Monday, January 6, 2013

Learning Goals:
I can...

• Preview/Review Events and Grades
• Read for comprehension
• Mark the text with comments, thoughts, and questions
• Review key elements of an Annotated Bibliography
• Practice writing a Somebody Wanted, But So statement.

1. Handout - Review Expectations for the Article of the Week (Take notes in your Journal)

• Number Each Paragraph
• Predict based on the title
• Read through once for FLUENCY
• Skim through the questions to help focus your second reading.
• Read a second time, TAKE NOTES and use METACOGNITIVE MARKERS
• Questions
• Comments
• Interesting Ideas
• Answer all questions thoroughly.  Pay attention to capitalization, punctuation, grammar and usage.

2. Preview of Final Grades:

• Semester Ends January 16th.  No School on Friday, January 17th.
• Visualizing Jonas' Journey is late if you don't have it now.
• Journals due tomorrow.
• Questions for Chapters 13-17
• Questions and Interpretations for Chapter 18
• Questions for Chapters 19-20
• Reader's Notebook due next Monday, January 13th.
• When not testing, you will have time throughout the week to work on: 
• Silent Reading
• Notes on Reading (33 Entries by Monday)
• Book Log (12 books)
• My Growing Vocabulary
• Annotated Bibliography (12 books)

3. Preview of the Weeks Ahead:

• I-Station testing begins tomorrow (Laptops and headphones required)
• Expository Writing; Revising and Reading Multiple Choice Tests  (Wednesday through Friday)

4. Literary Text: Narrative: "Priscilla and the Wimps" by Roald Dahl (SB page 343)

• Shared Reading
• Reader's Notebook Notes:
• Somebody Wanted ___________, But___________. So______________

5. Time for Reader's Notebooks