Hello!

Today students worked on finalizing their literary essay. They self-edited and revised, then a partner red their paper aloud to them and also edited and revised. After that, each student highlighted their claim and strongest paragraph. All students turned their papers into the LA turn in folder.

We also started new stories to use as mentor texts for our new writing bend, theme essay writing. I have pulled away from the Caulkins' mentor texts to use excerpts that are aligned to differentiate between classes and challenge students at their reading levels. Differentiation will also appear in the level of support the students receive from me.

H/W:

Periods 1, 5: No homework. Read a good book for 20 minutes! We will start a new mentor text tomorrow!

Period 3: Read "The Gift of the Magi" and annotate when you have questions and where you see conflict. This is a powerful story!

Periods 2,6: Research Nelson Mandela and write 10 interesting facts from multiple sources. Your facts are well- developed and from different sources. We will be using his autobiography excerpts as mentor texts, and I am so excited!

Stay warm! See you tomorrow!