Monday, October 10th, 2011

READING

Day Thirty-One

When You Come In

·      Please sign in!  Thanks!

·      Get your blue sheet off the circle table, please!

Organization--Big Picture for Remainder of Term

Fluency

·      Monday-Friday, October 10^th-14^th

Fluency Final Preparation w/Books

·      Monday-Friday, October 17^th-21^st

Performances for WHS Staff

·      Monday, October 24^th

Fluency Final

·      Tuesday and Wednesday, October 25^th and 26^th

End of Term

·      Thursday, October 27^th

Fluency

1.      Look at the Fluency Rubric.

2.     What does each item mean?

3.     I’m going to read you an EXCERPT (part of) a story, and I want you to evaluate me on the fluency items.

4.     Identify the Super Signals that would help a reader read this fluently.

5.     We’re going to identify as many as we can from the story I just read part of. 

6.    Come up and highlight them on the big screen.

7.     Record the Super Signals on your Super Signals Chart.

“They’re Made Out of Meat”

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

Read and Relax

·      Thirty minutes

1.      Katie

2.     Mariah

3.     Anna

4.     Morgan

5.     Haley

6.    Lyndsay

AP

Day Thirty-One

Oranization

·       Keep your handouts from Friday until Wednesday.  We will use them then.

·       Get a Visualizing handout; you’ll need it later in the block.

·       Get an extra Character Chart, if you need one.

·       Make sure you’re ready for your mid-term conference when I call you back.  Please come back quickly, and be organized, so I can talk to everyone (hopefully) today.  J

Mango Motifs

1.           FRIENDSHIP

2.          HOUSES/HOMES

3.          DREAMS

4.          POVERTY

5.          FAMILY

6.         NEIGHBORHOOD

7.          CHILDHOOD

8.         CREEPY OLD MEN/SEXUAL ABUSE OR MISCONDUCT

9.         THE SKY

10.     THE HEART

11.       EDUCATION/SCHOOLING

12.      RELIGION/GODS

13.      SHOES

14.      ACCEPTANCE (LOOKING TO BELONG)

15.      NAMES

Quiet, Independent Work Time (while I continue Mid-Term Conferences) from Now Until Lunch

1.      Read pages 64-94.

2.     Annotate.

3.     Take notes on page 13 (Style Element Observations).

4.     Be on the lookout for MOTIFS (p. 9).  How are they expanding or imploding?

5.     Continue tracking the characters?  Who needs another chart?

Close Reading:  “The Monkey Garden”, pages 94-98

1.      Read and annotate.

2.     Fill in the Visualizing handout with at least twenty concrete details.

Homework

Vocab Sushi

Anything listed above that you did not finish in class