Basic+Block+Schedule

= Class Rotation Schedule 2009-2010 (20 blocks per quarter) =

===__ **Practice with the Work we want words to do. (10-15m)** (turn paper into class tray) Bring your own paper! Archive in 3 ring binder. 30 or more random questions from these practices will be presented on **quarterly finals**! __=== =Vocabulary Test Every Friday (24 or more words) =
 * 1) Monday Proofreading Practice/Mechanic Worksheets/Agenda
 * 2) Tuesday Sentence Combining and Parts of Speech Alternating/Agenda
 * 3) Wednesday Vocabulary Strategies, games, puzzles (ANYTHING! 25-30 minutes)
 * 4) Thursday Critical Reading, Rhetoric, Notice & Focus, annotating (25-30 min)
 * 5) Fridays Vocabulary from Textbook, Vocabulary from Handout (25-30 min)

**Thinking Device/Sticky Artifact (I have to find these in advance!)** Students practice in their transaction journal by constructing a written **connection** to another class reading, the essential question of the semester, or our text under scrutiny. This writing is in their transaction journal. They will at some time have to reflect on their thinking
 * Monday: Ask several HLQs: construct written or oral response
 * Tuesday: students construct RAFT/SPAWN/Minute Writes (not in journal)

__**Respond to the Ideas of Other Thinkers and Reflect on my own thinking**__
Read, Respond, & Reflect in Transaction Journal on the reading assigned prior. (spot for grade, student constructed portfolio showing connections, creativity and meta-thinking for big points!) 15-20 minutes to read, reflect, respond. (Have a roadmap handout for guide) Two top half pages from homework and two bottom half pages in class so I can help.

__**Project Work, writing workshops, Small Groups 45 minutes **__
**Select Most Important Fragment Artifact (synechdote) ; Then: Scrutinize, & Summarize in** Each group has a leader and a recorder assigned in advance (WIKI) Either the Leader or the Recorder can be spokesperson to present artifact on elmo Group must produce a group artifact (Concept Map, Visual Synectic, Dense Q, Txt-self-wo Summary, and individual reflections of group discussion and other group's presentations. Grade group artifact, oral inquiry, and work from walking around! Put rubric on wall Each leader constructs 2 HLQ prior to assigned day (post in WIKI) Put away books, notebooks, supplies, and re-orient desks into fours and grab

**Work** the analogy & explain on back. **Then**: construct a written history of word, or explication of the connotation of words. __Aides grade bell work, vocabulary tests, and analogies in grade book. Aides help with projects.__