Book Talk & Indie Read. Finish Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (pdf available on GClassroom if you missed class).
Quickwrite #7 (extended to 10 minutes): Thinking about Long Way Down, write about revenge, or ghosts, or what happens next? Reactions to this book. Feel free to write either in prose (paragraphs) or try poetry if you want. No wrong answers, just plenty to thinking on the page.
Video “The Book was Better” – John Green of vlogbrothers
Book/movie Trailers & Indie Read with a padlet board check-in. If you missed class, details, directions, and password (in case you forgot it) on GClassroom today.
Quick discussion: Reader/Writer Connections
TO DO: Read something awesome 🙂
Video “The Book was Better” – John Green of vlogbrothers
Book/movie Trailers & Indie Read with a padlet board check-in. If you missed class, details, directions, and password (in case you forgot it) on GClassroom today.
Quick discussion: Reader/Writer Connections
TO DO: Read something awesome 🙂
Book Talk & Indie Read.
More Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. See GClassroom if you missed and need to catch up.
Assign: Update the Reading Check-In padlet board. Details, directions, and password (in case you forgot it) on GClassroom today.
Book Talk x 2 & Indie Read.
Quick review/recap of what makes writing “good” activity. You can link to the padlets and recheck them out through GClassroom.
Quickwrite #6 (7th hour only – see yesterday’s post).
Quickwrite revision exercise: Use RADaR (Replace, Add, Delete, Reorder) to make just 3 minutes worth of changes to any of the 6 quickwrites in your notebook.
WRITE CLUB: Share some writing from your notebook with group members.
Book Talk & Indie Read.
Quickwrite revision exercise: Use RADaR (Replace, Add, Delete, Reorder) to make just 3 minutes worth of changes to any of the 6 quickwrites in your notebook.
Notebook: Add notes on “Truths About Writing” (find them also attached in GClassroom).
Book Talk & Indie Read.
More Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. See GClassroom if you missed and need to catch up.
Book Talk & Indie Read.
Quickwrite #6 – Primeval Place (7th hour will do this on Thursday)
What makes writing “good”? Norm & Notice (Link to the padlet board on GClassroom).
TO DO: Read something awesome & catch up on anything else.
*@ReadWarriors information (see the tab above for details). Basically, when you finish a book, create and turn in a “tweet sheet” to Mrs. C = )
Book talk & Indie Read.
Quickwrite #6 – “Can We Auto-correct Humanity?” by Prince EA
RLaW: Go over our notices from yesterday in “Cruel As It Is, Somehow We Go On” by Leonard Pitts, Jr. Annotate your copy as needed.
*@ReadWarriors information (see the tab above for details). Basically, when you finish a book, create and turn in a “tweet sheet” to Mrs. C = )
TO DO: Read something awesome & make up any work that is currently not submitted (i.e. your introductory letter).
Read Aloud – The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson & Rafael Lopez. Indie Read.
Quickwrite #6 – Rules. (Ideas: thoughts and opinions on rules, a story about rules, your own rules for life, etc. . . .)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. In-class with audio pages 20 – 70. If you missed today, check the GClassroom to be able to catch up with us.
*@ReadWarriors information (see the tab above for details). Basically, when you finish a book, create and turn in a “tweet sheet” to Mrs. C = )
TO DO: Read something awesome & make up any work that is currently not submitted (i.e. your racism experience paper).
Mrs. Connolly's Class 