Classroom+Procedures

=Focus/Closure Procedures=

It is essential to have a focus or warm-up waiting for the students while you are outside greeting them. In addition, it is not sufficient just to post the objective but reference it often during a lesson. I developed an easy way to ensure that both were covered in my class every day. Each day my students develop a Question of the Day. To create the Question of the Day, the students take the objective that is posted on the board and on the overhead screen and turn it into a question that they write in their notebooks as a part of their warm-up. For example, if the objective says "SWBAT describe the economic effects of AIDS on Africa," then the Question of the Day would be "What are the economic effects of AIDS on Africa." Once this question is initially recorded the students will not answer it, instead leaving a blank space underneath. After they write the Question of the Day they answer the Focus questions in their notebook. At the end of the period, the students revisit the Question of the Day and answer it as one aspect of their everday closure activity.
 * Question of the Day:**

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