McCotter - Exploring Literature-Tuesday P.6 Assignments

Hello everyone! This week we will go over the plot structure that you were assigned last week and you will get to play a game to review the book.


Please complete the following activities and don't hesitate to reach out with questions. 
1. Please watch the "Exploring Week 32" video. 
2. Use the "Exploring week 32" slides as needed. 
3. Play the Kahoot game and leave your score in the comments section. 


Enjoy your summer break!

Hello everyone! This week you will finish the book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and complete a retell of the book by showing key events from the plot.


Please complete the following steps and reach out with any questions.
1. Please watch the "Exploring Lit week 31" video. 

2. Use the "Exploring Week 31" slides as needed. 
3. Complete the Plot Structure activity for the ENTIRE book - all 6 steps. 
*Important note: The video this week only assigned the first half of the plot structure, however, this would then mean you have homework next week - the last week of school! In order to avoid homework next week please know that the video asks you to complete the first half of the plot structure, but your actual assignment is to complete the book and complete the plot structure activity for all 6 steps retelling the ENTIRE book. The Assignment is modified and corrected in the slide show. 


Please reach out if you have any questions!

Hello everyone! This week we will continue reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and think about how different characters view different events differently...(a lot of "differences!) 


Please complete the following activities and don't hesitate to reach out with questions. 
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 30" video. 

2. Use the "Exploring Week 30" slides as needed. 

3. Complete the "Activity: Perspective and Prediction."

Students will continue reading From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and work on making a connection and thinking of how things would be different in the book (based in the 1960's) were to happen today. 


Please complete the following steps and reach out with any questions you have. 
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 29" video. 
2. Use the "Exploring Week 29" slides as needed. 
3. Complete the "Activity: Connections."

This week students will make a prediction before and during (or after) reading chapters 1-3 of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.Basil E. Frankweiler. 



Please complete the following steps and don't hesitate to reach out with questions. 
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 28" video. 
2. Use the "Exploring Week 28" slides as needed. 
3. Complete the "Activity: Predictions."

Hello everyone! This week we will go over background information on the setting of our new novel, "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler."


Please complete the following steps and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions. 
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 27" video. 
2. Use the "Exploring Week 27" slides as needed. 
3. Complete the "Met Museum Activity, week 27."

I hope you all had a wonderful spring break!
This week you will get to see your classmates' OnePagers for Number the Stars.

Please complete the following activities and reach out with any questions you have.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 26" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 26" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "printable-dice." Print the die and on one face put your name. On all the other five faces write numbers that represent something about you, or are special to you in some way. Be sure to explain to me what the numbers represent!

This week you will get to start working on your One Pager for Number the Stars. It will be due in two weeks time.

Please complete the following activities and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 23" video
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 23" slides as needed.
3. Start your work on your One Pager. You may print the "OnePager template" if you'd like to use it. Be sure to refer to the One Pager Rubric and Number the Stars One Pager guidelines.

Hi everyone! This week I wanted to share a story with you called "The Terrible Things, An Allegory of the Holocaust." However, there is no new assignment as this is the last week to work on your One Pager for Number the Stars.

Please complete the following activities and reach out if you have any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 24" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 24" slides as needed.
3. Complete the One Pager for Number the Stars. I included the template incase you need to access it.

This week we will discuss the theme of Number the Stars.

Please complete the following activities and reach out if you have any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 22" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Week 22" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Number the Stars Test." Yes you can use your book!

We will finish reading our novel Number the Stars this week.

Please complete the following activities and please reach out with any questions you may have!
1. Watch the "Exploring week 21" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Week 21" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Number the Stars ch. 14-Afterword" activity.

This week we will go over some of the "codes" and "secret phrases" the Danish people were using in Number the Stars in order to trick the Nazi soldiers.

Please complete the following activities and reach out if you have any questions:
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 20" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Week 20" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Number the Stars ch. 9-13" activities.

Hello everybody! This week we will continue reading Number the Stars and work on using text to support growing our vocabulary and to help us answer questions about the text.

Please complete the following steps and reach out if you have any questions!
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit Week 19" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 19" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Number the Stars Ch. 5-8" activity.

Hello everyone. This week we will begin reading the novel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.

Please complete the following activities and don't hesitate to reach out with questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 18" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 18" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Number the Star ch. 1-4" activities.

Happy New Year and welcome to semester two!
I hope you all had a wonderfully fun and refreshing winter break.

This week we are going to take some time to celebrate your hard work from the end of semester one.

1. Watch the "Exploring Lit Week 16" video.
2. Open the "Exploring Lit Week 16" slideshow.
Please take some time to look at each other's One Pagers for The Wanderer in the slide show. Please give some comments, ask a question, or give a compliment for each of your classmates One Pagers. I am NOT asking you to try and grade each other, but celebrate each other and the hard work you put into these! Your comments to your classmates will remain anonymous.

I will compile the comments for each of your one pagers and share them with you in the next week or two. Enjoy!

Happy New Year and welcome to semester two!
I hope you all had a wonderfully fun and refreshing winter break.

This week we are going to take some time to celebrate your hard work from the end of semester one.

1. Watch the "Exploring Lit Week 16" video.
2. Open the "Exploring Lit Week 16" slideshow.
Please take some time to look at each other's One Pagers for The Wanderer in the slide show. Please give some comments, ask a question, or give a compliment for each of your classmates One Pagers. I am NOT asking you to try and grade each other, but celebrate each other and the hard work you put into these! Your comments to your classmates will remain anonymous.

I will compile the comments for each of your one pagers and share them with you in the next week or two. Enjoy!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the last week of instruction for 2020! You made it!!

This week we will finish The Wanderer and then you will create a "one-pager" as an end of novel project.

Please complete the following tasks. Be sure to reach out if you have any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 15" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 15" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "one-pager" either using the provided pdf template or create your own. Upload the final project to the week 15 assignment.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! "See" you in 2021!

Welcome back, everyone! I hope you had a fantastic break and pondered what you are thankful for.

This week you will continue reading the Wanderer and learn about external vs. internal conflict.

Please complete the following activities and don't hesitate to reach out with questions!
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 14" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 14" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Wanderer Activity Week 14."

Have a wonderful week!

Hi everyone! Are you enjoying the Wanderer? I sure hope so!

Please complete the following steps and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 13" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 13" slides as needed.
3. Complete "The Wanderer Quiz ch.1-35."

Happy Thanksgiving!

This week we will continue working with perspectives and point of view using the novel Wanderer.

Please complete the following steps and reach out with any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 12" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 12" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Activity: Wanderer Perspective Rewrite."

Hi Everyone! How was your Halloween?
This week we are starting the novel Wanderer by Sharon Creech, the same author as Love That Dog.
I will not include a reading of the novel in my weekly lessons for Wanderer so please be sure to pick up your own copy from APEX or a library.

Please complete the following activities and reach out with any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 11" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 11" slides as needed.
3. Complete EITHER the "FavoritePart&Predict" pdf or the "Favorite Part and Predict slides week 11" activity. Both are the same activity, just one can be printed and one can be completed electronically.

Happy reading!

This week we will conclude Love That Dog by Sharon Creech.

Please complete the following steps and reach out if you have any questions.

1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 10" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit Week 10" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Week 10 Love That Dog Response Journal using the RACE strategy. Don't forget to fill out the portion about how Jack has changed over the course of the book.

Happy Halloween!

Hi everyone! Welcome to another week of Love That Dog. Jack is really starting to enjoy poetry and feels more and more confident in his abilities as a poet. We will continue to use the RACE strategy to answer questions about the text.

Please complete the following activities and reach out with any questions.
1. Watch the "Exploring Lit week 9" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 9" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Week 9 Love That Dog Response Journal."

Hey everyone! We will be continuing to read Love That Dog, along with two additional poems used in the book. This week you will be answering questions about the text using the RACE strategy.

Please do the following steps and reach out with any questions. Happy reading!
1. Watch "Exploring Lit week 8" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 8" slides as needed.
3. Answer the questions for "Week 8 Love That Dog Response Journal" using the RACE strategy discussed in this week's lesson.


4. Have a parent fill out the "Permission to Share" survey.

Hello everyone! We are diving into our first class novel, Love that Dog, by Sharon Creech. This book happens to be written in free verse poetry - good thing we did all of those poetry lessons!

Please complete the following activities and reach out with any questions. Happy reading!
1. Watch "Exploring lit week 7" video.
2. Use the "Exploring lit week 7" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Love That Dog response pages 1-17."

Hi everyone! This week you will get to practice identifying the differences between similes and metaphors. Then, you get to try writing your own!

Please complete the following steps in order and reach out with any questions you come up with!
1. Watch "Exploring Lit week 6" video.
2. Use the "Exploring Lit week 6" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Exploring Lit Similes and Metaphors" activity. Be sure to turn it back in to me.

Hello everyone! Here is a chance to try your hand at writing a poem that follows very specific guidelines.

You will have the choice between trying out a haiku poem or a limerick. Take a gander at this week's video to see which one you would like to tackle.

Follow these steps and reach out with any questions you come up with!
1. Watch the "Lit week 5" video.
2. Use the "Literature Week 5" slides as needed.
3. Complete the "Haiku/Limerick Practice" Google Doc.

Happy writing! I can't wait to read what you create!

Hello! This week we will discuss Free Verse poetry. You will then get to respond to a Free Verse poem, and try writing your own.

Please do the following steps in order and reach out with any questions.
1. Watch "Food for Thought snap bracelet"
2. Watch "Exploring week 4"
3. Complete "A Farm Picture" activity
4. Write your own Free Verse poem and turn it in to me
5. Use the slideshow as needed

Hello! I look forward to seeing all of your favorite poems!

This week we will be looking at the difference between poetry and prose, identifying lines and stanzas, and learning how to read a poem for understanding.

Please complete the following steps in order and reach out with any questions you may have.
1. Watch the video "Lit Lesson 9/7-9/8"
2. Complete the "Parts of a Poem Practice - Line and Stanza" activity. The directions are BELOW the poem.
3. Use the "Exploring Literature Lesson 3" slideshow as needed.

Have a great week!

Hello everyone! We are going to continue with our poetry unit by completing a poetry survey.
I will be using the beginning of a picture book, "Fancy Nancy, Poet Extraordinaire" to get us started.

Please complete the following steps, in order, and be sure to get your work turned into me by the morning of your next APEX day.
1. Watch the video "Lit Lesson 1"
2. Watch the "Poetry Survey Tutorial" video
3. Complete the "Poetry Survey"
4. Use my slides "Exploring Lit Lesson one 8/31-9/1" for your reference, or to read the rest of "Fancy Nancy, Poet Extraordinaire" on your own

Please visit me in office hours or email me if you have any questions. Have a great week!

Welcome! I am so excited that the start of the school year is finally here! Now while I didn't ever expect to be teaching online I know we can still make the most of this year. I am excited to get to know all of you and to have you all try out your first assignment here on Google Classroom.

Below you will find 4 attachments. Please view them in order and complete your assigned work in a timely matter. All work is due no later than the morning of your next APEX day, but the sooner you get it done and turned in the better.

1. Video overview of the class and this week's lesson
2. This week's assignment - an acrostic poem
3. Video "Google Classroom Tutorial" on how to submit your acrostic poem via Google classroom
4. The power point used in my first video (view if needed)

Please email me at [email protected] or visit me in office hours from 9-10 am with any questions!

I can't wait to learn more about you!