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__**Next Planning Meeting: Tuesday February 23nd @ 10:15 in Karen's Room**__ Unit to Plan: Dynamic Discussions (AQ) add assessments, tech piece, resources

__**Minutes Planning Meeting: Tuesday 2nd @ 10:15 in Steve's Room**__ Unit to Plan: Dynamic Discussions (AQ)

Essential Question:
 * 1) Why is it important to use first use a protocol in a discussion?
 * 2) What are the qualities of a meaningful response in a book discussion?

Mini-Lesson:
 * Categorizing questions based on how we arrived at the answer (Strategies p 113 or Toolkit lesson 17)
 * How to ask follow-up lessons after a lead-in question (ML for Lit Circles 113)
 * Using a protocol to facilitate discussion responses (ask students to write their answers befor they discuss a question)

Tech: How to have an online discussion (R.O. Activity 8)

__**Minutes** **Planning Meeting: Tuesday 12th @10:10 in Karen's Room.**__ Unit to plan: Connecting to Background Knowledge

Essential Questions:
 * What is a meaningful connection?
 * How does making connections to your reading help you understand the story?
 * What clues are important for the author to include to help you understand the character?

__Mini-Lessons__:
 * Differentiating between a surface and an indepth connection: demonstrate during read aloud and have students practice in written paragraph, reading letter, etc. (Strategies that Work, p 103)
 * Identifying character traits and providing evidence


 * 1) Part 1: Review and discuss list of character trait words and what they mean (should do over a few sessions).
 * 2) Part 2: Have students practice identifying traits and provide evidence with read aloud and independent reading books. (Attached lesson and student chart)

__Tech Lesson__:
 * Changing your thinking about a character as you learn new information (Comprehension Tool Kit-Lesson 5, Strategies that Work, p 98)
 * Building background knowledge as you read to better understand the story. Model when you would decide to look up info and how. (Sample R.O. Activity-Keynote about Gold Rush)
 * Connecting setting (location, time) and events to character development. Model with read aloud.
 * Kerpoof.com

To Do:

Upload character trait list-KC Keynote- video-Timber facts-Steve pictures and Keynote-Karen scan lesson 5-Timber