8th Grade Success Prep

(Class meets every other day)

Monday
3/2 / ~Warm-up: A boy is walking around in a carnival and he sees a single man in a booth. He walks up to the man and asks what the booth is for. "Well," says the man, "I can write your exact weight on this slip of paper. If I get it wrong, I pay you $20. If I get it right, you pay me $20." The boy looks around, and seeing no scales, agrees. 5 minutes later, the man has gotten $20 from the boy. How?
•Distribute/Read through a few examples of comic strips.
•How are these written? How much writing is in each box? What is the overall purpose of a comic strip?
•Introduce storyboard note-taking.
•Give students a story to read (Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, etc.)
•Create a storyboard for the story as a class.
•Divide class into groups of four and assign each group a fairy tale.
•The groups will create a storyboard for their fairy tale. When finished, they will share their storyboard with the class.
•Students can ask questions and decide if each group included all significant details needed to understand the story.
•Explain to the class that their storyboard is also called a graphic organizer.
•Ask students to share what other graphic organizers they have seen.
•Share examples of common graphic organizers with the class.
•Ticket-out-the-Door: Which graphic organizer to you find most helpful? Why?
Tuesday
3/3 / ~Warm-up: A boy is walking around in a carnival and he sees a single man in a booth. He walks up to the man and asks what the booth is for. "Well," says the man, "I can write your exact weight on this slip of paper. If I get it wrong, I pay you $20. If I get it right, you pay me $20." The boy looks around, and seeing no scales, agrees. 5 minutes later, the man has gotten $20 from the boy. How?
•Distribute/Read through a few examples of comic strips.
•How are these written? How much writing is in each box? What is the overall purpose of a comic strip?
•Introduce storyboard note-taking.
•Give students a story to read (Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, etc.)
•Create a storyboard for the story as a class.
•Divide class into groups of four and assign each group a fairy tale.
•The groups will create a storyboard for their fairy tale. When finished, they will share their storyboard with the class.
•Students can ask questions and decide if each group included all significant details needed to understand the story.
•Explain to the class that their storyboard is also called a graphic organizer.
•Ask students to share what other graphic organizers they have seen.
•Share examples of common graphic organizers with the class.
•Ticket-out-the-Door: Which graphic organizer to you find most helpful? Why?
Wednesday
3/4 / ~Warm-up:What question can never be answered, "Yes?"
~Complete storyboards and present them to the class
~Write a common mnemonic device on the board (ROYGBIV). What does it stand for? Does anyone know what that is called?
•Explain to the class why mnemonic devices are important.
•Explain and describe acronym, acrostic, name/trait, rhyme it/sing it, and spelling and word usage.
•Complete worksheets found on page 213-214 (re-copy).
•T-P-S answers.
•Share favorite examples with the class.
Ticket-out-the-Door: Which graphic organizer do you find most helpful? Why?
Thursday
3/5 / ~Warm-up:What question can never be answered, "Yes?"
~Complete storyboards and present them to the class
~Write a common mnemonic device on the board (ROYGBIV). What does it stand for? Does anyone know what that is called?
•Explain to the class why mnemonic devices are important.
•Explain and describe acronym, acrostic, name/trait, rhyme it/sing it, and spelling and word usage.
•Complete worksheets found on page 213-214 (re-copy).
•T-P-S answers.
•Share favorite examples with the class.
Ticket-out-the-Door: Which graphic organizer do you find most helpful? Why?
Friday
3/6 / ~Warm-up:Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
~Finish reviewing mnemonic devices worksheet
~Review metacognitive traits
~Discuss “Flip Your Space” activity
~Pick a group and go to the library to research project