Greetings!

You will start to see my posts grouped by periods now because of the split in curriculum, so look for your class!

P. 1,4: Students partner-shared their favorite Jump-Out sentences, and then they were collected. We have been working on this assignment since Sept. 4, so there was plenty of time to complete it. Moving on to our novel study, I modeled how I would like students to interact with The Mailbox by annotating in the margins and recording the main idea of the page in the bottom margin...yes, of each page. This is a scaffolding technique to hep them summarize. We already are worried about poor Gabe...all alone! :(

H/W: Read chpt. 2 of The Mailbox. Annotate in the margins and write the main idea at the bottom of each page.

P. 2, 5,6: We began class by sharing Jump - Out sentences and then sharing our DeFoe observations. There was a general agreement that his writing style is completely foreign to what we know! We created Concept Maps related to Power, and then students were able to generate four generalizations related to the concept of Power. This will be transferring into Power of the Mind. Great ideas and group work today!

H/W: 1) Complete DeFoe research. Links are on this blog page under "Web Links." You may write your answers on the paper. 2) Respond to Timeline question#1. Please do this on lined paper with an MLA heading. You may type, but be aware that some questions will be answered in class, so you won't be typing those.


Phew! See you tomorrow!