Get ready for the cold blast!

P. 1,4: We had some great vocab. connections for our novels today! Your choices of content- specific vocab is becoming very meaningful. Students continued with their discussion of conflict moving plot and shared in groups. I also introduced Socratic Seminar, and they will be participating in this on Monday. We watched a short video on the format, and students will work on their material for it tomorrow. They are so ready for this!
H/W: Get caught up on your reading, through chpt. 17, for both novels.

P. 2,6: Today students went to the computer lab to search for poems related to POTM. They will need to choose a poem they can connect with a POTM generalization and with literature we have read. We finished Talking Points (good insights here) and started our new novel Ties that Bind, Ties that Break.
H/W: Wordmasters test Monday. Finish novel by Dec. 16

P. 5: Today students went to the computer lab to search for poems related to POTM. They will need to choose a poem they can connect with a POTM generalization and with literature we have read. We also took an in depth look at the author of our current novel, Red Glass, and discussed responses to questions about author's purpose. Students also shared the theme they chose in groups for "Monsters on Maple St." and Emily Dickinson's "Poem 435."
H/W: Chpt 11 Red Glass

Have a wonderful evening!