1. Turn in the seminar reflection if you completed it over the weekend.
Happy Monday! Do Now
Turn in the seminar reflection if you completed it over the weekend.
Answer the following question in your Reader’s Notebooks: 7th: What have you learned from people who are more than 20 years older than you? Were these lessons valuable? In 20 years, will you be teaching a teenager the same thing? 8th: What’s the difference between a child and a teenager? Is it as simple as a person’s age and physical appearance? Or is it more of a mental transformation, a way of looking at the world?

2. Professionally discuss the Do Now. 45 seconds per partner.
Turn and Talk
Professionally discuss the Do Now. 45 seconds per partner.

3. Unit One: Essential Question
7th Grade
8th Grade
What can one generation learn from another?
What are some milestones on the path to growing up?

4. How could you summarize Kid President’s message in a single sentence?
Opening Video
7th Grade
8th Grade
What are some examples of things that one generation can learn from another?
How could you summarize Kid President’s message in a single sentence?

5. This Week’s Anchor Texts
7th Grade
8th Grade
“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan
“The Medicine Bag”

6. What is a summary?
A summary is a concise, complete, and accurate overview of the text. It should not include a statement of your opinion or an analysis of the text.

7. Exit Ticket: Quick Write
7th Grade How did two people have an effect of each other, even though they were from different generations? 8th Grade What event would you consider a rite of passage in a young person’s life?
Consider class discussions, presentations, class videos, and the text as you think about the prompt. Write your thoughts in your Reader’s Notebook. When you finish, close your notebook and begin reading your IR book. I will hand out the HW 5 minutes early if we are 100% in focus and silent.

8. Happy Tuesday! Do Now
Answer the following question in your Reader’s Notebooks:
7th: Is there something that your parents want you to be? How does that match with what you want to be? How do you react to your parents’ expectations?
8th: How do you define culture? How does culture look here in America? In your neighborhood? In your home?

9. You will silently read the story
You will silently read the story. I want you to interpret the characters in the story without any interference from other students in the classroom. Reading a piece of text independently allows you to use preferred methods of visualization, skimming, or annotating to comprehend the literature. This is a “first read” in my classroom. Read at your pace and follow your own method of comprehension.
7th Grade
8th Grade
After you read the story, choose a character (Cheryl, Martin, and Grandpa) to analyze. Use the graphic organizer, to record information then share with a partner what evidence from the text supported their analysis of the character.
As we read the story, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, keep in mind what both characters are like; what their traits are. Use those traits along with their motives to understand why they act the way they do.

10. August 23, 2016 Exit Slip 7th Grade 8th Grade
How does this story relate to our Essential Question thus far?
How does this story relate to our Essential Question?