Students are required to complete a Do Now at the beginning of class each day.  The Do Now takes place about 3-7 minutes at the beginning of class and is a grade.  Students who are late to class miss out on completing the Do Now and thus miss out on a passing grade.  Please arrive to class on time and failure to have a late pass will result in a 0 for the Do Now.

 

I use a variety of different Do Now activities in my class, which allows us to practice different skills throughout the week.

 

Do Nows include:

 

• Grammar Refreshers- Students edit and make corrections to provided writing samples, text messages, or tweets.  After checking for student completion through participation, we review the corrections together.
• Journal Prompts-Students are provided a topic or questions, and they write a response in their notebooks.  Journal prompts are linked to the lesson we will be completing in class that day.
• Video Journal Prompts- Students watch a brief video clip and then write a response to the video.
• What Would You Do- Provides students with ethical dilemas or questions in which they have to discuss within their groups.  Members of the groups then present the key points and insights from their discussion.
• Words of the Day- Students will copy down the definitions of new vocabulary words in their notebooks. Then students need to create their own sentences and visual representation of the word.