Tuesday, 9/1/2009

AP


Reading Journals

• I handed back RJs, and I talked about what I'm looking for:  complete sentences and complete thoughts; your insights, musing, questions, and hypothesis; and textual evidence to support your ideas.

They Say/I Say

• We discussed people reactions, questions, comments and observations from reading the preface and the first section of the book.  

Mythology

• We culled the wiki posts, and we came up with a class definition of "myth".
• I read aloud "The Federer Fade", an article about the tennis champ in which the author calls on Greek mythology.
• We view several more mythology powerpoints:  Greg presented on Achilles and Hector; Allie presented on Perseus; and Allison presented on Atalanta.

Minimalism

• I handed out a few more notes on minimalism.  :-)
• We talked a bit out these notes.

Homework

• Read Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" on pages 9-10.
• In your RJ, respond to questions 1, 2, 6, 8, and 9.
• Be prepared mentally (no writing needed) to discuss Hemingway's Iceberg Theory.

READING

Vocabulary Review

• We reviewed the five vocab words we've learned before with Everybody Up!

Strategy Review--Prediction

• We recalled events from yesterday's story, "The Candy Bite".
• We talked about WHY we remembered the events from this story so well--because we STOPPED and THOUGHT about what we were reading, by making PREDICTIONS as we read.

Strategy Practice--Prediction

• I showed examples of how to do the Bookmark Journal for "Predict".
• I showed how to head the notes.

Workshop Time (We had about fifty minutes for this today.)

• Complete the six-way paragraph, The First National Monument.
• Do your Bookmark Journal over PREDICT.
• Fill out your pink daily reading log.
• Read and relax!
• Have chats with me if you've finished a book.

Homework

None