Thursday, October 6, 2016

Friday, October 7, 2016



Announcements and Reminders:
                         
Thank you for being such good sports about the rain (and wind and cold)!

Term 1 ends on October 26. Any late or revised work is due by October 19. 



Targets for Today:
Reading: Literature Standard 3 
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

Reading: Literature Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
The Graveyard Book's lexile level is 820L.  



Today’s  Agenda:

1. Pick up your composition books.

2.  Individual Reading Time 

Watch for a favorite sentence or phrase -
        because it just sounds good, 
        because it is great writing, 
        because it's funny, 
        or whatever makes it stand out to you.

    Write it in your composition book under "Word Collector."

Ms . Dorsey's:   "He handed me my hall pass and I headed off toward the administration offices. 
     The place where happiness goes to die."  
               p. 66 in The Fourth Stall, Bk. 2




Find your __3__ o'clock partner and discuss your responses to what you read today.  (We used have used 1, 2, 4 , 6,  7,  8, 9, 10, and 11 already.)

   
A woman reading microfiche. 

Then Let's listen to more of 
The Graveyard Book
Record (under Reading Responses) one question you would like to ask the class about what we read today, or about parts we've already read. 

Last time we read to page 238 "and then he faded and was lost to them."   Chapter 7, part 1, minute 43:37
Today we read to page 255, Chapter 7,  Part 2  .


http://www.mousecircus.com/videos/

A favorite (and useful) word or quote:  



Word from The Graveyard Book -- glide, page 250 "a sleek insinuating glide" 


If You Were Absent:
Read from your choice of books and find a sentence or phrase to copy into your composition book when you get back -- in the World Collector section.  

You can catch up during individual reading next time, or listen online.  See which parts we read today. 



Vocabulary:
microfiche   




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