Labeling slips were provided to the students for our six skills and one called "Current Unit," and time and paperclips were also provided for students to organize all of their papers according to skill. Note: some basic classroom papers (Skills Tracking Page, Mental Map Timeline, Standards-Based Grading, etc.) will remain loose from the clips and categories. Also, the Unit-Closure Work Page will stand alone. There are two skills we've not yet practiced, and so those labels/clips will be empty for just a short time (Context/Lens and A/V Claim/Evidence) -- the other four skill labels will have papers! In 7th hour we self-scored our EQ sentence and charted onto our Skills Tracking Page "9/16 practice" in the first box next to "Writing." To start the new unit, we reviewed and added to our Mental Map Timeline and set up new E.Q. and C.Q. pages, labeled with the unit name, "Communal." (The new E.Q. is "How are Communal Cultures relevant?") Finally, read the handout "Outline of Popular Details: Communal," marking the items that seem particularly interesting. (You may choose to research them at the end of the unit if we haven't already covered them thoroughly with the mandatory materials.) We spent a long time talking through and adding notes about the top portion of that outline -- see a reliable classmate for those notes and discussion for comprehension.
