2. Bell Ringer – May 12
You need a Jenna Fox book, your library book, and a separate piece of paper.
Take one of each highlighter color from the supply table: green, yellow, pink or orange
Write today’s date in your bell ringer section and summarize what we read in Jenna Fox last class. If you were absent, ask a neighbor what we read, and write that down. Be prepared to share out your answer with the class.

3. Reminders
Late vocabulary homework can still be turned in before school, after school, or during lunch for half credit stamps.
Your vocabulary quiz is next Monday. Study the 14 quiz words!
Your DWA papers will be handed back next week. These cannot be taken home. In order to raise your grade, you will need to plan to stay after school to work on it before June 8th.

4. On your separate piece of paper…
Write your name and a thesis statement for what the gray pages mean.
Use the thesis statement formula in your DIRT log as you write:
Thesis/claim formula:
Topic + linking word + specific assertion
3. Highlight your topic green, your linking word yellow, and assertion pink or orange.
4. When you finish, turn this into the tray at the front of the room, and immediately start reading your library book.
The answer to the prompt
Your opinion or argument
Because, since, although, however, so, unless

5. DIRT Focus – stand and share only
Don’t write this down, just stand and share: are the events in your book realistic or unrealistic? Explain why.
Stand and share with someone who prefers the same kind of soda as you.

6. Turn to page 47 in Jenna Fox
Names will be spun at random as we read. If your name is called, it’s your turn to read one of the following…
1 sentence
1 paragraph
1 page
Period 7 – page 47

7. BREAK!
Before break, decide who your partner will be—this should be someone whose seat is next to yours.
When you get back from break, you and your elbow partner need 1 whiteboard and 1 marker to share.

8. No notes, books, phones, etc! Use your brains!
4 corner trivia
You have 30 seconds to discuss and write your answer (A, B, C or D) on your whiteboard.
When time is up, you will send your partner, with your whiteboard, to the corner that matches your answer. Get ready to defend your answer with evidence.
Switch writers each time.
No notes, books, phones, etc! Use your brains!

9. Practice question Whose house is at the end of Jenna’s lane? Ethan
Dane
Mr. Bender
Lily

10. Q1 Why is Matthew Fox rich? He is a doctor
He had a side business and sold his company
He received insurance money from creating Bio Gel
He got money for his house in Boston

11. Q2 What is the focus of the school Jenna will be going to? Genetics
Ecosystems
Eugenics
Ethics

12. Q3 How many months has it been so far since Jenna’s accident? 12 14 1820

13. Q4 What was one of Jenna’s worst subjects in school? English Math
Science
Sociology

14. Put your whiteboards and markers on an empty desk near you to put away when the bell rings.
Open your Jenna Fox book and turn to your character notes.

15. Big idea tracking
Fill out your green sheet with one piece of evidence from today’s reading.
Period 2 does as a bell ringer on Monday

16. KAHOOT – vocab. Get in a group of 2-4 .
You have 2 minutes to get logged into the game!