1. First 5-10 (homework check):
9/13/11 Turn in: Syllabus
Materials Manager: Make sure everyone has their social studies notebook
First 5-10 (homework check):
Write down learning target in social studies notebook : I can analyze information in order to make sense of rights, freedoms, and consequences (Common Core Speaking and Listening 2).
Warm-up: Answer the following question: What was the worst punishment you ever got? Were you punished because you were violating someone else’s rights or freedoms? Explain.

2. Bill of Rights At your tables, share you rights ideas (5 minutes).
Come to a consensus about 2 rights that you think you should present to the class and write them on a sticky note (3-5 minutes).
Have an argument ready: Why should these rights be granted to everyone in this class? Explain how these rights do not interfere with the values or freedoms at Eckstein.
Choose a speaker to share with the class
Class majority vote to ratify the rights.

3. Consequences
What happens in the US if you do not follow norms or if you do something that takes away another’s rights?
Looking at our classroom consequences. What would you like to see go along with these?

4. Last 5-10 Reflection statement (2 sentences):
Rights, freedoms, and consequences connect because… I learned this by…

5. Language Arts Transition
Materials manager: put away social studies notebooks and grab readers (see key next to shelves)

6. Write down the following learning target:
I can prepare myself as a reader in order to be successful in readers workshop this year.
Warm-Up: Write about a favorite memory you have relating to a book you’ve read.

7. P2 Only: Notebook Set-up
Name on front of both (notebook check and book check)
READERS ONLY
Table of contents
Books I’d like to read
Reading Survey
Number pages
Orange tape for readers, purple for writers
P1/2: Green P4: Pink P5/6: Yellow

8. Readers Set-up Continued
Book Log Instructions
Reading Logs
Independent Reading Expectations and practice

9. Moving to Meeting Area
Lights, Camera, Action Practice

10. HW & Reflection
HW: read for 30 minutes and log in your reading log, pictures and magazine cuttings from home
Reflection (1 sentence relating to learning target):
One way I can be successful in readers workshop this year is by…

11. If Time…

12. Feedback from All About Me
Impressive things first
Complete sentences and no “likes” or text language (spell everything out: are, not R)
Read the whole question
HW is always due the next day
History’s importance:
“History delivers important stories of events and people who can serve as models of who to be and who not to be, what to be involved with and what to avoid. It can serve as the basis of decision-making all our lives.”
(Taken from:
What is news? Where can you find it?

13. Common Core Standards, Citizenship/Effort Rubric, Folders
LA standards and SS standards
Posted in room
Important to your grade in this class
Citizenship/effort rubric in binder
Procedures (every Friday)
Folders with names