Wednesday, 9/16/2009

AP


"Home Burial"

• We started class with Greta and Nolan reading the parts of the wife and husband, with no narration between.
• We discussed how this affected our reading of the poem, what we heard that was new.
• We talked about general questions and insights people had.
• We talked about a couple of the RJ questions.
• We talked about the roles our culture assigns to men and women.

Perrine

• We started out by discussing people's reactions to the "Problems in Interpretation" section of the essay.
• We finished with me reading aloud most of page 16.

Poetry Trios

• We had about twenty-five minutes to get into our groups and finalize our preparations for tomorrow's presentations.

Homework

• Complete the Perrine RJ (questions on p. 12), re-reading the essay as necessary.

READING


Six-Way Paragraph--Blowing Their Tops

• Today we did the paragraph as a class.  I reminded people of pre-reading strategies (Look at the title, and think about what it could mean; read the questions first), and then I read the piece aloud.  As I read, I stopped when I could make a connection with one of the questions I'd read.  When I finished the paragraph, as a class we talked about which answers were best.  We focused on the strategy of eliminating choices you KNOW can't be right.

Book Blurbs

• "What I like most about this book is...."
• I showed how to finish this sentence with the book I'm reading, Into Thin Air.
• Seven people did their book blurbs today.  We'll hear the rest tomorrow and Friday.

Read and Relax

• We had thirty minutes to read.

Bookmark Journal

• "Connect"

Vocabulary

• We threw up some Vocabutoons for ALOOF, CONNOISSEUR, and INCONGRUOUS.  People recorded definitions, etc, on their green grids.
• We made vocabulary cards for our six most recent words.

Homework

• Read for thirty minutes at home tonight.