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Goals
Getting to know each other, and learning the rules and procedures for the classroom. Initial assessment of students.

Critical questions to ask while teaching:

 * 1) Who are we?
 * 2) Why do we have rules and procedures?
 * 3) How can we get along and learn?
 * 4) What can we do when we have problems or conflicts?
 * 5) What helps us learn?

What they will understand at the end of the unit:

 * 1) We are all in this together and we need to help each other.
 * 2) The rules and procedures for the classroom.
 * 3) Constructive ways to deal with conflicts and problem in the classroom.
 * 4) How to work in groups.

What I will learn and do with the knowledge I gain about the class from this week

 * 1) Basic academic information about students
 * 2) Basic personality information about students
 * 3) Ability to begin setting seating groups
 * 4) Knowing what adjustments if any will need to be made to rules and procedures

Vocabulary

 * 1) Rules:
 * 2) Procedures:
 * 3) Class Meetings:
 * 4) Effort:

Skills

 * 1) Using "I" messages in a conflict;
 * 2) Class procedures for various times, DI, group work, etc.;
 * 3) Procedures for bathroom, pencil sharpening;
 * 4) How to fill out a class meeting request;
 * 5) Discussion procedures;
 * 6) Line up procedures;
 * 7) Start of period procedures;
 * 8) Focus on the Behavior not the Person;

Materials to be used
> home technology survey || * Student Survey (paper)
 * ===Videos=== || ===Links=== || ===Other Materials=== ||
 * * Watch what you post;
 * Cyber-bullying;
 * Brain Pop Back to School || * Student and
 * Parent Questionnaire
 * Parent Acknowledgement of rules
 * Permission Form for Technology/Cell Phone
 * Initial Assessments from texts
 * Multiplication/ Division Skills Quiz
 * Paragraph Writing Assessment
 * PowerPoints for
 * Rules and Procedures
 * Class Library Procedures
 * Time Out/ Detention Procedure ||

Formative

 * Responses and discussion during class

Summative

 * Survey and assessments (see under **Materials** for list)

Learning Activities
Students will say their name, where born, and a favorite thing; ü  Note students who are shy and have difficulty answering || Objective: Learning how to do class bellwork ü  Students will complete bellwork and we will review lessons from prior day || Objective: Assessment of student skills and knowledge ü  Students will complete OCR Text BoY Assessment || Objective: Introducing your notebook Explain the why and how of notebook system ü  Pass out materials and have them put in any papers they have accumulated so far || CLASS RULES JEOPARDY! ||^  || **8:45 ** Go through the rules and procedures ü  Pair-share and discuss the rules and Procedures as a class; Practice line-up procedures on way to recess
 * || **Tuesday **
 * 9/4/2012 ** || **Wednesday **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">9/5/2012 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Thursday **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> 9/6/2012 ** || **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Friday **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> 9/7/2012 ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">8:15 – 9:15 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Getting to know each other
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">9:15 – 9:45 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Initial quick write || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Learn more about rules and procedures
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;">Prep ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">9:30 – 10:30 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Getting to know the rules and procedures

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">What's a question you have for Ms. Mercer? || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Share more about you… ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Start work on personal newspaper <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Go through Time Out/ Detention procedure ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Act it out || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Assessment of student writing <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Students will do paragraph writing assessment ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Do Pre-reading Activities for Hatchet: class discussion of opening questions || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Getting to know the social studies text <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Do Timeline for Unit 1, Reading Social Studies Main Idea/Details || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Students will fill out survey about themselves; ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Share results of a questions on survey; Quick write analyzing numbers; Share what we see in the numbers; Do around the world on multiplication/division || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Math Review <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Review Long Division and Equivalent Fraction Procedures ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Take Multiplication/ Division Quiz || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Assessment of basic computation skills <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Students will complete Long Division/Equivalent Fractions Skills Quiz ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Review of yesterday's assessment || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Assessment of grade-level mathematics knowledge ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Students will complete BoY assessment for math text || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Go through letter to parents and supply list; ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Quick write on three things they learned; Practice dismissal procedure || **<span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;">12:30 Prep **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">10:45 – 11:50 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Sharing about each other
 * <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">12:30 – 2:00 || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Paperwork homework

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Learning how to do SSR <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">BrainPop Video on picking out books; Classroom Library procedures; ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Do SSR || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">SSR <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Objective: Review of Geography Basics <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Where is the Continent Activity; BrainPop Video on Map Skills and Continents; ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> Fill out vocabulary worksheets || <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">SSR/Finish Math <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">Learning about perseverance, persistence, and patience <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">We will start the Marshmallow experiment in class. ü <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> We will hold a class meeting to make some basic decisions about our classroom <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;">* Class Garden

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook',serif; font-size: 7pt;"> PAT ||