Hello there!

Great discussions today with our novel studies! It was fun!

P. 1,4: We started with answering a few quick questions about The Mailbox reading so I could check for understanding. Students group-shared their main idea summaries, and then we shared as a whole group. I feel like we are on a pretty good track of separating main idea from details. We began chpt. 3 and noted important ideas. WHAT?? A missing body?? Is someone playing a trick on Gabe??

H/W: Read chpt. 3, and write main idea summaries at the bottom of each page. Keep going strong with this; it will get easier!

P. 2,5,6: Today classes shared their DeFoe discoveries as groups, and then as a class. We debated the answers to guiding question #1; there were different opinions on both levels, so it was interesting to hear the support. We then read RC as a class so phrasing and interacting with the text could be modeled.

H/W: Finish chpt 2 of RC, and answer guiding question 2. Use the same paper you used with question #1. In question #2 it asks does RC "pay it forward." This term means that when someone does something kind for you, you "pay it forward" by doing something kind for someone else. Ok?

Awesome! See you tomorrow!