Thursday, August 20, 2015

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. 


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