Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                    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."   Use the prompt, "This book reminds me of. . . .   "  Think of another book or a movie or TV show  or your  own experience that the book you are reading has some connection with.  Write at least a third page in response.   Date your response: 9-13 Ms. Dorsey writes:  "I am reading The Fourth Stall, Part II.  Of course it reminds me of the first book in the series which is about a boy who has a business that he runs out of an abandoned bathroom at his school.  The business is one of trading favors.  He's really good at getting things done -- at getting people the things they need, then they owe him a favor which he can use to get something done for someone else.  I very much enjoyed that book.        "It also reminds me of some the bathrooms I remember from my school years.   When I was in elementary school there was one of the girls' bathrooms that had a sort of "sick room" -- a room with a cot and table in it -- and you got to it through that bathroom.  There was a group of us girls who would bring these tiny dolls we collected and play with them in that room during recess.  We made houses and furniture for them out of cardboard boxes and odds and ends of things.         "In high school, we had a girl's bathroom that led into a narrow metal stairway that went down to the stage.  I guess they had wanted that bathroom to be a dressing room.  Later on they'd made other dressing room areas, but the stairs were still there, and it was fun to sneak down that way to get from the second floor to the first floor."    *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  4.  Find your __4__ o'clock partner and discuss your responses to what you read today.  (We used 2, 4 (today), 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 to  page 83 , Chapter  3  minute  33:46.     Today we read to page  104, Chapter 4, minute 4:26    .  We discussed our fears of heights and/or animals. A favorite (and useful) word:  imprecations = spoken curses  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  the reader's response journal starters -- "This book reminds me of. . . "   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 at  http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/.