Greetings!

I hope you had a great Monday. The day flew! We had busy classes today, and I so appreciated your enthusiasm about our novels!

P. 1,4: Reviewed chpt 4 of The Mailbox by writing main ideas on white boards for each page, then we put those together to make a 3 sentence chapter summary. We also wrote about the way the main characters have changed. We will begin to look at guiding questions tomorrow and learn how to correctly cite evidence. Boy...Gabe can really keep a secret. I don't know if many of us could do what he is doing!

H/W: Read chpt 5, recording main ideas on each page. There is a quiz on Wed. on chpts. 1-4. Start rereading your main ideas and summary page to help prepare for the quiz. We will go over essential vocab. tomorrow.

P. 2,5,6: We reviewed chpt. 3 of RC and discussed what kind of character we think Rob has. Some of us like him, others disagree, and some think he can't make a solid decision! We went over the timeline response question #3 and learned how to correctly cite evidence. Some classes, but not all, began their literature webs to help focus on main idea of an excerpt. We will continue that tomorrow.

H/W for P. 2,6: Read chpt. 4. We will answer the timeline question in class. Quiz on RC chpts. 1-3 Wed.

H/W for p. 5: Pick up where we left off in reading chpt. 4. Set a timer, and read for 25 minutes, then STOP! it is ok, we will get you caught up in class. We will do timeline question together. Quiz on chpt. 1-3 Wed.

See you tomorrow!