Thursday, September 15, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                     Today  Thursday, September 15 from 3:30 to 8:00 pm.  For more information, click on this link: Parent Teacher Conference                                         Coming up:  Constitution Day on September 16    Learn more about our Constitution at  http://constitutioncenter.org/constitution-day.

Targets for Today:  Read!   Utah State Core:  Reading Literature Standard 10.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Pick up your composition book.     2.  Sit down with a book of your choice, relax, and read. 3.    When directed to,  respond to what you read in your composition book, under "Reading Response Log."    Pick a character and explain why you would or would not want to hang out with that character!    Date your response: 9-15 Ms. Dorsey writes:   I'm still reading The Fourth Stall, Part II.  As a teacher, I'm not sure how I'd feel about Mac or whether I'd want him in my class.  He is smart, and a good-hearted kid, but he brags that the janitor "was my best source for dirt on teachers."        However, if I were a kid, I'd like to hang out with him.  He's smart and funny and a good kid and can help other kids out of lots of problems.  In the last book I found out though, that sometimes it could be dangerous to be his friend.  He is also in a position to make some pretty powerful enemies.     *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  4.  Find your __1__ o'clock partner and discuss your responses to what you read today.  (We used 1 (today)2, 4 , 6,  7,  9, and 11 already.) Number 1-12 spin:  http://www.classtools.net/random-name-picker/47_FXHRJG 5.  Continue reading our group book.  The Graveyard Book -- winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, and the Hugo Award. Let's listen to Neil Gaiman read from his novel The Graveyard  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpLQCK8CcA or http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/ Chapter 3  Last time we read from page  104, Chapter 4, minute 4:26  to page 129 "Tom Hustings passed him the brooch." Chapter 4, minute 48:05. A favorite (and useful) word or quote:   "Mr. Pennyworth was not impressed." pg. 105 A pound today is worth about $1.32.  A Shroud

If You Were Absent: You can catch up on The Graveyard Book at  http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/, or read it at the beginning of class next time.  See pages and times above.