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PREDICT, CONFIRM/REVISE LOG

I.Title of Chapter
A)Prisoner of War
B)Mouse Trap
C) The Second Honeymoon

II. What prediction do you have for this chapter?  Why do you think this will happen (Use evidence from the text)? |
A) I think this chapter will be about Art's father finally beinga prisoner and how he had to learn to survive.
B) this chapter will be about how the nazi's set up a plan to capture al the jew, mice, by trapping them in Poland.
C) This chapter with be about Valdek and his new wife trying to find a way to fix the problems that they have with the marriage. It will also be the end of the story where we find out about how Valdek came to America.

III.Now that you have read the chapter, confirm or revise your prediction.  What really happened?

A)This chapter is about Art's father being a prisoner but he is a POW. he At the POW camp, the Jewish prisoners are treated much worse than the other prisoners. They are given unheated cabins and little food. So, six months later, when the Germans ask for volunteers for other labor projects, Vladek volunteers. The story speaks about Vladek surviving and making his way back to his family. After a series of events he sneaks his way onto a train back to Sosnowiec by hiding his Jewishness. He poses as just a Polish soldier, trying to get home, and it works on the Polish conductor, who hides him in the train.

B) This chapter is about Valdek and his wife Anja trying to find a place to hide and sanctuary from the Nazi's. They trust smugglers that say they can get them out of the country.They are caught by the Germans, who have been tipped off by the smugglers. They are taken to prison, and then to Auschwitz.At the camp, Vladek and Anja were separated, as the men and women were separated into different sections

C)Vladek had to be taken to the hospital for water in his lungs. When Art calls the hospital, the hospital says that Vladek isn’t there. Art flies down to Florida to help out. In Florida, Art and Vladek sit out on the patio. A small plane flies by overhead, reminding Vladek about the time he and Anja finally left Poland for Sweden, where they awaited visas to the United States. In Sweden, Vladek worked his way up from a day laborer to a salesman at a department store.Vladek tells Art about the days after the Americans arrived. Vladek and his friend Shivek were sent to a displaced persons camp at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where they await their identity papers. Vladek has another attack of typhus, and only a year later learns that he suffers from diabetes as well.Back in Sosnowiec, Anja visits a fortuneteller, who tells her that she will go to a faraway place on a ship and have a new life, with a little boy. Finally, she receives a letter from Vladek saying that he is on his way home.It takes Art three or four weeks to get back to Sosnowiec, and he has an emotional reunion with Anja.

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Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time

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Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time

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Write a summary of the text and then provide your opinion.

Curious Case is about a 15 years old boy named Christopher Bloom. Chris has Asperger's syndrome and highly gifted in mathematics. Chris lives with his father, his mother passed way two years prior. The story begins with Chris finding his neighbor's dog on his lawn with a pitchfork sticking out of him. Chris goes over to comfort the dead dog and his neighbor, Mrs. Shears, emerges from her house and accuses Christopher of killing her dog.

Mrs. Shears calls the police on Chris and he is taken to the police station after an altercation with an officer. Chris's father comes down to the station to defend his son. He says that Chris had nothing to do with the murder of the dog. Back at school Chris is given an assignment to write a story and Chris decides to write about the murder or Mrs. Shears dog, Wellington. He calls his story The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night Time.

Christopher starts his detective work searching for the killer of Wellington. Chris beings to canvas the neighborhood asking people questions about the dog and taking notes down like a detective. While talking to people Chris learns from another neighbor that Mr. Shears and Christopher's mother were having an affair, before Christopher's mother died two years before.Chris's father find out about Chris going about the neighborhood looking for the killer of the dog and becomes angry and throws out his notepad with all his information.

After skipping school Chris looks through his father's belongings and finds a note from his mother addressed to him sent a year ago. Christopher becomes sick because he realizes that his mother is still alive. His father comes home and soon realizes that Christopher has uncovered the secret. His father tells him that he was trying to protect him and also admits to killing Mrs.Shears dog.

Unable to trust his father Christopher runs away from home to the address that his mother wrote on the note, it was sent from London. Chris then begins the journey to his mother it is long and difficult. He is reunited with his mother and tells her everything. Chris's father arrives at his wife's house and demands to have his son back. Chris says that he wants to stay with his mother and that he cannot trust his father.

The story ends with Chris passing an advanced math exam and his father trying to gain his trust by getting him a dog. Chris says that he plans to take other tough exams and that he is not afraid because he solved the murder and found his mother.

I really enjoyed his book. The protagonist is a likable character that you cant help but to root for. The story had a lot of twist and turns that as a reader I was not expecting which was very exciting for me. When I first picked up the book I thought it would just be about solving the murder of this dog but the story was so much more. It was very entertaining and it is a book that I hope I can one day teach. The voice of the character was one of the most important things to be the way that the author was able to capture the thoughts of a person with Aspergers Syndrome felt so real that I really was afraid for Chris at some parts of the story. All in all this was great book and I really enjoyed it.

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Aristotle and Dante discover the Secrets of the Universe 

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Aristotle and Dante discover the Secrets of the Universe 

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Create a “Wanted” poster for the antagonist in the story. Draw the character’s picture. Write a physical description of the character, and describe what trouble he/she has caused.
WANTED
Julian Enriquez
Age: 17
5'11, Mexican American, High school student, Works at Benny's Body Shop. Julian is wanted for a hate crime. Julian was walking home with some friend one night and he saw two boys were kissing
by an alley way. Julian and his friends decided to beat up one of the young men.His name was Dante Quintana, age 17. The beating was captured on video camera. Enriquez has a scar on his nose. He is highly dangerous and if you see him please call the authorities.

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See, Thinking , Wonder
1) Is a technique used to ask deeper questions, having students make meaningful observations and have students ask informative questions while also stimulating curiosity for inquiry when discussing a new topic.
2) This topic can be used for when you want your students to wonder why something looks a certain way. It asks students to see an image or object and make a meaningful inference. This meaningful inference can make a connection , explain what it going on or ask a deep question. Lastly, it allows the student to wonder and think about challenging ideas and by looking at the ideas of others students would shift there perspective.
4)See Think Wonder can be used as a gallery walk where students at the beginning of a book can write down the different observations they have about a certain topic. When they finish the topic are able to come back and look at the different inferences that they had about the topic to compare there experiences with what they thought would happen.

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Compass Points
1) Is used to help students flesh out ideas that will eventually been evaluated. Each direction that the compass points would be something that we would want to know. E: What are you excited about?; W: What  worries you? ; N: What do you need to know? ; S: What is your stance?
2) This routine can be used for when you want your students to Check the understanding of the students or explore the various ideas that the reader would have about a certain topic.
3)PICTURE OF COMPASS POINT IS BELOW
4) Compass point can can be used as a  Check for Understanding. Students would be able to see  what they need to know, what worries them about the subject, what is there stance on the subject and what they are excited abut. This can be a more creative way to check for understand in the classroom.

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The biggest take away from David Takas Positionality Paper is the idea that "connecting positionality to epistemology simultaneously empowers and disempowers individual expertise in the classroom. Students are empowered because they recognize that they have unique claims to knowledge that others can not deny. Only I have lived my life; only you have lived yours"(28). Teaching in Harlem I am in a class with students that each have different backgrounds, and views on life. When we are reading different text we are introduced to different views and as a teacher I want to be able to show my students these different world views.

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Write a found poem.This is when you write your own poem, using specific quotations from the novel.

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Write a found poem.This is when you write your own poem, using specific quotations from the novel.

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First they Killed my Father

'We have a big family, nine in all:Pa , Ma, three boys, and four girls' (Pg 7)
'Sometimes when I feel brave, I walk over to the edge of the railing and look down at the lights below' (pg 10)
'Pa told me that in a certain Chinese dialect my name , Loung, translates into "Dragon"(Pg 10)
But I dont feel to much like a dragon now
I am dirty
hungry
and tired
I see ghost and monsters coming to kill me (pg 51)
"Pa was our strength and we all needed him to survive" (Pg 108)
But I had to survive without him
I cleaned myself
I ate
I found rest
"Pa told me the dragon visited him many times and  each time it have him messages" (Pg 10)
I wish I could see Pa one more time and tell him that I was brave
and tell him that I am not the Dragon but, Loung

In First They Killed My Father, there is a scene where Loung is on the balcony railing waving her arms around she does this when she feels brave. I made this comparison to her Dad saying that he same translates into Dragon. Her Pa told her that the Dragon used to tell him messages before each child was born. After all the tragic events that happen to Loung she is mentally broken and a lot of bad things happen to her. Pa was the strength of the family but they all learned how to survive by watching the way he lived and took care of them. Loung and the family had to unfortunately survive without Pa and they were able to make it out alive. In the end of the poem Loung doesnt want to be a Dragon but she just wants to be herself. She lost her childhood and went through something that no child should go through and just wants to be herself.

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Write a diary entry or journal as if you were a character in the text.

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Write a diary entry or journal as if you were a character in the text.

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Tyrell- Coe Booth

Dear Diary
My name is Troy. I am seven years old. I live with my mom and my big brother Ty. His real name is Tyrell but everyone calls him Ty. My mom and Ty argue alot but I love them both. My dad isnt home one night my mom came into the Bennet real late she smelled really bad. She thought I was sleeping but she was talking so loud. She said that daddy was locked up and wouldnt be getting out anytime soon. I asked Ty what getting out means and he wouldnt tell me. He just said go back to playing your gameboy. Im writing this journal because Ms.Perez told me that I need to have one to write my feelings. I really just want to play on my gameboy and see Ty and Mommy again but Ms. Perez said that I was nelected or something like that. Ms. Perez is really nice and the food here is really tasty and the bed is super fluffy. There are some other kids here too I asked them where there mom is and they tell me that I need to mind my bussiness. I told one kid that I would get my brother to come get him and he told me I didnt have a brother so I hit him. I didnt really mean to but he just got me so mad. So then they sent me to see Ms. perez and she told me write a diary and to put all my feelings on here. I miss my mom and I miss Ty. Last time I saw them was before I went to sleep a few weeks ago.I left the room because i didnt know wheere mom was and then I went down the call to find Jasmine, the church girl that TY likes. I couldnt find anybody. The gaurd found me and now Im here with Ms.Perez and all these kids. Last time I was here I was really small but I was with Ty so i wasnt scared or nothing. Atleast the food is good and there are games to play here. I really just miss the Bennet and playing basktball with Ty.

-Troy

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How does your personality bias you Epistemology? by David Takacs

From this article my biggest take away can be found in the first page "when we develop the skill of understanding how we know what we know, we acquire a key to lifelong learning. When we teach this skill, we help students sample the rigors and delights of the examined life. When we ask students to learn to think for themselves and to understand them-selves as thinkers—rather than telling them what to think and have them recite it back—we help foster habits of introspection, analysis, and open, joyous communication." When Takacs' promotes this idea of allowing students to think for themselves and not just to regurgitate  them for a test it really spoke to me. I don't want to be a teacher that just stands there and lectures and my students like Takacs' writes "see themselves as passive recipients of knowledge." I want the classroom to be a place of introspection, analysis and communication because as an educator I want to be able to teach the skill of having students asses why they think certain ways. To build this environment in my classroom will take listening, really allowing the students to listen to one another so they can learn from each other.

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Write a poem or song or rap about something in the book. It must be a least twelve lines long.

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Write a poem or song or rap about something in the book. It must be a least twelve lines long.

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American boys is what they called us
We dressed like them, we talked them, we walked like them, we even hung around them
But not all American boys are treated equally
Some are beaten in the street
Some are throw in jails where there is no key
Some are on the side of the street asking for a meal to eat
America boys have always been through this before
Long before when they came on ships
The first american boys were mistreated, beaten, mocked and left for dead
But they held firm to that name
Because that is what American Boys do
They stand firm in the face of adversity and when they fall they get back up