Thursday, September 7, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           The check-out/check-in book for our class library is now available.   Fill in the whole line for the book you check out.  When you bring it back, mark the date and have Ms. Dorsey or a class librarian initial that you have brought it back.  Scholastic Book Orders:  If you'd like to order Scholastic Books online, and benefit our classroom, go to http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp, register, and enter code GKLJW. To order through me without going online, bring me the filled out order form and a check written to Scholastic Book Orders.  I'll be sending in orders on September 15, or sooner if I receive orders totalling $25 or more. Order forms are available on the back counter near the door.

Targets for Today: I can read for enjoyment, and participate in discussions about literature.

Today’s  Agenda: Find a book or pull out one that your brought. (Hand in your disclosure document signatures and VIP Form if you haven't yet. They were due by last time.)  More Rithmatist beginning with chapter 7.   Listen to the chapter. Then  Quiet, Individual Reading Time Read chapters 8 and 9 on your own, then, if you have time, read your choice of books.  Write, then Pair-Share In your composition book, under Reading Responses,  . . . . Tell about the antagonist(s)  in either your own book or in The Rithmatist.  Is it a person or something else (nature, society, technology, the supernatural -- fate, magic, gods, ghosts, etc.)?   Is there more than one?  Who or what do you think is the main "villain" in the book?  (If you have already read it, don't give it away.)   How is the antagonist keeping  the protagonist from getting what he or she wants?  conflict = the problem protagonist = the main character or "good guy" in the story antagonist  = the "bad guy" in the story, the person or force that is keeping the protagonist from getting what he or she wants When directed to, join your __10___ o'clock appointment to share what you wrote.   We read in The Rithmatist to page 130 -- "How would I even start something like that?"

If You Were Absent: See above.  You could come into Cavetime to catch up with reading in The Rithmatist. Write a brief response to something you read, answering the questions: When you come back, tape it into your composition book under Reader Response.

Vocabulary: protagonist = the main character or "good guy" in the story antagonist  = the "bad guy" in the story, the person or force that is keeping the protagonist from getting what he or she wants