“How and Why We Read” – Crash Course video w/ John Green

VOTE: On GClassroom vote for our 1st whole class novel (these were booktalked in class the last 2 days)

WORK TIME: Time for work on the letter with a quick look at what an informal letter should look like on the page.

DEADLINE: Letter due in GClassroom no later than end of day Monday 9/5

Book Talk & Indie Read

NOTES: finish Some Truths About Writing

Assignment: Revise, type, and submit your letter to Mrs. C no later than end of day Monday 9/5 in Google Classroom. Details on GClassroom. (This is the same letter you started in your notebook. )

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #5: “Can We Autocorrect Humanity?” by Prince EA

NOTES: Truths About Writing – add notepage in your notebook.

Read Aloud – The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds & Indie Read

Quickwrite #4: Indie Read ?s (If you missed class, just write anything you want about your independent read so far.)

READ LIKE A WRITER: Review skills & practice by annotating “Sometimes the Earth is Cruel”* by Leonard Pitts, Jr. (clip it in your notebook) *find an extra copy of this text posted as material in GClassroom

Book Talk & Indie Read

WATCH: “Dear Dreamer” a Portrait of Jason Reynolds

LETTERS: Looking back at the letter you started in your notebook on Friday, find a place that needs expanding. Where could you have been more detailed? Where is there a story to tell? Find a spot and add on – it’s okay to write in the margin or draw arrows to below. Add on if you have more to add or just didn’t finish on Friday.

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ clipboard check-in.

WRITING: In your notebook, start a letter to Mrs. C about yourself as a student, as a reader, writer, person, etc. How’s class going so far? What are you excited about or worried about or unsure about? Be reflective and share what you need Mrs. C to know. Make it look like a letter by starting with a salutation and ending with a closing.

Book Talks & Indie Read.

READ LIKE A WRITER: Intro to concepts & slide for notebook. Practice with Where the Wild Things Are. (See what you can find & annotate accordingly).

TO DO: Keep your notebook up-to-date and read something fantastic!

Read Aloud – Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak – & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #3: Missing Spoons

ANALYSIS & DISCUSSION: thoughts from grades survey – “Do grades help you learn? How do grades make you feel? Why do teachers give grades?” & thoughts about the relationship between points and learning (we created a class post-it board).

TO DO: Read something awesome!

Book Talks & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #2: Rethink Homelessness

Overview – course syllabus.

TO DO:

• Take the grades survey (on GClassroom) if you haven’t yet
• Read something awesome!

Book Talk & Indie Read.

NOTEBOOK: Notes page “How to Notebook”

Website Tour 🙂

TO DO:

• Explore the website and ask questions if you have them.
• Complete the survey about grades that’s in GClassroom today.
• Read something awesome!