Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:          Today is the last day to hand in late work or revised work or extra credit for this term.   You can hand in your left-over hall passes today or on the 26th.  The term ends on October 26.

Targets for Today:  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.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading time  -- Select a question from your list of responses.  Answer it in your composition book -- 1/3 page or more. 2. Suzanne Collins -- the author of Gregor, the Overlander She is also the author of  The series that begins with Gregor the Overlander is called The Underland Chronicles.  3. What other stories can you think of that have a character or characters starting out in the real world and then moving through some sort of portal to another world? Alice falls down the rabbit hole. What other stories can you think of?  Make a list in your composition book under reading response log. Move around the classroom to share ideas with others.  4. Begin reading Gregor the Overlander.

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