Week 1 introd - 2014-15

EDUC 8P20Session 12014-15

Ruth McQuirter Scott, Ed.D.

AgendaCourse Organization

SyllabusPlanning ChartEvaluation ComponentSakai

Evaluation Professionalism/participation: 10%

Professional Learning Conversations Weekly postings

15% Literacy Leader (twice)

10%

Novel study Coding activity

5% Group promotion of novel

5%

Evaluation cont’dInfographic

20%

Collaborative inquiry unit35%

PLCsProfessional Learning Conversations

ReadingsPosting: quiz / discussion questionsLiteracy leader

Questioning Skills Lego Man in Space Q-Chart Padlet

Response formSign-up schedule

Lego Man in Spacehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAlSnkuB2w

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http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2012/01/28/the_science_and_engineering_behind_lego_mans_balloon_voyage.html

Being AliveBeing alive is opening a Christmas gift and finding tickets to EuropeTurning a corner in Paris and spotting the Eiffel TowerFinding the perfect art book for my son in a tiny Parisian shopThat’s being alive.

Whisking under the English Channel in the comfort of a trainSitting mesmerized with my daughter as Wicked plays in LondonSplurging on a silk scarf I’ll be too nervous to wearLunching at the Inns of Court sure that Harry Potter is bound to appear

Standing in the resting place of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and MiltonThat’s being alive.

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That’s being alive.

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That’s being alive.

Writing GenresExpressive

Poetic

Expository

Persuasive

Novel SelectionFrom Forest of Reading

SAKAI: Lesson 2 / Novel Study

Silver Birch (Gr. 3-6) Red Maple (Gr. 7-8) White Pine (Gr. 9-12)