Thursday, March 17, 2016

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                    If you haven't handed in your composition book check  or your brief report on Stargirling/Starboying,  hand it in today.  Term 3 ends March 18.  All late work, revisions, and extra credit should have  been turned in  by March 11.    Hand in your unused hall passes for extra credit -- if you won't be using them this time.

Targets for Today: We will do some sustained reading for enjoyment. We will notice words and phrases and sentences in the books we read.  We will build background knowledge -- schema for our reading. We will begin reading Walk Two Moons.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2.  Write a response.  3. Share your responses -- Pick your partner -- Appointment Clock -- 1 o'clock +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Begin Walk Two Moons. “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.”  ― Steve Martin Assignments for building background  https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zR-OKp-T8h4M.kuoR35RhnN1c&hl=en_US Bybanks, Kentucky Euclid, Ohio Chicago, Illinois Madison, Wisconsin The Wisconsin Dells Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota The Missouri River in South Dakota The Badlands and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota Old Faithful in Wyoming Coeur d'Alene in Idaho Lewiston in Idaho

If You Were Absent: See above. Your assignments: Brittany Fryer:  Lewiston, Idaho Kaeli J Schmuhl  Coeur d'Alene, Idaho