📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Read CH. 28 & Afterword of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

🖋️ Quickwrite #10: Stamped – Overall thoughts?

DEADLINE PAST: Reminders to those who have not turned in the Letter – DO THIS, THIS WEEK (ask questions if you need assistance)! Progress has to go in Skyward by week’s end. (originally assigned 9/1 & due 9/6)

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Read CHS. 25 – 27 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

🖋️ Quickwrite #9: “Color Blind” by Joseph Capehart

UPCOMING: Finishing Stamped, thinking & writing, & choosing books for book club read #1

WATCH: “The Book Was Better?” – vlog bros. video w/ John Green

🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in

STUDY: Read CHS. 23 & 24 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

PAST DUE: Letter #1 – about you – due as an MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end YESTERDAY 9/6 (find this assignment sheet at the MC LIT WRITING ASSIGN tab above or scroll down to last Friday’s post) IT’S NOT TOO LATE!!

UPCOMING: Finishing Stamped, thinking & writing, & choosing books for book club read #1

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Read CHS. 21 – 23 (to p. 196) of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

PAST DUE: Letter #1 – about you – due as an MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end YESTERDAY 9/6 (find this assignment sheet at the MC LIT WRITING ASSIGN tab above or scroll down to Friday’s post) IT’S NOT TOO LATE!!

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #8: Choose a Clint Smith III poem – “a lineage” or “For Charles” (tape in and write in response to)

STUDY: Read CHS. 19 & 20 (most of) of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

DEADLINE: Letter #1 – about you – due as an MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end TODAY Wednesday 9/6 (find this assignment sheet at the MC LIT WRITING ASSIGN tab above or scroll down to Friday’s post)

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read w/ rate calculation (notebook upside-down)

STUDY: Read CHS. 16 – 18 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

TUTORIAL: How to name/rename your document in Dropbox – Letter #1 should be named “YourlastnameLetter1.docx”

DEADLINE: Letter #1 – about you – due as an MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/6 (find this assignment sheet at the MC LIT WRITING ASSIGN tab above or scroll down to Friday’s post)

WATCH: “How & Why We Read” – Crash Course w/ John Green

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ check-in

STUDY: Read CH. 15 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

ASSIGN/DEADLINE: Letter #1 – about you – due as an MSWord document in Dropbox no later than end of day Wednesday 9/6

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Read CHS. 11 – 14 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

STUDY: Read CH. 10 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

🖋️ Quickwrite #7: “History Reconsidered” by Clint Smith

UPDATE: Dropbox progress check-in for folder sharing – If you haven’t yet set these up, please create & share. Directions at the DROPBOX SET-UP tab above. Let Mrs. C know if you have questions or are having trouble with this.

Read Aloud – The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander & Kadir Nelson – & Indie Read

STUDY: Read CHS. 5 – 9 of Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi (audio in class – text available on your GClassroom)

UPDATE: Dropbox progress check-in for folder sharing – If you haven’t yet set these up, please create & share. Directions at the DROPBOX SET-UP tab above. Let Mrs. C know if you have questions or are having trouble with this.