Thursday, September 3, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   There will be no school on Monday, September 7, 2015 because of Labor Day.      We will begin the Cave Time schedule  when we come back from Labor Day Weekend. Get your grades up BEFORE we begin the Cave Time schedule (September 8?). You will want to have a colored slip so you can choose your activities during Cave Time!                                               School pictures will be taken today and Friday during your math class.

Targets for Today: I will spend time reading for enjoyment!         Utah State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10     I will understand the difference between topic and theme.         Utah State Core Reading: Literature Standard 2     I will tie in art with literature.    I will listen and read along as our class reads a shared book.        I will watch the development of possible themes         over the course of the text          Utah State Core Reading: Literature Standard 2          Utah State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10

Today’s  Agenda:      1.  Individual Reading --          Write a brief response in your composition book (Reader Response)      Include an answer to this:           What do you think might be a theme in the book you're reading? 2. More about Theme: A possible theme found in The Storyteller's Daughter -      The ability to see the truth       is not a function of the eyes       but of the heart.   The Little Prince:  "Ce qui est essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." "That which is essential is invisible to the eyes." Another possible theme: Treachery can hide where it is least  expected, even in the heart of one  you love and trust the most. (pp. 38, 40) 3. Reading from The Storyteller's Daughter Ms. Dorsey read from  page 43 to page 65.

If You Were Absent:

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Announcements and Reminders: Get your grades up BEFORE we begin the Cave Time schedule (September 8?). You will want to have a colored slip so you can choose your activities during Cave Time!                                               School pictures will be taken this Thursday and Friday during your math class.

Targets for Today:    I will spend time reading for enjoyment!    I will understand the difference between topic and theme.    I will tie in art with literature.    I will listen and read along as our class reads a shared book.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Reading your own book -- in the media center. 2. Appointments     On the very LAST page of your composition book, draw a big clock face with just the numbers -- no hands.   It should fill  a whole page. Move around the classroom to make "appointments" with other students.  Find one other student and pick a time on the clock face.   Near that number on the clock face, you will write your name on his or her clock and he or she will write his or her name on your clock.  Move on to another student and do the same thing with him or her.    Keep making appointments until all numbers have been used.   For each number on the clock you will have an "appointment"  with  one other student. 3. About theme:   Is it a theme or a topic? A theme is. . . A theme will be expressed in a complete sentence. More About Theme Student Examples for Themes Examples of Theme from Movies 4. Reading from The Storyteller's Daughter - to the page break on page 43

If You Were Absent:

Friday, August 28, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                School Pictures:  September 3-4         Don't forget to bring a composition book to leave in the classroom There will be a school dance for 7th and 8th graders right after school this Friday. 2:45 - 4:00pm --  $2.00 entrance fee

Targets for Today: Targets for Today:    I will spend time reading for enjoyment!    II will tie in art with literature.    I will listen and read along as our class begins reading a shared book.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your assigned seat. Turn in your disclosure document signature sheet, if it is filled out. 1. Individual Reading Time and write a brief reader's response  -- in your composition book -- to what you have read today. 2. About Arabian Art -- http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/cultureart.html 3. Read (as a class)  The Storyteller's Daughter     Class Agreement?   I will NOT read ahead.   The Storyteller's DaughterToday we read from page 19  to page 35- hidden behind the vine.

If You Were Absent: Ask for one of the designs to color. Catch up on The Storyteller's Daughter -- we have read to page 35.

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:        School Pictures:  September 3-4         Don't forget to bring a composition book to leave in the classroom There will be a school dance for 7th and 8th graders right after school this Friday. 2:45 - 4:00pm --  $2.00 entrance fee

Targets for Today:    I will spend time reading for enjoyment!    I will check my understanding of genre in literature.    I will learn about an author.    I will listen and read along as our class begins reading a shared book.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your assigned seat. Turn in your disclosure document signature sheet, if it is filled out. 1. Set up composition books. 2. Individual Reading Time and write a brief reader's response  -- in your composition book -- to what you have read today. 3.  Announcement!   The Winners for Our Class Books        1. The Storyteller's Daughter        2.  The Graveyard Book        3.  Stargirl        4.  Vietnam:  I Pledge Allegiance and Sharpshooter 4. Genres                  fiction           nonfiction           genres within those divisions?    What kind of a book is it? 5.  Author  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Dokey http://camerondokey.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Cameron-Dokey/e/B001IOFASO 5. Begin reading The Storyteller's Daughter     Class Agreement?   I will NOT read ahead. The Storyteller's Daughter Today we read to --  page 19.

If You Were Absent: I will make up the missed reading time -- about 20 minutes, and report it on a reading make-up sheet. I will ask a classmate to share what they learned in class about genre. I will follow at least two of the links provided above to learn about the author of The Storyteller's Daughter. I will catch up on what the class has read in The Storyteller's Daughter. We read to page -- 19.

Monday, August 24, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                School Pictures:  September 3-4         Don't forget to bring a composition book to leave in the classroom.

Targets for Today:

Today’s  Agenda: Find your assigned seat. Turn in your disclosure document signature sheet, if it is filled out. 1. Set up composition books. 2. Individual Reading Time (in the media center) and write a brief reader's response to what you have read. 3.  About the Battle of the Books. 4. Possible whole-class books.  Vote! Book Summaries for Lit 7.pptx Click on the link, then click on the Download tab.

If You Were Absent: When you come back, pick up one of the handouts for organizing your composition book. See the PowerPoint linked above to see our possible book choices.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Announcements and Reminders: Welcome to Reading Literature 7 class!  If you didn't yet pick up the list of needed supplies, please pick up one.  It's the yellow strip of paper. School Pictures:  September 3-4         Don't forget to bring a composition book to leave in the classroom.

Targets for Today:    READ!   Think about and write about the history of my reading.    Receive disclosure document and hall passes.   Learn about some books we might read as a class.

Today’s  Agenda:          Find your seat on the seating chart.       1.  Time to read and/or peruse the classroom library      2.  Receive disclosure document.  Return the signature sheet by August 26.            Number composition books, leave them in your assigned folders.      3.  Write your own reading history. (Write in your composition book or use a sheet of lined binder paper -- with NO spiro-bits.)     The following questions are just to jumpstart your thinking!            Did someone read to you before you could read on your own?            When and how did you learn to read?            Do you remember the first book you read?            What else do you remember reading, and how                  did those things affect you?                   picture books?                   chapter books?                   books designed to help children learn how to read?                   longer books?                   nonfiction books?            What else do you read?            Have you had any bad experiences reading?            What are some of your good experiences?            What else should go into a history of your experiences with reading?            What are your favorite books?      4.  Look at the books we could read.   Ruby Holler?    Bud, Not Buddy   Holes   The Storyteller’s Daughter   The Graveyard Book   Stargirl   Chasing Vermeer   Touching Spirit Bear   Freak the Mighty   A Christmas Carol   Gregor the Overlander,        books 1 & 2   Witness   Trouble Don’t Last   Vietnam Pack #1 & 2: I Pledge     Allegiance and Sharpshooter   Walk Two Moons   The Midwife’s Apprentice   The Sign of the Beaver   Island of the Blue Dolphins   The Invention of Hugo Cabret    Maniac Magee?

If You Were Absent:   Ask for the disclosure document and hall passes.   Write your reading history.

August 20, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:  Welcome to Literature 7 class!  If you did't yet pick up the list of needed supplies, please pick up one.  It's the yellow strip of paper. School Pictures:  September 3-4

Today’s Agenda:       Bell-Ringer:

Targets for Today:

If You Were Absent: