1. Essential Question: What defines our classroom community?
January 29th, 2014
Essential Question: What defines our classroom community?
Agenda: 1) Weebly 2) Social Contract Creation 3) Letter exchange
Homework: Reply to my letter! Bring in a “text” that you like (i.e. book, poem, play, song, comic, etc)

2. Week in Weebly
This week: january-28th-january-31st-2013.html

3. Social Contract Construction
Social Contract: An agreement among the members of an organized society or between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each.

4. Social Contract Construction: Pairs
In Pairs, come up with 5 agreements that could go in our Social Contract
For example, “Respect Others” or “No interrupting”
Include at least 1 of each in your list
an agreement for myself
an agreement for my peers
an agreement for my teacher

5. Social Contract: Pre-Voting
As a pair, choose the 2 agreements you think are most important
Write those with marker on the construction paper
Feel free to make it GORGEOUS
As a class, we will vote on each agreement

6. Voting: Volunteers We need 2 volunteers
1 to facilitate the voting process
1 to help keep track of the voting and put together our social contract

7. Social Contract: Voting
For each agreement, show your opinion by doing one of the following:
Thumbs up: Yes, I do think that belongs in our social contract.
Palm facing down: It’s okay, I guess.
Thumbs down: No, I would be uncomfortable if that were in our Social Contract.

8. Social Contract: Signing

9. My Letter
Read along
Respond by introducing yourself or answering my questions
Response must be at least 1 hand-written page

10. Takeaways
A social contract is essential to the stability and efficiency of our classroom.
We must hold ourselves accountable to what we have agreed upon.
Hold me accountable too!
Don’t let other people speak for you! Take ownership of your own voice and your own words, but remember to give space for everyone to do so.