Friday, September 9, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                          School pictures will be taken on September 8/9 during your math class.  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."   Use the prompt, "This story teaches. . .      "  Write at least a third page in response.   Date your response: 9-9. Ms. Dorsey writes:  I'm reading The Hobbit, and it teaches that even very small, seemingly insignificant people can accomplish great things.  Bilbo is just a little Hobbit, but he saves his friends several times over, and makes hard choices that help many people.  It also teaches that sometimes we need to go out of our comfort zone.  Bilbo just wanted to stay home (at least part of him did), but he impulsively ran out the door to adventure.  It meant both hard and wonderful things for him, and a great story for us to read!      *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  A great sentence from Haylie's book: "His tongue felt like an old sponge that had become rigid."   *********************************  4.  Find your __7__ o'clock partner and discuss your responses to what you read today.  (We used 6, 2,  9, and 11 already.) 5.  Continue reading our group book.  Before we begin:  Writing Epitaphs 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 2  Last time we read to top of page 73 , Chapter 3, minute  16 Today we read to  page 83 , Chapter  3  minute  33:46.      "Ware dog." piebald    "This was an angry, glowering red, the color of an infected wound." p. 79    A favorite (and useful) quote:     About Neil Gaiman: http://www.mousecircus.com/meet-neil-gaiman/ Teacher Notes: http://helen-keeble.livejournal.com/76398.html The Jungle Book:  http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Jungle-Book1.html http://www.literatureproject.com/jungle-book/

If You Were Absent: See the agenda above.  Respond to something you are reading, using one of the reader's response journal starters.  Write at least a third page.  Bring it to tape it into your composition book.   Read on your own to catch up with the class on The Graveyard Book.  You could do this during your quiet reading time at the beginning of class next time.  You can also listen to Neil Gaiman read the second chapter at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMpLQCK8CcA