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

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