here!
3. Begin the writing process using the sheet from class or the online copy here.

 

4) Success Workshop: Google Calendar

1. Add a current to do list to your Google Calendar. 
2. On today's date make a to do list for tonight. 
3. Need help with your TRF? Ask for it!

5) Exit Ticket: Check and respond to emails.

Resources: http://www.pleacher.com/mp/puzzles/miscpuz/mensa5a.html