Thursday, December 22, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                             If you haven't handed in your paperwork for your book groups, do that!

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. Speaking and Listening Standard 1  Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. a. Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion. b.  Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed. c.  Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed. d.  Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify their own views.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Quiet individual reading 2. Presentations 3. Santa letters -- reading and writing them.  We will read from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters  and write letters to Santa.

If You Were Absent: See above

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