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Tracy Watanabe

ELA Lesson Planning: Evidence And Arguments - 0 views

  • Lesson Objective Plan a lesson about identifying main ideas and developing arguments Length 6 min Questions to Consider How does Mr. Hanify integrate the different Common Core standards into this lesson? Notice the varied opportunities for student discussion throughout the lesson. How does Mr. Hanify design activities that scaffold student learning? Common Core Standards ELA.RI.9-10.2, ELA.W.9-10.6, ELA.SL.9-10.1a
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    Part 1 -- lesson planning argumentative writing writing for an authentic audience through blog
Erica Modzelewski

Constructing Arguments - 0 views

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    How to use NY Times in classrooms for debate and argument writing
Tracy Watanabe

Common Core Standards: Teaching Argument Writing | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher - 1 views

  • argument writing must present a strong claim and support that claim with “sufficient evidence” and relevant “valid reasoning.”
  • First, select a high interest topic.
  • TED Talks: Get Kids Thinking
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  • Collaborize Classroom: Extend the Discussion Online to Engage All Voices
  • Face-to-Face Conversations: Exploring Differences
  • Google Docs: Research & Organize Ideas Teach students to find credible resources and analyze those resources to support their claims. 
  • YouTube: Flip Your Explanatio
Tracy Watanabe

ELA Lesson Reflection: Evidence And Arguments - 0 views

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    Part 3 -- Reflection blog gives an authentic audience socratic seminar listeners during presentations -- have them look for Wows & Wonders to share back -- have them take notes on those. socratic seminar is his formative assessment to move forward
Tracy Watanabe

Literary Analysis Using Evidence And Analysis For Students - 0 views

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    Part 2 -- the lesson *Day 1 -- close read, discussion, -- differentiated , and 1 side presentation back to group to sum up discussion *Day 2 -- Socratic Seminar & Blogging Lesson Objective: Identify the main idea and make arguments about a text Length 12 min Questions to Consider: Notice the distinct parts to this lesson. How does Mr. Hanify scaffold and differentiate this lesson? How does the fishbowl strategy promote rich discussions? Why does Mr. Hanify choose to have students write a blog? Common Core Standards ELA.RI.9-10.2, ELA.W.9-10.6, ELA.SL.9-10.1a Close read with annotation = "Thinking Notes" Differentiation during close read and their small group tasks based on their strengths Socratic Seminar Blogging to write to authentic audience
Tracy Watanabe

Linking the CCSS for Writing with the Trait of ORGANIZATION « Six Trait Gurus - 0 views

  • A recent post focused on connecting the trait of Ideas with the Common Core. This time around, we’ll look at Organization: ordering ideas to make them both clear and interesting. We’ll define the trait, link it to the CCSS for writing, and suggest favorite books to use as mentor texts in teaching important elements of Organization—including leads, endings, and transitions.
Tracy Watanabe

Lego Just Got Told Off By A 7-Year-Old Girl - 1 views

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    Love this! True, I agree with her, but this is just an awesome example of opinion writing with supported arguments (claims backed by evidence) by a 7 year old. -- Love that she is writing for a real purpose and audience! What real purpose could we have our students write for? And actually mail the letters (and publish on our blogs).
Erica Modzelewski

Writing on Demand - 0 views

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    how to use a basic rubric for daily writing in your class.
Tracy Watanabe

Common Core Practice | Presidential Campaigns, College Rankings and Food Journeys - NYT... - 0 views

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    Love this. Thanks Erica for introducing me to this site. =)
Tracy Watanabe

Using Student Blogs to Achieve Standards for Mathematical Practice - 1 views

  • In this article, I make a case for student blogs as a tool that can support and extend students’ mathematics proficiency through the Standards for Mathematical Practice.
  • Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
  • The act of blogging allows for: students to make their thinking visible students and teachers to give one another feedback students and teachers to keep a record of student progress with mathematics What follows is a definition of the eight Standards for Mathematical Practice and a description of how blogging can enhance and strengthen students’ use of these practices:   Teachers who use math journals can easily convert that process to a digital one through blogging.
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  • 1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
  • 2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
  • 3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • 4. Model with mathematics.
  • 5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
  • 6. Attend to precision.
  • 7. Look for and make use of structure.
  • 8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Tracy Watanabe

Common Core Practice | Hit Films, Glowing Trees and an Underwater Menagerie - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • A few weeks ago, Mrs. Gross, Mr. Olsen and their students explored how they might pair Times content with basic computer coding to practice Common Core skills. This week they show how the news and the standards can be jumping-off points for exploring video design and gaming. Here are three recent STEM-related articles, related writing prompts, and links to the student projects that resulted–from an undersea-themed game to pop-up analyses of viral videos to interactive biographies of inspiring innovators.
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