Really, once cross country and my daughter's soccer season ends, I'll have more time to develop these blogs fully and write them earlier in the day. Until then...
We have our first book talks tomorrow. You need to have read your sections and prepared the three recall questions, three discussion questions, three connections, three passages to share, and one picture. You'll be writing this all neatly in the literature section of your language arts notebook. I'll check how you did and assess you with a check plus if it's great a check if it's okay and a check minus if it's below par. These assessments will add up to a grade by the end of your reading time. You want to do these well.
Good start to our pictorial essay analysis. You are using mood and theme and the more you work with these the better off you'll be when PARCC, ISTEP, SAT etc. come along. We're going to add poems to the mix tomorrow if time permits. I'm giving you five poems and you'll need to decide which one shares the mood and theme best with the pictorial essay. Of course, you'll have to back that up in writing. You'll be doing something like this on your own really soon.
Don't forget to jump on those Acuity-At-Home assignments if you have time. Remember, you might be dining with me next week if you don't do the Acuity-At-Home material on your own.
Now that we know dependent and independent clauses for sure, you can look forward to a notebook quiz soon. But not tomorrow. We have a bit too much to squeeze in already.
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